Re: Why are some linux users saying that FreeBSD is dying

2008-04-08 Thread James McNaughton
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1391352 - Original Message From: Edward Capriolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 4:51:53 PM Subject: Re: Why are some linux users saying that FreeBSD is dying It would

Fwd: jack audio server - it won't work

2005-10-04 Thread James McNaughton
--- James McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:30:29 -0700 (PDT) From: James McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: jack audio server - it won't work To: Questions FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Has anyone ever gotten jackd to work. I'm having no luck

jack audio server - it won't work

2005-09-27 Thread James McNaughton
Has anyone ever gotten jackd to work. I'm having no luck. Should I keep trying or is it a lost cause? Jim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Opera crashes after jdk13 install

2003-05-29 Thread James McNaughton
Native FreeBSD Opera was working fine until I installed jdk1.3.1 from the ports. Now it crashes on startup whentrying to load the plugins. This is the reported error when starting from an xterm: INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not load libjavaplugin_oji.so: linking

Soundcard working (was: Soundcard not working)

2003-03-03 Thread James McNaughton
James McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Orion Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ALS4000 chipset is supported, it's the bios on the machine in question bios that causes problems on 4.x. Try adding the following to your kernel config file and rebuilding and reinstalling

Re: Soundcard not working

2003-03-02 Thread James McNaughton
Orion Hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ALS4000 chipset is supported, it's the bios on the machine in question bios that causes problems on 4.x. Try adding the following to your kernel config file and rebuilding and reinstalling the kernel: options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES Thanks

Soundcard not working

2003-03-01 Thread James McNaughton
I just got a new soundcard, a SIIG Soundwave Pro PCI. It has what is supposed to be a supported chip, the ALS4000. I get the following errors on boot: pcm0: Avance Logic ALS4000 irq 5 at device 14.0 on pci0 pcm0: unable to allocate register space pcm0: failed to allocate resources I tried

GNUstep applications

2003-02-24 Thread James McNaughton
Has anyone gotten GNUstep applications (beside Windowmaker) to work? I'm trying to get GNUMail to work and it doesn't in many ways. The first way is that openapp isn't in the path, so I have to use the entire path at the command line. The second way is that GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT has to be defined

xmessage - where did it go?

2003-02-14 Thread James McNaughton
I tried to upgrade to XFree86-4, only to find that it freezes my system, even though the video card is supported. So I had to go back to 3.3.6. Now, I can't seem to find xmessage (which I used for all kinds of little things on my desktop). It just isn't there. I installed from a binary package --

Re: xmessage - where did it go?

2003-02-14 Thread James McNaughton
Jon Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James McNaughton [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Fri Feb 14, 2003 [09:21:35 PM]: } I tried to upgrade to XFree86-4, only to find that it freezes my } system, even though the video card is supported. So I had to go back } to 3.3.6. } } Now, I can't seem

Opera not working after Java upgrade

2003-01-01 Thread James McNaughton
I upgraded to J2SE (jdk.1.3.1) and now native Opera won't load any plugins. Does any one know why it worked before and not now? Will Opera work with Java ever? thanks for any info. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Stuck in 640X480 want 800X600

2002-11-14 Thread James McNaughton
Alvaro Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey guys.. Im still fighting this horrid laptop! (Gateway 2000 Solo P3C) Im stuck in 640X480 mode and would like to have my console in 800X600 mode. I have read that by having the machine boot in 600X800 yields better results when starting X. Here is

Re: kernel optimization

2002-11-06 Thread James McNaughton
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Re: mkisofs|burncd AND fitting a cd-r exactly

2002-11-04 Thread James McNaughton
Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RE: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html#MKISOFS Last two questions of the day (always learning wondrous things here)!! [1] I'm looking for one big command line to do a `mkisofs -o - /path/to/some/directory/

Re: kernel optimization

2002-11-04 Thread James McNaughton
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:18:44PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Q: Do I comment out the I386_CPU and I486_CPU lines to optimize for a Pentium, ( if not, how do I,) and Yes. Q: Does it make a

cdda2wav and xcdroast problem

2002-10-05 Thread James McNaughton
The problem shows when using xcdroast or cdda2wav as a normal user. The process quits with an error regarding permissions: / / / 0%Fatal error: did not drop root privilege. 1/ 2/ 1/ 0 0%child reader sem request failed W Child exited with 1 Versions: cdrtools-1.11.a28

dhclient reports new IP every 15 min.

2002-07-24 Thread James McNaughton
I just noticed that dhclient on my machine is reporting that I have new IP address every 15 minutes or so. However, it is the same address over and over. Observe: Jul 24 10:16:16 jamestown dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 169.254.0.255 Jul 24 10:42:04 jamestown dhclient: New Network Number: