5.2 portupgrade: kde-3.2.0

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
said 'something in your system is hosed,' or words to that effect. What do I need to do to correct this problem? Thanks, Jeff Elkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: cdburn question.

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 08 February 2004 2:38 pm, r.w.h wrote: Hello iam somewhat new to freebsd. i come to findout that cdrecord does not work with ide cdrws under freebsd. my question is seein how i have such a hard time with burncd. is thier a frontend kinda like gcombust handles cdrecord. someone

Re: 5.2 portupgrade: kde-3.2.0

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 08 February 2004 1:20 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 08:33 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_spinlock.c (errno = 0) Abort trap (core dumped) I'm unable to upgrade

Re: 5.2 portupgrade: kde-3.2.0

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 08 February 2004 6:10 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 03:00 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 1:20 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 08:33 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: Fatal error 'Spinlock called when not threaded.' at line 83

Re: cdburn question.

2004-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 08 February 2004 6:46 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 08 February 2004 2:38 pm, r.w.h wrote: Hello iam somewhat new to freebsd. i come to findout that cdrecord does not work with ide cdrws under freebsd. my question is seein how

Re: 5-Button Trackball

2004-02-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 06 February 2004 07:24 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: I'm using a 5-button Microsoft Trackball/Explorer (a gift) that functions perfectly under Debian Unstable/KDE3.1 [...] Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocolauto

Re: Kdm at boot

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 06 February 2004 10:51 am, Edd Barrett wrote: What is the correct way of starting kdm at boot? I have tried echo /usr/local/bin/kdm /etc/rc.local , but this causes the system to hang. kdm works fine if executed on a root shell. Someone told me to do a wait 5 kdm, but i see this as

newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? My BSD system is tight for space and will likely remain that way for a while. Thanks, Jeff Elkins

Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 06 February 2004 5:28 pm, Jez Hancock wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? No, you can safely delete

5-Button Trackball

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
Option Protocolauto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping4 5 Option Buttons 5 EndSection but only three of the buttons are functional. Are there any tips for making this beast work with FreeBSD 5.2? Thanks, Jeff Elkins

Portupgrade crash

2004-02-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
My machine just suffered a power-failure 6 hrs into a portupgrade -a I restarted it after a pkgdb -F Did I do the right thing? Jeff Elkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:24 am, slave-mike wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: No responses on this yet, but I can hope :) Another issue: After changing the permissions on the /dev/pass* devices, following a reboot, they all reverted, rendering k3b useless. I'd appreciate some help

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:25 am, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:31, Jeff Elkins wrote: That succeeded in freezing the permissions from boot to boot, but I still get the error cd9660: /dev/cd0: Device not configured when I try to mount a cd via the passthrough

Re: Building JDK14

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
clean. I don't know if that matters or not though. But other then that I didn't do anything else then you did. Cheers, Jorn - Original Message - From: Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:33 PM Subject: Re: Building JDK14

Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-31 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 31 January 2004 6:35 pm, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:54, Jeff Elkins wrote: I _can_ mount cds using the /dev/acd* devices, while using the /dev/cd* devices for writing. Is this the way atapi cdrws are supposed to work under freebsd? So, is cam

Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-30 Thread Jeff Elkins
,noauto 0 0 #/dev/cd1 /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto0 0 I'm able to mount w/o problems. Do I have something misconfigured? Thanks, Jeff Elkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Building JDK14

2004-01-30 Thread Jeff Elkins
/compat/linux/proc 3. make install clean /usr/ports/linux-blackdown-jdk14/ However. when executing /usr/local/linux-blackdown-jdk1.4.2/bin/java -version I get: Error occurred during initialization of VM java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object Did I miss a step? Tx, Jeff Elkins

Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver

2004-01-30 Thread Jeff Elkins
0 0 I'm able to mount w/o problems. Do I have something misconfigured? Thanks, Jeff Elkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Enabling Macromedia Flash

2004-01-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 3:02 am, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:37:10 -0500 Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:10 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:55:33 -0500 Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_info shows: linux

Re: Enabling Macromedia Flash

2004-01-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 6:33 am, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:19:44 -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: I didn't make any modifications to the /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla script, if that's what you mean. Enlighten me please :) You don't have to make any changes to that script. You

Re: Enabling Macromedia Flash

2004-01-27 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:10 pm, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:55:33 -0500 Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_info shows: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79 linux_base-7.1_5 linuxpluginwrapper-20040111 linuxthreads-2.2.3_13 which I installed via /usr/ports. However

garbled ASCII graphics

2004-01-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm experiencing garbled ASCII graphics under X when running terminal programs such as mc. Specifically, KDE, haven't tried Gnome. How can I fix this? Thanks Jeff Elkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: garbled ASCII graphics

2004-01-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 26 January 2004 10:30 am, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Jeff Elkins said: I'm experiencing garbled ASCII graphics under X when running terminal programs such as mc. Specifically, KDE, haven't tried Gnome. Make sure you aren't resetting your TERM variable in any

Re: Is there any way to decrease size of the partition?

2004-01-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 26 January 2004 2:40 pm, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:01:08PM +0300, Vasenin Alexander aka BlackSir wrote: I need to downgrade one of my FreeBSD systems. Now it hosted by comp with 40Gb HDD. 'New' computer cannot handle such big HDD, maximum - 32Gb. So, I'll plan

Enabling Macromedia Flash

2004-01-26 Thread Jeff Elkins
pkg_info shows: linux-flashplugin-6.0r79 linux_base-7.1_5 linuxpluginwrapper-20040111 linuxthreads-2.2.3_13 which I installed via /usr/ports. However, the plugin does not show up as registered. Is there a FAQ on enabling Flash animation under FreeBSD? Thanks, Jeff Elkins

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 23 January 2004 11:40 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 24 January 2004 8:19 pm, Dorin H. wrote: --- Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields

portupgrade

2004-01-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
and OpenOffice which were installed from binary? Thanks, Jeff Elkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portupgrade

2004-01-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 23 January 2004 6:21 pm, Jan Grant wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote: Ouch! I'm located somewhere deep within a portupgrade cycle. I misunderstood the command (portupgrade -a), and assumed that it would only upgrade ports that I had installed, not pkgs installed

Why BSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian sid. I have to ask: Why FreeBSD rather than Linux? Honest question. Thanks, Jeff

Help with CUPS

2004-01-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
the command-line...but they don't print anything. The web interface shows print jobs as aborted. /var/spool/cups shows a corresponding file for each submitted job. Thanks in advance for any help. Googling has revealed nothing of any assistance. Jeff Elkins

Re: Help with CUPS

2004-01-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 03:30, Rob wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: Howdy List, I've just added a FreeBSD 5.2 partition to my debian sid print server and I'm groping around trying to make it functional. /dev/lpt0 works with a cat something.txt /dev/lpt0 and adding CUPS from ports

OT: remote printing:cups

2004-01-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
When printing to a remote cups server (under kde3.1) I'm asked for a user/ password combo...everything is rejected, including the root password for the cups server. Both machines are on the same subnet, (192.168.0). In the cupsd.conf: Location /printers AuthType None Order Deny,Allow Deny