Re: your mail

2004-12-24 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Lilith B. extolled: como activar el scroll del mouse ps/2. How activate ps/2 mouse scroll If the mouse itself works, but the mouse scroll wheel does not, just add the following to your mouse definition in your X config file: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Example

Re: distfiles first instead of fetch?

2004-12-21 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Noah extolled: well I am finding that a particular bz2 file is not fetched from a list of servers so I downloaded it locally. but the build is not looking in /usr/ports/distfiles - how do I control this behavior? Are you sure you put it in the correct directory? --- snip #

Re: distfiles first instead of fetch?

2004-12-21 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Giorgos Keramidas extolled: On 2004-12-21 10:51, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD-4.9 It *is* looking there. The downloaded file doesn't match the checksum it should have though. See the line marked with stars: Have you manually checked the checksum? Maybe you pulled a different

Re: No pear

2004-12-20 Thread Dan Kilbourne
M?rio Gamito extolled: Hi Dan, I'm not that stupid, thank you. Did I say you were stupid? You asked for help, and I offered it. The polite thing to do, if you have already attempted the help I offered, would be to simply say: Thank you Dan, but I have already tried to do what you said, and

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Dan Kilbourne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I can tell you that my Dell C640 worked right out of the box. Xorg -configure got all my X stuff correct (I just needed to set default color depth to my

Re: Simple routing, netork basics

2004-12-17 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Florian Hengstberger extolled: Hi! In a few days I'll get fast access to the internet via WLAN. I have a wireless accesspoint connected to my (single) network card. I have one single public static IP address from my ISP and I'll assign it to this card. Of course I want to give other people

Re: No pear

2004-12-17 Thread Dan Kilbourne
M?rio Gamito extolled: Hi, I've installed PHP 5.02, but i don't have pear (or Zend)!!! How can i install it now ? Any help would be apreciated. Warm Regards. -- drk:drk:[4:39pm]:/usr/ports cd /usr/ports/ make search name=pear | grep Port | wc -l 93 drk:drk:[4:39pm]:/usr/ports

Re: Wheel Mouse in 5.3 STABLE

2004-12-16 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Ronnie Clark extolled: So, does it matter where my xorg.conf.new file is at? Mine is in the /root directory, which is where it was originally configured. Is there another conf file I need to edit? again, I'm stuck on this one. If this is not enough about the problem, please feel free to

Re: Wheel Mouse in 5.3 STABLE

2004-12-16 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Ronnie Clark extolled: OK, I have generated a new xorg.conf.new file. I have edited it and copied it over to /etc/X11. Here is a snip of the xorg log file: Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,

Re: vim-enhanced

2004-12-16 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Pablo Allietti extolled: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:19:54PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: yep i compiled with this functions but for example i edited a document with vim-enhanced and save it, at the next time i open it the cursos appears in the line when i was saved. and i can move

Re: Firefox for FBSD?

2004-12-16 Thread Dan Kilbourne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: Hi everyone, Is there a Firefox version for Freebsd or must we use the one for Linux? thanks, Dimitris cd /usr/ports/ make search key=firefox -- ___ Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: vim-enhanced

2004-12-16 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Try: cd /usr/ports/ make search name=vim | grep -A1 Port Pablo Allietti extolled: exist the package vim-enhanced for freebsd ??? like fedora? -- Pablo Allietti LACNIC -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-15 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Noah extolled: do you know of a command that can show me all the ports that are installed on my machine? pkg_info is there a nice tutorial that explains how to use the ports efficiently and safetly? cheers, Noah man (7) ports -- ___ Dan

Re: Xorg and mouse....

2004-12-14 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Bomgardner,Jon extolled: I'll let you know how things go after tonight Thanks for the help, Jon. You can also just run 'xev' and try clicking in the window it opens to see if your buttons are being seen -- ___ Dan ___ [EMAIL

Re: Xorg and mouse....

2004-12-14 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Bomgardner,Jon extolled: Hello All! Well, I was finally able to get Xorg up and running at full screen however, I seem to have this peculiar problem. While I can move my mouse around in the window, I cannot use any of the mouse buttons. Now, I have not set up a Window Manager yet (will be

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Bomgardner,Jon extolled: Other than that I've just been learning a lot of nifty features like changing the number of rows on the display, changing colors, how to set up a splash screen, etc... Fun times! Thanks, Jon Maybe you can provide some links to some of these nifty features? I

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Bomgardner,Jon extolled: enough for me right now) Now I just need to figure out how to do that with the console (tty*). xdpyinfo will help you there drk:drk:[3:37pm]:~ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions:2304x864 pixels (666x252 millimeters) drk:drk:[3:37pm]:~ Glad to

Re: cvsup installing hekp

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
angelito munez extolled: i wnt to install cvsup.. but i get some error and just stop What is the error? I do not see it listed here. -- ___ Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Colin J. Raven extolled: Greetings all, I'm seeking a reasonable alternative to WinXP/2000 Hyperterminal as a console application (for serial port access to a no-graphics card box). Are you looking for something to run under BSD? If so, minicom is great. /usr/ports/comms/minicom/ --

Re: Cleaning port config options

2004-12-13 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Robert Fitzpatrick extolled: On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:00, Miguel Mendez wrote: Can there possibly be anything else not getting cleaned up? -- Robert Did you look in /var/db/ports/ ? There may be something in there that is missed by make rmconfig -- ___ Dan

Re: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-10 Thread Dan Kilbourne
How did you configure X originally? Have you tried : Xorg -configure and then tried the config it writes? Bomgardner,Jon extolled: Greetings! I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and am having a bit of trouble getting Xorg up and running on my laptop. -- ___ Dan

Re: mouse wheel

2004-12-09 Thread Dan Kilbourne
martin hudec extolled: never heard about mouse wheel in console environment, never I use it daily - highlight with the mouse to select and copy text, middle click to paste. Quite convenient. -- ___ Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: help with rpm

2004-11-15 Thread Dan Kilbourne
frost wave extolled: hi thanks in advance for your answer here's my situation I just installed FreeBSD and now I want to install Maya ( maya is in a TGZ that include the rpms inside. ) I searched all the night through the internet but I didn't find how to install the rpm package. I'm

Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Hello, I am looking for a way to add memtest86 to the FreeBSD bootloader so that my techs can easily test RAM when needed. From what I understand, the memtest86 build script makes two objects: 1) a linux-kernel-alike image. 2) an ELF object.

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Nathan Kinkade extolled: I would agree, but I am looking for more of an out of the box solution. We have a couple thousand servers, several hundred of them running FreeBSD. I want our build team to be able to simply install memtest as a bootloader option so that any time a machine needs to be