Daniel A. wrote:
> One Linux distribution in particular that I think you might like, is
> Ubuntu. You can download it at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/, or order a
> CD (Free shipping, free CD, you pay nothing).
Seconded. I put Ubuntu on my laptop after FreeBSD 5 wouldn't behave.
It's Debian-based,
rod person wrote:
> I had this problem with an iPod also. When I switch to using firewire
> for the iPod it then worked fine. I've read that there is some problem
> with Apples usb2 code.
The Mac OS X code is certainly not the *BSD code, at least on the
computer end. I have a camera (Premier DC-
Ashley Moran wrote:
> Does anyone know what I can do to fix this, or where the error is logged so I
> can work out what's up?
if you can get a command line up, can you do "nohup kicker &"?
(I have to restart kicker every month or two)
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RW wrote:
> From what I've read I wouldn't recommend amd64 for a desktop, as two many
> things are broken, for example 3-d support for your nvidia card.
That's a pity ... I was thinking in terms of an uber-l33t dual-AMD64
beast machine running FreeBSD 6 (or maybe 7 by the time I get around to
RW wrote:
> On Saturday 17 December 2005 23:11, patrick wrote:
>>I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to find a
>>device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers connected
>>to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists, but it was a
>>long time ago since
Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote:
>>Check out if sane supports it. I'm in a similar situation with a HP
>>Scanjet 6200C. The driver on the HP isn't actually a driver so the
>>scanner is useless in Windows. I booted into FreeBSD, kldload
>>uscan
Danial Thom wrote:
> developers that is lost. Their "theory" on how to
> build a better mousetrap for MP is completely
> wrong, and now they're going to try something
> else, using the entire FreeBSD community as
> guinea pigs. First 5.4 was the answer. Then 6.0.
> Now it looks like 6.0 sucks too.
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> The thing you have to remember about Denial is that the ONLY THING he
> cares about in an OS is how fast it can route network packets. The
> major improvements in other areas of FreeBSD are of absolutely no
> interest to him, therefore the whole thing is a waste of time.
Danial Thom wrote:
> --- David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Danial Thom wrote:
>>>I vote for
>>>"Look what they've done to my song, Ma" - a
>>>commentary on the destruction of the (formally)
>>>world's best operating s
Danial Thom wrote:
> I vote for
> "Look what they've done to my song, Ma" - a
> commentary on the destruction of the (formally)
> world's best operating system.
So far I'm finding 6.x a heck of a lot better than 5.x. The mousewheel
just works, a lot more of the ports just work, sound works ... y
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I'm reading "BSD Hacks" by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the
> section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy
> without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the
> filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic.
> Is this true? If so, i
eoghan wrote:
>>> Chris wrote:
loader_logo=beastie in loader.conf gave me technicolour beastie on a
6.0R box
> Where do you find the loader.conf?
/boot/loader.conf - see man loader.conf for how to use this.
Note that I expect to see my technicolour Beastie very infrequently
indeed, s
Sean wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>> RW wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 23:44, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>>> David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> 5.4 showed an ASCII Beastie at boot, 6.0 shows "FreeBSD" in awful
>>&g
5.4 showed an ASCII Beastie at boot, 6.0 shows "FreeBSD" in awful
ASCII-art text. As a Beastie traditionalist, what's the option to
display Beastie again?
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Chris Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, David Gerard wrote:
>> I have a 5.4 and a 6.0 box here, both with Xorg installed from
>> ports. When running xscreensaver, half the time they come up
>> saying the GLX extension isn't loaded. And, of course, they
>> can&#x
I have a 5.4 and a 6.0 box here, both with Xorg installed from
ports. When running xscreensaver, half the time they come up
saying the GLX extension isn't loaded. And, of course, they
can't run glxgears for the same reason.
The thing is, I can't find which port installs this extension.
Is there on
Brian J. McGovern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050824 10:59]:
> I have a HP AMD64 laptop (Pavillion zv5000) with a built-in Broadcom wireless
> card that doesn't appear to be supported, so I picked up a WG511T, which
> claims to be supported by the ath man page.
I have a WG511T here running *fairly* wel
Many years ago, I ran fvwm2 under Solaris. It actually had a menu option
set up whereby you could restart the X server without all your X clients
dying.
I really wanted this the other week when KDE went weird on me and the mouse
pointer disappeared. (After only two months! With this sort of
unrel
Subhro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050718 14:52]:
> Secondly, I believe that this concept of posting screenshots is pretty
> unprofessional and childish. Its like saying "Yay! my desktop is
> prettier than yours". At FreeBSD we concentrate more on quaality than
> looks. Secondly, FreeBSD does not have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050703 23:08]:
> FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me,
> but one think about FreeBSD makes me uncomfortable
> is the symbol/emblem that the OS uses. That is a "devil" !
> I would like to know if possible how this came about,
> and what thinking was
Karel Miklav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050504 21:19]:
> Benjamin Keating wrote:
> > A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project
> > like it yet, I'd like to propose we set one up. I can contribute quite
> > a bit of time and resources towards this. Save me wiki.freebsd.org and
Benjamin Keating ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050504 10:00]:
> Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little
> more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of
> date.
> A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project
> like it yet, I'd lik
I was asked to forward this URL too:
http://www.idea-inc.com/~bee/cam/index.html
Please forward to any relevant FreeBSD list or whatever!
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David Gerard wrote:
For those who haven't heard, FreeBSD committer Cameron Grant
died suddenly on Sunday morning.
Cameron was well known for his keen mind and personality, but
his body didn't work so well. The cause of death has yet to
be established, but he spent
For those who haven't heard, FreeBSD committer Cameron Grant
died suddenly on Sunday morning.
Cameron was well known for his keen mind and personality, but
his body didn't work so well. The cause of death has yet to
be established, but he spent many years suffering from
neurological diseases that l
Luís Vitório Cargnini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050210 23:02]:
> For who like the logo, help to save him:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/fbsdmsc1/petition.html
Argh. What idjit made that petition such that signatures are not verified?
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David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050210 20:41]:
> I'd rather see effort towards some of the really *stupid* bugs in 5.x that
> languish for months with a fix included. Like linux-pango being broken,
> meaning that by default you can't actually run a lot of recent Linux
> b
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050210 20:34]:
> Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
> > Yep, I was wondering how long it would take before someone figured
> > this one out. We know the real rea$on$ that this logo change is
> > being contemplated, don't we.
> Personally, I wonder how FreeBSD survi
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050208 15:29]:
> A lot of new-built houses in the US are installing continuous
> circulation systems for hot water, which greatly reduces the time the
> HW heater is running, since when you turn on the hot water, you get
> instantaneous hot water
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050208 03:53]:
> David Gerard writes:
> DG> I go to a site called google.com and I enter error messages
> DG> verbatim, and often what comes back is a pile of mailing list posts.
> DG> They are far superior to nothing.
> No doubt, b
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050208 03:16]:
> David Gerard writes:
> DG> That would sorta suck. I know I write my questions and answers with
> DG> a view to them being searchable on the web maybe months or years
> DG> later, as I know how very grateful I am to thos
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050208 03:08]:
> An alternative is to make the archive accessible only to current
> members, and to purge posts from any member who leaves the list.
> There's still a bit of risk in that but it eliminates most potential
> objections.
That would sorta suck.
David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050124 05:34]:
> This afternoon, I set up a new machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Started with three
> 5.3-beta5 floppies, told it I wanted 5.3-RELEASE from a CD-R, installed
> minimal base, man pages and ports, created two users.
> On reboot, I ran dhc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050202 01:03]:
> hi my name is mark I'm new to freebsd.i was wanting to know how, i can get
> it or which one i should get. if some one could help me that would be cool
> thanks.
Start at http://www.freebsd.org/where.html and go for FreeBSD 5.3, which i
Michael Madden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050125 06:34]:
> What is the secret to getting my scroll wheel working on FreeBSD 5.3? If have
> the following added to /etc/rc.conf:
And I'm having ... the same problem with 5.3! And I couldn't get a solution
that worked either!
http://lists.freebsd.org/pip
Hexren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050124 07:02]:
> DG> On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP address.
> DG> But I know the cable is good and the DHCP server is working, because I
> DG> booted the box in question into Windows and it grabbed an IP just fine. So
> DG> where do I s
This afternoon, I set up a new machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Started with three
5.3-beta5 floppies, told it I wanted 5.3-RELEASE from a CD-R, installed
minimal base, man pages and ports, created two users.
On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP address.
But I know the cable i
Matthias Buelow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 17:21]:
> David Gerard wrote:
> >So something around 500MHz will happily run Pango and the other
> >cutting-edge internationalisation stuff if you fill it with memory.
> My experience is that with a 500Mhz Pentium 3 (512K cache, 51
E. J. Cerejo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 14:58]:
> Is there a port that allows you to edit a pdf file or fill it in?
It appears not - lots of writers and readers, but no *editors* per se.
Write one ;-D
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Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 02:12]:
> Matthias Buelow writes:
> MB> Wake up from your pipe dreams. Shipping decommissioned computers to the
> MB> 3rd world is not going to solve any development problem.
> It helps solve an environmental problem, though. And they need not be
>
Xian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050119 23:21]:
> On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:17, faisal gillani wrote:
> > Well it has been almost a year now since I first tried
> > FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my production server :-) " I like
> I installed FreeBSD on a machine with an Athlon 3200 that I accident under
> cl
Martes Wigglesworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050109 04:44]:
> I am researching the viability of constructing a Network Access Server
> using FreeBSD, and I came across your post(s) from December 2004. What
> were you using the acronyme, "NAS," to describe? You seemed to be
> describing a network sto
Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050107 17:37]:
> David Gerard
> > Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 06:29]:
> > > It's of course quite legal for end users to download the JDK directly
> > > from Sun and compile it on FreeBSD themselves and th
Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 18:26]:
> Name of the game with commercialized technology which is filled with example
> after
> of example of second and 3rd rater products that win the market from 1st
> rater
> products merely because their marketing is better. Let's see, in automot
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 12:53]:
> Tom Vilot writes:
> TV> I prefer to use just about any other tool (except, of course, for
> TV> JSP/.NET, etc). Python, Perl, ... any other tool will do the jobs I
> TV> need done and I can avoid the sluggishness of Java, the licensing
> TV>
Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 06:29]:
> It's of course quite legal for end users to download the JDK directly
> from Sun and compile it on FreeBSD themselves and then use it.
The main problem with this approach is that it requires a ridiculous amount
of jumping through hoops - f
Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I
set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as
network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet.
Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical
consideration
Uwe Laverenz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041218 21:39]:
> Dave Horsfall wrote:
> >So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my
> >boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take
> >the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3?
> You shou
Haulmark, Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041208 07:22]:
> We show our potential clients to our production server rooms whenever
> they request for it. They always ask what those (freebsd) servers are
> running because there are no logo stickers. I ended up sticking a white
> label with black arial f
What license is the FreeBSD Handbook under? I want to adapt chunks of it
for Wikipedia, which is under the GFDL with no invariant texts.
Also, are the man pages under the two-clause BSD license?
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Huw Wynn-Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041201 05:32]:
> I'm thinking about buying a portable ogg player for xmas but i can't
> seem to get clear info from the various shop sites.
> Does anyone know a player which works with FreeBSD 5.3? Can I just buy
> anyone I want and then transfer files across
Bill Moran wrote:
Windows users love Windows at first, then grow to hate it.
BSD users hate FreeBSD at first, but grow to love it.
Windows is a luxury car with all the electric devices and trim.
And it's all shoddy and breaks in a few months.
Unix is a Land Rover with NOTHING fitted. But everythin
Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
> I have been using PS/2 for mouse and keyboard since I got my first
> ATX-board. I tried a USB-mouse once, under Linux, and it didn't work, so
> I never tried again... ;-/ If it has to do with the mouse being a
> USB-mouse, I'm out of my element. =(
The same mouse on t
Joe Altman wrote:
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:44:46PM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
The mouse section of xorg.conf is as follows:
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Case on the word "auto"?
Check the log to see if the Protocol Auto is unknown, or otherwise
throws an e
Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've just installed the latest 5.3 beta with XOrg 6.7.0.
The mouse works, except I can't get the mouse wheel to work.
The mouse section of xorg.conf is as follows:
I recently switched to X.org without ch
I've just installed the latest 5.3 beta with XOrg 6.7.0.
The mouse works, except I can't get the mouse wheel to work.
The mouse section of xorg.conf is as follows:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option
Hugo Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040829 08:53]:
> Today I went to a friend's house to install FreeBSD on his workstation,
> trying to make him change to open source software. I am a cable user and
> he has ADSL. I had never configured ADSL on FreeBSD, nor USB connections
> to the net. So I did some
On 05/29/04 13:42, David Gerard wrote:
It does video clips as AVIs. The AVIs are viewable in KDE3 aKtion!,
so that's fine. But I'm after a tool to rotate them from landscape
to portrait, losslessly. I know this can be done with JPEGs using
jpegtran to manipulate the file - is a sim
I have a shiny new digital camera, a Casio EX-S20. Haven't got it
talking to the FreeBSD box yet (though it claims to do umass), but
that's another story.
It does video clips as AVIs. The AVIs are viewable in KDE3 aKtion!,
so that's fine. But I'm after a tool to rotate them from landscape
to portra
Is PCMCIA CardBus support in 4.x as yet (if it ever will be),
or is it still a 5.x-only thing?
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On 03/17/04 00:09, David Gerard wrote:
I was advised by a few people (including the laptop's previous owner) that
FreeBSD 5.x would be quite difficult to get working with sound, and that
it would be a better idea to try with 4.9.
I have just spent a few hours carefully reinstalling the l
I was advised by a few people (including the laptop's previous owner) that
FreeBSD 5.x would be quite difficult to get working with sound, and that
it would be a better idea to try with 4.9.
I have just spent a few hours carefully reinstalling the laptop with FreeBSD
4.9. Restart for its first boo
I've been fiddling with this and decided to ask in case someone's
done this already. Does anyone have appropriate XF86Config and
so on for this beast?
The video chip is a Trident Cyber 9382 (the Trident driver covers
this) and sound is a Crystal CS4237B.
Also, how to configure all the funky laptop
Living in the UK, a happy land of timed phone calls, and with a DSL that can
certainly spare 9600bps up and down for a voice channel, I've decided it's
time to look into personal IP telephone software.
I know there's lots of it about. What I'm looking for is something that's
available for *nix
On 12/01/03 16:33, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gaim requires perl 5.8 or higher just to be installed - its 'l33t++
custom configurator thingy requires it. The 5.005 that comes
with FreeBSD 4.8 is not sufficient.
That's not true. I
On 11/25/03 22:06, David Gerard wrote:
Has anyone got gaim 0.71 or later working on FreeBSD 4.x? What did
you do to get it working?
The answer, short form: Sacrifice Linuxism-infested w33n0rs to the
Great God Knuth.
Ha! Only kidding. [*] The answer, longer form:
Gaim requires perl 5.8 or
On 11/26/03 01:52, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
Why not just use the ports? Works fine on my end with FreeBSD
4.8-RELEASE
'Cos the port in 4.8-RELEASE is 0.59, and the new MSN protocol
is only in 0.71 or later.
Now messing with cvsup ...
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On 11/25/03 22:20, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:06, David Gerard wrote:
Has anyone got gaim 0.71 or later working on FreeBSD 4.x?
What did you do to get it working?
You need to install the sysutils/pkg_install port,
I can't find such a port ... either on the syst
On 11/25/03 22:06, David Gerard wrote:
We're trying to install gaim on a 4.8-RELEASE box, and it's
acting like the package is broken.
lilith# pkg_add -v gaim-0.72.tar
Requested space: 42147840 bytes, free space: 46554032128 bytes in
/var/tmp/instmp.ko8CO8
pkg_add: read_plist: b
We're trying to install gaim on a 4.8-RELEASE box, and it's
acting like the package is broken.
lilith# pkg_add -v gaim-0.72.tar
Requested space: 42147840 bytes, free space: 46554032128 bytes in
/var/tmp/instmp.ko8CO8
pkg_add: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts ja-gaim-*'
lilith#
Er, huh? I got t
On 11/08/03 22:45, Gary Kline wrote:
Setting up netscape to use realplayer and acroread took
awhile but I finally got it. I've been using mozilla
more and more, but still haven't figured out howto get
it to successfully spawn acroread.
Heh. I gave up and just set Firebird to spawn xpdf
Every now and then, I press alt-tab to go between applications
in KDE 3, and it goes into a strange mode: I press alt, hold and
press tab, and the window menu comes up ... I press alt again
and it actually goes to the next window.
1. What is happening?
2. How did it get there?
3. What can I do to g
anyone know why my Mozilla 1.4 has no spell check in mail?
am i missing something here?
Yep - 1.4 doesn't come with the spell checker! It is included with
1.4.1 or 1.5, though.
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On 10/13/03 15:11, Ray Seals wrote:
Has anyone tried to run Star Office 7 on FreeBSD 5.1 yet? I have 6 and
I use it daily on my 4.8 machine. Just wanted to know what type of
battle I would have on my hands trying to get the new one working on
5.1.
OpenOffice 1.1 for Linux runs *very* well on
On 10/13/03 19:03, James Leone wrote:
The only way I have been able to edit existing PDF's is by installing
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 in Linux by using Codeweaver's Cross Over Office,
which is available at www.codeweavers.com.
Which is the original problem :-)
I've used Acrobat on Windows. It works w
We have just seen the many tools for generating PDFs all you want.
Is there anything usable on FreeBSD for *editing* existing PDFs, though?
Any form of replacement whatsoever for the full version of Acrobat?
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On 09/29/03 23:42, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
Why not try the static version?
http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=freebsd&ver=7.20b7
Note the page suggests "Download the static version unless you know that
your system will be able to use the shared version."
Ah, no, I tried both with t
Yes, they have a FreeBSD native binary :-) Unfortunately,
it doesn't work for me. It fails like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/opera $ ./opera
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libawt.so" not found
But locate shows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/opera $ locate libawt.so
/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/li
On 09/13/03 11:11, Denis wrote:
I want to mount automatically my second disk drive which has Fat32
file system. Could you tell me what i must write in FSType section in
/etc/fstab??
Maybe "msdos" or "fat32"???
msdos is correct. Here's mine:
$ cat /etc/fstab
# See the fstab(5) manual page for
Do you have linprocfs mounted?
I think it's required for 4.6.2
I just mounted it anyway, to try that:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -la /compat/linux/proc
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 18 2002 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 512 Sep 18 2002 ..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo mount_linproc
On 09/07/03 20:50, T Kellers wrote:
On Sunday 07 September 2003 03:41 pm, David Gerard wrote:
We just downloaded and installed the Linux binary of OOo 1.1rc3
on my wife's FreeBSD 4.8 box with no problems. My 4.6.2 box,
however, doesn't want to play.
The thing is, this is the *e
We just downloaded and installed the Linux binary of OOo 1.1rc3
on my wife's FreeBSD 4.8 box with no problems. My 4.6.2 box,
however, doesn't want to play.
I untar the install files into a directory in my home directory, run
./setup and it puts up an unpacking window (box opening and
progress bar),
Denis Troshin wrote:
Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a
lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora,
Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So
I'm asking why still a lot of people here who hadn't move to Fr
David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030724 06:05]:
> I'm trying to run a current Thunderbird build for Linux under compatibility.
> It's quitting with:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ./thunderbird/thunderbird
> ./thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
I'm trying to run a current Thunderbird build for Linux under compatibility.
It's quitting with:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ./thunderbird/thunderbird
./thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
[E
Kirk Strauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030715 02:46]:
> I have linux_base-debian installed and working well. However, some ports
> (namely linux-ibm-jdk14 via the USE_LINUX Makefile entry) want to install
> linux_base alongside it. Can I configure my system to use linux_base-debian
> for ports that
Jeff MacDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030607 08:35]:
> >> I would question that. I just set my highly non-technical
> >> wife up with
> >> FreeBSD 4.8, KDE 3.1, Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (Linux binary) and
> >> OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 (Linux binary, as mentioned on this
> >> list ;-). It does
> >> require
Paul Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030606 19:09]:
> If they aren't enthusiastic, it's because it's not solving any problems for
> them. The fact it works great as a high-traffic MX or HTTP server isn't
> something most businesses need. As for desktop use, well, it does suck
> compared to someth
David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030606 07:18]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/install $ ./install
> Installation starting, please be patient ...
> ./setup: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.1.3' not found (required by ./setup)
> Installation Completed
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/install
David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030606 06:53]:
> We just installed the Linux binary (as downloaded from openoffice.org) for
> 1.0.3, and it's working very nicely so far. Ran 'install' (which gave a lot
> of errors) then 'setup', and it works fine. Ticked &
Doug Poland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030601 01:18]:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote:
> > So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from
> > ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort of works. It
> >
Rob Lahaye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030606 12:58]:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > visit:
> > http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice
> > and you can download a pre-built package.
> Why has this not yet become part of the precompiled package
> selection of FreeBSD, so that everyone can find it where one
> expe
Mark Rowlands ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030601 02:49]:
> On Saturday 31 May 2003 5:18 pm, Doug Poland wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote:
> > > OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it
> > > came out
OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it
came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that time.
So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from
ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort of works. It
starts
Just got a Crucial USB CompactFlash reader. I plugged the CF card into it,
plugged the cable into the reader, and tried to mount it:
$ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt
Password:
msdos: /dev/da0s1: Device not configured
dmesg gives me this:
umass0: USB Mass Storage, rev 1.10/1.13, addr 3
uma
The camera doesn't seem to be a plain old umass. However, it is supported
by gphoto, so let's try installing that port ... the gphoto2 port pulls in
gettext, which seems to require something called intl.4 :
# make install clean
===> Extracting for gphoto2-2.1.0_2
>> Checksum OK for gphoto2-2.1.0
This is probably really simple, but I couldn't see it in the handbook ...
I've plugged a umass device (a camera) into a USB port. What do I do now to
get access to the data?
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This camera looks tempting. The software it comes with is for Windows and
MacOS 9, of course. It's not listed by name on the gphoto2 list, though
other Jenoptik cameras are. And it apparently works with Linux as a USB
drive:
http://www.steinionline.de/lol/JD2100f_en.htm
- which suggests that
I normally don't use KDE, just Sawfish and an xterm. But I was setting up
an account on this box with KDE for a Windows-using friend. All works well
except the sound ... Although starting the KDE session it works okay
(system sounds, MP3s, Oggs), after a while something goes funny and all
sound co
OK, got disk up. (Problem was I didn't know its make. ad3s1 eventually
worked.)
Now it seems I can't make it writable by anyone but root:
diva# ls -l viv.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul 4 05:21 viv.html
diva# chmod g+w viv.html
diva# ls -l viv.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1987 Jul
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