Re: [Fwd: porting the RealPlayer]

2006-08-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:47:15 +0300): On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:19:07 -0700 Matt Olander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I met with a developer of the Real Player at Linux World. She says they would *love* to port a native version of the Real

Re: setting up imap/sasl

2006-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Dan Langille wrote: When I run imtest, I see two problems: 1 - I see only two AUTH= clauses: DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5. Shouldn't I see one for SASL? No. SASL is the library that provides the glue between various authentication mechanisms, the authentication databases and the applications.

remote access solutions for rebuild world ??

2006-08-21 Thread ke han
I am about to purchase a new server for FreeBSD 6.1. For rebuilding world, I will need secure remote access to the server while booting in order to startup in single user mode. What solutions do other user recommend for this? Any particular favored than others? Specific hardware

linuxulator problem?

2006-08-21 Thread Bachilo Dmitry
I had linux flash plugin 7 working with my native Firefox and everything was ok. Them I've tried to recompile my Firefox with CPUTYPE?=pentium4 in my rc.conf and it seemed to start working faster. Then, as an experiment, I tried to rebuild world. And now, instead of firefox, I get this:

Hangs during dump with 6.0 and current ports

2006-08-21 Thread Martin Werner
Hi, I'm running 6.0 on a Celeron 800MHz with 128MB and just updated the system to current ports (incl. perl 5.8.8). The systems is running apache, mysql, postfix and dovecot with a minor load (especially at the time when the system is backed-up) The issue I have is that my backup-script using

Xorg freeze when loading dri module and xorg.conf dissapears or get borked!

2006-08-21 Thread Yousef Raffah
Ever since I tried using google earth on my FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5: Sat Aug 19 14:54:28 AST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP with direct rendering I started to see these problems coming. First problem comes when trying to load the dri module in xorg.conf, my system freeze

Re: linuxulator problem?

2006-08-21 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On 8/21/06, Bachilo Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had linux flash plugin 7 working with my native Firefox and everything was ok. Them I've tried to recompile my Firefox with CPUTYPE?=pentium4 in my rc.conf and it seemed to start working faster. Then, as an experiment, I tried to rebuild

www/rt36 with mod_perl2 broken

2006-08-21 Thread Ian A. Tegebo
Has anyone been able to build www/rt36 with apache22 as well as mod_perl2? I get the following error with the following command: portinstall -m 'WITH_APACHE2=yes' www/rt36 === rt-3.6.1_1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Log/Dispatch.pm - not found ===Verifying

Re: linuxulator problem?

2006-08-21 Thread Bachilo Dmitry
В сообщении от Понедельник 21 августа 2006 16:00 Dominique Goncalves написал(a): Hi, On 8/21/06, Bachilo Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had linux flash plugin 7 working with my native Firefox and everything was ok. Them I've tried to recompile my Firefox with CPUTYPE?=pentium4 in my

Re: Where are teh choices stored when I build a port?

2006-08-21 Thread Igor Robul
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 03:53:43AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you do a make rmconfig or rmconfig-recursive before a make install, then it is deleting the options file, and with a make Or just make config ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: portmanager and perl handling

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sunday 20 August 2006 19:31, Noah wrote: Okay I am looking at these files.  I am looking for something that automatically executes a 'use.perl port' after upgrading or reinstalling perl.  It is most probable that I will always want the latest perl port active. I cant figure out how to do

php5-gd without xorg libraries

2006-08-21 Thread Andris . Saukums
Hello, I have a small web server without X at home, and want to use gd library. Maybe someone knows how to install it without Xorg libraries as dependency? I have already googled around the net without any luck. Thanks, in advance, Andris :) Viedokļus, secinājumus vai citu informāciju, kas

Re: portupgrade upgrade procedure

2006-08-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Why is the upgrade procedure recommended to be portupgrade -R package instead of portupgrade -r package ? If -R is Act on all those packages required by the given packages as well. isn't it more important to rebuild the

Re: FROM ARGENTINA

2006-08-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Sergio Milardovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi!, my name is sergio and i`m from Argentina, i and too many people in my city was interested in use freebsd but we haven`t got a hight internet conection, so can you send me to Argentina some freeBSD cd`s?, There used to ba a BSD

Re: remote access solutions for rebuild world ??

2006-08-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to ke han [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am about to purchase a new server for FreeBSD 6.1. For rebuilding world, I will need secure remote access to the server while booting in order to startup in single user mode. What solutions do other user recommend for this? Any particular

Re: Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

2006-08-21 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 21/08/06, PATRICK CARTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I hate to state (or rather ask) the obvious but are you sure you selected the appropriate options to install the kernel? One of the people were I work swore they had the exact same problem on an x86 they were installing on and it

Cisco/BSD auto-negotiation

2006-08-21 Thread Dave Raven
Hi all, I'm currently looking into a problem with a Cisco 3640 router and a FreeBSD 4.9 unit, connected via a crossover cable, that are not negotiating correctly. If you force the media setting to full or half duplex it has constant collisions on the interface, and if you let both

Re: Cisco/BSD auto-negotiation

2006-08-21 Thread Javier Henderson
On Aug 21, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Dave Raven wrote: Hi all, I'm currently looking into a problem with a Cisco 3640 router and a FreeBSD 4.9 unit, connected via a crossover cable, that are not negotiating correctly. If you force the media setting to full or half duplex it has constant

Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Hi; I successfully rebuilt FreeBSD from 5.3 to 6.1. However, when I ran portmanager -u my server went into an infinite loop! It kept reinstalling Bind and I think Perl. I don't think it installed anything more than that. I had run this command: make delete-old-libs but also had added the lib

RE: remote access solutions for rebuild world ??

2006-08-21 Thread Ansar Mohammed
I would suggest the tried and true method: a console cable and modem. You would need to test this to ensure your FreeBSD installation is configured to support it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ke han Sent: August 21,

Re: Cisco/BSD auto-negotiation

2006-08-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Javier Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Aug 21, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Dave Raven wrote: Hi all, I'm currently looking into a problem with a Cisco 3640 router and a FreeBSD 4.9 unit, connected via a crossover cable, that are not negotiating correctly. If you

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 09:25, beno wrote: I successfully rebuilt FreeBSD from 5.3 to 6.1. However, when I ran portmanager -u my server went into an infinite loop! It kept reinstalling Bind and I think Perl. I don't think it installed anything more than that. I had run this command: make

Periodic processes

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a FreeBSD 6.0 server that the periodic processes don't seem to complete and build up until our monitor complains about the number of processes and I killall. How would I go about figuring out which process is the problem or if there is a cron issue? Can't find any errors in the messages or

Re: Hangs during dump with 6.0 and current ports

2006-08-21 Thread backyard
I've had problems with dump and restore on machines lacking memory before. Perhaps the dump is just running the system out of memory? I know I've had issues restoring my /usr filesystem with 512M RAM unless I had a swapfile active. I also find it helps to make sure /tmp has got enough space on it

RE: Hangs during dump with 6.0 and current ports

2006-08-21 Thread Martin Werner
Hi, Thanks for your input - I further analyzed the issue and noticed the following: 1) At time of the hang memory (only 128MB, will be more this week :-) memory was full and swap was 19% in use -but- 2) In my top output I saw that dump, imap-login etc. where waiting with status pfault 3) Due to

GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-21 Thread backyard
I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to

Re: Periodic processes

2006-08-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 21), Robert Fitzpatrick said: I have a FreeBSD 6.0 server that the periodic processes don't seem to complete and build up until our monitor complains about the number of processes and I killall. How would I go about figuring out which process is the problem or if there

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Gerard Seibert wrote: Do you have the latest version of 'portmanager' installed? There was an older version that had this bug, but it was fixed. How do I upgrade portmanager? beno ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

What was done between 6.1-p2 and 6.1-p3?

2006-08-21 Thread Bill Moran
I'm in the process of auditing a bunch of systems and upgrading the ones that need it. I suddenly realized that the recently upgraded systems are running 6.1-p3 Looking at the security portion of the web site. It shows the most recent vuln as the sendmail issue that was fixed in 6.1-p2. I

Re: Where are teh choices stored when I build a port?

2006-08-21 Thread stan
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:45:43AM +0800, ke han wrote: Under /var/db/ports you will find directories for each port you have set options for. In each directory, if a file called options exists, remove it...you're all set!!! ke han Cool, thanks. Are these referenced during a

Re: Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Was this on a new install or an upgrade? I've seen this problem doing a binary upgrade, but not with a new install. -Derek At 05:05 PM 8/20/2006, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hello all I need to report a serious bug in 6.1-RELEASE. On both AMD64 and x86, sysinstall appears to work correctly

sluggish disk performance.

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, 2 usersLoad 0.06 0.12 0.11 Aug 21 17:48 Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share TotShareFree in out in out Act 122748 10896 52483630684 14216 count All 247916 13364

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 10:40, beno wrote: How do I upgrade portmanager? Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Gerard Seibert wrote: Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. 0.2.0 If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. That's my question. How do I update it if I can't use portmanager, portmaster (which

Re: What was done between 6.1-p2 and 6.1-p3?

2006-08-21 Thread Micah
Bill Moran wrote: I'm in the process of auditing a bunch of systems and upgrading the ones that need it. I suddenly realized that the recently upgraded systems are running 6.1-p3 Looking at the security portion of the web site. It shows the most recent vuln as the sendmail issue that was

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. 0.2.0 If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. That's my question. How do I update it if I can't use portmanager,

Re: FROM ARGENTINA

2006-08-21 Thread perikillo
On 8/21/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Sergio Milardovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi!, my name is sergio and i`m from Argentina, i and too many people in my city was interested in use freebsd but we haven`t got a hight internet conection, so can you send me to Argentina

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image when they turn it on... It will boot from a floppy, but

Re: sluggish disk performance.

2006-08-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 21), Chris Knipe said: Disks ad0 ofodintrn KB/t 16.83 %slo-z35456 buf tps 103 4 tfree 414 dirtybuf MB/s 1.70

Re: What was done between 6.1-p2 and 6.1-p3?

2006-08-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: I'm in the process of auditing a bunch of systems and upgrading the ones that need it. I suddenly realized that the recently upgraded systems are running 6.1-p3 Looking at the security portion of the web site. It shows

Re: Add colored border around console?

2006-08-21 Thread perikillo
On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see the photo! I let it run all night to generate interrupt load as part of a system stress

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 12:03, beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Run 'portmanager -V' and see if it equals: 0.4.1_6. 0.2.0 If not, you have an older version of portmanager. Update it just like any other port, only do not use portmanager to do it. That's my question. How do I update

Re: Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

2006-08-21 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 21/08/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was this on a new install or an upgrade? I've seen this problem doing a binary upgrade, but not with a new install. -Derek Nope, a new install. I'm too spoiled by Gentoo to do an upgrade that requires downtime except for the kernel!

Re: sluggish disk performance.

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Knipe
In the last episode (Aug 21), Chris Knipe said: Disks ad0 ofodintrn KB/t 16.83 %slo-z35456 buf tps 103 4 tfree 414 dirtybuf MB/s 1.70

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Garrett Cooper wrote: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make deinstall make install I'm afraid that just reinstalled 0.2.0_1 ... if you haven't cvsup'ed lately, I'd try to grab a snapshot of ports first. How? TIA, beno ___

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean Well, here's exactly what I'm doing: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make install make clean /usr/local/bin/portmanager

Re: sluggish disk performance.

2006-08-21 Thread bsdml
Hi In the last episode (Aug 21), Chris Knipe said: Disks ad0 ofodintrn KB/t 16.83 %slo-z35456 buf tps 103 4 tfree 414 dirtybuf well, with 100% random I/O at 7200rpm (or 120rpm

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
beno wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make deinstall make install I'm afraid that just reinstalled 0.2.0_1 ... if you haven't cvsup'ed lately, I'd try to grab a snapshot of ports first. How? TIA, beno Run rm -Rf on /usr/ports/ to remove your stale ports,

Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 13:14, beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean Well, here's exactly what I'm doing: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make

(no subject)

2006-08-21 Thread apredoehl
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:14:10 -0400 beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean Well, here's exactly what I'm doing: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager make install make

Re: Drive Failure or User Error?

2006-08-21 Thread Jason Morgan
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:22:45PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was setting up a new server (6.1 i386 STABLE) - more specifically, I was mirroring the functioning server drive - when I suddenly got this: ad0 FAILURE - READ_DMA48

pkg database backup and restore

2006-08-21 Thread DW
Hello, Can anyone provide some practical insight into best methods of backing up and restoring package databases? Inside of /var/db there are 2 directories: /var/db/ports and /var/db/pkg /var/db/ports I pretty much understand; that seems to simply be the config options saved from

Re: (no subject) Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:14:10 -0400 beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean Well, here's exactly what I'm

Please help ---Sata/IDE drive recognition problem

2006-08-21 Thread Vizion
I hate tp repost but I really could do with some input on this one Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vizion Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:33 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sata/IDE drive recognition problem

[OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:14:10 -0400 beno wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: To update portmanager, assuming you have an up-to-date port system: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager male install make clean

question on SPF for spam control

2006-08-21 Thread David Banning
I have just been looking over the SPF Website to list my site as a non-spam site. My understanding is that increasingly mail servers will be listed as spam if they are -not- listed with some credible source. So I thought I would list my site with; http://www.openspf.org I have two questions.

Re: question on SPF for spam control

2006-08-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 21, 2006, at 12:13 PM, David Banning wrote: I have just been looking over the SPF Website to list my site as a non-spam site. My understanding is that increasingly mail servers will be listed as spam if they are -not- listed with some credible source. So I thought I would list my

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday 21 August 2006 15:02, Garrett Cooper wrote:     CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a better, more efficient way to download the ports Makefiles. It will take him all of 10-20 minutes to configure if he reads the documentation and uses the example file. I am always

syslogd remote logging

2006-08-21 Thread Josh Paetzel
I am trying to get syslogd configured to do remote logging to another box. In my syslog.conf on the local machine I have: local0.* @xx.xx.xx.xx In syslog.conf on the remote machine I have: local0.* /some/file.log and I have added the syslogd_flags=-a xx.xx.xx.xx/xx to rc.conf on the remote

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert wrote: IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially if he is not familiar with the FBSD ports system. Just my opinion though. CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a better, more efficient way to

Boot over network

2006-08-21 Thread Subhro
Hello Folks, I was just wondering if this can be done. I would like to have a FreeBSD server which would supply a few workstations connected over the network a boot image. The catch is the boot image has to be a Ubuntu Linux image. I have a fresh installed FreeBSD box as well as a working

Re: syslogd remote logging

2006-08-21 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, August 21, 2006 14:40:37 -0500 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get syslogd configured to do remote logging to another box. In my syslog.conf on the local machine I have: local0.* @xx.xx.xx.xx In syslog.conf on the remote machine I have: local0.*

Re: Boot over network

2006-08-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Folks, I was just wondering if this can be done. I would like to have a FreeBSD server which would supply a few workstations connected over the network a boot image. The catch is the boot image has to be a Ubuntu Linux image. I have a

Rebuilding Kernel

2006-08-21 Thread beno
Hi; I just barely finished upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1 and all is well, however, now I realize I have to rebuild my kernel again to accommodate PF. I've edited the correct GENERIC file (I'm on an i386 box). Are these commands sufficient? make buildkernel make installkernel or do I need to

Re: Rebuilding Kernel

2006-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
beno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi; I just barely finished upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1 and all is well, however, now I realize I have to rebuild my kernel again to accommodate PF. I've edited the correct GENERIC file (I'm on an i386 box). Are these commands sufficient? make buildkernel make

Re: syslogd remote logging

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
Josh Paetzel escribió: I am trying to get syslogd configured to do remote logging to another box. In my syslog.conf on the local machine I have: local0.* @xx.xx.xx.xx In syslog.conf on the remote machine I have: local0.* /some/file.log and I have added the syslogd_flags=-a xx.xx.xx.xx/xx

Re: syslogd remote logging

2006-08-21 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Monday 21 August 2006 15:13, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, August 21, 2006 14:40:37 -0500 Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get syslogd configured to do remote logging to another box. In my syslog.conf on the local machine I have: local0.* @xx.xx.xx.xx In

Re: Rebuilding Kernel

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
BEFORE you do: make delete-old-libs be SURE portmanager has everything updated. I had to run portmanager multiple times to get all my ports completely rebuilt. -Derek At 03:28 PM 8/21/2006, beno wrote: Hi; I just barely finished upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1 and all is well, however,

Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi All, I am trying to set up a notebook computer for someone (I only have towers and rackmount servers running FreeBSD myself). The machine is an IBM Z61t Lenova with 2 GHz Intel CPU, 1 GB memory The BIOS version is 1.06 (7FET46WW) of 2006-04-27 I has an: ATAPI CD0:MATSHITADVD-RAM

Re: FROM ARGENTINA

2006-08-21 Thread Santiago R. Martinez
In response to Sergio Milardovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi!, my name is sergio and i`m from Argentina, i and too many people in my city was interested in use freebsd but we haven`t got a hight internet conection, so can you send me to Argentina some freeBSD cd`s?, Hi Sergio, Im from

Re: Boot over network

2006-08-21 Thread David King
I would like to have a FreeBSD server which would supply a few workstations connected over the network a boot image NetBSD has some very detailed instructions on netbooting at http:// www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/. It is a little specific that the booted machines boot NetBSD,

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-21 Thread David King
The boot order in BIOS is currently CD, Floppy Hard disk Most of the IBM laptops have some key that you can hit to get to a BIOS boot menu to select your boot device. Maybe it will boot the CD- ROM if you select it from there ___

FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-21 Thread Josh Paetzel
Does anybody have any experience running FBSD 6.x on a PE850? I'm specifically wondering about support for their base-configuration onboard NIC and their CERC SATA RAID controller. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
I would check that you have the IDE interface enabled that the CD plugs into. Have you tried booting other bootable CD's like a WinXP CD just to see if you get it to boot from CD. -Derek At 05:20 PM 8/21/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi All, I am trying to set up a notebook

Re: Flash Upgrade

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Maness
Danny Pansters wrote: On Friday 18 August 2006 01:45, Garrett Cooper wrote: Danny Pansters wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 12:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: chris wrote: I didn't see any such notices in fresh ports. Port: linux-flashplugin-7.0r63_1 Path:

Is stdout from /etc/rc captured anywhere?

2006-08-21 Thread David Thompson
During boot, does FreeBSD capture the output of /etc/rc anywhere? dmesg is for the kernel only. syslogd is not used to capture simple 'echo' commands from /etc/rc. If you can't see the physical console as the system boots up, is there another method to see this /etc/rc output later?

Proper startup of ng_fec?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi, I'm looking at using ng_fec to implement adapter teaming -- it appears that Cisco switches swallow it more easily than ng_one2many. Is there a proper way to configure a Netgraph interface at boot? A search for ngctl in /etc/rc.d/* only leads to the Bluetooth startup. It appears that I need

Re: a problem setting screen resolution with Xorg-6.9.0

2006-08-21 Thread Kurt Wall
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 05:10:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow FreeBSDers, [snippety-whack] icons are difficult to see. I am obviously setting something wrong, but I do not know what it is. Might anyone have any suggestions. I really would rather have the resolution be

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
I would check that you have the IDE interface enabled that the CD plugs into. Have you tried booting other bootable CD's like a WinXP CD just to see if you get it to boot from CD. I don't happen to have any other bootable CDs handy. But, I was able to read CDs on that drive in XP. They

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
The boot order in BIOS is currently CD, Floppy Hard disk Most of the IBM laptops have some key that you can hit to get to a BIOS boot menu to select your boot device. Maybe it will boot the CD- ROM if you select it from there Yes. I got in to that OK and checked out the BIOS setup

Re: GRUB Problems with Dell Optiplex GX1

2006-08-21 Thread backyard
--- Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backyard wrote: I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting this server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't the biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice inappropriate boot image

Re: Flash Upgrade

2006-08-21 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Chris Maness skrev: Danny Pansters wrote: On Friday 18 August 2006 01:45, Garrett Cooper wrote: Danny Pansters wrote: On Thursday 17 August 2006 12:52, Gerard Seibert wrote: chris wrote: I didn't see any such notices in fresh ports. Port: linux-flashplugin-7.0r63_1

freebsd problem

2006-08-21 Thread yusof khalid
hello i'm FryShadow i got some problem when i want to install the FreeBSD 6.1 on my hard disk. This error occour while i'm finish configuring the disk, the error state that Cannot create new root file system , command return status 36 i have try to reconfigure the disk but the same error

Re: Flash Upgrade

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Maness
Funny thing about Freebsd is that you can run linux-executables. If you install www/linux-firefox you can use linuxplugins like flash and it just works. At least one less complication. That's cool. I didn't know about that. ___

Re: Add colored border around console?

2006-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/21/06, perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see the photo! I let it run all night to

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Re: a problem setting screen resolution with Xorg-6.9.0

2006-08-21 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Monday 21 August 2006 9:07 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 05:10:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow FreeBSDers, [snippety-whack] icons are difficult to see. I am obviously setting something wrong, but I do not know what it is. Might anyone have any suggestions.

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-21 Thread Ralph Ellis
On Monday 21 August 2006 9:16 pm, Jerry McAllister wrote: The boot order in BIOS is currently CD, Floppy Hard disk Most of the IBM laptops have some key that you can hit to get to a BIOS boot menu to select your boot device. Maybe it will boot the CD- ROM if you select it from there

Re: Add colored border around console?

2006-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/21/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/21/06, perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have no clue how to do it, /dev/random made

Increasing socket send buffer size

2006-08-21 Thread Brett Glass
I'm working with a system in which a program is failing because it sometimes tries to write more data to a stream socket than will fit. It reports that it can't write to the socket because it's out of buffer space, then dies ungracefully. What's the best solution to this problem? The only

Re: Please help ---Sata/IDE drive recognition problem

2006-08-21 Thread Atom Powers
On 8/21/06, Vizion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The motherboard is a FA-K8N51GMF-9 with 3 hard drives installed. 2xSata and 1xIDE. That mobo uses an Nvidia chipset, last I checked the drivers for that chipset weren't that great. /var/log/messages shows ad0 WDC WD2000JB at ata0-master

Re: [OT] CVSUP (was Re: Was: Re: Why This Infinite Loop??)

2006-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerard Seibert wrote: IMHO, it might be a lot easier for him to use portsnap. Especially if he is not familiar with the FBSD ports system. Just my opinion though. CVSUP isn't that difficult IMHO to learn, and is a

Installing Php5 on Apache2.2 (Freebsd 6.1)

2006-08-21 Thread Muhammad Omer Iqbal
Hi, (Please include me in the reply as I am not subscribed to this list.) I am trying to use Ports to install php5 on top of Apache 2.2. However, when I do pkg_add, it says that the prereq Apache 1.3 is not installed. I also tried forcing it (using -f), but even then it did not seem to have