Could not find bsd.port.options.mk

2008-07-29 Thread Kiffin Gish
When I run portupgrade I get the following make error: Makefile, line 55: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk However, this file is located at: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.options.mk What's going wrong? -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___

portupgrade stale dependency cannot fix ...

2007-11-18 Thread Kiffin Gish
fresh by removing ports flotsam? Help would be greatly appreciated. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...

2007-09-22 Thread Kiffin Gish
Hi there, Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? Thanks a

Upgrade xorg 7.2 breaks legacy nvidia 1.0-9631 driver ...

2007-06-16 Thread Kiffin Gish
After I upgraded to xorg 7.2, I cannot get things to work anymore with my legacy nvidia 1.0-9631 driver (I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop). Originally, I downloaded the FreeBSD legacy driver from the official nvidia website and installed it under the then current X11BASE=/usr/X11R6. Everything

Failed to load module nv ...

2007-06-12 Thread Kiffin Gish
The other day I upgraded to xorg 7.2 but when I run startx I get the following error message: -- Failed to load module nv Rather that using the nvidia driver from the ports I had earlier downloaded the official freebsd driver from the nvidia site, but had installed it into the old xorg

Woes of xorg 7.2 upgrade ...

2007-06-09 Thread Kiffin Gish
I've been struggling now for 2 weeks trying to do the xorg upgrade, following the upgrading instructions to a tee, but it has turned into a complete mess. If worse comes to worse, what it the best way to proceed? Is there an easy way just to reinstall xorg from scratch? Thanks a lot in advance.

Upgrade xorg 7.2 and extra x11 packages ...

2007-05-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
safely remove these unwanted packages? By the way, as suggested I followed the UPGRADING instructions exactly, and still have met with tons of errors and problems. Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

gcc41 build errors ...

2007-01-28 Thread Kiffin Gish
UPGRADE_PORT_VER=4. 1.2_20070108 make ** Fix the problem and try again. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Just wondering ...

2006-10-25 Thread Kiffin Gish
Just wondering if anyone else has also been having problems upgrading from Gnome 2.14 60 2.16. Does it run on FreeBSD 6.1 or do I have to wait for 6.2? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Failed to connect to the FAM server: (null)

2006-10-21 Thread Kiffin Gish
**: Failed to connect to the FAM server: (null) Can someone help me please? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Cannot install linux_base-fc4 fetch fails ...

2006-08-13 Thread Kiffin Gish
anyone out there please help me?cd Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HP Deskjet 720C ...

2006-08-13 Thread Kiffin Gish
I cannot for the life of me get FreeBSD 6.1 to work with my HP Dekjet 720C printer. I've tried following the directions as given in the FreeBSD Handbook, but to no avail. Can anyone help me and/or offer tips where I can look? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED

Gnome Pilot and Evolution

2006-08-13 Thread Kiffin Gish
I've been trying to get my Palm Tungsten T3 to sync with evolution but no luck so far on FreeBSD 6.1. Is there a simple recipe I can follow? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Portupgrade disable certain builds ...

2006-08-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
I would like to disable building certain builds when running a portupgrade -arR. For example, if gnome2 is tagged for a rebuild, Galeon is not built (because I don't use it and have deleted the package). How do I do this? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED

Skip/ignore certain makes using portupgrade ...

2006-08-01 Thread kiffin . gish
makefile anyway. Thanks. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrade abiword chokes for some weird reason ...

2006-03-25 Thread Kiffin Gish
-1.13.3_1 A GNOME wrapper for libgsf -- The same thing happens when I try pkg_add -r abiword. What gives? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

kldload and kldunload cannot find modules ...

2006-03-19 Thread Kiffin Gish
I recently uninstalled a number of zaptel modules for an asterisk installation. However, everytime I boot and shutdown I keep seeing error messages that certain modules cannot be found. I check the loader.conf and others but cannot find any reference to this modules, the lines of which obviously

Portupgrade woes ...

2006-03-18 Thread Kiffin Gish
circle and become a sane FreeBSD-er again?! -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Portupgrade woes ...

2006-03-18 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to find out which ports need updating by running 'portupgrade -arR' . However, I am getting the following error message: Stale dependency: ImageMagick-6.2.5.5_3 -- lcms-1.14_1,1

ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel

2006-03-12 Thread Kiffin Gish
against the GENERIC or LINT config files for changes in config syntax, or option/device naming conventions *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

portupgrade vs. portmanager ...

2006-03-04 Thread Kiffin Gish
I would like to know the difference between running: portupgrade -arR and portmanager -u Just curious is all, thanks. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: httpd could not be started

2006-01-13 Thread Kiffin Gish
/apachectl start: httpd could not be started Maybe httpd-error.log contains some suspicious-looking error messages? [snip] -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

RE: How to access of linux and windows XP desktop simaltaneously

2006-01-12 Thread Kiffin Gish
How about a dual-boot system? -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anirban Adhikary Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:28 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to access of linux

Making shared libraries findable ...

2006-01-12 Thread Kiffin Gish
the standard way of taking care of this? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Kiffin Gish
got a C600 laptop working with sound. Not sure if it's the same, but I added the following line to my /boot/loader.conf snd_maestro3_load=YES Don't forget: sound_load=YES# Digital sound subsystem -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED

Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Kiffin Gish
I've played around with Anjuta and Code::Blocks and was wondering what is the preferred open source C/C++ IDE available for advanced users. Pros and cons etc. would be greatly appreciated. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:26 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 08/01/06 Ross Lonstein said: *cough* xemacs *cough* Great OS, but he wanted an editor. ;-) Flame away :) Hey, you asked for it. :) Mike Yes please: an editor plus integrated compile/build and debugger. -- Kiffin

RE: Programming Book(s)

2006-01-07 Thread Kiffin Gish
Just finished 'Accelerated C++' as a refresher and can highly recommend it (though it is a bit advanced for a novice). -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JD Arnold Sent: Saturday, January 07,

RE: Cannot build linux-gtk2 for FreeBSD 6.0 ...

2006-01-06 Thread Kiffin Gish
What's the easiest way to clear out all of the /compat/linux stuff and start all over again? -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands -Original Message- From: Adi Pircalabu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:42 To: Kiffin Gish Cc: freebsd-questions

Cannot build linux-gtk2 for FreeBSD 6.0 ...

2006-01-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
: Not Found = Attempting to fetch from ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/3/i386/. fetch: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/3/i386/gtk2-2.4.14-4.fc3.i386.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) ... Any ideas what's going wrong? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED

GTK2 build - error loading libXinerama.so.1 ...

2006-01-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
going wrong? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cannot build linux-gtk2 for FreeBSD 6.0 ...

2006-01-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
, January 05, 2006 13:25 To: Kiffin Gish Subject: Re: Cannot build linux-gtk2 for FreeBSD 6.0 ... On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:06:16 +0100 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fetch: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/3/i386/gtk2-2.4.14-4.fc3. i386.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file

Using SCHED_ULE vs. SCHED_4BSD ...

2005-12-29 Thread Kiffin Gish
good old SCHED_4BSD for the new-and-improved scheduler? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

RE: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...

2005-12-28 Thread Kiffin Gish
: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 01:58 To: Kiffin Gish Cc: Dinesh Nair; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc... On 2005-12-27 18:13, Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have. I also added it to the loader.conf file, the kernel

Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...

2005-12-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer). During boot I get the following error message: ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now If afterwards I try to fiddle around with ifconfig wepmode

Memory upgrade and resizing the /swap partition ...

2005-12-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
one? If I have to create a new one, how do I do this and how can I reclaim the unused old swap area? Thanks alot in advance. Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...

2005-12-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
? Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands - Original Message - From: Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:06 Subject: Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc... On 12/27/05 18:22

GLIBC_2.3 required ...

2005-12-23 Thread Kiffin Gish
this? Do I have to upgrade from somehwere else (not present in my ports)? Is this supported under FreeBSD 5.4 or not? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: GLIBC_2.3 required ...

2005-12-23 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 09:36 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 23), Kiffin Gish said: I installed the MySQL ndb management tools, but when I fire them up I get the error that GLIBC_2.3 is missing. # ldd /usr/local/bin/ndb_mgm /usr/local/bin/ndb_mgm: /usr/local/bin

Lousy network performance ...

2005-12-13 Thread Kiffin Gish
I am having problems with a slow Internet DSL-connection, especially while surfing around the web. My service-provider claims that his network is just fine (of course!) and that the problem is because of all the 'so-called junk' I have configured on my home network on my side of the connection.

Best configuration for backup home network ...

2005-12-09 Thread Kiffin Gish
I'm considering using either Amanda or Bacula (don't know which yet) to run backups for my home network, consisting of a number of windows and freebsd machines connected together with Samba. Nothing too complicated, economic, pretty basic stuff really. What is the best tapetype, tape drive,

Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-08 Thread Kiffin Gish
an external tape drive. Some swear by Amanda, others insist Bacula works best with Samba, just curious is all. Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 22:21 To: Kiffin Gish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How often portupgrades? --- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run portupgrades

RE: libstdc++.so.5 howto ...

2005-12-05 Thread Kiffin Gish
] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 23:47 To: Kiffin Gish Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libstdc++.so.5 howto ... Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed another linux application (komodo 3.5) that requires the 'libstdc++.so.5

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-04 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:51 -0800, Vizion wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 11:29, the author Kiffin Gish contributed to the dialogue on- How often portupgrades?: Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run portupgrades. I figure that once a week should

libstdc++.so.5 howto ...

2005-12-04 Thread Kiffin Gish
-hat 9.x stuff) but for some reason cannot be found by the new application. Can anyone please help me? -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

How often portupgrades?

2005-12-03 Thread Kiffin Gish
which took a couple days! Is this worthwhile? What are the benefits? Thanks alot in advance. Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Servers seem slow in home network ...

2005-11-30 Thread Kiffin Gish
, but it seems that they are performing more slowly than expected. Is there a standard way to pinpoint where the performance bottlenecks are coming from on my setup? Perhaps I need to fine-tune Apache and/or MySQL? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL

sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...

2005-11-29 Thread Kiffin Gish
I recently installed a fileserver which is restricted to the internal network and which I refer to simply as 'fileserver' (pretty creative, right). However, sendmail doesn't seem to work correctly. When the machine boots and/or I try and send an email using sendmail, I get a bunch of cryptic

RE: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...

2005-11-29 Thread Kiffin Gish
That did the trick, thanks! -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands -Original Message- From: Stijn Hoop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 14:44 To: Kiffin Gish Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name

WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted ...

2005-11-26 Thread Kiffin Gish
When I restarted by machine, I get the warning messages: WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted WARNING /tmp was not properly dismounted ... and for a number of other mount points. Are there any special precautions I need to take, some disk check utility or whatever? Thanks a lot in advance.

RE: WARNING /usr was not properly dismounted ...

2005-11-26 Thread Kiffin Gish
I'm using FreeBSD 5.4 at the moment, so does it take care of itself also? -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands -Original Message- From: Alistair Sutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 14:14 To: Kiffin Gish Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

How to access filesystem on 2nd disk ...

2005-11-22 Thread Kiffin Gish
dedicate the whole thing to one mount point, say called /extra? 3/ Do I also need swap space on the 2nd drive? Thanks alot in advance as usual. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Sharing filesystems between FreeBSD and Windows ...

2005-11-22 Thread Kiffin Gish
of the Windows boxes via USB. I hear that Samba is the way to go, but also have heard about such client-based utilities like Sharity-light which also do the trick. Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How to access filesystem on 2nd disk ...

2005-11-22 Thread Kiffin Gish
in case the kernel crashes. jerry Thanks alot in advance as usual. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: How to access filesystem on 2nd disk ...

2005-11-22 Thread Kiffin Gish
drive/slice. For a kernel crash, having swap on a different drive probably is less relevent. jerry jerry Thanks alot in advance as usual. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands

Re: Sharing filesystems between FreeBSD and Windows ...

2005-11-22 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:07 -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote: On November 22, 2005 09:59 am, Kiffin Gish wrote: I have a home network running 3 desktop machines with Windows XP Pro, and a webserver, fileserver and laptop with FreeBSD 5.x. What's the best way to be able to exchange files

RE: Missing origins during portupgrade ...

2005-11-21 Thread Kiffin Gish
-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kiffin Gish Subject: Re: Missing origins during portupgrade ... On Sunday 20 November 2005 11:58, Kiffin Gish wrote: When running portupgrade, I keep getting a 'missing origin' warning messages for a number of packages. What gives, and what do I need to do

Missing origins during portupgrade ...

2005-11-20 Thread Kiffin Gish
When running portupgrade, I keep getting a 'missing origin' warning messages for a number of packages. What gives, and what do I need to do to remove this Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions

Asterisk on FreeBSD, anyone?

2005-11-19 Thread Kiffin Gish
Has anyone had any experience running Asterisk on FreeBSD 5.x ? If so, then which drivers are required and what is the best way to install the system? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___

RE: UPS advice, please ...

2005-11-19 Thread Kiffin Gish
-Original Message- From: Dan O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 21:41 To: Kiffin Gish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ... I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them against power

UPS advice, please ...

2005-11-18 Thread Kiffin Gish
information. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Preferred softphone for Asterisk ...

2005-10-16 Thread Kiffin Gish
I was just wondering which (free) soft-phones were available on FreeBSD I can use to play around with my asterisk setup. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: What's a good MySQL utitlity?

2005-10-08 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:21 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kiffin Gish wrote: What;s a good client utility for MySQL. You mean, other than this? mysql :-D Actually I was referring to something more graphical. Under Windows I have always used MySQL-front (www.mysqlfront.de

Samba or something more lightweight ...

2005-10-08 Thread Kiffin Gish
I want to be able to access other Windows machines on my home network, e.g. exchange files back and forth using shared folders. Do I need to install Samba or is there another more lightweight alternative? Thanks alot in advance? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands

Cannot view pdf in browser ...

2005-10-07 Thread Kiffin Gish
If I click on a link referring to a PDF file, nothing happens, e.g. I get a blank page is all. This occurs for Firefox as well as Epiphany. Why? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

DNS caching locally ...

2005-10-07 Thread Kiffin Gish
this? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS caching locally ...

2005-10-07 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:44 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially using a wireless Internet connection, by using DNS caching locally. This has to do with enabling the named daemon

Re: DNS caching locally ...

2005-10-07 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:56 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:44 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 07), Kiffin Gish said: I understand that it is possible to speed up surfing, especially using a wireless

What's a good MySQL utitlity?

2005-10-07 Thread Kiffin Gish
What;s a good client utility for MySQL. Under Windows I have always used MySQL-front (www.mysqlfront.de/) and was just wondering if there was a similar tool available under FreeBSD. Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands

Re: Apsfilter FBSD 5.4

2005-10-06 Thread Kiffin Gish
similar problems with an hp720c where after installation the test page just hangs, lpd-errs logfile showing some driver error... -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Could not open PNM input file ...

2005-10-03 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:00 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to print nothing happens. If I look in the lpd-errors file I see this: pnm2ppa[931]: main(): Could not open PNM input file Any idea what is going wrong? Some kind

Re: Apsfilter setup test page does nothing ...

2005-10-02 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 00:06 +0100, dgmm wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 17:02, Kiffin Gish wrote: I am trying to get my HP Deskjet 720C working via the parallel port lpt0. After running through the apsfilter setup program and configuring all the required stuff, I choose T) Print a test

Defragmentation needed with FreeBSD ...

2005-10-02 Thread Kiffin Gish
I was just wondering if like in Windows disk fragmentation arises, and if so then how should one go about defragmenting it? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Defragmentation needed with FreeBSD ...

2005-10-02 Thread Kiffin Gish
PROTECTED] So if I understand you correctly, this means that the disk is defragmented automatically in the background during idle use, e.g. I do not have to do anything else to enable it because it is already enabled. Correct? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands

Could not open PNM input file ...

2005-10-02 Thread Kiffin Gish
When I try to print nothing happens. If I look in the lpd-errors file I see this: pnm2ppa[931]: main(): Could not open PNM input file Any idea what is going wrong? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Flash PLugin for FireFox

2005-10-01 Thread Kiffin Gish
-20050910 + www/linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 Thanks .. i'll do it now and see how it goes :) Are you sure? This is my setup and firefox still crashes on any page containing flash... -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions

Apsfilter setup test page does nothing ...

2005-10-01 Thread Kiffin Gish
?? Is5:13PM 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/lpd Any ideas? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apsfilter setup test page does nothing ...

2005-10-01 Thread Kiffin Gish
Chris wrote: Kiffin Gish wrote: I am trying to get my HP Deskjet 720C working via the parallel port lpt0. After running through the apsfilter setup program and configuring all the required stuff, I choose T) Print a test page, but nothing happens, namely: Ok to print testpage? [y/n] y

Re: Setting up mime-types globaly ...

2005-09-30 Thread Kiffin Gish
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do I have to do to make sure that clicking on links fire up the correct applications. For example: http - firefox mailto - thunderbird pls - xmms If from thunderbird I click on a http-link nothing happens, etc. For some

RE: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file

2005-09-30 Thread Kiffin Gish
: Thursday, September 29, 2005 17:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I fire up a program, I get the following error message: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared

Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-28 Thread Kiffin Gish
nawcom wrote: open up firefox and type into the url: about:config look up browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser and check the value. if its false, change to true and restart the browser. let me know if that works.. -Ben Kiffin Gish wrote: Every time I fire up firefox it claims

libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file

2005-09-28 Thread Kiffin Gish
When I fire up a program, I get the following error message: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file What do I have to do to get the program working properly? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Setting up mime-types globaly ...

2005-09-28 Thread Kiffin Gish
. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-28 Thread Kiffin Gish
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:52 PM 9/26/2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie thingie on the side. What's the best way to do this? (Sorry to all those beastie lovers

Dead links everywhere ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
If I click on hyperlinks (email wherever) nothings happens. I'm afraid I messed up my xfce desktop and need to restore this (using mimetypes)? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherland ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
I do helps -- what got stuch?! -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cleanup unused files and other junk ...

2005-09-26 Thread Kiffin Gish
, is it safe to delete all distfiles? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-26 Thread Kiffin Gish
I would like to have a different bootup screen appearing which looks more professional (sorry), e.g. removing that awful looking beastie thingie on the side. What's the best way to do this? (Sorry to all those beastie lovers out there, but really) -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands

Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...

2005-09-26 Thread Kiffin Gish
and playing the same music despite which operating system I am using? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Firewall or not ...

2005-09-21 Thread Kiffin Gish
infinitum -- or do I? Thanks alot in advance. -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Firefox and Flash ...

2005-09-19 Thread Kiffin Gish
. One thing interesting I noticed though, which might be a hint, is that if I exit Xfce, logout, login this time as root, fire up Xfce again and then run Firefox, everything works without a hitch, e.g. even flash-based pages don't crash Firefox. Weird. What gives? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda

HP Deskjet 720c won't print ...

2005-09-18 Thread Kiffin Gish
-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 And the '/boot/device.hints' file: hint.ppc.0.irq=7 What's wrong? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd

Undefined references : make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL ..

2005-09-16 Thread Kiffin Gish
I get the following errors when trying to build a customized kernel: -start- [...] touch hack.c cc -shared -nostdlib hack.c -o hack.So rm -f hack.c MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh MYKERNEL cc -c -O -pipe -march=athlon-xp -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs

Which CPUTYPE?

2005-09-15 Thread Kiffin Gish
I have the following configuration: CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3100+ (1800.08-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0xfc0 Stepping = 0 Features=0x78bfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA, CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2 AMD

Gnome error: panel already running ...

2005-09-14 Thread Kiffin Gish
Whenever I fire up Gnome 2.10, I keep getting the error message: I've detected a panel already running and will now exit. What gives? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Replacing Epiphany with Firefox ...

2005-09-14 Thread Kiffin Gish
by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: epiphany-extensions-1.6.6 gnome2-2.10.2 Any ideas how to remove Epiphany without having to delete gnome? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Upgrade 2.12 from 2.10 on FreeBSD ...

2005-09-14 Thread Kiffin Gish
I am keen on upgrading Gnome to the latest version. However, I see that under my FreeBSD ports only 2.10 is present, even after running the cvsup stuff. Is it still possible to use 2.12 under FreeBSD or do I just have to wait for an official FreeBSD version available under ports? -- Kiffin Gish

How do I get ports sub-directory back?

2005-09-13 Thread Kiffin Gish
I accidentally deleted all of the files in one of my ports sub-directory. Oops. In order to get them back I figured all I had to do was run cvsup again, but this didn't help, e.g. the given sub-directory remained empty. Bummer. What can I do? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands

Cannot build eiciel ...

2005-09-13 Thread Kiffin Gish
in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtkmm24. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/eiciel. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-power-tools. -end- Anyone know why this is happening? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd

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