Re: memory requirement

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:25:37PM +0800, azri abdul majid wrote: I am a linux user and I am very interested on trying FreeBSD. I just curious about one matter. Currently I have an old linux machine with 15GB Hdd, 64MB RAM, 266MHz Intel Celeron Processor. I just want to use FreeBSD for my

Re: disabling my mouse nipple

On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 02:02:11PM -0800, Jason Dusek wrote: i also have a touchpad, but i can't figure out which device is the touchpad and which is the mouse nipple - my dmesg only lists one device as a mouse. IIRC, the two devices are (from the software's point of view) only one mouse, so

Re: pine

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:12:38PM +1100, caleb wrote: Would IPSEC be an option for securing my login details or kerberos? Nope. Unless the ISP's mail server supports some form of encryption, there's nothing you can do. On the other hand, your desktop machine is probably only about two hops

Re: _still_ looking for FreeBSD dvd ripping software...

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 06:04:10PM -0500, user wrote: So, does anyone know of any _decent_ way to rip a dvd _directly_ to an ISO on FreeBSD, and that also supports advanced features like I mention above? multimedia/dvdrip has worked well for me in the past. I've never ripped straight to .iso,

Re: SSH X11 forwarding fail

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:03:39PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: I need to add ForwardX11Trusted yes in SSH config (/etc/ssh/ssh_config) of the SSH client. Or connect with: % ssh -Y stuff --Mac pgpx8h6BvEfcI.pgp Description: PGP signature

[solved] Re: make buildworld breaks in ncurses

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:10:29PM -0700, Mac Mason wrote: While running a make buildworld on a system that was cvsup'd to RELENG_5_4 about an hour ago, it breaks on [snip]/contrib/ncurses/ncurses/tinfo/make_keys.c with /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/i386/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc What's

make buildworld breaks in ncurses

While running a make buildworld on a system that was cvsup'd to RELENG_5_4 about an hour ago, it breaks on [snip]/contrib/ncurses/ncurses/tinfo/make_keys.c with /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/i386/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc What's going on here? I deleted both /usr/obj and /usr/src and re-cvs-up'd

Re: 1 byte more?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:21:10PM +0800, Xu Qiang wrote: I used xemacs to hex edit that file, to find a newline character (0x0a) is added to the txt file, even though I didn't touch the Enter key in my keyboard. Maybe vi is too aggressively helpful. :) As I recall, the convention is than UNIX

Re: Vinum GVinum Recommendations

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:57:15AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'd appreciate hearing of your experiences with vinum, gvinum, and ccd, especially as they relate to firewire devices. In my experience, vinum doesn't play well with GEOM, and gvinum isn't anywhere near feature-complete. (I

Correct step for setting up MBR on a windows drive?

I've got a machine with FreeBSD on it. Recently, I added another drive, on which I put Windows. Given that I don't really trust the Windows install program with my MBR, I unplugged the FreeBSD drive during the install. Now, the FreeBSD bootloader can't load windows; if I unplug the FreeBSD drive

Shutting down [k|g]dm for a short while?

I run kdm on ttyv8, as recommended by the handbook. % grep kdm /etc/ttys ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemonxterm on secure I'm also using the closed-source nvidia drivers. To upgrade them requires that I unload nvidia.ko. Which I can't do with kdm running, because it needs that

Re: How to become su..

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:38:12PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Supose i'm a user, how to become a su.I tried to type su,and the answer was Sorry. As I recall, for a user to be able to su to root, they need to be a member of the group wheel. --Mac pgpY2EtYkcta9.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Spontaneous reboots

Have you considered hardware issues? Random reboots might be caused by cooling issues, or other such things. --Mac -- Julian Mac Mason[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science '06 (310)-882-8068 Harvey Mudd College

teTeX fails to bulid; complains about freetype

# cd /usr/ports/print/teTex # make install [...snip...] making all in programs/x11perf... cc -O -pipe -ansi -pedantic -Wno-system-headers -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -I/usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc -I/usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc/exports/include

Determining what port owns a file

I want to put kghostview on a machine, but I don't want to install too much of KDE in the progress. Given that I have another machine with it already installed, how might I go about figuring out which port owns, say, /usr/local/bin/kghostview? (If anybody happens to know offhand, that would work

Rhythmbox hanging in a very strange way

So, I've got rhythmbox pointed at an smb-mounted directory. A while ago, for no apparent reason, it developed the following behavior: Instead of working like it should, it refuses to answer input. It launches fine, and the cursor even changes the the I-beam or resize arrow as needed. On the other

Best way to handle network interfaces on a laptop?

So, I've got a laptop with two network interfaces (a wired one, xl0, and a wireless, wi0). The network setup around here gives me a static IP for the wired inteface, and DHCP for the wireless. My question has (I think) to do with routing; when I have the config for xl0 in /etc/rc.conf, and it

Re: How will I rename every file in a directory to their filenames appending anything?

/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Julian Mac Mason[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science '06 (909)-607-3129 Harvey Mudd College pgpE2v2HVGgXk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Mounting a samba share on boot?

Can anybody point me at some documenation for mounting a samba share at boot time? I'm used to the linux-style trick of adding it to fstab and pointing it at a credentials file, but am pretty sure that won't work in FreeBSD. I'm running 5.3-RELEASE. Thanks! --Mac -- Julian Mac Mason

Mozilla and Firefox fail to start

will work. So, I repeat the same process. And mozilla won't start either; it does the very same thing. FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, with the most-recent errata. Any ideas? Thanks! --Mac -- Julian Mac Mason[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science '06 (909

Re: SUDO

the permission to start k3b with root permissions? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Julian Mac Mason

Starting gconcat / gstripe at boot?

have a concatenated pair I'd like to use for something else, but it's not boot-critical, and I imagine answering one question answers both) Thanks! --Mac -- Mac Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science '06 (909)-607-3129 Harvey

Re: Starting gconcat / gstripe at boot?

as well. Thanks for the help! --Mac -- Julian Mac Mason[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science '06 (909)-607-3129 Harvey Mudd College pgpP7Z1OMXNDC.pgp Description: PGP signature

/boot/loader.conf not fixing vinum issue

? Thanks! --Mac -- Julian Mac Mason[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science '06 (909)-607-3129 Harvey Mudd College ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman