Problem with wireless network.

2008-11-29 Thread Christopher Joyner
On my windows OS I can connect to the router, and also get DHCP service. On the same computer, running FreeBSD 7.0 It will not get DHCP service. Sometimes it will connect to the router, but does not get DHCP service. Then it will not connect anymore. This same computer, using the same FreeBSD

timidity server, on FreeBSD, for wine.

2008-09-01 Thread Christopher Joyner
I can't seem to get timidity to act like I want it to, can someone help me out? Want I need is a /dev/sequencer, and I wanted to use timidity to emulate it. It's so I can use it with wine, midi. It's the midi support i am looking for. --- In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. For God

Problem in FreeBSD 7.x, in Xorg switching consoles.

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Joyner
When I switch from my Xorg running KDE, for some reason it pushes a string as keypresses to the KDE. I do not know if it's on return, or on exit. Here is my setup! On tty3 is my Xorg KDE desktop. On tty8 is a getty login. I use alt+ctrl+f8 to enter the login screen on tty8. I then switch

Wine security question...

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Joyner
Is it possible to use wine in a secure way? I had a warning about it after installing it from the ports. So I was wondering if it's possible to limit it to a certain area. Like a sandbox? In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only

alogg problem! I was in the middle of writing a game on Windows, but now I am using FreeBSD...

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Joyner
I was writing a game in Windows using allegro. Now that I no longer have windows, I need a solution to the alogg library. It does not seem to be ported on FreeBSD. allegro should be find, but my problem is replacing, or getting alogg for FreeBSD. alogg is a library add-on to allegro, for

curses.h, beep() returns ERR, flash() casuses segment fault.

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Joyner
I do not get the OK from beep, and flash crashes the program. This is my code: #include curses.h int main(int argc,char** argv) { if(beep()!=OK) printf(No OK\n); fflush(stdout); if(flash()!=OK) printf(No Flash\n); fflush(stdout); return 0; } In Love in Jesus Christ,

Binary Downloads: Security Questions and problem.

2008-08-26 Thread Christopher Joyner
When using FreeBSD, I cannot browse the internet because I keep getting binary files instead of the url. These binary files are 588k in size, I think they are viruses, which also means my LAN is infected with some stuff. The binary file names seem to have random names, because they are new each

souce code for the halt program.

2008-08-26 Thread Christopher Joyner
How can I get the source code for the /sbin/halt program? When I run that program, it causes my cpu fan to speed up. I want to look at it, because I believe I can fix that problem. In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,

Possible hardware damaging bug with halt/reboot!

2008-08-26 Thread Christopher Joyner
I think this thing could break my fan if I left it running. The fan gets fast, really fast. Sounds like it's running faster than it can handle. This is using the halt command, during the message that say's, HALTED, PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT. (not actual message) I am still looking in the source

Xorg.0.log over running...

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Joyner
When running Kde3, my xorg.0.log file just keeps filling up until there is no more disk space on /var. It keeps writing this line: (==) VESA(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear This goes on until there is no more space in /var. Is there a way I can supress these messages, or

Joy stick not being detected!

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Joyner
I have a Gravis GamePad Pro hooked up to a ISA SBLive! emu10k1 loads, but the joy stick is not detected. I am loading the module manually, kldload joy, only loads but no feedback. Am I missing something? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Gravis GAmePAD pro not detecting on SBLive!

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Joyner
I have a Gravis GAMEPAD PRO attached to a SBLIVE! It is not being detected. The sblive is being detected just fine, but not the joystick or even the port. Am I missing something, how can I get it noticed? Do I need to enable eisa support for it? ___

Security problems, I think I have a hacker attacker.

2008-08-24 Thread Christopher Joyner
I think someone is attempting to get into my system. Here is my details: There are 2 login failuers on ttyv0, And also 2 login failers on ttyv0 root. I did not try login in on that terminal. Are they able to try to do it away from my computer, from a remote location? Can someone tell me how

Top question! kdeinit, how come so many? Can I configure it down?

2008-08-23 Thread Christopher Joyner
I notice that when running top, about 10 different kdeinit's are running. Is there a way to tone it down, and only have the minimum of them? I want to cut down on the memory usage, which takes up about 90% of the ram I have. In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. For God so loved the

Problem with /dev/io Denied no device.

2008-08-21 Thread Christopher Joyner
The problem I have is I get an error message when attempting to load up Xorg. Failed to open /dev/io For Extended I/O(EE) No devices detected. Also when I try to use links with the -mode 1024x768x256 option, I get svagalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. Both applications do this when attempting it

Security questions, seeing more then one dhcp client.

2008-08-21 Thread Christopher Joyner
I am seeing two dhcp clients connected to my wireless router. Does that mean someone other then me is on it? Or does the router have it's private dhcp client attached? The router is a compusa broadband wireless router. In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. For God so loved the world,

Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?

2008-08-19 Thread Christopher Joyner
Christopher Joyner wrote: Is there some way of doing that? Running i386 software on amd64 machine? Yes. FreeBSD/amd64 contains a compatibility facility for i386 binaries. It should just work out of the box, unless disabled explicitly. Best regards Oliver Ok I see, I understand that I

Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?

2008-08-19 Thread Christopher Joyner
Christopher Joyner wrote: Ok I see, I understand that I am able to run i386 software on my amd64 (Pentium D). Because of the error message i386 only, how do I make it install? Do I use a force switch? I am going to try some things after posting this. You didn't mention that you want

Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?

2008-08-19 Thread Christopher Joyner
Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he was asking about ports that are labled as i386 only Well, he didn't mention building ports. He only said *running* i386 software on amd64, which is certainly possible. Whether i386 only packages will run on amd64 depends on the reason why they're

Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Joyner
Is there some way of doing that? Running i386 software on amd64 machine? In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only *begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. --John 3:16