BTX loader halt on 1st boot

2008-08-15 Thread Gobbledegeek
as I am not subscribed TIA -- Kind Regards GobbleDeGeek [For everything Gobbledegook!!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BTX loader halt on 1st boot

2008-08-15 Thread Gobbledegeek
Possibly I could copy my MBR to? Regards On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am able to install freebsd 7.0 with the CD, but never been able to reboot into it after that. I've tried 5 times since june now. I install a standard MBR during install

Re: AMD SB700 southbridge sata ahci supported?

2008-07-08 Thread Gobbledegeek
, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Rhomel Chinsio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try disabling USB in the BIOS: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/122880 On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I install freebsd 7 i386 twice, installed mbr, both times boot loader

AMD SB700 southbridge sata ahci supported?

2008-06-28 Thread Gobbledegeek
mode in bios. I could not find this in the i386 or amd64 platform list. Anyone has any ideas about support for this? Please copy me as I am not subscribed. -- Kind Regards GobbleDeGeek [For everything Gobbledegook!!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

tinybsd not recognizing /dev/acd0

2007-04-09 Thread Gobbledegeek
/acd0: no such file or directory error. Any ideas why? Please cc me as I'm not subscribed. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

ralink 2561 wireless chip on 6.2 devel

2007-02-13 Thread Gobbledegeek
Contains modules: Id Name 18 wlan_xauth I am able to ping this interface from a remote laptop when booted from windows XP. What more do I need to get this interface working? Please cc: me as I am unsubscribed. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook

error compiling linux-base-fc4

2007-02-03 Thread Gobbledegeek
. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/automake14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4. - Thanks for your help -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook

Re: error compiling linux-base-fc4

2007-02-03 Thread Gobbledegeek
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windows behaviour on installing new packages

2007-02-01 Thread Gobbledegeek
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Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages

2007-02-01 Thread Gobbledegeek
yes yes yes yes to all... thanks for the tip about the rehash and csh behaviour though. Regards On 2/2/07, Kris Maglione [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:57:29AM -0500, Kris Maglione wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:07:58AM +0530, Gobbledegeek wrote: I noticed over

Does KDE on freeBSD use Qt toolkit or some other one?

2007-02-01 Thread Gobbledegeek
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Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release

2007-01-17 Thread Gobbledegeek
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Re: Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release

2007-01-17 Thread Gobbledegeek
PS: This can happen some 10-15 mins into an X session, not always immediately on login. Suspect applications are firefox 1.5.0.8 and firefox2.0 and Konqueror. Seems to happen soon after launching any of these applications. Regards On 1/18/07, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

console vesa mode switch needed earlier in boot phase

2007-01-17 Thread Gobbledegeek
get the regular console with large fonts. Is it possible to switch to vesa modes much ealier than that? Linux does it (why can't freebsd?!!) :) Does it require patching the kernel? Has anyone done this before? Please reply-to-all as I'm not subscribed. Thanks. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek

Re: custom rc.d script not working

2006-12-05 Thread Gobbledegeek
... Rgrds On 12/5/06, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:30:41AM +, Tom Judge wrote: Gobbledegeek wrote: I compiled quagga 0.99.5 from source (not freebsd port) and wrote this little script in the /etc/rc.d/zebra file

custom rc.d script not working

2006-12-04 Thread Gobbledegeek
.. but it beats me why this isn't working... This is on freebsd 6.2 RC1 i386. Thanks very much in advance for your help... PS: Please CC me as I am not subscribed. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

totem crashes on launch - gnome 2.16

2006-10-31 Thread Gobbledegeek
will be appreciated. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gnome 2.16 - gdm ignores modelines or mode in xorg.conf

2006-10-31 Thread Gobbledegeek
and now it changes resolution correctly after login. I want the default resolution at login screen also. This is for gnome 2.16 compiled from source. Any help deeply appreciated. Please cc me as I am not subscribed. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook

Re: gnome-settings-daemon 2.14.1 isn't starting

2006-08-25 Thread Gobbledegeek
Hi This isn't fixed yet? I'm on the latest cvsup ports tree, and been getting the same issue since a couple of weeks. Did a manual make install and also portupgrade -a, no luck. M on freebsd 6.1-p3 amd64. Gnome 2.14. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook

Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg, gnome_upgrade aborts

2006-08-05 Thread Gobbledegeek
yup ! doing that! Thanks for the tip! Rgrds On 8/4/06, michael johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/4/06, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I rebuilt the pkgdb.db but all the other files are gone... Now portupgrade thinks no packages are installed. gnome-upgrade.sh aborts

deleted /var/db/pkg, now what?

2006-08-04 Thread Gobbledegeek
I rebuilt the pkgdb.db but all the other files are gone... Now portupgrade thinks no packages are installed. gnome-upgrade.sh aborts because it cannot handle 'nilclass' string. Any tips to get back my list of installed packages? -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-31 Thread Gobbledegeek
on fbsd 6.1-p3 fyi. Rgrds On 7/29/06, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Partition magic looks like the least painful option. Thanks for the tip. I'm just gonna try newfs on the logical partitions once and see :) after I change t ptype to ufs from linux fdisk just for kicks

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-29 Thread Gobbledegeek
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Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-28 Thread Gobbledegeek
partitions from within ext-logical ones (all but root) and I want to clear them and reuse them for freebsd. Please cc me as I am not subscribed. -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-28 Thread Gobbledegeek
: On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Gobbledegeek wrote: I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not possible, but never asked anyone so Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a single disk? Sure. You'd be mounting filesystems from /dev

Re: radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

2006-07-19 Thread Gobbledegeek
I tried toggling most options one at a time - no luck. Thanks. Rgrds On 7/18/06, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/07/2006 21:15, Gobbledegeek wrote: After a long search and no solution in sight, I have to ask here - many people have reported this problem, the xorg

Re: radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

2006-07-19 Thread Gobbledegeek
On 7/18/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no other ideas. Unfortunately ATI doesn't support anything but windows and Mac OS X. And with agp being replaced with PCI Express, this issue is unlikely to get resolved. You might want to change to an nvidia card. -Derek

Re: radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

2006-07-18 Thread Gobbledegeek
is compiled in by default. If you haven't tried removing it, try that. -Derek At 02:15 PM 7/17/2006, Gobbledegeek wrote: After a long search and no solution in sight, I have to ask here - many people have reported this problem, the xorg developers deliberately default

radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

2006-07-17 Thread Gobbledegeek
After a long search and no solution in sight, I have to ask here - many people have reported this problem, the xorg developers deliberately default to agpmode 1x because they know it hangs unpredictably otherwise. The problem has been around for a few years now. Am I stuck

Re: output of top command question

2005-11-14 Thread Gobbledegeek
Yep! Thanks Giorgos. Bye! Rgrds On 11/14/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-11-14 09:20, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: like the old sticky bit I see .. Almost. But it applies to virtual memory pages, regardless of their attachment to any particular process

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: output of top command question

2005-11-14 Thread Gobbledegeek
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Re: output of top command question

2005-11-12 Thread Gobbledegeek
, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to know how to estimate at a quick glance, the TOTAL amount of physical memory consumed by the system - if is it the Active pages in Kbytes of Top command.. Not really. Active, Cached, Wired and Buf memory is also 'in use'. -- Nonchalantly yours

Re: output of top command question

2005-11-11 Thread Gobbledegeek
command.. I'll read the article again before posting next question. Thanks Rgrds On 11/11/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-11-11 12:28, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello What does the memory row in top command mean by Inactive,Wired,Cached ?? You can find out

output of top command question

2005-11-10 Thread Gobbledegeek
Hello What does the memory row in top command mean by Inactive,Wired,Cached ?? Please cc to me as I'm not subscribed... -- Nonchalantly yours GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

cvsup upgrade from 4.7 to 5.4

2005-10-06 Thread Gobbledegeek
Hello I'm upgrading from 4.7 to 5.4 using cvsup and I see that with src-all, files specific to s390, sparc, ppc are also being downloaded. How can I prevent this from happening? I only want to download i386 files... TIA -- Nonchalantly yours GobbledeGeek [Every thing but Gobbledegook

Installing zebra on minimal setup

2005-10-06 Thread Gobbledegeek
kindly zip me one? How? -- Nonchalantly yours GobbledeGeek [Every thing but Gobbledegook.. !!] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing zebra on minimal setup

2005-10-06 Thread Gobbledegeek
PS: I need to add this to multiple machines without internet connection. rgrds On 10/6/05, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I did a minimal setup on a 500mb hdd - no ports, developer tools.. 4.7 bsd. Now I need to install zebra and zebra only without other ports. Its

Fwd: cvsup upgrade from 4.7 to 5.4

2005-10-06 Thread Gobbledegeek
See below Ps: I joined the list only for this answer... -- Forwarded message -- From: Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 6, 2005 9:02 PM Subject: Re: cvsup upgrade from 4.7 to 5.4 To: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There isn't a a category to refuse under src-* for s390

cvsup and non-arch specific files download prevention

2005-10-03 Thread Gobbledegeek
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