Re: HP Pavillion laptop work with any version of FreeBSD?

WOB (wayofbsd) writes: I posted the error messages to the mobile list, and didn't get a response - I guess no one has this type of laptop. Has anyone had any luck with any version of FreeBSD on any version of HP Pavillion laptop? Just yesterday, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-REL on the

Re: Mozilla/Firefox weirdness

O. Hartmann (ohartman) writes: I completely recompiled everything, I deinstalled both Mozilla and Firefox, but it is always the same behaviour. Can someone help or report about similar or the same problem? One idea is that this has to do with some access rights of the user's profile

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

Nikolas Britton (nikolas.britton) writes: Umm help me out... KCalc says: 44 + 1 = 45 and that: 45 + 1 = 46.00710542735760100185871124 A possible workaround would be to enable decimal precision in: Settings - Configure KCalc A bug has been filed with the KDE team. /mich

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

Michael L. Hostbaek (mich) writes: A possible workaround would be to enable decimal precision in: Settings - Configure KCalc Actually, this only fixes the display (copy-pasting the number to fx. a text-editor, will still show the wrong number). There is no known workaround at this moment

Re: portinstall: fetch(1) doesn't fetch

h p (regnans) writes: Hi, I don't understand the behaviour of fetch(1). Whenever I try to fetch from an URL, I get anwers like fetch http://www.google.com fetch: http://www.google.com: No address record Do you have any weird environment variables set ? Like FETCH_BIND_ADDRESS or

Re: FreeBSD Stickers

Antonio Barella (tbar628) writes: I would like to know where I can buy FreeBSD stickers. Please let me know, thank you. http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdsticker?id=gDB8Sjtxmv_pc=94 /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: Error installing 'kdelibs3'

Gerard Seibert (gerard-seibert) writes: Therefore, my question is do I force the deletion of kdepim-3.2.3_1 so that I can install the kdelibs-3.3.0 update? Would this prove to be a bad move? Also, why doesn't the new library simply replace the old one without having to remove anything

Comm port woes

I have a box running 4.8-REL, its primary function is to provide serial access to cisco routers and switches (for testing purposes). Since last week no data is coming through, when connected to a device with minicom or tip(1) - all settings have been verified and double checked. It is working

Installing 5.1 on a Proliant 3000

Hola, I am trying to install 5.1-RELEASE on an old Compaq Proliant 3000. When I boot on the cd, and choose 'default' in the bootloader - I get the following error message - followed by a panic: acpi: bad RSDP checksum (182) NMI ISA D0, EISA ff RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. and

RSS/RDF feed reader

What are people using as a RSS/RDF feed reader on FreeBSD ? I tried out Krss but I am not too happy with it, I like to know if there are some alternatives.. Preferably under X. Thanks. /mich ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: RSS/RDF feed reader

Jean-Baptiste Quenot (jb.quenot) writes: * Michael L. Hostbaek: Preferably under X. Ximian Evolution displays nice RSS feeds, and provides a list of available feeds, for the user to choose. I was hoping for something under KDE.. and installing Evolution just to use it as a RSS

Re: ipfw using

addresses. /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.FreeBSD.org */ PGP-key available upon request /* pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

USB memory stick

I have just purchased a MP3 player - which basically consists of a USB 128MB memory stick, with some audio hardware.. Anyways, when I plug the USB stick into my 5.1-RELEASE-p3 box, I am seeing the following in /var/log/messages: Oct 2 15:31:27 kernel: umass0: SigmaTel, Inc. USBMSC Audio Player,

Re: Intellimouse Wheel in X

as the protocol and the device as /dev/sysmouse Please read the FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#X-AND-WHEEL /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek FreeBSD Committer - FreeBSD: The power to serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: Open Files

Martin McCormick (martin) writes: Is there any utility similar to ofiles in FreeBSD that can tell you who has what files open? Thank you. Take a look at: /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek FreeBSD Committer - FreeBSD: The power

Re: ipfw.conf is not read

Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot) writes: firewall_enables=YES firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.conf firewall_logging=YES try: firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.conf I don't know why, but that works for me. /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek FreeBSD Committer

Re: Installing specific ports

://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html /mich -- Best Regards, Michael L. Hostbaek FreeBSD Committer - FreeBSD: The power to serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.FreeBSD.org */ PGP-key available upon request

Re: internet news question

AZN Unix (AZNPrideChinese) writes: i can't find a program for internet news, do you guys know a web site that distributes unix programs or freebsd programs or just a free internet news program? cd /usr/ports/news My personal favourite is /usr/ports/news/slrn /mich -- Best Regards,