Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-08 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:47:37 +, Robert Downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Tonkin wrote: Andrew, thanks for the pointer. The XFree86 nv driver is what I have been using. I'm going to try to install and use Nvidia's own one. Really? I'm using a GeForce 2 MX 400 (64

Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-08 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:47:37 +, Robert Downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Tonkin wrote: Andrew, thanks for the pointer. The XFree86 nv driver is what I have been using. I'm going to try to install and use Nvidia's own one. Really? I'm using a GeForce 2 MX 400 (64

Re: Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-07 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:25:29 -0600, Andrew L. Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:07 pm, Nick Tonkin wrote: Hi list, I have a dim recollection (and a CD) of using commercially produced X drivers (by XI Graphics) in FreeBSD 2.x and maybe 3.x I called XIG and t

Commercial graphics drivers for 5.x ??

2004-01-07 Thread Nick Tonkin
a GeForce II card with 128Mb RAM ... there is fuzziness and also visible 'trembling' in the corners. Is there a commercial X driver for FBSD 5.x ? Or, is the problem with KDE or something else? Anyone have similar experience? Thanks, - nick -- _ N

Re: Backup Server

2003-12-27 Thread Nick Tonkin
he equalizer is a software-based device that runs FreeBSD internally. Also worth noting is that the support we got from Coyote Point was exemplary. HTH, -nick -- _____ Nick Tonkin {|8^)> information management systems and custom software developme

Re: problem with perl when installing port dvdrip

2003-12-10 Thread Nick Tonkin
he latest whizz-bang perl modules to Just Work) you should consider installing perl 5.8 from source. - nick -- Nick Tonkin {|8^)> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
tware I need. I build perl, apache and their various components (mod_perl, mod_ssl etc) by hand, and rely on the ports for other stuff. OTOH, as someone pointed out, the ports-installed perl _does_ play nice with CPAN, so you can use CPAN to ge

Re: how to build Spamassassin

2003-12-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
at least) for it to be flaky. Hope this helps, - nick -- Nick Tonkin {|8^)> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: options PNPBIOS unrecognized in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Tonkin
ooting and problem solving with it. My message was primarily to point out what appears to be a failure in the documentation. -- - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^)> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

options PNPBIOS unrecognized in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-24 Thread Nick Tonkin
ges on the subject; but as usual no "solved" message), I added options PNPBIOS to my kernel conf file. The resulting error when I try to reconfig the kernel is: TELTRON: unknown option "PNPBIOS" thanks for any help. -- - nick

Re: vmware

2002-10-10 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: > > > > vmware 2 won't run XP, etc

Re: vmware

2002-10-09 Thread Nick Tonkin
Excuse me, but did you get networking working with win2k guest on freebsd? - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^)> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM -0400, wolf wrote: > > vmware 2 won't run XP, etc on an athlon >

vmware2 license key

2002-10-08 Thread Nick Tonkin
Hi, The vmware2 port needs a license key, but VMWare is only offeringtrial keys (or paid-for keys) for v3.2, which has not been ported afaik. Does anyone have a liense file for 2.0 I could borrow? Thanks, - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^)> To Unsubscribe: send mail

'wrong' version of perl for ports??

2002-10-05 Thread Nick Tonkin
some binaries on the system made with 5.005 or something? - nick ~~~~ Nick Tonkin {|8^)> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: dma

2002-10-05 Thread Nick Tonkin
> FreeBSD is an operating system, as is, maybe, Windows > > To use FreeBSD, you must either quit using Windows, or > set up a dual boot arrangement. You cannot use one OS > on top of another operating system. Wrong, wrong, wrong. You can run FreeBSD on Windows or Windows on FreeBSD, using V

Re: Trouble mounting the root filesystem

2002-10-04 Thread Nick Tonkin
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:02:24PM -0700, Nick Tonkin typed: > > > > Just installed FreeBSD 4.6.2 on a shiny new box with a Promise Fasttrack > > 100 onboard ATA RAID controller. [ snip ] > > Oct 3 23:00:17 init: /e

Trouble mounting the root filesystem

2002-10-03 Thread Nick Tonkin
ny advice on how to get the system to automatically mount the filesystems we defined greatly appreciated. Thanks, - nick Nick Tonkin {|8^)> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message