Re: can't mount 300G USB drive that's FAT32

2004-06-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Bill Moran wrote: Dan Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FAT32 wasn't my choice. They needed to be writen to by a linux server but they want to be able to take these and just plug them into a windows server if need be. We knew that linux writing ntfs wasn't a good choice so we decided on FAT32. Is

Re: [OT] Re: Devil Mascot

2004-06-16 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:20:17 -0400 Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy

Re: Installing problems. No Desktop.

2004-06-15 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Lloyd Hayes wrote: I installed FreeBSD on an older Gateway laptop. 128 MB/ 233 MHz/ 800x600 screen/ 6 GB Hard driver with 4 GB on the hard drive set aside for FreeBSD. Windows 98 SE is installed in the other 2 GB. FreeBSD appears to be installed correctly, but I cannot get the KDE desktop to

Re: Help: I think I've been hacked! what can I do??

2004-06-15 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, Last night before this morning, I was browsing fine with kde's konqueror. I don't remember doing anything about my system rather than dialing through ppp. This morning, when I ppp to dial into internet... my external modem established a successful

Re: USB 2.0 (ehci) - still buggy?

2004-06-14 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 09:51, AK wrote: I have just compiled EHCI into kernel, but have no luck on making USB2 working :( Is USB2 supported or it is still buggy on fbsd? If I compile ehci into the kernel and plug a USB2 Harddrive, my FreeBSD-5.2.1 box panics, so I guess

Re: [samba] can't print from w2k to bsd printer

2004-05-18 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Rob wrote: I've got an HP LaserJet 4V connected to the parallel port of my FBSD PC. I use CUPS, so I share the printer with W2k over ipp (port 631). Note: older W$ boxes (W96, W98) do not support ipp, I believe. There is a client for download on http://www.easysw.com/printpro/ Hendrik

Re: USB not fashion

2004-05-14 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: Try 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /removable'. Wrong, # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /removable It hasnt to be on partition one of the key. Most times it is. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: USB not fashion

2004-05-13 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
xavier collot wrote: Hi!! I can't use my USB key!! How can I do this? When I write mount /dev/da0 /removable (/removable has been created by me) I have a warning : incorrect super block Thanks for your answer.. Xav le geek OUF Try 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /removable'. Hendrik

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Jerry McAllister wrote: Aloha I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all distros. When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i

Re: why freebsd doesn't support extended partion?

2004-04-17 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi... Can you guy implement extended partion support to freebsd? I have got extended partitions in my system (ad0s5, ad0s6). What support do you need in the system? Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: dead mouse

2004-04-08 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
prague wrote: Hey everyone, New to FreeBSD coming off of Slackware Linux. I went through the install okay but the mouse (an optical mouse, non-USB) is dead when i do 'startx'. The mouse should be recognized as a PS/2 but it wasn't. I have edited the XF86Config and changed it to an IMPS/2 and

Re: Deskjet 3320

2004-03-15 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Owen Becker wrote: Greetings All, Anyone managed to get an HP Deskjet 3320 working under FreeBSD 5.2.1? Yep working fine most at the time, but sometimes I get an USB port error. (Sometimes = Random and circa twice a month) Only a cold boot can fix it here. Dmesg reports: ulpt0: hp deskjet 3320,

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-24 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Michael Clark wrote: I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me an error about CD/DVD drive not found!. It's worth noting that no other OS I've run on this same PC ever had any trouble finding the CD-ROM drive

Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!

2004-01-24 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Keith Kelly wrote: I've found a bug in FDisk which is responsible for all the problems I've had trying to get FreeBSD installed. I also found a work-around, and I'm happy to report I'm typing this message from Konquerer inside FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE right now. Gratulation. Basically, the problem

Re: Folding@Home problem

2004-01-24 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Sara Trice wrote: I'm trying to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] running on freeBSD. I get the console running fine, but once it gets running it just keeps failing when it tries to run FahCore_65.exe. Partial Log: [23:14:50] Trying to unzip core FahCore_65.exe [23:14:52] Decompressed FahCore_65.exe

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-23 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Keith Kelly wrote: OK, but if the auto mode uses the wrong C/H/S translation, this default may be the source of your problem. What happens when you switch from using auto to explicitly using LBA? I don't know. I've never had to change away from Auto to get any other OS to install or boot from

Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?

2004-01-07 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Francisco Reyes wrote: Other than speed is there any consideration about the buffer size? I assume you are referring to the 'bs=2048' argument to dd. The argument 'bs=2048' sets the block size to be used for the device. You can't use another value for cdrom drives than 2048 except you are able to

Re: playing a DVD with mplayer

2003-10-19 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
stan wrote: I just got a new notebook with a DVD drive. I compiled mplayer from the ports. Now I want to play a smaple VD that I have. What do I need to do to mount the DVD? 'mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/cd0' should do. Eventually you have to change the device. Hendrik

Re: USB stick

2003-09-09 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Only drawback, which probably cannot be solved, to automatically unmount :-) when the user is about to pull the stick. Is there a detach line? Yes, there is. But it is too late. If you pull the stick the system gets noticed, but can't unmount it because the device is

Re: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-06 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Jim wrote: Same deal. Installation runs through fine, does the post-install, finishes nicely, and reboots to a void (system runs POST, shows the devices, then hangs indefinitely (pre-os startup)). Turn on LBA access for that disk in your bios instead of auto and dont touch the geometrie in the

Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-06 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
James Leone wrote: 2. While I am in KDE in FreeBSD, but not in KDE in Linux, if I click on the Floppy Device icon before the floppy is inserted, I will not be able to access a subsequently inserted floppy disk. When I do, I get an error that says: the device is not configured. Why do you even

Re: terabyte limit

2003-09-06 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Shawn Ostapuk wrote: I have around 10 IDE drives which add up to over a terabyte. My goal is to use them all as one big drive using any means necessary (I have a backup so redundency is not needed, only space in this situation) I used to use vinum (and still would like to), i hit the terabyte

Re: using FreeBSD plus KDE as a kiosk

2003-09-06 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Matt Hartzell wrote: I am interested in using FreeBSD and KDE as a semi-publicly accessible internet terminal. I have a web-based application that I would like to run from this type of setup. Does anyone have any experience using a setup like this? Can any one point me toward relevant documents?

Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-09-06 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
James Leone wrote: LIke I said, I am just providing information here. I really don't care if it gets resolved, but I did care enough to point out these REAL problems. If you aren't interested in solutions set the reply-to to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the problem reports. Still can't see REAL

Re: VT82C686/A/B AC'97 Audio Codec

2003-09-06 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Timur wrote: Hi! I have integrated via82c686 soundcard.. I am new to freebsd (coming from linux), and wishing to use it instead windows at work. The sound card in Windows XP is shown as AC97 codec, and works well. Unfortunately, I have no luck with making it work under freebsd. What I am

Re:

2003-09-05 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does FreeBSD support C++ or support C only? C, C++, objective C, Fortran, Modula, Java ... Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: XF86 Multiple Head video cards

2003-09-03 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Ted Wisniewski wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a Multi-head video card (the more heads the better, I am thinking 4 heads if possible) that will work with XF86 and FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1. The sooner the better. I may be able to get some Free FreeBSD press out of the results.. I can't

Re: mplayer quicktime killing me

2003-09-03 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Monah Baki wrote: Hi, I got mplayer and openquicktime running 3 days ago, don't know how I did and I can't seem to replicate the procedure. I'm running 5.1/Windowmaker, and I know I need to install from ports: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4)

Re: multimedia/MMX, Celeron CPU, and the kernel config

2003-09-01 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Now, I realize no one will want to make 'supported' or 'guaranteed' recommendations, but I would certainly appreciate some pointers on taking the above information and determining the ideal CPU options to use in my kernel. I looked at the handbook, and can't find any such

Re: OT: xterm setup

2003-08-31 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I recently upgraded my desktop to Gnome2, and of the various things that are causing me grief, the biggest is what's happened to my xterm windows. Now, after the change, it does three things differently and annoyingly: (1) it defaults to black/colored text on a white

Re: usbdevs

2003-08-31 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Alan Batie wrote: OK, I got a D-Link USB 2 pci card, and now the devices get seen at boot up, though it still thinks it's uhci instead of ohci; I don't know what's what, but thought uhci was 1.1 and ohci was 2.0: No, UHCI and OHCI are both USB 1.1. USB 2.0 host controllers are calles EHCI. EHCI

Re: Formatting a floppy

2003-08-30 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Verghese George wrote: Did anybody find a bug in FreeBSD 5.1 when formatting a floppy? It always gives an error even when formatting a new floppy, When I used version 4.8, the formatting works fine with the same machine and hardware. I also find the number of drives in Free BSD 5.1 much less than

Re: Trouble setting up multiple boot on big disk

2003-08-30 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Brett Glass wrote: I'm setting up a laptop which will need to dual-boot Windows 2000 Server (ugh!) and FreeBSD. I partitioned the large (60 GB) hard disk so that there was an 18 GB NTFS partition at the beginning, followed by a 20 GB partition for data, followed by an 18 GB partition for FreeBSD.

Re: Newer names

2003-08-30 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Vitali Malicky wrote: What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And many my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it also as

Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?

2003-08-30 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Adam McLaurin wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 08:13, Denis Troshin wrote: Are there any common reasons of why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD? Why do they still prefer windows? To use windows doesn't implicate that the user prefers Windows. Using Windows more often implicates to hate it

Re: Quicktime Trailers

2003-08-30 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to setup a Freebsd 5.1 machine to be able to watch quicktime trailers from apple's website. I installed from ports: qtutils libquicktime openquicktime However, the site tells me I'm still missing a plugin and can't view the trailer. Any help will be highly

Re: Newer names

2003-08-30 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Vitali Malicky wrote: OK, Hendrik! On monday I'll take A Student's Guide To UNIX(C) by Harley Hann which I began with 5 years ago, and I'll quote for you and for all dear All the whole paragraph where it's explained. Deal? Why not? :) But I was more interested what the single letters in dragon

Re: Mozilla and linebreaks

2003-08-29 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 29), Hendrik Hasenbein said: How do I force mozilla to break at 72 or 80 chars? I guess you're talking about writing email messages? Edit-Preferences-Composition, Wrap plaintext messages at [ 72 ] characters should be the default. It is turned

Re:

2003-08-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Glitch Birkenstock wrote: Hi Freebsd stuff, Good Afternoon. Can yah please help me out?i live in Philippines.i am using windows here and i want to change it into FREEBSD new version. i already downloaded all files here:ftp://ftp5.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ i read the txt files but it doesnt

Re: usbdevs

2003-08-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Alan Batie wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 4.8 Release from the cd's. There's a 4 port USB card plugged in, with a Logitech USB mouse, a USB Serial port and a Belkin USB/IDE case with a Maxtor 30G IDE drive in it. Is the mouse a logitech optical mouse with forcefeedback? I got one to get able

Re: Scroll back in console

2003-08-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Jerry McAllister wrote: Generally hitting Scroll Lock and then PageUp works for me. The amount you can see depends on the amount of space reserved for it that is configured. I don't remember the parameter or place right off hand. You can configure options for the sc in the kernel (taken from

Mozilla and linebreaks

2003-08-28 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
How do I force mozilla to break at 72 or 80 chars? Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ASUS A7N8X + nvidia driver

2003-08-27 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Hi, i am running FreeBSD-5.1 and can't get agp up and running. I tried to load the kernel module before and after system start and also tried with and without acpi. The results were the same: nvidia0: Unknown at device 0.1 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to enable PCI busmastering.