Re: recommended network games to play with your best bud.

2006-09-19 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 03:40, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Hi, G'day > Say you are working in a place where all workstations > are mixtures of Unixes..Now you have your bestfriend > somewhere far away. And he was complaining of severe > boredom in his current work. What *nix network game > w

Re: Please Help with my kernel

2006-09-17 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday 17 September 2006 07:20, ExTaZyTi wrote: > Hi, iH, > I'm new in FreeBSD, I want to conf and re-build my kernel but the directory > /usr/src is empty. First you can start by following http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html to populate /usr/src and then rea

Re: BFG 7650 GX2 can't find valid mode

2006-09-17 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday 17 September 2006 10:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, Hello, > I'm having a slight issue with my new FreeBSD box - when I test the > xorg.conf.new file that "Xorg -configure" creates I get an error that says > > (EE) NV(1): Cannot read V_BIOS (3) > (EE) NV(1): No valid modes fou

Re: USB Media Keys

2006-08-17 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Friday 11 August 2006 05:08, Jeff Molofee wrote: > Is it possible to get USB media keys to work in FreeBSD 6.x? I can't get > anything to even see the keys, I would like to get my volume keys > working on a Saitek Eclipse keyboard. Try hotkeys: http://ypwong.org/hotkeys/ or google for more somet

Re: screen blanking and kde

2006-07-03 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Monday 03 July 2006 09:34, dick hoogendijk wrote: > The machine I use fvwm on blanks the screen after a period of time (the > default from Xorg). However, a machine running KDE does not(!), even > without the screensaver enabled (in kde). Disabling the saver results > in a screen never go blank.

Re: installing multiple kernels

2006-05-06 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday 07 May 2006 11:30, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > People, Michael, > Coming from Linux, I'm used to being able to build multiple kernels and > install them all, configuring the bootloader to pick one of them at boot > time. I can't find anything on doing this on FreeBSD. Is this possible? H

Re: If you have a working DRI multi-head setup read this:

2006-05-03 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 18:00, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Do you have a multi-head setup, does DRI/DRM work? If it works report > your setup, if you can confirm it doesn't work post that too! I don't have a multi-head setup and DRI also doesn't work > Let me lead the way: > drm0: AGP > drm1: PCI

Re: Any good OpenGL games?

2006-02-09 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Monday 06 February 2006 02:44, Xn Nooby wrote: > On 2/5/06, Evgeny Solovyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I play quake3, quake4, doomIII > > > > linux-quake3-demo > > linux-quake4 > > linux-doom3-demo > > I tried quakeforge, but when I get a missing WAD error when I try > "nq-glx". Are these

Re: Any good OpenGL games?

2006-02-04 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:25, Xn Nooby wrote: > On 2/4/06, Alastair G. Hogge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:06, Xn Nooby wrote: > > > I have a P4 2Ghz with an nVidia card, so I installed the nVidia driver. > > > I'm curr

Re: Any good OpenGL games?

2006-02-04 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:06, Xn Nooby wrote: > I have a P4 2Ghz with an nVidia card, so I installed the nVidia driver. > I'm currently installing 'linux-enemyterritory' which I think will work. I > didn't know if there were any other good ones. Is flightgear or gl117 any > good? I just inst

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-17 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, > just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region > coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD. > -Garrett Aren't DVD players(the hardware) region restr

Re: Flash plugin

2005-06-13 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:24, Ben Paley wrote: > Hello, > > First, sorry - I know there's a thread about this already, but I just > noticed I had "empty trash on exit" ticked in my mail client (doh!), so I > can't find it... > > I've got a brand new (1 week and a bit) install of 5.4-RELEASE, and I'm >

Re: 5.3 + nvidia GeForce 6600 GT + amd64

2005-02-28 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:58, Ward Willats wrote: > Hello Everyone. Hello, > I just bought me a spiffy new amd64 box with an nvidia GeForce 6600 > card. I am running Freebsd 5.3/amd64 and xorg. > > Though I love the games, my most important need for this machine is > to do software development -- so

Re: Unreal Tournament ??

2005-01-12 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:39, Tom Connolly wrote: > Does anyone know if I can play UT 2004 on FreeBSD. I'm running 5.3 r4. > > I've been googling and I have found very little information on the 2004 > version. > > Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. I've been running the demo for s

Re: Cant join Irc - FreeBSD Channel

2005-01-11 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 00:34, jboadas wrote: > Grettings every body. > > Im triyng to join the #freebsd channel in > irc.freenode.org an i get the follow messaje: > > * #freebsd :You need to be identified to join that > channel It means you need a registered handle and hostname with FreeNode for the

Re: ffmpeg port

2004-12-08 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:38, Lucas Holt wrote: > Just an fyi, the ffmpeg port is not building propery for two possible > reasons. First, several of the html documents are not found and make > dies. Second, if you ran the install once and it failed, it created a > symlink in /usr/local/lib/ for a lib

Re: ScreenShots

2004-11-12 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:04, Sean Murphy wrote: > How does one take screen shots of the FreeBSD Install and Terminal? I > would like to make a guide specific to our location. From man 1 vidcontrol The following command will capture the contents of the first virtual ter- minal, and redirec

Re: Java

2004-11-11 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:18, Werner Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed FreeBSD5.3 and when I install gnome2.6 using "pkg_add > -r gnome2", I get a message that Java is not installed. > > How do I install java-support, as there is so many ports dealing with > Java, that I don't know which one t

Re: PCI-Express

2004-11-03 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:12, Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all > > Stupid question but I don't find any answer in google (good answer). No such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers. > FreeBSD 5.X (5.3 for example) have support for PCI-Express ? Can I use > XFree86 (or Xorg) with a PCI-Express vi

Re: FreeBSD Device Driver Guide

2004-11-03 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:32, Balakumar Velmurugan wrote: > Hello, > Is there any published book or online guide for writing > FreeBSD device driver ?. I know a O'reily book for Linux called "Linux > Device Drivers", is anything like that exist for FreeBSD ?. Check out: * http://www.freebsd.

Re: Sound Driver

2004-07-30 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Friday 30 July 2004 06:55, Sandbox Video Productions wrote: > Starting KDE I always get this message. Then it just > stalls > > > Sound server informational message: > Error while ititializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device not > configured) > The sound server will c

Re: OK i feel stupid about this noob question but....

2004-07-10 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Saturday 10 July 2004 18:52, Jammet wrote: > I dont know whats wrong with me but for some reason i cant add users to > my system. I go through the whole bit of adduser -s but it asks "user > names must match reguilar expressions [regext] " ... I dont even > remember that happening when i use t

Re: SoundBlaster Live problems

2004-07-05 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Monday 05 July 2004 08:35, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > I'm having another hangup with 5.2.1. This one is considerably less > critical though. > > I have a SoundBlaster Live! (with 5.1 support, whatever this means). > > Judging from the handbook, all I'm supposed to do is put the following > in the k

Re: Hanging on shutdown

2004-06-30 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:35, Edd wrote: > Has anyone had any problems with thier (x86) machines taking ages to > shutdown after the syncing buffers stage? Yes I have. There was also a thread already discussing this somewhere on the current or questions mailing lists. A proposed solution, whic

Re: help configuring OpenGL

2004-05-08 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday, 09 May 2004 09:21, Earl Larsen wrote: > A: OK. With a little research I found the following: > A: To build and install DRM, cd /usr/src/sys/modules/drm && make all install > A: > A: DRM == Direct Rendering modules. This will hopefully give you radeon.ko > A: > A: Check out http://people

Re: NVIDIA or ATI

2004-03-14 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Friday, 12 March 2004 03:50, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Well, ATI probably won't ever release FreeBSD drivers. I've been in > contact with > a couple of ATI employees, and the most I've been able to get is that one > guy at ATI might write some drivers in his spare time... if ATI will let > him rel

Re: nVidia Quadro NVS 200

2003-12-31 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wednesday, 31 December 2003 15:19, Jay Sern Liew wrote: > I couldn't find a comprehensive list of supported hardware in the handbook > or in the release notes, hardware.txt file. > > I know nVidia provides FreeBSD drivers, but I can't seem to find anywhere > on the FreeBSD WWW, mailinglist, free

Re: Newbie MAKE question

2003-09-20 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Sunday, 21 September 2003 04:39, Erick Smith wrote: > This really is a ridiculous question, but I don't have the answer, so here > I am. > > I'm trying to build qt in the ports tree using: > > portinstall -f x11-toolkits/qt32 > > What I WANT to do is specify WITHOUT_OPENGL as per the instruction

Re: BSD graphic interface

2003-09-18 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Thursday, 18 September 2003 22:53, Jason Stewart wrote: > Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I'm interested in playing around with some graphics programming in FreeBSD > > but not under XFree86. Are there any graphics interfaces/APIs for the > &

Re: XFree86 -- Gamma Correction

2003-09-18 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Thursday, 18 September 2003 21:34, Michael Vondung wrote: > Hello, all, > > I successfully managed to install the FreeBSD nVidia video drivers, but ran > into a problem that is apparently X related: How does one tune the gamma > correction? "man XFree86" suggests the command line option "-gamma

BSD graphic interface

2003-09-18 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
Hello all, I'm interested in playing around with some graphics programming in FreeBSD but not under XFree86. Are there any graphics interfaces/APIs for the console? I'm looking for something that is most definitely BSDL'd. Another plus would be a C++ designed API Does anyone have any informat

Re: Ogg encoding

2003-09-14 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Monday, 15 September 2003 12:41, Todd Stephens wrote: > I found a port for mp32ogg to convert mp3 to ogg format, but is there a > program to convert wav to ogg format? I like the ogg format, but it > seems to me that there will be some data loss going from wav to mp3 and > then to ogg. Yeah the

Re: SHELL scripts..... HOW TO START LEARN????

2003-09-13 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:12, Denis wrote: > Hi All!!! > > Do you happen to know where is some helpful information about SHELL > programming??? There was a recent article on DaemonNews.net about Shell programming that might be helpfull to you. _

Re: Configuring GeForce FX 5200 in X?

2003-08-22 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Saturday, 23 August 2003 15:07, Dragoncrest wrote: > Hi all. Just got a GeForce4 FX 5200 to install in a new Freebsd box and > I'm trying to configure X to use it, but I don't see the card listed > anywhere in the list of cards on the machine. What do I do in order to > configure the car

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2003-08-16 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Saturday, 16 August 2003 13:16, Per Christian wrote: > Hello. > > I have downloaded a copy of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and want to install it. But > to be sure, I want to keep my existing Windows install, so that if I don't > like it, I can switch back. But then, I can't find any describtion if any,

Re: Hardware supported?

2003-06-03 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wednesday, 04 June 2003 11:28, Vulpes Velox wrote: > I don't know about the sun, but the video card should work nicely. It > should be supported by the drm in the kernel and X should play nicely with > it. Well actually the 9700PRO is supported to some extent. And that extent is 2D XFree86 only