Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Neal Hogan
u . . . this person has been doing similar hold-my-hand-I-do-not-want-to-take-the-time kinda thing on the oBSD lists recently. On 10/30/11, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: El 30-10-2011, a las 19:55, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com escribió: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: What

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alex Stangl a...@stangl.us wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: xmonad.  Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully customizable via configuration files written in Haskell. Another vote for xmonad. You may be

Fwd: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote: On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Lots of people see FreeBSD and the web site and the mascott, etc for the first time probably

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Neal Hogan
2010/11/11 José Silveira jmlsilve...@gmail.com: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! Is this better? José Silveira ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Neal Hogan
2010/11/11 Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com: 2010/11/11 José Silveira jmlsilve...@gmail.com: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! Is this better? (sorry) http://www.openbsd.org/art/newhead.jpg

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Neal Hogan
you use a devil as a mascot? 2010/11/11 Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com: 2010/11/11 José Silveira jmlsilve...@gmail.com: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! Is this better? (sorry) http://www.openbsd.org/art

Fwd: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Neal Hogan
-- Forwarded message -- From: José Silveira jmlsilve...@gmail.com Date: 2010/11/11 Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? To: Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com What an absurd! A guy makes a question and an stupid like you send me this crap! I hope freebsd explodes! 2010

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: José Silveira jmlsilve...@gmail.com Date: 2010/11/11 Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-09 Thread Neal Hogan
Wow! I tried to wait, but it now has to be said that more than just Theo are laughing. On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: On Oct 9, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 09:47:04 -0700 Rob Farmer

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010: Hello all. In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under terminal/shell mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved that way I have never

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010: Hello all. In all

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: I'm not too sure what you're asking certain window should be moved by default to specific workspaces. Since you read the man page I'm guessing you're not talking

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 23 September 2010: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, lightweight, written in C by oBSD

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:06:17 -0700, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: These people have been taught from a young age that logic is evil and will lead them down the road to hell, so logical arguments are lost on them.

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:22:21 -0500, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: No . . . not you . . . Polytropon! The end of the world must be coming (Revelations-1.0). Do *NOT* tempt me. Okay, you did. And this is what

Re: i cannot login as root

2010-06-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com wrote: i can't :( it says that is is only read-only enviroment.. use the world wide web, and look for an answer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sendmail access

2010-06-10 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:40 PM, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: hi all... reading http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html i did get an access file set up. it doesn't do anything thought... i have only entry like this: some.domain.com            OK and did

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-05 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote: It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer. I think it looks great - no ads !!! Hurray !!! Bingo! If the OP wants M$-like flash support, then . . . well . . . use M$ (and its friend$). It's not really fair

Re: Downloading and Burning Free BSD

2009-12-11 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Roger Agraviador diminish...@gmail.com wrote: I clicked the ISO link and I was brought to a directory, this to be exact ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/) Once I have downloaded all Iso Images do I burn the 'boot only.iso' file

Re: cannot boot freebsd

2009-11-11 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jesús Abidan jabi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, i have a problem here, i installed windows in mi box and i left a partition for freebsd, i finished install of freebsd and installed the boot mgr of freebsd but when i reboot only windows boots with f1 pressed?

Re: FreeBSD Source Code

2009-11-04 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Petros Ring petros...@live.com wrote: I would like you to send a copy of all the source code of FreeBSD so I may use it for a project that will allow the running of applacations from a different os to run on FreeBSD. Please send a attachment of the full source

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Neal Hogan
I just saw this on my gentoo list (yes, there are folks complaining about HAL there as well). I don't know anything about this project other than it's intentions are to build a replacement for HAL. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit ___

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Neal Hogan
Aha! Gotcha! Whoever wrote that has made an unintentionnal booboo. It is a subtle difference and is indicative that whoever wrote it is not a native english user... the meaning is clearly should be executed, done, carried out, performed - should work means it  can be carried out  - I think

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Neal Hogan
. He needs to work things out before blogging on freebsd-questi...@. IMHO ;-) Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Neal Hogan
The benefit(s)? If there are other long-term members who agree with what you are getting at, then I'd say that the benefits are that it shows to newcomers that no matter what, you'll always receive a respectable and educated response. Does that really include taking seriously everything

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread Neal Hogan
It is simple to understand Emglish but not so simple what was meant by whoever wrote it...I cannot correct something that I do not uderstand... come on, man, that should be easy to understand. I am afraid that with all the globalization people still do not understand that translations should

Re: Problem regarding free BSD

2009-10-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Abhilash Shukla abhi_shu...@in.com wrote: Hello,Respected Sir/Madam,Actually i tried to install free BSD on my system, I have 1 TB hard disk of 500GB X 2 in which i made a partition in one of my hard disk which even contains some data. Unfortunately i lost

Re: First time for everything

2009-10-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:33 PM, jeffry killen jekil...@prodigy.net wrote: Hello; How is a usb device accessed on Freebsd. I installed an SATA drive in a usb enclosure and plugged in into usb port on the machine. Console message indicated detection of the device when the power switch for

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:32 AM, gs_stol...@juno.com gs_stol...@juno.com wrote:             I have a copy of Greg Lehey's online book about FreeBSD, but I believe it is from February 2006.  Is there a later copy, and if so, where can I find a copy (URL please)?  I searched my copy for the

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:17 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: [snip] Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:46:49PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:27:35PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: I was just playing around with ssh. Would it be possible to store multiple keys in the

Re: itunes on FreeBSD

2009-09-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Jerryges...@yahoo.com wrote: I use itunes http://www.apple.com/itunes/ extensively on my Windows machines to download music. AFAIK, Apple does not make a version for linux/bsd, although I might be incorrect. I investigated Rhapsody

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:12 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql

Re: freebsd

2009-08-19 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:42 AM, BONGANI MANGANYE205038...@cput.ac.za wrote: I know freebsd is free but i would like to know how much will I pay if I need additional package like updates and other useful software,and can you tell how secure it is how protected i will be if i use freebsd it's

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Eitan Adlereitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170 I installed them and loaded them. However pciconf -lv|grep bwi

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. Ah . . . sorry, got mixed up with mailing lists. Thanks for correcting me! -- Mel

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Neal Hogannealho...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: man lspci ?? wrong distribution. Try pciconf. Ah . . . sorry, got

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Neal Hogan
Right now I'm just fixing up a new set up of 7.2 on another disk and we'll see what that does. Then I will re-setup the files I had recoverd, see if they work and then do a last and final install of everything and see if that works. And if there is a problem then, then I will know for sure

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-10 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Raisa Brokhshtutqap...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, My old desktop has FreeBSD that I have never used. One of the friends of my son installed it long ago, but no one used that PC since then. Now I want to get rid of this program and to install Windows. Every time

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions)

2009-08-06 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Jonathan McKeownj.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:43:47 Mark Stapper wrote: In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement in the FreeBSD corner. What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions)

2009-08-06 Thread Neal Hogan
In light of this, I would really enjoy seeing a Ubuntu like movement in the FreeBSD corner. What I mean is that it would be nice for my mother to install and use FreeBSD. I am not saying that a Windows user should be able to feel right at home on a box running FreeBSD, but a computer user

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-06 Thread Neal Hogan
inspired by a guy (the OP) who has been using fBSD for many years (over 5 . . . I can't remember the exact number). I have been struggling to use FreeBSD for a shorter amount of time (for a fileserver). I was originally attracted to OpenBSD for security. However, OpenBSD users are

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-06 Thread Neal Hogan
How do you expect to get comfortable w/out playing around, other than, I guess (a'la above) reading the documentation? Put another way: I want a reliable, backed-up file-server before playing around on my workstation that would be a separate computer. I want to build myself a sand-box so

Re: new machine trying to install /usr/ports

2009-08-05 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Adminad...@enabled.com wrote: hi there, I am trying to get some basic ports tools installed on a new machine.  I downloaded the entire ports.tar.gz and then placed all those contents in /usr/ports What are the best next steps to follow to get things up an

Re: ftps ?(off-topic)

2009-08-04 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Mark Stapperst...@mapper.nl wrote: Neal Hogan wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009 04:26:32 Neal Hogan wrote: 2009/8/3 Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com: On Mon, Aug 3

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
2009/8/3 Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: What is ftps? # grep ftps /etc/services ftps-data 989/tcp# ftp protocol, data, over TLS/SSL ftps-data 989/udp ftps

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Frederique Rijsdijkfrederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: Neal Hogan wrote: I was curious about the OP's use of 'ftps too. Perhaps, he could explain what plain-old-ftp doesn't do and what he wants it to do. Encryption! OK! (If I just said that I wanted to run

Re: ftps ?

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009 04:26:32 Neal Hogan wrote: 2009/8/3 Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: Odhiambo

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-02 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:32:49AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Can anyone suggest a fast graphical web browser?  I use Firefox (because every page displays well and I can sync bookmarks), and I also use elinks (when graphics don't matter).  I'm looking for some middle ground, a browser

Re: asking about NIC card for freebsd 7.2 i386

2009-07-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:13 AM, husai...@streamyx.com wrote: i doubt about NIC card BMC5674 support or not for freebsd7.2 ? or should i use freebsd8.2 beta ? hope reply me. Neither (or both). The Broadcom cards are tricky and they have been talked about a lot. Look at this list's archives

Re: (no subject)

2009-07-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jon Radelj...@radel.com wrote: wcl...@dl1.njit.edu wrote: How do I set up mail server on 7.2bsd That's such a broad question that it's unreasonable to expect a complete answer on a mailing list.  So I'd suggest you start with reading some documentation, such

Re: Xorg and Dual Head Video?

2009-07-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Genef...@brightstar.bomgardner.net wrote: Hi All: I was wondering if anyone could point me toward any docs, or even better, how-tos on setting up Xorg using dual head video? I use xrandr(1). Below is my xorg.conf. HTH. 1 Section ServerLayout 2

Re: IPFW: Need some help

2009-06-28 Thread Neal Hogan
2009/6/28 Anton an...@sng.by:   Hello all,   I'm new to *nix and now, while configuring IPFW Firewall on FreeBSD   7.2  has stuck in a problem:   After packet from my network is passed to natd demon - it is returning   t o firewall (it is normal, as I think ;-) ), but I see another  

Re: IRC

2009-06-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:05 AM, malathi selvarajmalathira...@gmail.com wrote: how to join  freebsd  in irc http://www.freebsd.org/community/irc.html Take a second to look around . . . (this refers to your other question, as well) -- S.MALATHI ___

Re: Unable to auto-mount a CD in XFCE4

2009-06-18 Thread Neal Hogan
man umount On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Jerryges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:09:58 -0400 Chad Brown free...@gmail.com wrote: See here (#3): http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html OK, now I discovered a new problem. When attempting to eject the CD, I am greeted

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Manolis Kiagiasson...@otenet.gr wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: 2009/6/16 Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com: List of main packages == This is a comprehensive list of packages included in the ISO: abiword, archivers (zip, unzip, rar, unrar)

Re: The freebsd-questions Archives

2009-06-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Leslie Jensenles...@eskk.nu wrote: Hello list! I try not to disturb the list unless I need to using the list archive to find answers. I've never been successful in searching the archives it always returns No matches were found for ... Now I see

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:09 AM, n...@pettefar.com wrote: In www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.html It says: If the X server has been configured and a Default Desktop chosen, it can be started by typing startx at the command line. but nowhere in the manual or the

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? If it really needs to be done on

Re: sponsoring ZFS development on FreeBSD

2009-06-06 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a month),

Re: sponsoring ZFS development on FreeBSD

2009-06-06 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2009 13:47:57 Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS

Re: hello

2009-06-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I am trying to install freebsd on my m-2625u  gateway laptop but am running into trouble. whe  I try to start x all I get is a black screen. X -configure and look if it works fine (no crash etc). It will

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:57:57PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it because of forum - still read and posts here. None of your

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: It is NOT an opinion that you were rude in your reply, and it is NOT an opinion that it's not your place to advise on how much constitutes an 'acceptable' or 'sufficient' donation. You were just plain

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Of course - ban it! Just my 2c... Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I no longer use FreeBSD.  Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: - post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. i don't see the matureness of comments like this. possibly

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Well, that certainly doesn't follow. Actually, that one does. Don't bother, he just answered that after reading wojciech puchar in mail header, so he had to be against. No! Unless you think that fBSd is

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: No! Unless you think that fBSd is the only functional/reliable OS. If for my needs it's actually true. Only FreeBSD meets my requirements. slide ok . . . /slide Wojciech, I, like many others who have

Re: Can't play videos on 7.2

2009-05-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:50 AM, jery rihaz.jer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using Freebsd 7.2 my system hangs when playing videos, it's the same for vlc and totem. From the Xorg.0.log file intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,        i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M,

Re: Can't get ndis0 working

2009-05-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Walter, Richard richard.wal...@hob.de wrote: Hello, I tried to activate my Acer's Aspire 5315 wireless card with FreeBSD 7.2 i386 and had no luck. What i did: 1) #prtconf -lv no...@pci0:6:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x04221468 chip=0x431114e4 rev=0x01

Re: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Shakil Khan korikov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone let me know how can I download FreeBSD kernel source code. I am on Linux and am not able to download using CVS. Can someone point me exactly and also if some links are available where I can download tar

Re: How to?

2009-04-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Lloyd Friedman lloy...@verizon.net wrote: I have a Microway computer with a PC164LX. How and where can I down load FreeBSD ALPHA version. I know it is no longer supported, but I believe there are older versions I can down load. If not, then I will have to try

Re: X-Org problem

2009-04-24 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee wrote: Dear list, After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version xorg-server-1.6.0,1 xorg-7.4_1 I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly exiting with message: Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kernel: pid 7445 (Xorg),

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Michael Jr. mjrh...@windstream.net wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too

Re: missing xorgconfig

2009-04-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM, kenneth hatteland kenneth.hattel...@kleppnett.no wrote: Having reinstalled my laptop twice and updated to stable 7.2 prerelease but each time no xorgconfig exists as I am used to. xfce4 starts ok, but I get the known mouse locked problem and would love and

Re: Need to change screen resolution...

2009-04-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Q. Taylor q...@netsys.hn wrote: Hello I am trying to find a way to change my current screen resolution from the default 720x426 (I think). The monitor I use to view all my servers via KVM switch - the font is too big on the screen - if I could increase the

Re: add to mailing list

2009-04-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Rajeev Sharma rajb3...@gmail.com wrote: Kindly add me in FreeBSD mailing list I will, only if you consider the following link ;) http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions rajb3...@gmail.com ___

Re: What flash players should be used from ports?

2009-04-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Falanga af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to finally get a flashplayer installed for use with Firefox.  Which one should I use from the ports system?  I found this one that looks promising: /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla Is the recommended

Re: does ndisgen work with(mini) pci-E cards?

2009-04-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: My new laptop is the fist I've seen with mini-pci-express.  Major PITA.  I get ndis0 after ndisgen/kldload/etc, but I can see any AP's, and I'm wondering if it's due to the new bus?  I suspect I'm barking up the wrong

amarok + ipod

2009-04-02 Thread Neal Hogan
(no luck on the multimedia list . . . so, I'm trying here) Hello, Well, I've got amarok running with 7.1-RELEASE and my question concerns amarok's interaction with an ipod. I am able to transfer music from my computer to the ipod and can play music that's on the ipod on amarok, but the

Re: (no subject)

2009-04-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:36 AM, ayyappa mhsp ayyappam...@yahoo.co.inwrote: sir, i just want to know during the installation of bsd all the applications that are in packages are installed or simply added to some directories. I want to generate some tcp or some other packets on one

Re: FreeBSD 7 and 2 monitors

2009-04-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:56 PM, User Wblock wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, M. Vale wrote: Hi, I have 2 monitors (20 Asus) with a Radeon X1600/X1650 PRO configure with xrand and everything works ok. The resolution I'm using right now is 3360x1050. Now I've a brand new

Re: FreeBSD 7 and 2 monitors

2009-03-31 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:36 AM, M. Vale maurov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have 2 monitors (20 Asus) with a Radeon X1600/X1650 PRO configure with xrand and everything works ok. The resolution I'm using right now is 3360x1050. Now I've a brand new Asus 24 (MK241H), and I can use this

Re: Important

2009-03-30 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mohit Arora mohitaro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Team , I having Windows XP haing 512MB RAM .Please let me know the proper step by step method to download freeBsD online .Please explain by giving example of 7.1 version. Thanks regards Mohit

xorg-server-1.5.3_7, /usr/ports/UPDATING, mouse

2009-03-23 Thread Neal Hogan
Well, recently I deinstalled all of my third party apps . . . long story (some of which is documented on this list) . . . but the short story is that some were added via the ports tree and others via pkg_add. When it came time to portupdate, I was having problems and it was brought to my attention

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Try a smaller one, like evilwm. It's (pretty much) all command line. For example, you would open up a term and launch firefox from there (#

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: The last couple of days I've been running portupgrade -av and am to the point where I'd like to move onto something else, but there is one package

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
*make update* or *portupgrade*. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: The last couple of days I've

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
:32AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: The last couple of days I've been running portupgrade -av and am to the point where I'd like to move onto something

Re: Portsnap vs CSup

2009-03-19 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Kalle Møller freebsd-questi...@k-moeller.dk wrote: Hi I've been digging around, but I can't find a clear answer, which of those two is the correct to use. Hence I don't use one now, so if I'm going to learn one, I would prefer it to be the right one. --

portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-19 Thread Neal Hogan
The last couple of days I've been running portupgrade -av and am to the point where I'd like to move onto something else, but there is one package that won't upgrade . . . xorg-server. As you can see below, it claims that there is a missing header and there are a fair amount of reported errors.

portupgrade question (failed updates)

2009-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
What do we do about packages that fail to update? This is my first time running portupgrade, and am unsure what to think about the ones where there is a configure error or uknown build error or install error FYI -- I followed the following steps: 1) upgraded from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE 2)

Re: where is xorg located?

2009-03-15 Thread Neal Hogan
The X system is an installation set . . . not a 3rd party package. Check installation documentation. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Stefan Miklosovic miklosovic.free...@gmail.com wrote: hi hi all, i try to install xorg as a package like: # pkg_add -r xorg it takes a while, but only

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Neal Hogan
just to clarify (it's early) man du(1) On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote: I've looked as much as i can, but with only 5meg free on / .. its making things in terms of building world kernel a lil difficult .. what's the command so i can see exactly

gnash and ff3

2009-03-13 Thread Neal Hogan
Hi, I have 7-1 RELEASE running with up-to-date packages, including firefox3. I also have gnash-0.8.3 and mozplugger-1.10.2. I'm confused as to why gnash and mozplugger are not automatically enabled and/or used by ff3. That is, ff claims not to have any plug-ins. I have the same set-up on an oBSD

Re: reclaiming /var capacity?

2009-03-11 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM, j. 2fo...@gmail.com wrote: Where did my capacity go and how can I get it back? deathray# du -sh /var 70M/var deathray# df -h /var FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0d 248M214M 15M94%/var Thanks,

Re: /var grows, apache open file, which file?

2009-02-06 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD free...@superhero.nl wrote: On Fri, February 6, 2009 20:05, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 06), Gelsema, P (Patrick) - FreeBSD said: I noticed that my var slice is getting eaten by apache. The amount of free

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