FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...

2006-07-29 Thread Ahmed Parkar
Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install it and everything seems to get detected and all... but then... it suddenly crashes... system just shuts down... no error appears on the

NOTICE: mail delivery status

2006-07-29 Thread MAILER-DAEMON
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Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've wanted to try this for a long time, but I believed its not possible, but never asked anyone so Is it possible to have multiple freebsd slices (partitions) on a single disk ? For example, I already got a fbsd slice

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-29 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 28 July 2006 23:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The people who are willing to be open minded will use a mix of tools from Microsoft and the rest of the world, and the people who are closed minded will use tools from Microsoft, and neither is going to pay any attention to whatever

Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...

2006-07-29 Thread Matias
First of all, ensure that you are not having a temperature issue check the cooler of the laptop, maybe it is crossing to the other world... Ahmed Parkar escribió: Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb

Periodic Weekly Error Messages

2006-07-29 Thread Gerard Seibert
FreeBSD seibercom.net 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Jul 8 04:30:13 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SEIBERCOM i386 After periodic weekly runs, the following is mailed to me via CRON. It appears to contain a considerable amount of error messages. I find it

Re: Xorg configuration

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
similar errors/warnings IIRC. Since KDE would take several minutes to start (*noticeably* longer than XP, like 5-10 mins), I want to make sure that these errors are not the underlying cause for the bad performance. Check your DNS configuration, I recomend you to have local DNS server.

Re: IPFW Time-Range

2006-07-29 Thread Pelekh Volodya
Thank you for answer I try this thanks Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 22), Pelekh Volodya said: Hi My name is Volodya, i'am from Ukraine I have a little question, do you plan to add time-range in ipfw? Something like in Cisco thanks wait for answer One way to do what you

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-29 Thread Born, Clinton
Yawn You are exactly what I'm talking about. -Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:56 PM To: Born, Clinton; Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ...

Re: ntpd on FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, After a power outaga (Level 3 at Goswell Road, London), all our FreeBSD machines came up OK. Nearly all of them had a problem though with ntpd. I'm guessing that most of these machines booted before the the ntp servers came up. What happens is

Re: chipest real hardware raid for FreeBSDWindows XP

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:38:11PM +0400, Eugeny Kuzakov wrote: On 7/10/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly I asked chipest HARDWARE raid MB doesn't has contained hardware Why dont you wish use geom_mirror if 3Ware card is expensive for you? Also, what costs you more: 3Ware

Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:58:19AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Also, please *trim* the quoted material. Having to skim again and again through multi-hundred posts of quoted material to find out that you have only added about 2 lines of text near the end is silly. I agree with you about

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 15 Thanks all. I have XP and linux share the xtended partition, and now I want to say bye bye linux (I need XP for worldwind s/w) . That's different then. If you want to keep XP (and keep it within that extended partition)

Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Ragona
Are the crashes always with X running? ATI support is not good for X. -Derek At 01:15 AM 7/29/2006, Ahmed Parkar wrote: Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install it and

Re: been buggin' me for a while now (console resolution)

2006-07-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/10/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running 5.4-STABLE and I would like to have better resolution (more lines and columns) when I boot into console. I used to be able to issue a command once there but I have forgotten that command. I remember trying to allude to it via rc.conf

Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robert Huff wrote: Alex Zbyslaw writes: Make sure nvidia-driver isn't installed now and (hateful I know) try re-installing xorg-libraries and xorg-server. The good news: Done. The bad news: this does not seem to have fixed the desire for the nvidia driver. Is

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-29 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 29, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Born, Clinton wrote: Yawn You are exactly what I'm talking about. As you are yourself Chad -Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:56 PM To: Born, Clinton; Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Cc:

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/29/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/28/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that I would be ok with listing and

Re: ntpd on FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, After a power outaga (Level 3 at Goswell Road, London), all our FreeBSD machines came up OK. Nearly all of them had a problem though with ntpd. I'm guessing that most of these machines booted before the

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-29 Thread Atom Powers
On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that I would be ok with listing and exactly zero that I will actually list. It's not that I

Re: Using extended partitions.. ?

2006-07-29 Thread Gobbledegeek
Partition magic looks like the least painful option. Thanks for the tip. I'm just gonna try newfs on the logical partitions once and see :) after I change t ptype to ufs from linux fdisk just for kicks.. Rgrds On 7/29/06, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006

Fetching install.cfg from a remote machine

2006-07-29 Thread Philippe LAQUET
Hi! I would like to know if someone has published some patch or found a solution to perform a automatic installation via sysinstall but with a remote (ftp/http/nfs) install.cfg file? I found some solutions using a PXE boot disk and mount via NFS but don't want to put NFS shares and DHCP

Re: Real Time scheduling

2006-07-29 Thread David Godsey
If this is not the list to ask this question, can someone kindly direct me to the right list. I've been out of the FreeBSD loop for a while and just now getting back (my vocation requires that I use linux at work). I have seen a blurb on realtime scheduling with FreeBSD, however there weren't

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/29/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You might think this sounds harmless but folks have done this kind of thing in the past with other products and wreaked havoc on the Internet. You can start by referencing dlink ntp fiasco in

Re: boot FreeBSD from USB external drive

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:59:47AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just try running the installation cd with the USB device and see what happens. Make sure your setting it up on the right drive (da0 assuming you have IDE hardrives) Not so good advice - flash memory has limited write count.

Re: LDAP Thunderbird and security

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Nagy L?szl? wrote: know that I could create a VPN connection, but for my users, this is too difficult to setup. :-) Do you know a solution, definitely for FreeBSD, There are no much difficulty with VPN. For server side look at net/mpd and client is

Re: qemu with tap networking on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-29 Thread Fabian Keil
mal content [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/07/06, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I prefer to use NAT to connect qemu (and jails) with the world outside. This way you can use pfctl -ss -r to see which connections come from the host system and which don't. How does

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/29/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that I would be ok with listing and

Re: [bugs] SMP, KDE3 and OpenOffice

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:35:50AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: I believe that most of the OOo file import functionality is provided by Java modules, and it will successfully build without You are wrong. OOo can work and import/export most documents without Java. Java is needed for Palm file

making isos of dvd videos

2006-07-29 Thread Dave
Hello, I have some dvd videos i want to copy to isos, and then reburn them to dvd so i can have a backup copy. I've tried dd but keep getting an input/output error. Has anyone pulled this off? Thanks. Dave. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

FFS or reiserfs ?

2006-07-29 Thread RJ45
Hello, I do not know if it is better to use reiserfs or the standard rReeBSD filesystem with soft updates enabled for a cyrus spool and db partition. Users have a lot of files on those partition. Anyone can suggest me if it is better to use reiserfs or FFS ? I am using FreeBSD 6.1 thanks Rick

Re: qemu with tap networking on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-07-29 Thread mal content
On 29/07/06, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mal content [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/07/06, Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I prefer to use NAT to connect qemu (and jails) with the world outside. This way you can use pfctl -ss -r to see which connections come

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/29/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/29/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal use. But of those there

Re: FFS or reiserfs ?

2006-07-29 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
RJ45 wrote: Hello, I do not know if it is better to use reiserfs or the standard rReeBSD filesystem with soft updates enabled for a cyrus spool and db partition. Users have a lot of files on those partition. Anyone can suggest me if it is better to use reiserfs or FFS ? I am using FreeBSD 6.1

Re: X11/glx question

2006-07-29 Thread Robert Huff
Alex Zbyslaw writes: You don't mention what commands you ran; 1) rebuilt mplayer without nvidia 2) pkg_deinstalled nvidia-driver 3) portupgraded -f xorg-libraries 4) portupgraded -f xorg-server Also, you could try finding glx related files (e.g. locate glx)

Re: boot FreeBSD from USB external drive

2006-07-29 Thread Brian McKeon
Igor Robul wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:59:47AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just try running the installation cd with the USB device and see what happens. Make sure your setting it up on the right drive (da0 assuming you have IDE hardrives) Not so good advice - flash memory

Re: Using 3ware OCE and FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:56:25PM +0100, Richard Collyer wrote: Now that all seems easy enough however wouldn't using OCE change the partition size (obviously) leading to the partition needing to be reformatted? I have not used it myself but there is growfs utility in base FreeBSD. Look at

Re: Real Time scheduling

2006-07-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
David Godsey wrote: If this is not the list to ask this question, can someone kindly direct me to the right list. I've been out of the FreeBSD loop for a while and just now getting back (my vocation requires that I use linux at work). You might try asking on freebsd-realtime@ instead,

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-29 Thread Igor Robul
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:50:40AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: A P1 with 32MB should be sufficient albeit painful, but I wouldn't use any large scale desktop/window managers (such as KDE/Gnome), I'd probably use one of the light weights like TWM (and ION?), or maybe a medium weight (WMaker?),

I can not decide because of an old notebook. Need Help

2006-07-29 Thread Stojance
Dear FreeBSD I really like your OS and I want to install it on a really old Toshiba Notebook (lap-Top). It has a 4GB HDD and 64 or 32 MB RAM; Pentium II; and I don't know the other specs. While reading the installation manual I got confused. Is there a faster way for configuring all the stuff,

Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ?

2006-07-29 Thread Stojance
Dear FreeBSD Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ? I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be very much appreciated. I'll download everything and put it on a CD and burn it

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jul 29, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Igor Robul wrote: On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:50:40AM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: A P1 with 32MB should be sufficient albeit painful, but I wouldn't use any large scale desktop/window managers (such as KDE/Gnome), I'd probably use one of the light weights like TWM

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server:

2006-07-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
Dear FreeBSD Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ? I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be very much appreciated. I'll download everything and put it on a CD and

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server:

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jul 29, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Dear FreeBSD Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ? I really need it. I can't pay for your CD ROM so any help would be very much appreciated.

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server:

2006-07-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 29 July 2006 16:04, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't know Nero so I don't know what choices it offers. But, generally you just want a plain burn plus fixate. in nero, there is one of the upper drop down menus thats has burn image. that is the only thing one needs to do to

Re: Using 3ware OCE and FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread Richard Collyer
On Sat, July 29, 2006 8:27 pm, Igor Robul wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 09:56:25PM +0100, Richard Collyer wrote: Now that all seems easy enough however wouldn't using OCE change the partition size (obviously) leading to the partition needing to be reformatted? I have not used it myself but

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread adrian esquivel
Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a 40-conductor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

August PhxBUG Meeting, Tuesday August 1st

2006-07-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
Hi! The next meeting of the Phoenix BSD User Group will be Tuesday, August 1st at 7:30pm. The location is ASU, Bateman PS-F Room 566 (map at http://www.asu.edu/map/b2.html), courtesty of Marco. This month's presentation will be An Introduction to PF, by Yours Truly. I will lightly cover all the

help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread adrian esquivel
Sorry for the last message... Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a 40-conductor IDE cable. So this means that I need to change it for an UDMA (80 conductor)?? Oh, and when I change it, do I

Counting FreeBSD servers/boxes in use

2006-07-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aloha Gurus, I see a lot of discussion on the list about logging how many FreeBSD boxes are deployed world wide. My own setup at my home noc has 8 mostly 6.* and one 4.11 running. My downtown noc has 14 some 6.* and 4.* boxes running. We are a small coperative of USERS who use Freebsd and a

Re: Can I Make my own CD ROM bootable from this ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE ?

2006-07-29 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
Why don't you just download the CD image and burn that onto a CD? Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.1/ --- Stojance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Can I make my own bootable CD from FreeBSD, actually from the ftp server:

Re: I can not decide because of an old notebook. Need Help

2006-07-29 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
If you want it easy, go to Distrowatch.com and select one of the live CDs there. You should try out FreeSBIE, Frenzy, Damn Small Linux, and Vector Linux. First two are FreeBSD based while the last two are linux-based. You can run them as a live CD or use them as installers. --- Stojance [EMAIL

newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Charlie OBrien
Hi, im Charlie in Tucson Arizona. Im trying to teach myself FreeBSD and this is what i have done so far. I have downloaded and installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto my spare computer. i can boot the computer and login into the # prompt. how do i invoke the KDE windows environment? what are some other

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
how do i invoke the KDE windows environment? If you configured everything properly-in terms of XWindows-and have installed KDE, bringing up the KDE environment can simply be done using the command startkde. You may prefer setting up more than that though, so I suggest modifying .xinitrc and

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-29 Thread Garrett Cooper
adrian esquivel wrote: Sorry for the last message... Thanks everyone that has helped me. Ok, so I checked the ISO image and it was perfectly fine. So I checked the ribbon cable and it actually is a 40-conductor IDE cable. So this means that I need to change it for an UDMA (80 conductor)?? Oh,

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:10:05PM -0700, Charlie OBrien wrote: Hi, im Charlie in Tucson Arizona. Im trying to teach myself FreeBSD and this is what i have done so far. I have downloaded and installed FreeBSD 6.1 onto my spare computer. i can boot the computer and login into the # prompt.

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-29 Thread Born, Clinton
Morons proliferate this list. -Original Message- From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 7:55 AM To: Born, Clinton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? On Jul 29, 2006, at 6:39 AM,