7.0-stable snapshot

2008-07-30 Thread John Wilson
Good day. I recently attempted to install the most recent AMD64 7.0-snapshot onto another system. I chose a minimal install with all of the source distributions as well as ports. Unfortunately, the install fails when attempting to install the scompat tarball. Upon looking at the install

Clean install of Xorg 7.2

2007-05-19 Thread John Wilson
Hello. I've cvsup'd the new ports tree and have read /usr/ports/UPDATING, but only noticed upgrade notes in regard to Xorg 7.2. I attempted to 'make install clean' to install the new Xorg, but it failed after building the drm package. Am I missing something really basic here in regard to

In regard to SATA controllers.

2007-05-16 Thread John Wilson
geom_raid3, the performance is rather good. Thanks for your time, John Wilson. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wifi card shopping (stupid question)

2005-11-17 Thread John Wilson
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:50:45 -0800 Remington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning no making a new 6.0 tower machine. I have some serious concerns in regards to PCI wifi card support and FreeBSD. Can anyone recommend a good PCI 802.11/g card that works with FreeBSD 6.0-R? Preferably one that

Re: Fwd: Fwd: problems with cd/dvd-device

2005-10-25 Thread John Wilson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:50:49 +0200 Linnea Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ah! Thats it.. It still won't play though. supermoccine# mplayer Hipp Hipp - Extra Material.avi [...] Pass the full path: mplayer /cdrom/Hipp Hipp - Extra Material.avi

Re: correct cvsup for 5.3 snapshot

2005-02-25 Thread John Wilson
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:07:36 -0600 J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] and I want to update this...I am presuming to 5.3-STABLE ? [...] *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 If you want -stable, change this to read: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 - John.

Re: correct cvsup for 5.3 snapshot

2005-02-25 Thread John Wilson
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:07:36 -0600 J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently running a snapshot FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE-SNAP001 and I want to update this...I am presuming to 5.3-STABLE ? [...] My apologies, I meant to include this link in the previous e-mail:

mplayer port failing.

2005-02-03 Thread John Wilson
Hi folks. Just installed and upgraded to -stable on a new machine, cvsup'd ports a few moments ago, and attempted in building /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer - unfortunately, it appears to fail trying to fetch: === Installing for mplayer-0.99.5_6 === mplayer-0.99.5_6 depends on file:

Re: USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-12 Thread John Wilson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:34:32 -0500 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've gotten the impression that USB2 under FreeBSD 5.3 will support 4x well and be OK at 8x DVD burning speeds, although I've seen some reports of problems (failing every third or forth burn) at high speeds, too.

USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-11 Thread John Wilson
Hello folks. I am currently looking into purchasing an external USB CD/DVD+/-RW unit for my machine here at home. However, before doing so, I do have a few questions before plunking down the cash for this thing. For starters, I don't know if this is an issue now, or ever really was an issue to

Re: Getting USB2 on FreeBSD 5.3?

2005-01-07 Thread John Wilson
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:32:31 -0800 Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] da0: ST312002 6A 3.04 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers [...] For what it's worth, I too am using ehci with a USB2 HD based MP3 player, and it is being reported similarly as well in regard to

Re: Please help: burncd errors

2005-01-01 Thread John Wilson
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:21:54 +0100 Xinizul Xinizul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm trying to burn an iso image containing a folder of mp3 files. [...] 192# burncd -t -f /dev/acd0 audio mp3_1.iso fixate [...] For one, if you are attempting to burn a data CD, you want to use the 'data' option

Re: X servers

2004-07-11 Thread John Wilson
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:40:03 -0700 Roop Nanuwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] point but I was referring to things like window compositing and other eye candy features. Personally, I'd much prefer to see things like eye candy take a back seat to stability, hardware support and performance

4.10 / USB 1.1 / New Machine.

2004-06-04 Thread John Wilson
Hello all. I am currently running an older P3/500 with 4.9 and am looking into purchasing an external USB CD-R/RW unit to add to this machine. Unfortunately, the mainboard only supports USB 1.1. I understand that this would not be the most ideal for an external CD-R/RW and that I'd most likely

/usr/ports/graphics/tiff build failure

2004-02-28 Thread John Wilson
Hello folks, I am attempting to build the tiff library, but am continually running into a problem. After executing `make install` from /usr/ports/graphics/tiff, the build fails. Included is the exact output of the process, as well as the 'config.log' as requested. This is a cleanly installed

Different versions of ports...

2003-12-19 Thread John Wilson
Hi folks, I've recently started playing around with X and various desktop managers. There is one point that seems a little troublesome however... after recently browsing about the installed ports/packages on my system, it appears that different programs require different versions of one

Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable?

2003-03-30 Thread John Wilson
the -Current code into -Stable myself? Thank you for your time, John Wilson __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable?

2003-03-30 Thread John Wilson
Hi, Kevin. I, too, have the Dell PowerEdge 600SC. Here is my IDE configuration: - 120GB Western Digital on primary master. - Plextor CD-RW on secondary master. - Lite-On DVD-Rom on secondary slave. I've been running the 4-Stable series of FBSD for quite some time now and just relegated the

5.0 hang - NMI ISA 30, EISA ff

2003-03-02 Thread John Wilson
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Samba and XP?

2003-01-31 Thread John Wilson
Good Day, I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as