touchpad not recognized and USB mouse doesn't work ...

Dear FreeBSD users, Once more I am asking your advice with a old Laptop I have. Pressario 1230. Nothing worked as fast as FreeBSD in that thing! It was amazing how quickly it booted when compared with SuSE or Windows. Help me to fix 2 things though so it becomes useful! 1) In FreeBSD 4.10 ther

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

Guys thanks for the help but it doesn't want to work! Infact my data size setting in /etc/login.conf is unlimited by default. But take a look at the output of the following commands! # login.conf - login class capabilities database. # # Remember to rebuild the database after each change to this

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

This is the output of my ulimit: #ulimit -a | grep data data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 # So what is next? Is it possible to embed that information in the kernel? Or, how is this information set by default? Is there any specific .conf file I should edit? Thank you all! ___

having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

Dear FreeBSD list, I have an AMD Athlon-XP with 1.5GB RAM. Unfortunately my FreeBSD 4.10 throws a memory allocation error when in a simple C++ program I try to allocate with new 512MB of RAM or more. Until 511MB it goes fine! Is there any kernel specific feature I should tweak? What is the prob

del key in bash or tcsh

Dear list, Does anybody know how to change this annoying default behaviour of bash or sh in FreeBSD when somebody presses the del key? When I press the del key I want this to work as it works on any editor or in Linux bash! Anyway to achieve this? And does anybody knows how to have coloured prom

modem in FreeBSD

Dear List, Is there somebody who has succesfully installed a SoftModem in FreeBSD(5.3 or 4.10)? thanks! D.K. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

modem in FreeBSD 4.10

Hallo everybody! I have a modem which works fine with Linux. It is a soft modem which works with some Conexant HSF drivers! Is there any way to make it work under FreeBSD 4.10 as well? Maybe using Linux Compatibility or some stuff like that? Did anyone managed do achieve something similar? Thank

Plans about GIANT-LOCK, SMP performance ...

Dear users, Does anybody know what are the plans, for locking mechanism like GIANT-LOCK in future 5.3 Releases? I have heard from many people that this GIANT-Locking mechanism is not the best thing to have! Some said that it may be replaced. Some also said that it won't. 1:) What are the plans

cannot startx elf-ld.so.1 problem

Dear fellows! Happy new year to everybody! I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed! I do not know why and for what reason I got the following error message when trying to startx: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Fr

Compiling FreeBSD 4.10 kernel with gcc native and gcc-3.4.3

Dear FreeBSD people, I had problems in my ATHLON-XP with 5.3 Release. While compiling the kernel to use NVIDIA drivers I opened emacs and everything freezed 2 times! The third time I didn't touch emacs so the kernel compilation finished without everything to freeze! Thus I decided to install Free

nvidia drivers do not want to work Sony-Vaio PCG-GRT100 FreeBSD 5.3 Release

Dear FreeBSD users, I tried and tried and tried again to make Nvidia Drivers work on my Laptop(Sony-Vaio PCG-GRT100), with Release 5.3. I followed all the instrunctions in the README. I am sending you my /boot/loader.conf /boot/defaults/loader.conf kernel-config: SONY-VAIO-NVIDIA my xorg.c