Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Yousef Raffah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/03 8:46, Yousef Raffah seems to have typed: [snip] Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection [snip]

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

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: Agreed... I could probably add around 1,500 systems that could conceivably be setup to chime in with their numbers periodically; one of the pre-requisites for that would be that the access method

Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/08/03 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to have typed: Also the H-sync should prolly be 50 hertz locked as this seems to be PAL's standard refresh rate. My replies don't show up on the list for some reason (something about how

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

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe it's just because I've been reading up on it but what about outputting the information in XML??? Then you could tag the Vendor, Name, basic info, number of users, etc. in a tagged form

Re: **SPAM** binary upgrade issues

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
I also wonder why these binary update and upgrade are not legitimized in the freebsd core distribution. An important reason why linux is used by more is its easy update solution similar to Microsoft's Windows Update. Sure make world is fun especially to developers. But providing

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Marc, On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:30:08 -0300 (ADT) you wrote: Okay, there has been alot of discussion on this in the other thread, some of it tangent'd to the original, so, I'm starting off a new thread as a sort of summary ... Great

Re: Frustration

2006-06-30 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/30/06, Fernando Pinguelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing to you because I need to vent. I have tried installing version 5.3 of FreeBSD on a Pentium III machine. I thought I succeeded in doing it so, but when I tried to build xOrg I

Re: problems with Nice and Dump in FreeBSD 6.1-Current (Stable-#5)

2006-06-30 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian McKeon wrote: I've been having some issues using nice... I usually setup a system building script to automate things when I go out or to sleep. something along these lines... echo cd /usr/sys; make clean make buildworld make

Re: problems with Nice and Dump in FreeBSD 6.1-Current (Stable-#5)

2006-06-30 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot about nice being interal to csh, that is likely to source of my problems... I use this for a dump dump -0 -C 32 -f - |bzip2 --best | dd of=/foo/bar.dbz2 and then on a restore bzip2 -dc | (cd /foo;

Re: make.conf and USA_RESIDENT

2006-06-30 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Adam Stroud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen references to a USA_RESIDENT make.conf entry. However, I cannot find any reference to this variable in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf, or the make.conf man page. Does this setting still exist? If so, is there are documentation

Re: batching port builds

2006-07-01 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Javier Echaiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can put BATCH=yes in your /etc/make.conf The settings for each port (if it has something to config) are stored in /var/db/ports/{port dir name}/options (just in case you want to see what the port assumed). If you want to configure ports

Re: Upgrading Included GCC

2006-07-10 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/10/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jul 10), Jacob Jennings said: Hello, I am on FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE and was wondering if there is a way to replace the system's GCC, shipped with 5.5, (GCC 3.4.2) to GCC 4.1

Re: DWL-650 Revision M

2006-07-11 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, If someone could help me out that would be great. I currently own a wireless card Dlink (DWL-650 Revision M) and I am not able to get FreeBSD 6.1 to load the wi driver. I perused the wi man pages and found that the D-Link DWL-650

Re: Re[2]: Mounting a drive

2006-07-11 Thread backyard1454-bsd
Keep in mind here without special device drivers (I've heard they exist but have never installed any of them) you will not be able to mount a Linux (linux uses several different file systems) partition under Windows XP. Disk Manager will allow an NTFS filesystem directory mount an arbritrary

Re: DWL-650 Revision M

2006-07-11 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: currently own a wireless card Dlink (DWL-650 Revision M) and I am not able to get FreeBSD 6.1 to load the wi driver. I perused the wi man pages and found I believe this is the WiFi card I have. The SuperMMimo or whatever extension 108Mbps

Re: boot FreeBSD from USB external drive

2006-07-14 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Alain G. Fabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from external USB drive? Have my XP PC from the office with many IT restrictions. I'm however capable to boot from USB. If so, can you provide me some reference as on how to do the installation? Thanks in

Re: USB and 6.1-RELEASE

2006-07-18 Thread backyard1454-bsd
Now I'm on to another issue. When I plug in the thumb drive, which is a 512MB USB 2.0 Mobile Swingdrive, containing an MS-DOS filesystem, I get the following: umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: