Re: Console resolution

2003-12-08 Thread sebastian ssmoller
try man 1 vidcontrol hth seb On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:35, Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote: Hi ! I have just installed FreeBSD onto my notebook. I am using FreeBSD for quite some time, and now I decided to install it on my notebook (I got tired of both RedHat and Windows 2000, which both

spin down ata drive

2003-11-30 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, i wonna spin down an ata drive which is used as backup drive so it doesnt need to run all the time. i googled the bit and found a lot of people having the same problem - but no solution :( with scsi it is no problem (i read) but ata ? is there any stable solution ? thx sebastian

Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, recently i set up a new freebsd current. i want to use xfce4 as desktop/window manager but also evolution as mail client. i had a look at the dependencies of evolution and found out that evolution depends on the whole gnome2 desktop (!) can anyone explain me why evolution depends on things

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread sebastian ssmoller
wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2003 19:00, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:46, sebastian ssmoller wrote: hi, recently i set up a new freebsd current. i want to use xfce4 as desktop/window manager but also evolution as mail client. i had a look at the dependencies

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:06, sebastian ssmoller wrote: hi, so i have to install a lot of gnome stuff to be able to use evolution right ? thats bad :( ... i wonder if all these dependencies are really necessary ... Everything Evo

Re: Evolution without gnome

2003-11-02 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:25, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:26, sebastian ssmoller wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:06, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:06, sebastian ssmoller wrote: hi, so i have to install a lot of gnome stuff to be able to use

Re: ppp and downloaded MBs

2003-09-21 Thread sebastian ssmoller
great script ! that's what i was looking for :) thx seb On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 18:09, jimmie james wrote: $ ppp -auto tdsl $ ppp -v /var/run/internet dial# i used set server /var/run/internet in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf logged the bytes sent and received so i could calc the downloaded MB

Re: Samba over SSH

2003-09-20 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:25, FreeBSD MAIL wrote: I want to use PuTTY and ssh to port forward and map a samba share across the internet. From what I have read on the net it almost seems possable. i guess u have to set up ssh port forwarding for the ports 137,138 and 139. which box shall

ppp and downloaded MBs

2003-09-20 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, i use tdsl with my fbsd 5.1 release box. to establish the connection i run: $ ppp -auto tdsl $ ppp -v /var/run/internet dial# i used set server /var/run/internet in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf so everything works fine but one thing is missing: on my linux box i used pppd which logged the bytes

Re: Samba over SSH

2003-09-20 Thread sebastian ssmoller
I am using FreeBSD 4.8 and Samba 2.2.8 as the server, I would like to use any windows operating system for the client side, but probably XP. (I want to map the samba share to the windows box) so one idea could be to start three ssh tunnels from client side. which command line u may wonna do

Re: Gnome2 Logout

2003-09-15 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
. -- phil Sebastian Ssmoller wrote: hi, another newbie question :) i am running freebsd 5.1 release. each time i want to use the logout menuitem of the gnome menu the gnome panel hangs. i searched the web and found several infos about it but no solution. any gnome2 user here having solved

Re: Request

2003-09-15 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:37:02 +0500 Vyacheslav M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear sirs, I'm looking for FreeBSD emulator for Windows. Could you please to help me with mu request? Thank you in advance. hi, what about www.vmware.com ? seb -- Best regards, Vyacheslav

Gnome2 Logout

2003-09-14 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
hi, another newbie question :) i am running freebsd 5.1 release. each time i want to use the logout menuitem of the gnome menu the gnome panel hangs. i searched the web and found several infos about it but no solution. any gnome2 user here having solved the probem ? thx seb ps:

Re: dd to duplicate a disk.

2003-09-14 Thread Sebastian Ssmoller
Am Son, 2003-09-14 um 16.31 schrieb Lewis Thompson: Hi, I'm trying to setup a vinum mirrored root fs. I've not got very far (although I have some excellent help once I get past this stage ;) -- I'm trying to duplicate my disk. why do u want to double ur disk ? i have no knowledge about

smbmount problem

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, i am running fbsd 5.1. when i try to mount a samba share on a debian system i get : smbfs: server name x.y too long the server name is 16 chars long and i found out (looking at the sources) that there is a limit of 15. my question: why is there such a limit? (i used this share from several

Re: x windows

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:46, Ian Todd wrote: I have a gforce 2 mx 400 and trying to run x windows. I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers for it and i am still getting the same error message before i installed it. what could the problem be the error is: Fatal server error:

Re: Re: x windows

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
other idea? On 13 Sep 2003 11:59:59 +0200 sebastian ssmoller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hi, On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:46, Ian Todd wrote: I have a gforce 2 mx 400 and trying to run x windows. I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers for it and i am still getting the same error

Re: smbmount problem

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 15:04, Dancho Penev wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:22:57AM +0200, sebastian ssmoller wrote: From: sebastian ssmoller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:22:57 +0200 Subject: smbmount problem hi, i am running fbsd 5.1. when i try to mount