Re: 7.0 installation, and Xorg in particular

2007-12-01 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Frank Staals wrote: Freminlins wrote: snip Err, yeah. Look through hundreds of packages to see which dependencies they have. Helpful. Not. This way of doing X11 is seriously unhelpful to end users. If having individual packages for everything is so good, please tell me why everything

Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop

2007-12-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: but I don't want to logout and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line (i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon

FreeBSD Schedule

2007-12-01 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I saw that someone updated the schedule pages for FBSD-7: Thank you!!! David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia

2007-12-01 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I have googled, looked though the mailing archives and the FreeBSD Handbook but I have not found out how to build a PAE FreeBSD kernel with nVidia graphics drivers included. This is for an Asus P5N-E system with 4GB of RAM and SLI graphics cards. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Re: named.conf - unable to set control bit

2007-12-01 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD
On Fri, November 30, 2007 20:11, David Robillard wrote: Hi list, I have got the following issue. I have added the following settings in named.conf but am unable to get it working. If I read the man page it seems that what I have put in is completely correct. REason to put it in is that I want

Re: FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia

2007-12-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Naylor wrote: Hi, I have googled, looked though the mailing archives and the FreeBSD Handbook but I have not found out how to build a PAE FreeBSD kernel with nVidia graphics drivers included. This is for an Asus P5N-E system with 4GB of

Re: FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia

2007-12-01 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 01 December 2007, David Naylor wrote: I have googled, looked though the mailing archives and the FreeBSD Handbook but I have not found out how to build a PAE FreeBSD kernel with nVidia graphics drivers included. This is for an Asus P5N-E system with 4GB of RAM and SLI graphics

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my shell in single user

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread John Murphy
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:46:12 + Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:44:27AM +, John Murphy wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always

Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?

2007-12-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 14:06:19 + John Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selecting /bin/[t]csh always works for me. I just tried it again with exactly the same results (FreeBSD-7.0 beta3): [after pressing 4 at the Beasty

(OT) thunderbird + enigmail + gmail

2007-12-01 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running Thunderbird (2.0.0.7) and enigmail (0.95.5) to access my gmail and since last night I get a SSL certificate out of date message (says gmail's cert expired jan. 30 2005). Just for verification the output of date(1) on my end is: Sat Dec

FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE build error

2007-12-01 Thread Jack Raats
After a sucessfull build of the kernel and world, make installworld gives the following errors: install-info --quiet --defsection=Programming development tools. --defentry=* libcom_err: (com_err).A Common Error Description Library for UNIX. com_err.info /usr/share/info/dir

Re: FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia

2007-12-01 Thread David Naylor
Thanks for the info. Also from what I can see PAE does not support USB. The reason why I am using i386 is because I'm not going to sacrifice my gaming :-) which means nvidia. Thanks David p.s. I'm volunteering to do any testing for an amd64 version of the nvidia driver... On 01/12/2007,

Still Seeing A Problem Building dmx

2007-12-01 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Has anyone found a work around for this? It's been a problem for several months: ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x774): In function `connect_hook': : undefined reference to `libhal_ctx_set_device_removed' ../../config/libconfig.a(hal.o)(.text+0x78b): In function `connect_hook': :

acx100 under 7.0-BETA3

2007-12-01 Thread Colin Brace
Hi all, I have a wireless card with the Texas Instruments ACX 111 chipset that appears to be supported by the acx100 driver. However, when I run make install in /usr/ports/net/acx100, I get an error message: $ sudo make install === acx100-20040701_1 is marked as broken: Does not compile on

using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Steve Franks
I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up. I have gmirrored before, but I just wanted to do a quick dd, since I don't want

Diagnosing an unstable machine

2007-12-01 Thread Ross Penner
I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 to run as a fileserver and gateway for my home. It's been incredibly unstable and I'm trying to figure out why. What can I do to try and figure out what is causing these crashes? Apparently the machine just rebooted 20min ago looking at the uptime. They're seemingly

System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread ruggeri
Hi! I have had this problem before, so let me narrate the history (quickly). I used to use the rtorrent port. However, when running rtorrent (never any other time) the system would spontaneously reboot. I couldn't figure out what exactly the problem was, but when I switched to deluge (another

Re: Diagnosing an unstable machine

2007-12-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:42 AM 12/1/2007, Ross Penner wrote: I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 to run as a fileserver and gateway for my home. It's been incredibly unstable and I'm trying to figure out why. What can I do to try and figure out what is causing these crashes? Apparently the machine just rebooted 20min

Re: System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:53 AM 12/1/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have had this problem before, so let me narrate the history (quickly). I used to use the rtorrent port. However, when running rtorrent (never any other time) the system would spontaneously reboot. I couldn't figure out what exactly the

Re: System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:53:52AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have had this problem before, so let me narrate the history (quickly). I used to use the rtorrent port. However, when running rtorrent (never any other time) the system would spontaneously reboot. I couldn't figure

gmirror array not unmounting at shutdown

2007-12-01 Thread rloefgren
I have a mirror with two 500GB SATA drives for storage. The system is on a gmirror of two 18GB SCSIs. the SATA mirror mounts under /u2 and is in fstab. If I reboot, when the machine comes back up I get a notice that /u2 was not unmounted properly. I go into single user, unmount /u2 and do a

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Franks wrote: I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up. I have gmirrored before, but I just wanted to do a quick

Linux /proc on FreeBSD

2007-12-01 Thread Lennart Koopmann
Hey everyone, i am going to port a server that i am currently working on to FreeBSD. I don't have much experience with FreeBSD yet. The only real big thing i have to change is the way some data is fetched. In the Linux version i read in data like the hostname, the domainname, the kernel version

Re: Linux /proc on FreeBSD

2007-12-01 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Lennart Koopmann wrote: Hey everyone, i am going to port a server that i am currently working on to FreeBSD. I don't have much experience with FreeBSD yet. The only real big thing i have to change is the way some data is fetched. In the Linux version i read in

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On December 1, 2007 03:19:59 pm Kevin Kinsey wrote: Steve Franks wrote: I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up.

Re: Firewall Redirect

2007-12-01 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Lucas Neves Martins wrote: 422 ipfw add 950 divert 8082 tcp from any to any 80 via em0 Hi! I do something similar, except with a small home-grown server used to serve 'You are banned' pages to people who insist on driving my poor little webserver into swap. The directive you're looking for

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 20:53:41 -0500 Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried using dd with two 80GB disks, using a much larger block size (512M), booting Knoppix to make sure the filesystems on the 'input' disk were quiescent. It worked, but took an amazing 14 hours, which is only about 1.5

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I've got two 160GB disks. Different manufacturers, so different # bytes. One is FreeBSD, the other blank. I'd like to backup my system for the fastest possible recovery after a crash - move the plug and power up. I have

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-11-11 - 2007-12-01

2007-12-01 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

setting up slave server with Zoneedit need help

2007-12-01 Thread cuongvt
I have a `internal' network visible only internally. Let say: hanhnhu.local. This is my master for the local zone. I registered 'vuhanhnhu.com' domain with my registrar and pointed it to zoneedit nameservers: ns3.zoneedit.com and ns9.zoneedit.com. I'm using NAT. So how can I set up slave with

RE: CD Audio on D975XBX2 mobo

2007-12-01 Thread jvk-list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I bought the board without looking at the audio parts, because every board has a CD in port. Turns out this one doesn't, it uses digital CD Audio and doesn't use the connector anymore

Re: System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:14:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 07:48:20 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have since reformatted my computer. I began using deluge again a couple weeks ago, but am again experiencing spontaneous reboots, now when