umass on 4.11-stable

2005-12-08 Thread Lee Harr
When I plug in some usb drives, I get a message that the da0 device is available and I can mount the drive, but sometimes I just see this: Dec 8 12:46:12 tern /kernel: umass0: LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE ELITE, rev 2.00/20.00, addr 2 There is no umass0 device... so how do I use this?

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-12 Thread Lee Harr
Oh, and the cd drive is not bootable. So, I want to boot the cd image from the hard drive, and use the cd drive for the install after it boots. I dont think you can just copy CD image to slice and make it boot :-( Hmm... Now that I think about it, maybe what I did before was to use the

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-11 Thread Lee Harr
dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 dd: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only filesystem According to URL:http://makeashorterlink.com/?S37C2186B[1] a workaround might be using dd if=/dev/foo of=/dev/ad0 oseek=63 Ah. Ok. That should have been obvious :oP What about those first few bytes, though? I think I am not

dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
I am sure a used to be able to do this ... What I want to do is copy an iso image to a disk partition so I can boot from it and use that to install. Something along the lines of dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 but what I am getting now is ... dscheck(#ad/0x22): fixlabel: invalid magic fixlabel:

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 dd: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only filesystem I guess I can boot from the install floppies and use the fixit floppy Ok. I will go that route, but now I am wondering why has my favorite foot-blaster been taken away? And... for future reference, how can I get around the

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 dd: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only filesystem I just tried the same thing from the fixit floppy, and I get the same message about ad0s1 being a Read-only filesystem What am I missing here? Raised securelevel? Well... I am not sure why the securelevel would be raised by

3c589 pcmcia not active during install

2005-07-07 Thread Lee Harr
I am trying to install 5.4 on a Compaq LTE 5100 laptop. Yesterday, I installed 4.11 on this system, and when the installer came up, there was a dialog that said the ethernet card was detected. It worked fine for the install. 5.4 is not detecting the card. This is an Etherlink III 10Base card

Re: WEBDAV on FreeBSD

2005-05-29 Thread Lee Harr
What port do I install to setup WebDav? Any how is webdav useful. Depends what you want?! A client or a server? Since the server question was already answered I recommend KDE's Konqueror as a client. I like it. Of course it's a little overkill to install KDE if you just want to access

Re: FreeBSD and Asus A7N8X

2005-05-27 Thread Lee Harr
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my pc, but both 4.10 and 5.3, after installation , block at first boot. I know there is a problem whit my motherboard, ASUS A7N8X deluxe that it is not supported by FreeBSD. Can you tell me if 5.4 works on my motherboard? Or a site where I can download 4.9 that

Re: FreeBSD and Asus A7N8X

2005-05-23 Thread Lee Harr
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my pc, but both 4.10 and 5.3, after installation , block at first boot. I know there is a problem whit my motherboard, ASUS A7N8X deluxe that it is not supported by FreeBSD. Can you tell me if 5.4 works on my motherboard? Or a site where I can download 4.9 that

gdm out of control

2005-04-25 Thread Lee Harr
I know I saw this on one of the lists a few weeks ago, but google as I might, I cannot seem to find the answer. My gdm process is out of control, taking up all of the processor power. Right now I am using kill -STOP to freeze it and kill -CONT when someone needs to log in, but that is no solution.

Re: kaudiocreator

2005-03-25 Thread Lee Harr
kaudiocreator is a nice program for extracting audio tracks and converting them w/ almost any encoder. Only pittfall is hat kde is needed. Is there another program that comes close to the abilities and easy of use of this kaudicreator? I have actually had some trouble with kaudiocreator lately

Re: mixer: /dev/mixer: Device not configured

2005-03-23 Thread Lee Harr
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/multimedia.html http://www.google.com/search?q=mixer%3A+%2Fdev%2Fmixer%3A+Device+not+configured _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!

Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

2005-03-14 Thread Lee Harr
I think there is no big difference between just running portupgrade vs portmanager. I would say portmanager is better and faster because you don't need to baby sit, it is really automagical, and there is no messing with an index. I keep hearing great things about portmanager, but I have not been

Re: If I have portmanager, do I need portupgrade?

2005-03-14 Thread Lee Harr
I keep hearing great things about portmanager, but I have not been able to run it... when I try, I get: # portmanager -s - --- PMGRrStatus 0.2.9_3 info: Creating inital data bases

Re: install FreeBSD 5.2R under Bochs-2.1.1

2005-03-10 Thread Lee Harr
I want to install FreeBSD 5.2R within Bochs. I inserted FreeBSD bootable CD , and created a new 500Mb image file for virtual HD via bximage.exe tools. When I dedicated bochs boot from cd-rom , it seems un-bootable. Alternatively, I copied boot.flp to Bochs folder and booted from virutal

Re: make etc broken

2005-02-28 Thread Lee Harr
i was clearing out some files in /usr and accidentally did something and now command such as: clear, make, whereis no longer work ... how can i get them back to working ? You could try doing an upgrade from the CD. /stand/sysinstall If you have a working system, you could try copying the files

Re: make etc broken

2005-02-28 Thread Lee Harr
i was clearing out some files in /usr and accidentally did something and now command such as: clear, make, whereis no longer work ... how can i get them back to working ? You could try doing an upgrade from the CD. /stand/sysinstall Will this change any of the all ready installed ports

Re: daemon??

2005-02-23 Thread Lee Harr
Who would I need to speak to about making a product that involves the little devil? It is not a software item, but instead it is a material object? http://www.google.com/search?q=bsd+daemon+copyright http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html

Slow Thin Clients

2005-02-01 Thread Lee Harr
Hi; I am using FreeBSD-5.3 as a terminal server for a few thin client machines. I have the inside network interface configured so: ifconfig_xl0=inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex and the outside interface is from DHCP. The clients are configured similarly

Re: My FreeBSD Box's WEB serve sleeps?

2005-01-26 Thread Lee Harr
if the clients visit http serve via internet at the first time after a long time(eg. one day),my box will delays for about serveral minutes,and then it works very well. You do not mention much about the server. Is it shared with other services? Is that the first person to hit the server in a day,

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse + FreeBSD, is it possible??

2005-01-23 Thread Lee Harr
FreeBSD is multi-user right? I know this setup but only when other users are logging in remotely via another pc. I just want to know if it is possible for me to just buy 1 more monitor, a mouse and a keyboard and just dig a hole between my brother's room and mine and share with him my pc. This

Re: Please help: burncd errors

2005-01-01 Thread Lee Harr
In fact I have converted my mp3 files to wav following a tutorial I found on the net -using mplayer too- I just want to burn them and I thought this was the way (1st create an ISO, 2nd burn the ISO) Anyway I have the same problem: 192# burncd -t -f /dev/acd0 audio *.wav fixate Well... I am going

Re: installing zope

2004-11-13 Thread Lee Harr
I have installed and run zope in the past with no errors. Now, with 2.7 in the ports zope installs fine but there seems to be a number of shell variables that must be set, and it seems like there is something missing. [...] Yes, it is quite a bit different now... and prepare yourself for possible

Re: OOo-1.1.3

2004-10-23 Thread Lee Harr
I downloaded the OOo-1.1.3_nl package yesterday and wanted to install it like I did the previous version. I was very surprised to see that it did *not* wanted to install with a pkg_add onto my freebsd-4.10p3 system. It was made dependend on de X.Org I did the exact same thing this morning (after

Re: Internet kiosk style setup

2004-09-15 Thread Lee Harr
Can X / a window manager be run without a user login as an interactive display or am I barking up the wrong tree? (ie I dont want to have to add a winblows box just for the graphics. And I wont be specing any system without serious BSD firewalling etc) Not really. You can auto log in a

RE: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-15 Thread Lee Harr
[...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... Do you have an ATI card? No. Matrox G400. Here is what my dmesg is saying: drm0: Matrox

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-13 Thread Lee Harr
[...] I primarily bought this board because of the AGP slot, Althon support and general reviews by overclockers and gamers [...] Do you have drm working? I have never been able to get it to work... _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Lee Harr
I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. Yea, that is the exact same board I have.

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Lee Harr
Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. ... Well... my thought was [...] On 2004-09-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but have you tried

Re: Asus A7N8X-E w/SATA and SCSI, 4.10 sys install snafu

2004-09-11 Thread Lee Harr
Does anyone have experience with this motherboard, in particular using sata drives? Any ideas what's going on, and how to proceed? I was hoping this was going to be relatively painless :-( Do I need to bag 4.10 and go with 5.3 to get this to work? I have an A7N8X-deluxe. And quite a few

booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-11 Thread Lee Harr
I have one of those goofy asus A7N8X motherboards. Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. Today I burned a 5.3-beta3 cd and tried to boot that. It looks like it freezes at about the same place

Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread Lee Harr
I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). Excellent. Some lucky students there! I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand

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2004-08-25 Thread Lee Harr
I just installed mtools today. I'm tracking 4.10 STABLE and my ports tree was updated yesterday. I get an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1)/usr/src 114% mdir a: Can't open /dev/fd0.720: Device not configured Cannot initialize 'A:' Does your dmesg mention fd0 ? something like ... fd0: 1440-KB 3.5

Re: Freebsd 4.10 release(do you know any browser with flash support???)

2004-08-13 Thread Lee Harr
I'm using quanta to develop html applications with embedded .swf in it. What I want to do is to see its preview in a browser while I'm doing the programming in quanta. The problem is.. I don't know if there's any browser that supports it. Any browser? In freebsd 4.10??? I use the linux

Re: Headless Install

2004-08-06 Thread Lee Harr
On 2004-08-03, Maksym Marchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what you can do with headless PC? Can you control this PC only in command prompt? Or (may be) you can use anything like X - twm? Sure. You would use the headless machine to run X clients. I have a headless PC that serves X sessions

Re: Using rrestore with ssh?

2004-08-06 Thread Lee Harr
On 2004-08-03, Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a tip on using rrestore with ssh instead of the rexecd and rcmd facility? My attempts at using rrestore result in dhcp-78-74:kargl[207] rrestore -x -b 64 -f troutmask:/dev/nsa0 Connection to troutmask.apl.washington.edu

Re: Mouse in X

2004-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
I have set FBSD up on an old pentium II MMX 233 MHZ machine and everything works fine except for the mouse (serial). When using X the mouse behaves crazy i cant get it to move in any useful way. Ive checked and checked and found: edit /etc/XF86Config and set Protocol to Sysmouse and Device to

Re: clearing a drive

2004-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear. Whenever i try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system utilities. I've tried: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1 and various

Re: PHP IDE instead of Bluefish

2004-06-06 Thread Lee Harr
I have recently gotten rid of window and now only run FBSD. I am a programmer of many kinds. I program in PHP and was wondering what is a good PHP IDE? Have you tried Quanta? /usr/ports/www/quanta http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ _ Add

Re: starting Konqueror from the command line

2004-06-06 Thread Lee Harr
What I need is the part that comes after konqueror... i.e. which file to open. And that's assuming Konqueror knows to start in html mode since the file it's opening is html. I thought there might even be a way to specify a profile file (??) to set window size other options. konqueror --help

Re: IPFW Ruleset Help

2004-06-01 Thread Lee Harr
Hello. Running FreeBSD 4.10. After I reboot with my new ipfw.rules I can't load any webpages. I didn't try by IP address cause I can't remember any off top at the moment. Is the firewall logging working? You need lines in your syslog.conf like ... !ipfw *.*

Re: problem of vipw

2004-06-01 Thread Lee Harr
#vipw -- as root #sudo vipw vipw: pw_edit() No such file or directory I pasted that error message in to google and found this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/025124.html perhaps it will help... _ Tired

mtools on remote terminal (floppyd)

2004-05-17 Thread Lee Harr
Anyone have mtools working on a remote FreeBSD terminal? I run floppyd on the terminal, but when I try to connect I get a message ... No Recv packet I also tried one of the alternate forms of starting the server but I get a strange error message ... #floppyd -d /dev/fd0 gu4:0 Ignoring extra

Re: Using kdm, shell script to declare my locales and startups...

2004-05-17 Thread Lee Harr
This prompted me to read the kdm help and I have read in the kdm help that when someone logs using kdm, the shell script Xsession is executed. So I copied the settings about to my .xsession Try using the custom session from the kdm screen. I am sure that one will use your ~/.xsession but I do not

Re: FreeBSD installation on a single partition

2004-05-16 Thread Lee Harr
I'd like to install FreeBSD on a single partition, how can I do that? The sys/installer complains about a missing swap partition, (I'd rather use swap files though). I have never tried this. It is very possible that the installer cannot work without creating a separate swap partition. What you

Re: MBR

2004-05-11 Thread Lee Harr
How can I use FreeBSD MBR to load other OS? Can't find needed doc. man fdisk man boot0cfg _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

RE: Antw: Re: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start

2004-04-22 Thread Lee Harr
Apr 21 17:27:13 morreion gdmgreeter[541]: greeter_parse_config: No configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults. Apr 21 17:27:51 morreion gdmgreeter[567]: greeter_parse_config: No configuration file: /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. Using defaults. These confuse me because

Re: gdm2/gdmgreeter crashes upon start

2004-04-21 Thread Lee Harr
recently I installed the Gnome 2.6 port on my machine, and everything works just fine when I start X via startx. However, when I try to start gdm (using /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh) as display manager i get an error pop-up with the following text: The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will

Re: KDE 3.2/Xwindows dying strangely without warning

2004-04-20 Thread Lee Harr
Ok, I can't contribute this to anything I've ever encountered or something that I'm doing, but it seems that after about 7-10 days KDE just dies on me. No crash, no errors, no I'm gonna shut down. Nothing. I will be working along and then suddenly it's just not there. Even the logs show

Re: Read only ram disc.

2004-04-20 Thread Lee Harr
I am looking at ways to speed up file reads one a server thats running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and was wondering if there is a way to setup some kind of read only ram disc for a directory and its contents. What i want to do is the following: 1. Specify a directory (e.g. /usr/local/www/data)

intermittent lockup exiting kdm / gdm

2004-04-20 Thread Lee Harr
I have a FreeBSD-stable system (P3, 1GHz, 500M, nVidia with nv driver) which is a terminal server for 8 thin client systems which log in via XDMCP. This system ran flawlessly for about 2 years. Recently (near the kde-3.2 upgrade) I started getting a system lockup when someone would log out of

Re: pkgtools.conf strangeness

2004-03-20 Thread Lee Harr
It seems I can't get portupgrade -arR (or -f) to honor pkgtools.conf. I've run portsdb -Uu, MAKE_ARGS = { 'graphics/gimp-devel' = [ 'WITH_PYTHON=1', 'WITHOUT_PRINT=1', ], ... 'www/mozilla/' = [ 'WITHOUT_MAILNEWS=1', 'WITHOUT_LDAP=1', 'WITHOUT_CHATZILLA=1', 'WITHOUT_COMPOSER=1',

Re: FreeBSD Port: frozenbubble-0.9.3

2004-03-06 Thread Lee Harr
I love the frozenbubble game but I got problem running the game with freebsd 5.1 and 5.2.1 , 5-CU Here the error I got when running the game. [SDL Init] Not a HASH reference at /usr/local/bin/frozen-bubble.pl line 322. I think it may be related with p5-SDL... Could you tell me wich version of

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Lee Harr
Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least three different sized

Re: ASUS A7N8X LAN Dual LAN Support

2004-03-04 Thread Lee Harr
I have an ASUS A7N8X-E, which boasts dual LAN ports. As far as I can deduce, only one of the ethernet ports has a functioning driver (sk), while the other does not. Is there some configuration setting in rc.conf or elsewhere that I've failed to enable, or is this a known issue that has yet to be

Re: kmplayer issues anyone?

2003-12-31 Thread Lee Harr
Is there a secret to getting kmplayer to play dvds and mpeg files? I have mplayer, gmplayer, kmplayer all installed. If I enter mplayer filename from within KDE, I get an initial image on the screen, but don't know the keyboard shortcuts to get it to play (but I can pause it!). gmplayer and

Re: Where do I find all the available options/devices I can use in my kernel con

2003-12-31 Thread Lee Harr
Reading some forums, I discovered I could use the following options in my kernel configuration (5.2): options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK options CPU_ENABLE_SSE I looked at the GENERIC kernel config but there were no mention of those 2 options. Where can I find an exhaustive list of available

Out of pty's

2003-12-04 Thread Lee Harr
Looks like my system is running out of free pty's. There are a bunch of users on the system running screen, so we are using up a ton of the ptys. How do I find out the limit of ptys on my system? (sysctl doesn't seem to show anything relevant.) How do I increase that value? The pseudo-pty value in

Re: 4.9 ATA hangs with 2 ata drives

2003-12-01 Thread Lee Harr
I've got both 4.9 and 5.1 loaded on my new ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with two 160Gb disks on the primary ATA controller. it hangs during kernel boot after the message: ad1: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices Yup. I have the same thing. What I do is go in to the BIOS

re: mplayer problem

2003-11-30 Thread Lee Harr
|| || ||Just checking... do you have || ||options CPU_ENABLE_SSE ||options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK || ||in your kernel config? || Neither of these are set. That could be the problem. I have an athlon and could not get mplayer to do much of anything before I build a kernel

re: mplayer problem

2003-11-29 Thread Lee Harr
MPlayer interrupted by signal 4 in module: decode_audio - MPlayer crashed by an 'Illegal Instruction'. It may be a bug in our new runtime CPU-detection code... Please read DOCS/bugreports.html. - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb'

Re: cdbakeoven doesn't see atapi burner

2003-11-12 Thread Lee Harr
Hmm... interesting. I've done everything described in man/handbook. The drives shows up (correctly) in dmesg and with camcontrol. So *why* will cdbakeoven not detect the drives? Could anyone point me to some documentation for cdbakeoven, or help me get started? I did find *some*

Re: Example of 'normal' cvsup-ports session ?

2003-11-10 Thread Lee Harr
Could you anyone send me the output from a normal (ie succesful) cvsup-ports session ? I keep getting 'killed' appearing Add delta 1.12 2003.08.04.10.54.02 kris Add delta 1.13 2003.08.16.01.56.43 kris Add delta 1.14 2003.10.19.07.17.46 kris Killed trinidad# Having just sent the

Re: How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-09 Thread Lee Harr
I think if it were me, I would check to see if the docbook-310 port were still installed correctly, and if not, install it and then try pkgdb -F again. Not sure I understanad the need to examine docbook-310. When I run pkg_info -ro sgmlformat-1.7_2, I get the following: Information for

Re: How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-09 Thread Lee Harr
Is docbook-3.0_2 still registered as installed on your system? I think that is the one it is looking for. It is possible that when upgrading one of the others, that one was removed inadvertently. No, it is not registered as installed. As a matter of fact, none of the docbooks mentioned are

Re: Installing form /stand/sysinstall

2003-11-09 Thread Lee Harr
I normaly install from ports but wanted to over come this issue anyhow.. I cant install from /sys/standinstall it says that my vertion could not be found on the ftp server.. ?? im looking for the conf file that handles that.. Which version are you using? In sysinstall, look in the menu ...

How to Handle Stale Dependencies in pkgdb -F

2003-11-08 Thread Lee Harr
Just ran my weekly cvsup program followed by portsbd -Uu. Tried running portsversion -l and received a message indicating that I should run pkgdb -F to deal with a stale dependency. Note following: Stale dependency: sgmlformat-1.7_2 - docbook-3.1_2 (textproc/docbook-310): docbook-xsl-1.62.3

Don`t know what to do... :))

2003-11-07 Thread Lee Harr
I installed XFree86, then i run XFree86 -configure, then i run XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new. Everything is ok. Than i cp XF86Config.new to /etc/X11/XF86Config (i tried to copy and to /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config but there is no directory X11). then, when i run startx i get the next

Re: Is Java/Tomcat on FBSD practical?

2003-11-04 Thread Lee Harr
Hi. I'm new to FreeBSD, my previous -nix experience coming from OSX and Debian/Suse linux. I've been generally very happy with the performance and relative ease of setup on my 4.8 system. My biggest problem has been Java. I've done the diablo 1.3 package and java seemed to work (java -v), but

Re: 4.9 RC2/swap file

2003-10-09 Thread Lee Harr
While attempting to perform a standard install, when commiting to write to the Hard drive I get unable to create swap file-press enter or space to continue but of course I tried to continue , completed the install but initial boot 4.9 halted with bad super block magic number wrong I have

Re: floppy

2003-10-09 Thread Lee Harr
I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong, cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but the problem still is not solved :( . Do not mount a DOS floppy. Use mtools instead. /usr/ports/emulators/mtools

Re: LANG changed with recent buildworld

2003-10-05 Thread Lee Harr
I cvsup'd to RELENG_4 today and rebuilt my system. Now the LANG environment variable has been set to de_DE.ISO8859-1 I do not remember seeing anything about this while running mergemaster, and I do not see where it is set in make.conf or anywhere else in /etc Did I do something wrong? Where

LANG changed with recent buildworld

2003-10-03 Thread Lee Harr
Hi; I cvsup'd to RELENG_4 today and rebuilt my system. Now the LANG environment variable has been set to de_DE.ISO8859-1 I do not remember seeing anything about this while running mergemaster, and I do not see where it is set in make.conf or anywhere else in /etc Did I do something wrong? Where

Re: Basic printer setup (repost)

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Harr
So I gave apsfilter a try, and having problems here too-- I managed to nuke my CUPS setup, and printing a test page died with nbp_lookup: Protocol not supported, even though netatalk is installed on the system. I think the only thing apsfilter changes is the /etc/printcap and it saves a copy at

Re: Basic printer setup (repost)

2003-09-18 Thread Lee Harr
I just want to be able to send jobs to the printer and have them come out. cd /usr/ports/print/apsfilter/ make make install cd /usr/local/share/apsfilter/ ./SETUP _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*.

Re: usb mouse probs

2003-09-14 Thread Lee Harr
I looked at the hand book played with rc.conf and all the stuff i need in the kerel is there there is a /dev/ums0 too dmesg says it found my micrsoft wirless optical usb mouse but i can not seem to get it to work What does the mouse section of /etc/X11/XF86Config look like?

Re: Sound problem

2003-09-14 Thread Lee Harr
Greetings, ^M Hmm... sounds ok to me. Except for that little hiccup at the end. Looks more like a windows problem though :o) _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Re: i can't find my second network card!

2003-09-10 Thread Lee Harr
I tried configuring the second network card and i cannot find it using sysinstall. Try this from the command line: ifconfig -a Then take a look in /etc/rc.conf to see how sysinstall set up the first interface and you may be able to work out how to configure the other one... It is also possible

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-06 Thread Lee Harr
I just got mplayer working very well yesterday... I am really impressed with what is working now! On 4.8-STABLE I had to recompile my kernel with: options CPU_ENABLE_SSE options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK Thanks for this info. When you modified the kernel, you just used the ports that

Re: mplayer one last time :(

2003-09-05 Thread Lee Harr
Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if freebsd can do the job. Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) www/mplayer-fonts Still can't get mplayer working. I

Re: nForce2 problems - xl and snd_ich dod not work

2003-09-02 Thread Lee Harr
I am having problems getting sound and networking with my A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. This seems to be a common problem. I found a few posts which suggested using 'device xl' (3Com) in the kernel configuration file and adding snd_ich_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf to fix these problems. But I am

Re: screen size is too large after freebsd install

2003-08-23 Thread Lee Harr
If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering the xf86config file it won't let me. - in whichever section you choose (16 or 24) add a line Modes 1024x768 With respect to the plus and minus keys; are you using the ones on the keypad? I believe only the ones

Re: screen size is too large after freebsd install

2003-08-22 Thread Lee Harr
I have spent over 2 days trying to install this software but no matter what I do the desktop size always ends up being too big. If I click on alt + ctrl + - or + nothing happens. Tryed altering the xf86config file it won't let me. Are you editing the file as root? Why is this so hard seriously

Re: nforce2 audio?

2003-07-30 Thread Lee Harr
It seems my nforce2 onboard audio is not detected by freebsd 5.1 plain works for me in -stable: pcm0: Nvidia nForce2 AC97 controller port 0xd400-0xd47f,0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xe d08-0xed080fff irq 5 at device 6.0 on pci0 pcm0: Realtek ALC650 ac97 codec Maybe try compiling pcm in to the kernel

Re: Creating a bootable CD

2003-07-13 Thread Lee Harr
I have been reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html and the info there is easy to understand, but I am confused on how to go about do a buildworld and installing it to the path I am going to use for the creating the ISO from? You may also want to look

Re: Printing from KDE

2003-07-06 Thread Lee Harr
One of the things I simply haven't been able to figure out yet, and can't find any documentation for, is how to set up printing from KDE on FreeBSD. KDE's docs claim that it has an Add printer wizard, but this utility seems to be absent from the FreeBSD port... as are the drivers for specific

Re: nforce2 or KT400

2003-06-19 Thread Lee Harr
This is from my asus A7N8X-deluxe. One of the onboard nics works for sure. AGP works for regular video, but I have not got the 3d acceleration (DRI/DRM) working. Not sure if the sound actually works or not either... Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983,

Re: TWM focus

2003-06-02 Thread Lee Harr
I know this is not the list for that since it is not FreeBSD specific, but I tried the XFree86 list and did not get any answer... Since I'm sure some of you must are using TWM, I give it a shot. How can I make TWM to automatically focus a new window ? Each time I launch an application, a square

Re: Repositioning /var | /tmp to avoid disk full condition

2003-06-01 Thread Lee Harr
cd /var tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) cd / rm -rf /var ln -s /usr/var /var However the 'rm -rf /var' returned rm: /var: Device busy After trying all known tricks to me to remove /var, I concluded that since it was mounted from the /etc/fstab I should dismount it

Re: floppy disk hardware failure ?

2003-05-30 Thread Lee Harr
May 28 10:20:21 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) May 28 10:20:24 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) May 28 10:22:46 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 of 0-1 (ST0

floppy disk hardware failure ?

2003-05-29 Thread Lee Harr
Hi; Recently, trying to use my floppy disk drive, I started getting messages like this: May 28 10:20:21 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) May 28 10:20:24 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40abnrml ST1 1no_am ST2 0

Re: help installing

2003-03-29 Thread Lee Harr
yo, I downloaded a freebsd .iso img, and put in in my drive, but when I reseted, it wouldn't install, Yo. Don't take this the wrong way, but this is a really really bad trouble report. You are very unlikely to get any responses. Did you burn a CD or just download the image? Did you get any error

Re: My computer asks me to run a Manual FSCK

2003-03-29 Thread Lee Harr
/dev/ad4s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. /dev/ad4s1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Automatic file system check failed... help! I find this tends to happen when the disk is on its way out. I recommend that you back up any important information on this disk. You can mount a filesystem

Re: Link??

2003-03-28 Thread Lee Harr
seems this link dosnt work anymore right? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/cvsupit-3.1.tgz at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html I do not see that one around either... but I would just move ahead if I were you. install the

Re: problem

2003-03-28 Thread Lee Harr
I have problem in configuring XFree86 in FreeBSD 4.7 I try to configure it after installation. I used graphical tool and textmode utility too. The result is often the same: The XFree86 configuration process seems to have failed. Would you like to try again? have you tried this:

Re: Disk Copy

2003-03-22 Thread Lee Harr
Does anyone know if there exists a complete disk copying tool for FreeBSD akin to the Windown Norton ghost program? How about g4u ? http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2

FreeCraft-1.18 (yea!) no multiplayer (doh!)

2003-03-21 Thread Lee Harr
Hi; I got FreeCraft-1.18 running on my FreeBSD-4.7 system. It was pretty simple, really. I modified their setup file to find /usr/local/bin/bash instead of /bin/bash and ran it. Then I unpacked the fcmp tarball and started the game with ./freecraft -d /path/to/fcmp/data/ The only trouble? The

Re: newbie : no mouse in x

2003-03-11 Thread Lee Harr
I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 and it works fine in the shell but when I try to get into KDE or GNOME I have no mouse. I've used Do you need mouse in the text console? I never use that, and so in all my XF86Config files, I just use the raw mouse device: /dev/psm0 usually, the type auto works,

Re: Installing ports witout internet

2003-03-11 Thread Lee Harr
I've always used FreeBSD on machines connected to the internet... so I have never experienced installing applications offline. My question is: Is it possible to install applications (using the port collection ) on a machine that's not connected to the internet? If yes, what are the requirements?

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