Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:42:46PM -0700, Paul Beard wrote: > > On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 08:03AM, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: > >> You will then > >> have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". > > > >Why must we insist on confusin

Re: Groff issues with latest FreeBSD-4.x build

2003-08-01 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Hi there, When I do that, the same exact thing happens... and it's not making any sense to me. What database(s) are dependent upon by "man"? # zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz |nroff -man troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char Forrest At 11:21 PM 8/1/2003, you wrote: Forrest Ald

Re: Groff issues with latest FreeBSD-4.x build

2003-08-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just rebuilt the entire system from CVS, and still get this problem: > > # man man > Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro > file tty-char > Done. > > This can't be that complex of an issue, which is probably why I'm >

Re: NIS groups -yp_mkdb: error data too long

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 31), Alvaro Rosales R. said: > Hi guys I got this error when I make my NIS maps , I have a group > in my group file that has 50 users and yp_mkdb complains about it > with this error .yp_mkdb: data too long > Any ideas? A line in your group file is over 1024 bytes. That

How to use USB printer ?

2003-08-01 Thread om52
Hello! I have USB Printer Lexmarkz 35. How i can printing with it in FreeBSD(I have 4.5 ; recompilled kernel - add device pcm and usb printer)? I haven't any drivers for this printer(only distributed for Windows. How tune this printer to work under FreeBSD? System seeing it: command "usbdevs" giv

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2003-08-01 Thread om52
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USB Printer

2003-08-01 Thread om52
I have USB Printer Lexmarkz 35. How i can printing with it in FreeBSD (I have 4.5 ; recompilled kernel - add device pcm)? How tune it? System seeing it: command usbdevs gives answer something like this: addr 1: ... addr 2: ..jet printer Lexmark z35. __

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Paul Beard thusly... > > got room for one more? > > perl -pi -e s#\\r#\\n#g Doesn't work... file p p: ASCII text unixdos p q UnixDos 1.0.13 - SUMMARY: A total of 3 end of line characters were modified. file p q p: ASCII text q: ASCII text,

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2003-08-01 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-08-01 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at

Re: Frontpage perils

2003-08-01 Thread Nick Rogness
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Mark wrote: > I just installed apache+mod_ssl-1.3.28+2.8.15 (FreeBSD 4.7R). Having > some serious trouble integrating Frontpage 5, though. I installed the > package, and it seemingly integrated just fine: > > lynx --head --source http://asarian-host.net:90/overview.html > > Ser

Update to 5.1

2003-08-01 Thread root
Hello, I'm trying to update my 4.8 STABLE FreeBSD box to RELENG_5_1_0_RELEASE and I get the following errors when making buildworld building shared library libkse.so.1 thr_libc.So: In function `sigaction': thr_libc.So(.text+0x54): multiple definition of `_sigaction' thr_sigaction.So(.text+0x0): f

Frontpage perils

2003-08-01 Thread Mark
I just installed apache+mod_ssl-1.3.28+2.8.15 (FreeBSD 4.7R). Having some serious trouble integrating Frontpage 5, though. I installed the package, and it seemingly integrated just fine: lynx --head --source http://asarian-host.net:90/overview.html Server: Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.262

Installing BSD version 4.8

2003-08-01 Thread Ryan Coughlin
I am currently trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. The configuration was going well but when I try to configure (i.e. run pccardd) the wireless network card (SMC 2632W), the system hangs up. At one point, the card was working but when trying to configure the XWindows inte

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Beard
On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 01:31AM, Anil Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its >end. >Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed. > got room for one more? perl -pi -e s#\\r#\\n#g -- Pa

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Beard
On Friday, August 01, 2003, at 08:03AM, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: >> You will then >> have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". > >Why must we insist on confusing non-English patrons? > >OBE means 'out of body experience', and is comple

Question about portsdb -uU

2003-08-01 Thread Hasse
Hi everybody. I have a question about portsdb -uU After a ports cvsup, does it replace the command make index in /usr/ports ? Or do you recommend to use both ? Someone told me portsdb -uU is a lot faster, but it don't seem to be that on my computers. -- Best Regards Hasse. __

Re: Multiple screens TV and Monitor??

2003-08-01 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 13:24, kristof wrote: > Does anybody know how you to configure your Xfreeconfig file so that > it can lanch two X windows at the same time. I would like te be able > to view my screen on my tv and monitor at the same time. I can do it > separatly(TV or Monitor) but it has to b

Re: Applications crash in KDE

2003-08-01 Thread Hasse
Thx a lot Antoine. Recompiling qt -DWITHOUT_OPENGL did the trick. /Geir. On Friday 01 August 2003 22.53, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Selon Hasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com > > Didn't get the one from ports to build. > > It seems like something got built threa

Re: Bootp Installing a Thinkpad?

2003-08-01 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Brilliant--many thanks. After some more poking around, I also found this (I'd missed it because I never heard of PXE before): http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml Cheers, -John > John, > > http://www.chuug.org/talks/index.html > > It's the first listing. > > Good Luck, > >

Xdm and the XDMPC CHooser.. How?

2003-08-01 Thread Julian Elischer
What I wan tis relatively simple. however I can't seem to get it quite right.. I have 4 machines that can run X clients and sessions I have one machine that has an X server. I would like to have XDM throw up a chooser menu that contains all 5 machines. I can get the 4 machines, but the 5th sa

Re: Applications crash in KDE

2003-08-01 Thread Hasse
That will be KDE-Base ? /Geir. On Friday 01 August 2003 22.53, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Selon Hasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com > > Didn't get the one from ports to build. > > It seems like something got built threaded, that's not supposed to. > > /Geir. >

Re: Applications crash in KDE

2003-08-01 Thread Hasse
Hi Antoine. Will do. Thx a lot. /Geir. On Friday 01 August 2003 22.53, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Selon Hasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com > > Didn't get the one from ports to build. > > It seems like something got built threaded, that's not supposed to. > > /G

Re: Link to new Russian FreeBSD searchpage. Plz. repost.

2003-08-01 Thread Hasse
http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ On Friday 01 August 2003 22.24, Hasse wrote: > Hi. > Saw a link to a new Russian FreeBSD searchpage here in the archive a couple > of days ago. Unfortunately I've lost it and am not able to search the > mailarchives at FreeBSD.org > > Will sombody please post the link aga

Re: Applications crash in KDE

2003-08-01 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Hasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com > Didn't get the one from ports to build. > It seems like something got built threaded, that's not supposed to. > /Geir. OK, so you have to recompile qt (and kde) with the following option: -DWITHOUT_OPENGL Antoine

Re: Applications crash in KDE

2003-08-01 Thread Hasse
Yes, downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com Didn't get the one from ports to build. It seems like something got built threaded, that's not supposed to. /Geir. On Friday 01 August 2003 22.25, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 01 August 2003 21:02

Re: Applications crash in KDE

2003-08-01 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 August 2003 21:02, Hasse Hund wrote: > Below are a snip from the Crash-handler. Are you using the NVidia binary drivers ? - -- Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lphp.org PGP/GnuPG key: http://www.lphp.org/ressources/ajacouto

Link to new Russian FreeBSD searchpage. Plz. repost.

2003-08-01 Thread Hasse
Hi. Saw a link to a new Russian FreeBSD searchpage here in the archive a couple of days ago. Unfortunately I've lost it and am not able to search the mailarchives at FreeBSD.org Will sombody please post the link again ? -- Best Regards Hasse. ___

no arp who-has replys

2003-08-01 Thread Jim Flowers
I have a network that depends on a Cisco router, not running any routing protocol and not under my control, getting responses to arp who-has messages for routing. I just configured a 4.8-STABLE box as a router and I don't think it is working correctly. My understanding is that when a router kn

Mouse/X11 Documentation

2003-08-01 Thread Frank Jahnke
I'm writing you this message for assistance in getting my mouse wheel to work with X11. Yes, another one of these requests. I have been through the documentation (and numerous articles on the web) and yet I still cannot get it to work. I am running BSD 4.8 with XFree86 v4.3.0 (downloaded last we

Re: Bootp Installing a Thinkpad?

2003-08-01 Thread jyroscop
John, http://www.chuug.org/talks/index.html It's the first listing. Good Luck, Stephen > Hi there, > > I have just gotten my fingers on a Thinkpad 765D. The external floppy > drive is busted, and the thing will not boot from CD-ROM. However, > according to its bios settings, it should be abl

How to debug fatal trap? running on vinum

2003-08-01 Thread Richard Johannesson
Had FreeBSD5.1 on a box that had a physical hard-drive failure last week. So, this time setup the box using mirrored 200GB drives using vinum sub-disks. Setup multiple vinum partitions to help limit any file system corruption. One of those partitions was /dev/vinum/ports which points to /usr/ports.

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread george donnelly
[Loz wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8/1/03 1:27 PM] >> i guess i'm looking for something with decent features but that will not use >> up a lot of RAM or processor. > > not wishing to start an 'editor war' but this sounds like an ideal > opportunity to learn vi, or better - vim, and take the time t

Applications crash in KDE

2003-08-01 Thread Hasse Hund
Hi everybody. > uname -a FreeBSD thor.swedehost.com 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 1 16:58:59 CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THOR i386 Some of my applications crash on exit in KDE. Specially kmplayer and konsole. ( Both function as supposed to, exept crashing

Re: Semi OT: Linux lawsuit and FBSD

2003-08-01 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 14:50, Stephen Hovey wrote: > The time is S ripe for a big noise to make a big impact to get people > to see the light on FBSD's superiority etc... > > Ive seen some article - but nothing like what I should.. > > I wonder how, those of us you really know its worth, can p

Semi OT: Linux lawsuit and FBSD

2003-08-01 Thread Stephen Hovey
The time is S ripe for a big noise to make a big impact to get people to see the light on FBSD's superiority etc... Ive seen some article - but nothing like what I should.. I wonder how, those of us you really know its worth, can properly toot it ! __

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread Marc Wiz
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:28:40PM -0500, george donnelly wrote: > [Marc Wiz wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8/1/03 12:51 PM] > > >>> What kind of bandwidth do your users have? e.g., right now I am using > >>> emacs over ssh to a friends box, where the limiting bandwidth is > >>> 128kbits/s (that's t

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 1. August 2003 02:02, george donnelly wrote: > thanks for the feedback. gui is not important, i guess i'm just looking for > the neat features that everyone talks about - and with a minimum of > resource usage as i would like to install it o

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP - PROBLEM SOLVED

2003-08-01 Thread James A. Coulter
- Original Message - From: "Jud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John DeStefano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "James A. Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:01 AM Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP - P

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread george donnelly
[Marc Wiz wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8/1/03 12:51 PM] >>> What kind of bandwidth do your users have? e.g., right now I am using >>> emacs over ssh to a friends box, where the limiting bandwidth is >>> 128kbits/s (that's the upstream dsl on the remote end.), and I >>> find it usable. However if y

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread Loz
* george donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-01 18:30]: > i guess i'm looking for something with decent features but that will not use > up a lot of RAM or processor. not wishing to start an 'editor war' but this sounds like an ideal opportunity to learn vi, or better - vim, and take the time t

FreeBSD on a new HP Pavilion ZE43xx

2003-08-01 Thread Sabri Berisha
Hi all, Does anyone have positive experience installing FreeBSD on a HP Pavilion series? I just bought byself a ZE4355EA today and I have a hard time installing A Decent OS. Problems I encounter are the well-known ACPI problems (but I worked around this) and my biggest problem is the X video dri

VMWare and FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Nugter
I am sorry if this is the wrong mail address but - as a newbe - I have a question. I installed on my laptop (using Windows XP; SP 1) VMWare 4 which runs O.K. I installed a virtual machine (VMWare 4) and was able to install FreeBSD 4.8 as a "guest" on it. Although the configuration of XFree86 (wh

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread Marc Wiz
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:29:56PM -0500, george donnelly wrote: > [LLeweLLyn Reese wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8/1/03 12:02 > PM] > > > What kind of bandwidth do your users have? e.g., right now I am using > > emacs over ssh to a friends box, where the limiting bandwidth is > > 128kbits/s (that'

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread george donnelly
[LLeweLLyn Reese wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8/1/03 12:02 PM] > What kind of bandwidth do your users have? e.g., right now I am using > emacs over ssh to a friends box, where the limiting bandwidth is > 128kbits/s (that's the upstream dsl on the remote end.), and I > find it usable. However if yo

Bootp Installing a Thinkpad?

2003-08-01 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Hi there, I have just gotten my fingers on a Thinkpad 765D. The external floppy drive is busted, and the thing will not boot from CD-ROM. However, according to its bios settings, it should be able to netboot. Can someone point me in the right direction how to set up a bootp install server, anal

Re: Adaptec 39320 Not Detected

2003-08-01 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
> According the hardware comp. list Adaptec SCSI 39320 is FreeBSD compatible > but it is not detected in my box Disable Host-RAID via SCSI-Select. Host-RAID is not supported under FreeBSD. -- Justin ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.free

Adaptec 39320 Not Detected

2003-08-01 Thread Gian-Carlo
According the hardware comp. list Adaptec SCSI 39320 is FreeBSD compatible but it is not detected in my box gian-carlo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMA

Re: emacs - gnu, x ...?

2003-08-01 Thread LLeweLLyn Reese
george donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 7/31/03 6:44 PM] > > > If you want a GUI, try GNU Emacs or XEmacs. I prefer GNU Emacs, but I suggest > > you try both (if you are looking for a GUI). > > If you don't want a GUI, and if you are not lo

Re: buggy optimization levels...

2003-08-01 Thread LLeweLLyn Reese
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, all-- > > The "known bugs" section of the GCC info documentation lists 5 issues; > "man gcc" lists none. You are looking in the 'wrong' place for 'known bugs' (Or the GCC people aren't putting the info in the 'right' place :-) http://gcc.gnu.o

Followup to Sendmail install problem

2003-08-01 Thread Jamie
These are the steps I used when I installed sendmail. I realized that I should have included them in the last post: cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail-sasl make PREFIX=/usr make PREFIX=/usr install I used /usr since I wanted to overwrite the existing sendmail rather than placing everything in /u

Problem with Sendmail installation on FBSD 4.8REL

2003-08-01 Thread Jamie
I've installed Sendmail 8.12.9 on 4.8 RELEASE with sasl library support from the ports collection. The install put the binary in /usr/sbin/sendmail. It didn't update /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail. So, when I started sendmail, sasl support worked fine, but when I ran any commands which are

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: > > You will then > > have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". > > Why must we insist on confusing non-English patrons? > > OBE means 'out of body experience', and is completely different from the > current topic. Well, for some people

Re: Checking out ports using CVS

2003-08-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:13:42PM +, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hi, > > as user "alex:wheel" I try the following commands > > cd /usr > sudo mkdir ports > sudo chmod g+w ports > cvs -z3 -d $CVSROOT co -rRELENG_5_1 -P ports | & tee ~/ports.txt ^^^

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:01:18PM +0530, Anil Garg wrote: > Hi, > > I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its > end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed. > > Thanks > Anil > YAW (yet another way...) sed 's/.$//' infile.txt > out

Checking out ports using CVS

2003-08-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, as user "alex:wheel" I try the following commands cd /usr sudo mkdir ports sudo chmod g+w ports cvs -z3 -d $CVSROOT co -rRELENG_5_1 -P ports | & tee ~/ports.txt Then I see the various ports sub-directories being checked out and they aren't empty. But at the very end I see the

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 04:31, Anil Garg wrote: > I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its > end. > Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed. In general, you can use a tool such as converters/unix2dos However, in regards to FTP, you simp

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:10, Peter Rosa wrote: > sorry for the stupid question, which should not be here, > but sometimes you use phrase "OUT-OF-THE-BOX". > It can be also found on FBSD web-pages. I'm not from > english-speaking country and I really do not know what > does it mean. > Can you explai

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 03:24, W. D. wrote: > You will then > have had an "out of the box" experience, or "OBE". Why must we insist on confusing non-English patrons? OBE means 'out of body experience', and is completely different from the current topic. -- Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP - PROBLEM

2003-08-01 Thread Jud
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 07:09:30 -0700 (PDT), "John DeStefano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > "James A. Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "John DeStefano" > To: > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:17 AM > Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP [snip] > G

Re: ssh/root and remote X sessiosn

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Pelleg
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have my FreebSD machines set up in the current "preferred" (IE default) > ssh/tty setup which prohibits remote ssh logins. So to get to root I ssh as > my normal user, and su -. All is well, unless I need to run a client as > root. Even manually setting the DIS

Re: Help PLEASE! on proper kernel config file to use serial portswith puc driver

2003-08-01 Thread stan
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:37:35AM -0400, J. Seth Henry wrote: > Stan, > Could you describe your hardware in a bit more detail. I can't imagine > why your system would hard lock, unless there is something seriously > wrong. Also, I'm curious why puc is detecting your card as sio4 and sio5 > (COM5 a

Updating several amchine behind a fireall?

2003-08-01 Thread stan
I find myself in the unfortunate position of supporting 10+ FreebSD machine that live behind a _VERY_ restrictive firewall that I have no control over. The only thing I can get through the firewall is http (using a FreebSD machine with squid as a SOCKS proxy). Over time these machine have gotten q

ssh/root and remote X sessiosn

2003-08-01 Thread stan
I have my FreebSD machines set up in the current "preferred" (IE default) ssh/tty setup which prohibits remote ssh logins. So to get to root I ssh as my normal user, and su -. All is well, unless I need to run a client as root. Even manually setting the DISPLAY variable does not seem to allow this.

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread george donnelly
[Mykroft Holmes IV wrote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8/1/03 6:56 AM] > Out of The Box means 'Like New', and unmodified. It's the condition the > item being referred to would be in when it was rem,oved from it's box. in the software world it often means that something just works, ie you install it and

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP - PROBLEM

2003-08-01 Thread John DeStefano
"James A. Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "John DeStefano" To: Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Windows XP > >"Jud" wrote: > >On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:55:25 -0400 (EDT), "Jerry McAllister" > > said: > >> > > >> >

Re: Error when starting quake3, Anybody????

2003-08-01 Thread Andreas Kohn
Am Thu, 2003-07-31 um 23.24 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I've been busy installing the new NVIDIA drivers so 3D support is utilised. > Now I've recompiled my kernel so that the nessesary support whas selected. > Then installed the driver and configured the XF86config file. (This al took > like 2

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, > I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its > end. > Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed. You can use dos2unix(1) for that. There is also the complementary tool unix2dos(1). Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: Error during 'make' phase of kernel compilation

2003-08-01 Thread Daniel Cody
Thanks, that did the trick! -Original Message- From: Daniel Bye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error during 'make' phase of kernel compilation On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:05:58AM -0400, Daniel Cody wrote: [---snip---]

RE: shell scripting while if string length != 0

2003-08-01 Thread Steve Coile
Dave: >From your description of the script, and from the script itself, it appears that the reason you're checking for a blank command is to determine when you've reached the end of commands. Presumably, that would only occur at the end of the file. Is my interpretation correct? If the reason y

Multiple screens TV and Monitor??

2003-08-01 Thread kristof
Hi, Does anybody know how you to configure your Xfreeconfig file so that it can lanch two X windows at the same time. I would like te be able to view my screen on my tv and monitor at the same time. I can do it separatly(TV or Monitor) but it has to be possible to have twinview. I have an NVIDI

RE: shell scripting while if string length != 0

2003-08-01 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
>I'm not a shell guru, but pipelines don't necessarily run in sequence. >In line 5 of your script, the part that says > > sed '1d' > /path/to/file_o_commands > >will destroy all contents of the original file. This may or may not >happen before > > cat /path/to/file_o_commands > >has finished read

Re: Boot manager doesn't show the Windows partition

2003-08-01 Thread Jud
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:16:29 +, "Alexander Farber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > > I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 on the 1st drive a PC with 3 IDE disks: > > ad0: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 > ad1: 39083MB [79408/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA133 > ad2: 58644MB [119150/16/63]

Re: does freebsd support IRDA comm.?

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Pelleg
"S.W.Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does FreeBSD support IRDA devices? and how to config? > > thk! It supports some IRDA devices. You will need to install the birda port (/usr/ports/comm/birda). Then you will need an application that can talk to your device (eg coldsync for some PalmOs devic

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
Out of The Box means 'Like New', and unmodified. It's the condition the item being referred to would be in when it was rem,oved from it's box. Adam Peter Rosa wrote: Hello everybody, sorry for the stupid question, which should not be here, but sometimes you use phrase "OUT-OF-THE-BOX". It can

AT-2700FTX Network card working on FreeBSD ?

2003-08-01 Thread Gheorghe Ardelean
Hi, Has anybody an idea about how this card works under FreeBSD (it's based on a PCnet chip but it's not listed in the hardware section)? The card name is AT-2700FTX/SC PCI Ethernet Adapter Card with 10/100Mbps RJ-45 and 100Mbps Fiber (SC) Connectors (Allied Telesyn) Thanks, Gheorghe ARDELEAN

Boot manager doesn't show the Windows partition

2003-08-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 on the 1st drive a PC with 3 IDE disks: ad0: 38166MB [77545/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 39083MB [79408/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA133 ad2: 58644MB [119150/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100 The other 2 disks contain OpenBSD-current (ad1) and Win XP Home (ad2).

Re: FreeBSD behind a PROXY and unnatural Proxy Ports settings inour LAN

2003-08-01 Thread Rommel B. Ikeda
Thanks for the reply, > Have you tried to set the FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY environment > variables? fetch (the program ports use to get the distribution files) > will honor them (more in fetch(3)). When I first tried to instal CVSup, I really had a hard time in doing it...after a long time of res

Re: FreeBSD behind a PROXY and unnatural Proxy Ports settings inour LAN

2003-08-01 Thread Andreas Kohn
Am Fri, 2003-08-01 um 10.10 schrieb Rommel B. Ikeda: > Hi to Everyone... Hi! > > The problem is I am trying to install Ports that I really needed and it seems > that I does not work when THOSE PORTS NEEDED TO BE DOWNLOADED USES FTP...How > can I set things or my system that our Proxy Server is n

RE: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Philip Payne
HI, > I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line > has ^M at its > end. > Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed. > > Thanks > Anil At the vi command line :1,$:s/http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

RE: CVSUP

2003-08-01 Thread Philip Payne
> I have a question about cvsup. I read the manual and can > update my ports with no > problem. Here is my question though...what if I was to > change the Makefile for a port? > Is there a way I can still use CVSup to update my ports and > merge the changes I made > in the old Makefile w

Compiling kernel and making world as non-root

2003-08-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I'm a FreeBSD newbie, but have used OpenBSD for few years. Is there a way to compile kernel and also to "make world" as a non-root user under FreeBSD (5.1/i386)? In OpenBSD I normally put "SUDO=sudo" into /etc/mk.conf and run "make build". Also all /usr/src belongs to "alex:wsrc", not to "r

Re: shell scripting while if string length != 0

2003-08-01 Thread Rob
I'm not a shell guru, but pipelines don't necessarily run in sequence. In line 5 of your script, the part that says sed '1d' > /path/to/file_o_commands will destroy all contents of the original file. This may or may not happen before cat /path/to/file_o_commands has finished reading it. If

Re: Nvidia Drivers + FreeBSD AGP + Big textures = Problems

2003-08-01 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:25:37AM +0200, Mica Telodico wrote: > Hi all , > > I'm getting problems with FreeBSD AGP driver and > Nvidia DRVs. > > My system is composed by a Geforce3 Ti200 (by > Creative) and an MSI KT4Ultra (KT400) . I've decided > to use the FreeBSD AGP driver instead of the Nvi

Usage of warnpassword and warnexpire in 5.1 login.conf

2003-08-01 Thread Mats Larsson
Hello! Trying to get warnings to a few accounts about their expire time of password but with no result. Are the warnexpire and warnpassword still used in 5.1 or have they been superseded with a PAM module in the same way as minpasswordlen and minpasswordcase?? // Mats Larsson ___

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Anil Garg
thanks :) - Original Message - From: "Karl Pielorz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anil Garg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:07 PM Subject: Re: How to remove ^M character > > > --On 01 August 2003 14:01 +0530 Anil Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > H

creating a bootable floppy (not for the installation)

2003-08-01 Thread mess-mate
Hi, some questions from a newbie : 1.How can I create a bootable floppy after the installation of rel 5.1 ? The FreeBSD slice is /dev/hdb4. 2.After a lilo config, ( as described in the howto) other=/dev/hdb4 table=/dev/hdb loader=/boot/chain.b label=FreeBSD lilo won't ins

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 August 2003 14:01 +0530 Anil Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by which ^M can be removed. man tr or simply, cat file | tr -d "\r" > newfile -Kp ___

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 August 2003 14:01 +0530 Anil Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by which ^M can be removed. Or, on second thoughts - upload it via ftp in ASCII mode, not binary mod

How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Anil Garg
Hi, I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsdnot its every line has ^M at its end. Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed. Thanks Anil ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

FreeBSD behind a PROXY and unnatural Proxy Ports settings in ourLAN

2003-08-01 Thread Rommel B. Ikeda
Hi to Everyone... First of all I am a NEWBIE to FreeBSD and UNIX... Second, since I successfully had the courage in sending my first Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I have been in constant contact we people who have been trying to help me to solve my problem(s)...and I am very thankful for those pe

perforce usage by the FreeBSD project

2003-08-01 Thread Georg-W. Koltermann
Hi, I remember a long while ago, maybe two or three years, there was a lengthy thread about using P4 vs. CVS for the FreeBSD project. I believe it was on the -current list. At that time I didn't follow the thread, and now I cannot find it any more. If someone could drop me a pointer, or refer m

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread W. D.
At 02:10 8/1/2003, Peter Rosa, wrote: >Hello everybody, > >sorry for the stupid question, which should not be here, >but sometimes you use phrase "OUT-OF-THE-BOX". >It can be also found on FBSD web-pages. I'm not from >english-speaking country and I really do not know what >does it mean. >Can you e

Re: HELP! Undefined symbol "__stdoutp" in FreeBSD 4.3...

2003-08-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:58:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > On a FreeBSD 4.3 server (I inherited when I took over IT duties at a new > client), I am getting "Undefined symbol "__stdoutp"" error messages when > I try to run utilities (e.g. sudo) that I have pkg_add'ed to the server

What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Peter Rosa
Hello everybody, sorry for the stupid question, which should not be here, but sometimes you use phrase "OUT-OF-THE-BOX". It can be also found on FBSD web-pages. I'm not from english-speaking country and I really do not know what does it mean. Can you explain, please ? Thanks and regards. Peter R