silencing the boot beep

2005-05-14 Thread Allan Bowhill
Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying beep when BSD partition selector comes up? Also, has anyone got a decent setup for a synaptics touchpad attached to a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? 5.4-STABLE Thanks in advance! :) -- Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Kernel panic on keyboard-interaction with rc.local and ACPI

2005-05-06 Thread Allan Bowhill
} else { It gets this from atkbd_isa_intr() in /usr/src/sys/isa/atkbd_isa.c static void atkbd_isa_intr(void *arg) { keyboard_t *kbd; kbd = (keyboard_t *)arg; <-- null void pointer cast as keyboard_t * (*kbdsw[kbd->kb_index]->intr)(kbd, N

Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

2003-12-11 Thread Allan Bowhill
opment tools built-in (C, C++, gdb, CVS, Gnats). It impresses me as a fair and correct choice in design that an open-source operating system should have these things. -- Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real software engineers don't like the idea of some inexplicable and greasy hardware sever

Re: Way OT: SSH+VNC as quickndirty VPN

2003-12-04 Thread Allan Bowhill
ffer. This generally would mean that you can't simultaneously lock your machine and do work on it at the same time from home. In other words, when you login from home, everything you do will be displayed on the windows machine in your office while you are doing it. -- Allan Bowhill [EM

Re: How to determine which distribution sets were installed

2003-11-30 Thread Allan Bowhill
On 0, Melvyn Sopacua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :On Sunday 30 November 2003 08:52, Allan Bowhill wrote: : :> On 0, Paul van Berlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :> :Hello, :> : :> :is there an easy way to determine which distribution sets were installed :> :during the Fre

Re: How to determine which distribution sets were installed

2003-11-30 Thread Allan Bowhill
On 0, Paul van Berlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :Hello, : :is there an easy way to determine which distribution sets were installed :during the FreeBSD installation and after that? I inherited a server and :want to make sure what is and is not installed. Of course I can do all of :this manually, b

Re: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Allan Bowhill
g modems for it, and I agree, the handbook doesn't have too much to offer there. -- Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spend extra time on hobby. Get plenty of rolling papers. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo