VirtualBox USB support

2011-12-27 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello in the FreeBSD handbook it mentions there's USB support in Virtualbox. In other sources I read however that the VBoxPuelMain module is not supported in FreeBSD. So I'm wondering if the VBox extension pack needs to be installed since it is not mentioned in the Handbook. When trying

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-20 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:16:35PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:53:06AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Alain G. Fabry wrote: I've installed both firefox and firefox36

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-20 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:16:35PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-20 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Seems to be ok here ?? afabry@desmo 15:22 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin /usr

Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-20 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:41:45PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: So, what do you get if you now type: /usr/local/bin/firefox3 or /usr

Firefox clean installation but does not execute

2011-09-19 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I've installed Firefox36 from ports, it installed without a problem but it does not launch. In other words, there's no firefox file on my system. Had it installed before and working, then to clean out the system with unnecessary ports, I removed all ports and reinstalled only what is

Re: portsnap fetch corrupt

2011-02-15 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 06:49:14AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:00:55 +0100 Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net articulated: Hello, Whenever I try to do a portsnap, it tels me metadata is corrupt. harley# portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org

portsnap fetch corrupt

2011-02-14 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, Whenever I try to do a portsnap, it tels me metadata is corrupt. harley# portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Fri Feb 11 01:08:40 CET

XDM not showing login screen

2010-12-31 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm trying to get my XDMCP to work, but for some reason the XDM daemon doesn't reply to XDMCP requests. I see the XDMCP packet arriving on my xdm server harley# tcpdump port 177 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on bge0, link-type EN10MB

ghostscript-8.71 update

2010-08-24 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Trying to update ghostscript, but seems to fail. Can somebody provide me with info on how to solve this? Here error during build of port .. cc -DHAVE_MKSTEMP -DHAVE_HYPOT -DHAVE_FONTCONFIG -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -DUPD_SIGNAL=0 -I.

Re: radeonhd 1.3.0 slow window moving

2009-12-07 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:22:55PM +0100, Marco Beishuizen wrote: Hi, I upgraded the radeonhd driver from 1.2.5 to 1.3.0. It seems to work fine, except when moving a window. As far as I can see all other actions like scrolling or resizing is quick, but moving windows goes really slow.

kdebase4 installation

2009-09-30 Thread Alain G. Fabry
I'm having problem with kdebase4 installation. Below is error code, what do I need to do to get this fixed? Last portsnap + did 'make disclean', but still get this error. [ 42%] Generating konsoleadaptor.moc Scanning dependencies of target konsoleprivate [ 42%] Building CXX object

kdebase4 installation failure

2009-08-19 Thread Alain G. Fabry
While installing kdebase4, I get the following error. What can I do to get this port installed. [ 41%] Building CXX object apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/konsoleprivate_automoc.o [ 41%] Building CXX object apps/konsole/src/CMakeFiles/konsoleprivate.dir/BlockArray.o [ 43%]

Re: How to list all the installed packages...

2009-03-27 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:34:00AM +0100, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Is there a way to show a list of all installed packages that are not required by any other package? cd /var/db/pkg/ ; for i in *-* ; do if [ ! -e $i/+REQUIRED_BY ] ; then echo $i ; fi ; done

WINE installation problem

2009-03-26 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, My WINE was running fine, but while performing a portupgrade I got an error message. So I decided to remove WINE and reinstall. Now I can't install it either. I get the following message === wine-1.1.17,1 builds, but fails upon startup. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/wine.

Re: libsndfile portupgrade cuts sound... :-(

2009-03-11 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:03:49PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Today, I successfully portupgraded libsndfile, but afterwards I noticed that my sound doesn't work anymore. Running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0 and have a '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio' sound card. Before it was

Re: libsndfile portupgrade cuts sound... :-(

2009-03-11 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:38:29AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: :) Nope, no sound coming out of my speakers. I was a bit worried that it was my audio card died on me but booting from another external HD with FreeBSD, everything seems to work fine. I'll portupgrade the other HD also to

libsndfile portupgrade cuts sound... :-(

2009-03-10 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Today, I successfully portupgraded libsndfile, but afterwards I noticed that my sound doesn't work anymore. Running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0 and have a '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio' sound card. Before it was working without any problems with the sound/snd_hda drivers. What can I

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Alain G. Fabry
I'm using the radeonhd driver and am getting the message also. Video card is the ati mobility radeon x1600. On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:48:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: X is working fine here on a Radeon X1650 on 7.1-RELEASE with rnoland's last patch to update the

Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system

2009-01-29 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:18:10PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: Luke Dean wrote: The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the radeon driver on i386 7-STABLE My xorg.conf was

portupgrade xorg-server failure

2009-01-27 Thread Alain G. Fabry
When I try to upgrade my xorg-server, it fails with the following error, apparently it is looking for dri_interface.h (and I have /graphics/dri installed). cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -I../hw/xfree86/os-support -I../hw/xfree86/os-su pport/bus -I../hw/xfree86/common

3945ABG wireless problems

2009-01-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo

Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

2009-01-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
/wpa_supp**.conf On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.netwrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF

amarok install failure

2008-12-28 Thread Alain G. Fabry
During the installation of amarok, I get the following error, what is going wrong here. gmake[5]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/audio/amarok/work/amarok-1.4.10/amarok/src/mediadevice/mtp' /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=compile c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../..

SMP and ACPI problem ??

2008-12-25 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, To make a long story shorteverything worked fine on my system (7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD). Last night I was updating stuff on my windoswXP guess (under qemu) and performed a clean shutdown. This morning, after bringing back up my system it has been unbearably slow. Without doing anyting to

Re: FreeBSD installation doesn't work

2008-09-18 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:32:09PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: Robert Lebovich skrev: I'm trying to install freeBSD on my pc, but after the installation it doesn't boot. It can't find the kernel. I think it is the problem with my partitioning. i'm trying this order: /boot swap / /var

Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7

2008-09-08 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:21:56PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7 release I wanted to use as a host for virtual machines. What software is anyone else using to host virtual machines under FreeBSD? I use Qemu and run XP, Solaris, Gentoo, and FreeBSD as guests. Speed is not

Re: x11/xterm question

2008-08-04 Thread Alain G. Fabry
I guess what you are looking for is xconsole. On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:37:41AM +0200, mcassar wrote: hi anyone, can anyone tell me how to replicate/get this thing running cuz i'm still learning the basics of unix, and really hooked on freebsd - but this is driving me nuts and need to

Re: portupgrade policykit problem

2008-07-24 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Works like a charm, many thanks. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:12:12PM -0300, Bruno Schmitt wrote: div dir=ltrUpdate your ports. There is a new patched version 0.9_1 that will solve the problem. brbrbrdiv class=gmail_quoteOn Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Alain G. Fabry lt;a href=mailto

portupgrade policykit problem

2008-07-23 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, Hope I didn't do something stupid here Tried to 'portupgrade -R policykit' but it came back with an error. So I deinstalled it and now I'm trying to reinstall it, but it fails with the following error. R=\/usr/local/etc\ -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\/usr/local/share\

Wireless 3945ABG problems

2008-07-17 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm having problems getting my wireless Intel 3945ABG to work. Running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Following are some results from /var/log/messages after different commands: After boot == wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG mem 0xf400-0xf4000fff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci16 wpi0:

keymapping - numlock doesn't work anymore

2008-06-30 Thread Alain G. Fabry
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (qemu host) X.Org X Server 1.4.2 HP Compaq nc8430 laptop Hi, recently I performed a portupgrade (-R xorg-server) and now my numlock doesn't work anymore under Xorg. Since I was having problems with my key-mapping in Qemu (key 1 and 4 did not work), I used the numlock to boot

freeze and crashes

2008-04-25 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Have a issue here. I've been running FreeBSD 6.3 release for about 6 months now without problem. Then last week I purchase another external HD and installed release 7.0. Everything went great for about 3 weeks. Then suddenly my 7.0 started to crash (kde freezing, sudden reboots, etc). The first

Re: freeze and crashes

2008-04-25 Thread Alain G. Fabry
/kerneldebug.html Let us know how things go, -aps PS Make sure that new disk is good! On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Alain G. Fabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a issue here. I've been running FreeBSD 6.3 release for about 6 months now without problem. Then last week I purchase another

glXIsDirect failed

2008-04-15 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, Running 7.0-RELEASE #0, trying to get 3ddesktop to work, but whenever I launch 3ddesk --kde3, I get the following error. 3ddeskd: glXIsDirect failed, no Direct Rendering possible! 3ddeskd: Please configure hardware acceleration. Exiting. What could be causing this? xorg.conf module

Re: glXIsDirect failed

2008-04-15 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 07:24:15PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008 18:57:45 Alain G. Fabry wrote: xorg log indicates GLX and DRI to be loaded (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=X.Org

missing bridge.ko

2008-04-13 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE and wanted to enable kldload bridge.ko for Qemu networking support. But apparently this file does not exist in /boot/kernel How do I need to install, or where can I download this? Thanks, Alain ___

kdebase3 installation failure

2008-04-12 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Since I wanted to use my ATI Mobility x1600 video card, I upgraded to CURRENT. Video card is working now but I'm having problem with my kdebase3. During installation it fails during the install of the cyrus-sas12 port. I did a make distclean, but that still didn't solve the problem. following

portupgrade xorg-server fails

2008-02-08 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I'm trying to portupgrade xorg-server but it crashes. Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, and xorg-server-1.4_3,1 Initially I ran portupgrade -R xorg-server, it crashed, then I tried as explained in UPDATING 20070519 During the upgrade, I get the following error. xvmc.c: In function

Re: Upgrading firefox 1.5 to 2.0

2007-12-24 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 09:00:04AM -0500, Robe wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD v6.2. It comes with FireFox 1.5 and I want to upgrade it to version 2.0. I've updated my ports collection with pkg_version -v. But I don't see the FireFox 2.0 in my ports. However I see a port for FireFox 2 in the

Re: Networking card not install on freebsd

2007-12-14 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:53:13AM -0200, Jefferson wrote: Hi all, I have a question and a problem, i installed freebsd v. 6.1 on my desktop and my networking card doesn't work with freebsd... I have a Onboard Intel Nineveh 82566DM (10/100/1000 Mbit). Somebody please could help me, how

Userdir mod in apache2.2

2007-12-10 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Apache/2.2.6 (FreeBSD) PHP Version 5.2.5 FreeBSD 6.2 Trying to get the userdir module to work but it seems to fail all the time due to 'You don't have permissions' Main webserver works fine. Only when trying to go to the 'http://localhost/~user/index.html' I get the permissions error.

Re: Userdir mod in apache2.2

2007-12-10 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:13:58AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, December 10, 2007 09:35:14 +0100 Alain G. Fabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apache/2.2.6 (FreeBSD) PHP Version 5.2.5 FreeBSD 6.2 Trying to get the userdir module to work but it seems to fail all the time due

2nd try : tap SIOCIFCREATE failure

2007-11-28 Thread Alain G. Fabry
When creating the tap interface, my system gives the following FreeBSD# uname -a FreeBSD FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 11 0xc040 6f7554 kernel 21 0xc0af8000 140c0snd_hda.ko 32 0xc0b0d000 479a8sound.ko 41 0xc0b55000 1d278

Re: creation of tap interface

2007-11-23 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:32:07PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:33:48PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:59:55PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:41:58PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: I get the following error

Re: KDE translucent fails after upgrade

2007-11-23 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:42:46PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2007 08:30:34 schrieb Alain G. Fabry: Hello, I've portupgraded my xorg and kde, after this my kde translucent settings don't work anymore and I receive a 'composite manager failed' while logging

Re: creation of tap interface

2007-11-23 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:59:55PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:41:58PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hi, I'm setting up Qemu, have installed Ubuntu and Gentoo guests on FreeBSD host but I would like to get the network interfaces to work also. I get

creation of tap interface

2007-11-22 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm setting up Qemu, have installed Ubuntu and Gentoo guests on FreeBSD host but I would like to get the network interfaces to work also. I get the following error however when trying to create the tap interfaces FreeBSD# ifconfig tap create ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE: Invalid argument What

KDE translucent fails after upgrade

2007-11-20 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I've portupgraded my xorg and kde, after this my kde translucent settings don't work anymore and I receive a 'composite manager failed' while logging in. If I disable the translucency, the error disappears but I would like it back working. Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, X.Org X Server

kdevelop install failure

2007-11-19 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I'm trying to update my ports and need to still port_upgrade kdevelop but during the upgrade fails with the following error checking for Berkeley DB = 4.1... configure: error: no - please install Berkeley DB = 4.1 === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to

OpenEXR portupgrade failure

2007-11-17 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm trying to portupgrade my system and the only ones left are kde and OpenEXR. Apparently OpenEXR needs to be done as dependency for kde. But my portupgrade -R OpenEXR fail. Following is the error message, how can I solve this? /usr/bin/ld: warning: libIlmThread.so.4, needed by

Re: /etc/issue for telnet

2007-11-15 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:10:19AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: how to turn it on there is something written in telnetd manual about setting it in gettytab, but i can't find an example of gettytab for telnetd session. how to set it up? Not sure if this is what you mean but edit your

Re: Hi bsd team! Plz help me!

2007-10-19 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:23:13PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:39 +0500, Eldar Velibekov wrote: Hi BSD team. Thanx for a Great OS! But! i wont use also graphical mode(X - system) but i dont wont 1024-768 resolution, i wont 1280 - 800 on my laptop(HP 510, CHipset

Re: Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller on FreeBSD7.0 Current

2007-10-12 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:39:59PM +0800, Tsetsbold wrote: I typed this: #kldload snd_hda #cat /dev/sndstat/ Intel 82801H High Definition Audio Controller at memory 0xfebfc000 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20070710_0047] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) # Now I have add device

Formatting man pages - txt file

2007-10-12 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I'd like to get a man page in .txt format. What I tried was man man man.txt, but this gives me the man pages with many control char. How can I get a man page to be formatted to a regular .txt file? Thanks, Alain ___

Re: Fwd: Re: Long msg: Unable to enable audio in FreeBSD 6.2 - Chipset VT8233A

2007-10-02 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:36:37PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:22:49AM +0100, Sai Vinob wrote: Dominique had asked me to try few stuff. First he had asked me to give the output of pciconf. Which we found didnot have any entry for my sound card. As a reference

Re: dsniff installation failure

2007-09-15 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:32:53PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Friday 14 September 2007 15:37:29 Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install dsniff and get the following error message during install. Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, just updated the ports collection What can I do to get dsniff

dsniff installation failure

2007-09-14 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm trying to install dsniff and get the following error message during install. Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, just updated the ports collection What can I do to get dsniff installed? Thanks, FreeBSD# make install clean === Building for dsniff-2.3_3 cc -o dsniff asn1.o base64.o buf.o

82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Supported ???

2007-08-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, Is the following audio '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio' supported on FreeBSD6.2? If so, which device do I need to load in the kernel or how can I get it to work. Many thanks, Alain ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Partitioning question

2007-08-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I've partitioned my HD into 3 partitions. One is currently running FreeBSD6.2, the second has my data files (home directories). On the third I would like to install FreeBSD-current to play around a bit and get more familiar with the OS. Is it possible after the installation of current

Re: Partitioning question

2007-08-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:11:19AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hello, I've partitioned my HD into 3 partitions. One is currently running FreeBSD6.2, the second has my data files (home directories). On the third

Re: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Supported ???

2007-08-09 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:15:51PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hello, Is the following audio '82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio' supported on FreeBSD6.2? If so, which device do I need to load in the kernel or how can I get it to work. Many

Re: boot problem after custom kernel

2007-08-06 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:29:14PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Alain G. Fabry wrote: First 'unload kernel' followed by 'boot /boot/kernel.GENERIC/kernel', but it mentions that it cannot find the kernel. snip What can I do to boot my GENERIC kernel so I can rebuild from it and my

Keystroke to launch a script

2007-08-02 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, Running FreeBSD Rel 6.2 with KDE3.5. Question is, when in a Konsole/xterm, is it possible to make a certain keystroke launch a script? fe. automate connection to routers/switches, want to be able when receiving the login/username prompt to press an assigned Fx key that launches a

ATI x1600 support

2007-03-30 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, I just received a new laptop Compaq nc8430 with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1600 graphics card. Didn't have a selection option, just take what you get. Has anybody got this working with a decent resolution? I can't get it better then 1024x768. Is there a way to bring it to 1280x800. Where

Re: ssh via html

2007-03-22 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:28:21PM +0100, Koen de Wijs wrote: Maybe this site will help http://www.netspace.org/ssh/ Hello, I want to login on my freebsd remotely by ssh. I don't want to download putty every time I want to login in my compter from a computer that isn't mine. I would

JDK15 port installation

2007-01-18 Thread Alain G. Fabry
I'm trying to install the JDK15 port (need a JVM for gallery remote), but it seems to crash on the mozilla dependancy. Here is the output where it crashes: c++ -o nsType1.o -c -DOSTYPE=\FreeBSD6\ -DOSARCH=\FreeBSD\ -DHAVE_DEPENDENT_LIBS -I../.. -I./.. -I../../../dist/include/xpcom

avi/wmv/qt player on FreeBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Alain G. Fabry
I've been trying to install different multimedia players (avifile/xine/etc) via the port, but they all fail on the win32-codecs dependency. Probably because of the security issue. Which is an avi/wmv/qt player that can be installed and works? Thanks, Alain

Re: deny of x sessions

2006-11-17 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:54:37PM -0600, Alain Fabry wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:17:05 -0500 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deny of x sessions Alain G. Fabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, I've just installed

deny of x sessions

2006-11-16 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hey, I've just installed KDE 4.5.3 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I'm having problem getting an x-window from another PC when I'm connected to that PC via telnet (with ssh -X everything works fine) When I telnet to the other machine and export/setenv my DISPLAY environment towards the display

Re: deny of x sessions

2006-11-16 Thread Alain G. Fabry
With ssh it works, both with -Y and -X, but I need this to work also with regular telnet. Thanks, On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:53:18AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hey, I've just installed KDE 4.5.3 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I'm having problem getting an x-window

boot FreeBSD from USB external drive

2006-07-14 Thread Alain G. Fabry
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 advance, Alain