Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-14 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Nikolas Britton on Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 14:58:34 -0500 We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. It is not a problem but a marketing decision we

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-14 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Sean Bryant on Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20 -0400 Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that. It might be the

X11 and Radeon 9700 card.

2002-12-16 Thread Yann Golanski
I am getting a Radeon 9700 and know that it is supporte by X11 (from their web page) but wanted to ask if there was anything to watch out for with it? Is there anyone who has this card and would be willing to share their Xfree86 config file? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=-

Re: Wheelmouse

2002-12-16 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Wayne Swart on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 16:07:46 +0200 i got like a generic type wheelmouse, and is running fbsd 4.7 how do you get the wheel to work? i checked google, but was unseccessfull?!?! Add the following instead of the same named section in your /etc/X11/XF86COnfig: Section

Dual Athlon MX install.

2002-12-11 Thread Yann Golanski
I'm looking for informations on installing FreeBSD on a dual Athlon MX machine. It's to be a research machine so will run intensive code -- NS and other modeling tools. I'm looking at things like: Which of 4.7, -STABLE, -CURRENT should I use? What are the things I need to keep in mind while

Re: Backspace and Delete keys under PuTTY

2002-12-10 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Adrian Penisoara on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 13:17:17 +0200 But I have Bash as the default shell. And yes, it works changing the Terminal / Keyboard / Backspace key from Contrl-? (127) to Control-H, but the users are pissed off by the fact that Linux doesn't need this -- does it mean

Re:

2002-12-04 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Jeff MacDonald on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:59:46 -0500 Step by step in all honesty remove sendmail Agreed. install postfix or qmail enjoy Or exim. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006

Re: sendmail

2002-12-04 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Peter Jamrisko on Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 18:08:28 +0100 OK Boys, But I assume it must working with sendmail and then can I install another MTA. Sendmail has a horrendouse configuration file that takes years to understand much less change. Other MTAs such as Exim, Postfix and Qmail are

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred messages for each spam message they let through they will certainly start acting fast :-)

keyboard mappings in X11

2002-11-19 Thread Yann Golanski
I have a logitech i touch keyboard and would like to know if it is possible to have all those useless keys at the top of the keyboard (media control and co) actually maped to something usefull. Has anyone already done something like that? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=-

/usr/home encryption.

2002-10-28 Thread Yann Golanski
Is there a simple and efficent way to encrypt /usr/home so that only the user can read his own directory? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server

Re: Xfree 4.x.x and Intel i810 revisited

2002-10-24 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Ronnie Clark on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:13:29 -0700 A few weeks ago, there was a thread of someone trying to get X working with the i810 cheipset. Did this ever get resolved? If so, could someone send me the final entry in the thread? Or point me to the archived thread somewhere? Or, if

Re: Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Cliff Sarginson on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 13:10:07 +0200 My mail combination is MTA = Postfix, MDA = procmail, MUA = Mutt, Spam catcher = Spamassassin. It works well except I hate procmail beyone rationality, but the setup works well. Have a look at Exim (www.exim.org) as it has a very

Re: Exim as an alternative MTA in FreeBSD.

2002-10-10 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Andre Hall on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 06:47:28 -0700 OK, I'm just curious. I've heard many reasons for replacing Sendmail but have never heard a valid reason for someone replacing Postfix with yet another MTA. I'm patial to the ease of use and security of Postfix but Exim over Postfix?

Xine and .AVI files.

2002-10-05 Thread Yann Golanski
I am getting the following erros while trying to view an AVI file with the lastest port of Xine. Does anyone know what the problem is? xine_play: xine open /cdrom/01___THE.AVI, start pos = 0, start time = 0 (sec) demux_elem: stop...ignored xine: using input plugin file for this MRL

jpilot, usb and palm m505.

2002-10-02 Thread Yann Golanski
I cannot seem to get my Palm m505 to sync on my desctop whci is running -STABLE and jpilot with pilot-link0.11.4 installed. The error of jpilot is: *** Syncing on device /dev/uhub0 - this was changed to /dev/ugen0 as well. Press the HotSync button now

Re: Configuring XFree86 - not working...

2002-09-26 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth MET on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:38:23 -0400 Any how, I'm attempting to the Handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html ): # XFree86 -configure # XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new The simplest way to install XFree86 is from

Portupgrade queery.

2002-09-23 Thread Yann Golanski
I'm running portupgrade to keep all my ports up to date but have come to the following issue. I want to run the latest cvs version of XFree86 -- need it to get the Vaio to have X11 -- but this is not a port. So, can I specify an option to portupdate that will skip XFree86 in automatic

Re: which mail system is the best

2002-09-19 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Roman Neuhauser on Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:08:49 +0200 For the mail server, postfix and qmail which is the best? this question is too vague to yield a sensible answer. Exim (www.exim.org) is as well a good one. Clear syntax and easy to understand configuration file. Can I