SUMMARY: Re: JDK 1.5 and 5.3

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew Hall
se of a license issue, and not a technology issue. Drew Jeremy Faulkner wrote: Andrew Hall wrote: Greetings, I have a few questions about jdk and 5.3. 1. If one does a src compile, it requires that the linux-sun-jdk to be installed to bootstrap the compile of native jdk. Why would freebsd not

Re: JDK 1.5 and 5.3

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew Hall
Jeremy, Thank you very much for your reply. Drew Jeremy Faulkner wrote: Andrew Hall wrote: Greetings, I have a few questions about jdk and 5.3. 1. If one does a src compile, it requires that the linux-sun-jdk to be installed to bootstrap the compile of native jdk. Why would freebsd not use a

Re: JDK 1.5 and 5.3

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Hall
Sorry to reply to my own post Andrew Hall wrote: Tabor Kelly wrote: Andrew Hall wrote: Any idea about the missing browser plugin? Which browser? For Firefox one way to get a functional Java plugin is simply to install the JDK before you build Firefox. Well sorta. I installed firefox

Re: JDK 1.5 and 5.3

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Hall
Tabor Kelly wrote: Andrew Hall wrote: Any idea about the missing browser plugin? Which browser? For Firefox one way to get a functional Java plugin is simply to install the JDK before you build Firefox. Well sorta. I installed firefox, then built jdk, then removed firefox, then rebuilt from

Re: Scroll whell on FreeBSD 5.3 i386

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Hall
Add this to your mouse section, and restart X. Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Drew Michael Madden wrote: What is the secret to getting my scroll wheel working on FreeBSD 5.3? If have the following added to /etc/rc.conf: moused_enable="YES" moused_flags="" moused_port="/dev/psm0" moused_type

Re: JDK 1.5 and 5.3

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Hall
Erik Norgaard wrote: Andrew Hall wrote: Greetings, I have a few questions about jdk and 5.3. 1. If one does a src compile, it requires that the linux-sun-jdk to be installed to bootstrap the compile of native jdk. Why would freebsd not use a binary version of it's own native jdk to boot

JDK 1.5 and 5.3

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Hall
Greetings, I have a few questions about jdk and 5.3. 1. If one does a src compile, it requires that the linux-sun-jdk to be installed to bootstrap the compile of native jdk. Why would freebsd not use a binary version of it's own native jdk to bootstrap itself? If that's not feasible, then why w

Re: directories to exclude for backups

2004-02-27 Thread Andrew Hall
Ben, I personally believe the only data necessary to archive is your configuration files, and user data. The OS is easy to replace, real easy in FreeBSD. I consider the entire OS to be expendable because it is so easy to replace. Another option for software is amanda. Its in ports. Drew On

Re: Shell scripting woes.

2004-02-24 Thread Andrew Hall
You might wanna check the users mailbox. Cron send mail on errors. Drew On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:11, Mathias Haas wrote: > It is executable and it didn't have a newline at the end, it does now - > but there's still no difference... > Do you have to do something to get FreeBSDs (4.6.2) cron to

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-24 Thread Andrew Hall
Stephen, The network changes might not releated to the issues w/ KDE. I would first verify that no other program is trashing your resources. Then check to make sure you have a newer version of KDE. Did you look at the KDE site for known bugs, maybe? HTH, Drew On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 09:55, Ste

Re: KDE startup slowly on "initializing system service"

2004-02-24 Thread Andrew Hall
FWIW I noticed on my 5.2 box today kinit was using 60% of the processor. I restarted KDE and kinit's usage dropped to ~1%. Drew On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 01:49, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Teodor, > > FreeBSD 5.2 > > > I encounter the same problem. KDE starts very slow, first popup desktop >

Re: onboard sound does not work

2004-02-10 Thread Andrew Hall
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 17:05, Nicolas wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2004 22.29, Andrew Hall wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:24, Nicolas wrote: > > > On Monday 09 February 2004 21.50, Andrew Hall wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:24, Nathan Kinkade wrote: >

Re: onboard sound does not work

2004-02-09 Thread Andrew Hall
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 16:24, Nicolas wrote: > On Monday 09 February 2004 21.50, Andrew Hall wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:24, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:47:31PM +0100, by way of Gaf > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > He

Re: onboard sound does not work

2004-02-09 Thread Andrew Hall
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 15:24, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:47:31PM +0100, by way of Gaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. > > I am a newbie to both unix and FreeBSD. I am trying to configure my onboard > > sond without success. > > My motherboard: ASUS P4S800-MX > > Audio

Re: Netgear WG511 (no driver attached)

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Hall
: > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 03:35 pm, Andrew Hall wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Please forgive the cross post (sent to freebsd-mobile also), but I have > > not received a reply from -mobile yet. > > > > I have Netgear WG511 running on 5.2-CURRENT. If I boot wi

Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop?

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Lophtcrack, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any of the other distributed computing projects. Drew On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 17:55, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Perhaps you could use it as a thin terminal client with vnc or even windows terminal > client (http://www.rdesktop.org/). > > > Mes

Netgear WG511 (no driver attached)

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew Hall
Greetings, Please forgive the cross post (sent to freebsd-mobile also), but I have not received a reply from -mobile yet. I have Netgear WG511 running on 5.2-CURRENT. If I boot with the card or insert it after boot I get the following output: cardbus0: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) cbb0: