Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:30:09AM -, Graham Bentley wrote: Hi All, I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail seems to download into /var/mail Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format. The Mail directory also has only one

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-28 Thread Alexandre Vieira
On 11/28/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-27 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 11/28/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system).

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Josef Grosch
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:34:18PM -0800, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread John Smith
On 11/16/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, November 16, 2006 a las 12:20:44PM +0300, John Smith escribió: On 11/16/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:19:54 -0800 Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem I had with the T43 was the fact it did not have a proper serial port. I was told to use some silly USB connector which never worked right. a z60m here - same , but my serial-over-usb works really well, a

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:20:44 +0300 John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say Toshiba ;) Actually, yes - probably second only to IBMs in quality. #1 for features / price. I have had more issues with suspend/resume with Tosh than IBMs though. btw, there's a thread in mobile@ started a few

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread gb
Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) cheers g ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, gb wrote: Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) I am not sure Toshiba is so good any more. Maybe just a coincidence but we use three Ts in our organization.

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread nicky
I've got myself a Toshiba A100-159. Some issues: No sound, no Wireless (to be honest, i haven't really bothered with trying to fix these two yes). Sometimes i get some weird acpi errors in my daily output. It does have one of those 1400xsomething wide screens, which isn't supported (yet)

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread White Hat
On Thursday November 16, 2006 at 06:08:02 (AM) Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I would expect it to shut up and work We have that expectation for a lot of our employees; however, as in your scenario, it has not panned out. -- White Hat I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:58:21 +0300 gb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) mate, if your laptop purchases depend on your booze expenditure...you drink some expensive stuff! (or you have some really low priced hardware providers...which ones? ;) ) or maybe i dont

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Nathan Vidican
, and maintenance - collectively purchasing a few hundred laptops over the passed few years. I've been a FreeBSD since the 2.2.1-RELEASE days, and have always had FreeBSD on my personal laptop - which changes once a year to a new model, (sparing the IBM stinkpads as mentioned below which were completely

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread David Robillard
Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread pete wright
On 11/15/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO. The basic stuff works - like the screen, harddisk and keyboard -

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO. The basic stuff works - like the screen, harddisk and keyboard - even

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:34:18PM -0800, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread perryh
I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO ... - I still have unresolved problems with ACPI ... - Battery does not hold what it says: I have never got more than 1:30 out of it - and they claim more than 3 hours - (I assume with power off) These are very likely related. It is quite

Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-15 Thread g
Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-15 Thread George Allan
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-14 Thread doug
, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Wiest
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Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-11 Thread doug
Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-10 Thread Damian Wiest
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:57:03AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-10 Thread doug
is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced at the Handbook section dealing with wireless. It's a little daunting at this time

Re: Laptop Wireless

2006-11-10 Thread Damian Wiest
to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would like to learn how to install the appropriate drivers for the card to work. I am new to FreeBSD, and have glanced

Laptop Wireless

2006-11-05 Thread Rem P Roberti
Would someone point me in the right direction here. I have an old Compaq Presario 1692 that my sister-in-law gave to me after she upgraded. I installed FreeBSD 6.1 and everything is working fine. However, the laptop also came with a Belkin Wireless G (F5D7011) notebook card, and I would

Re: tracking a stolen laptop?

2006-10-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jonathan Nichols wrote: I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track my laptop with your help? I would like to get BSD if I get my computer back. Thanks for any help or advice you can offer

tracking a stolen laptop?

2006-10-06 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track my laptop with your help? I would like to get BSD if I get my computer back. Thanks for any help or advice you can offer. Jonathan Nichols

Re: tracking a stolen laptop?

2006-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:04:24PM -0400, Jonathan Nichols wrote: I am trying to track down a stolen laptop. My laptop did not have BSD downloaded, but is there any way yet by which I may be able to track my laptop with your help? I would like to get BSD if I get my computer back. Thanks

Re: freeBSD 6.1 how to setup network file sharing on my home network between a win xp box and my BSD Laptop

2006-09-26 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
on SuSE and I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my dell laptop and I am wondering if any one has any tips on how to set it up (correctly) so I can share files between my win xp Desktop and my BSD laptop over a wireless network connection. Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you

freeBSD 6.1 how to setup network file sharing on my home network between a win xp box and my BSD Laptop

2006-09-26 Thread Mathew Stahl
Hi, I am a BSD newbie. I have used linux for years from Redhat 7.0 to 9.0 and SuSE 9.1 to 10.1. I was able to setup samba very easily on redhat 9.0 and below but could never get it to work on SuSE and I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my dell laptop and I am wondering if any one has any tips

Realtek High Definition Audio on Asus A6Q Laptop

2006-09-19 Thread Bubbles Bug
Hello: I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release on my Asus A6Q Laptop. There is no built-in driver for Realtek High Definition Audio. OSS (Open Sound System) can drive it, but there were some problems. Gnome's default media player Totem cannot play (device problem). mp3blaster cannot find device

Re: Realtek High Definition Audio on Asus A6Q Laptop

2006-09-19 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
Bubbles Bug wrote: Hello: I installed FreeBSD 6.1 Release on my Asus A6Q Laptop. There is no built-in driver for Realtek High Definition Audio. OSS (Open Sound System) can drive it, but there were some problems. Gnome's default media player Totem cannot play (device problem

Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-08 Thread Parv
Sorry for using somebody else's reply to reply to OP as I had deleted the OP. in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joel Dahl thusly... On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week ... Toshiba Tecra A6

Fwd: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-08 Thread Ivailo Bonev
From: Ivailo Bonev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: hp or Toshiba laptop? Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:52:44 +0300 On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:14:26 +0300, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for using somebody else's reply to reply to OP as I had deleted the OP

hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner
Hi guys, I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week, due to budget, time and the fact that I'm near the end of civilization right now, I have the following choices: Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo 1.83GHz, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g), Intel PRO/1000 VE 10/100/1000 Base

Re: hp or Toshiba laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Joel Dahl
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 08:38 -0400, Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote: Hi guys, I'm looking into buying a new laptop in the next week, due to budget, time and the fact that I'm near the end of civilization right now, I have the following choices: Toshiba Tecra A6-SP3032 (Core Duo

Dhclient crashes my laptop

2006-08-28 Thread Stremcha, Matthew
is a 3com airconnect, came with the access point. Laptop is an IBM ThinkPad 380xd (machine was free, rescued from trash at work to be a FreeBSD project) It is always plugged in when in use because the battery has about 5-10 minutes of life. Installed FreeBSD 6.1. dmesg shows that the wireless card

How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?

2006-08-03 Thread Yousef Raffah
I like to watch movies and clips alot, so a 15.4 is not really and impressive or a great option, therefore, I wanted to be able to plug my laptop to the Samsung TV at home through an S-Video cable in order to watch the movies. However, I was not able to properly configure xorg.conf and I googled

Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?

2006-08-03 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Thursday 03 August 2006 19:46, Yousef Raffah wrote: I like to watch movies and clips alot, so a 15.4 is not really and impressive or a great option, therefore, I wanted to be able to plug my laptop to the Samsung TV at home through an S-Video cable in order to watch the movies. However, I

Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?

2006-08-03 Thread Yousef Raffah
Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/03 8:46, Yousef Raffah seems to have typed: [snip] Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection [snip] Section Device Identifier TV Driver ati

Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Yousef Raffah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/03 8:46, Yousef Raffah seems to have typed: [snip] Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 30-50 VertRefresh 60 EndSection [snip]

Re: How can I have dual displays (Laptop screen and TV)?

2006-08-03 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/08/03 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to have typed: Also the H-sync should prolly be 50 hertz locked as this seems to be PAL's standard refresh rate. My replies don't show up on the list for some reason (something about how

FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...

2006-07-29 Thread Ahmed Parkar
Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install it and everything seems to get detected and all... but then... it suddenly crashes... system just shuts down... no error appears on the screen

Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...

2006-07-29 Thread Matias
First of all, ensure that you are not having a temperature issue check the cooler of the laptop, maybe it is crossing to the other world... Ahmed Parkar escribió: Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb

Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Ragona
Are the crashes always with X running? ATI support is not good for X. -Derek At 01:15 AM 7/29/2006, Ahmed Parkar wrote: Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-20 Thread Marwan Sultan
: Warning current tempreture (0.0c) exceeds safe limits and it shuts down immediatly. i checked my bios setup, you know some bios has tempr. option. but this laptop doesnot have such am option. The boot menu should allow you to boot without the acpi module, try that. if your system does not support

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Marwan Sultan
hello, Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop freeze..on a black screen

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop freeze

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Robert C Wittig
Marwan Sultan wrote: hello, Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop freeze

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
, Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd again

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Marwan Sultan
immediatly. i checked my bios setup, you know some bios has tempr. option. but this laptop doesnot have such am option. - Marwan Check your BIOS that you don't have protection of the boot block enabled. If you do, remove that protection and reinstall. Some laptops can get stuck, and you have

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Erik Nørgaard
limits and it shuts down immediatly. i checked my bios setup, you know some bios has tempr. option. but this laptop doesnot have such am option. The boot menu should allow you to boot without the acpi module, try that. if your system does not support acpi - or the system acpi is not supported

fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-18 Thread Marwan Sultan
Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd again, and the same

FreeBSD HP Laptop?

2006-07-14 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello everyone, I recently bought HP laptop dv5178us Media Center It has builtin BlueTooth, wireless network device, lightscribe, and the VGA is nVIDIA GeForce GO 7400 512mb, s-video, some others 2, I'm not sure from motherboard specs, I want to format the XP media center edition

Re: FreeBSD HP Laptop?

2006-07-14 Thread Bob
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 06:36 +, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello everyone, I recently bought HP laptop dv5178us Media Center It has builtin BlueTooth, wireless network device, lightscribe, and the VGA is nVIDIA GeForce GO 7400 512mb, s-video, some others 2, I'm not sure from

FreeBSD 6.1 laptop with wireless internet

2006-05-22 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Dear Colleagues, I have a laptop with FreeBSD 6.1 on it and it is working fine. I recently received a card for wireless internet; it is in fact a Verizon Wireless PC5740 card and I am wondering if I can set it up on my FreeBSD laptop. I googled about it and I found [1] mentioning about some

Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop

2006-05-21 Thread Sadashiv Kulthe
Helllo, I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can anyone tell me is it compatitable? Can I install it? It has following configuration 1) Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duoprocessor T2300 (2MB/1.66GHz/667MHz) 2) 15.4 Inch Wide-screen WXGA Display for Inspiron 6400/E150 3

Re: Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop

2006-05-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Helllo, I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can anyone tell me is it compatitable? Your Subject said you want to install FreeBSd on the laptop. It should work OK. But, you should know that FreeBSD is not LINUX or related to LINUX. It is a UNIX type Operating

Re: Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop

2006-05-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 21 May 2006 at 17:25:38 -0700, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: Helllo, I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can anyone tell me is it compatitable? As others have observed, Linux and FreeBSD are two different operating systems. You certainly need to decide which

wlan on lowend laptop

2006-05-07 Thread Lars Udo
/64ram couldnt run wlan. I dont know if he ment WAP/WEP-encryption as he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows anything. My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine, with ssh Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN, and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when

Re: wlan on lowend laptop

2006-05-07 Thread albi
Lars Udo wrote: My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and laptop has NetBSD 3.0 with standalone X few apps just to survive if my desktop-pc is down. I'm planning to change into FreeNX if it gives any advantage, but that would require to replace my laptop with freebsd as it is my favorite OS

Re: wlan on lowend laptop

2006-05-07 Thread Lars Udo
Security is no problem to me, but the problem that i'm most worried is my budjet. If my laptop cant run wlan (for some weird reason that linux guy couldnt even name) so all the effort would be worthless. 2006/5/7, albi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lars Udo wrote: My desktop is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

Fwd: wlan on lowend laptop

2006-05-07 Thread Hunter Fuller
Forgot to reply to list :X Begin forwarded message: From: Hunter Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7 May, 2006 9:08:33 AM GMT To: Lars Udo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wlan on lowend laptop On 07 May 2006, at 9:19 AM, Lars Udo wrote: i have a litlle problem with all these wires running here

Re: wlan on lowend laptop

2006-05-07 Thread Lars Udo
-encryption as he couldnt be any spesific and that got me thinking if he even knows anything. My setup these days is following: 1Ghz/256ddr (Desktop mahcine, with ssh Xforwarding) via 10Mbit LAN, and my laptop just happens to get a lot faster when i run all apps on that desktop-pc. Good idea

Re: USB Mouse on Laptop

2006-05-03 Thread M.Stegenburgs
Hi, moused_type=auto works nice on my Toshiba. Well, it does not map all the buttons of my Logitech trackball, but basic functions switches on the fly. Regards, Maris On Wed, 3 May 2006 01:27:18 + Jonathan Herriott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I currently just fixed moused to start up

USB Mouse on Laptop

2006-05-02 Thread Jonathan Herriott
Hi! I currently just fixed moused to start up using my laptop's mousepad in /etc/rc.conf using the following options: moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/psm0 moused_flags= #This is another problem of mine, I can't get the four extra buttons on my mousepad to work because I don't know what

Re: Which Laptop for FreeBSD

2006-04-12 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:30:03 -0400 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question was just covered in great detail last 2 weeks. Check the archives for subject What laptop do you recommend? Secondly, you should first search the archives for answers to your questions before posting

Re: [Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4440 Cards: Always causes Freeze

2006-04-08 Thread C. Michailidis
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 Sean Murphy wrote: I have finally come up with a way to use the official drivers That's great news Sean, kudos! I would suggest that it's more appropriate to use the x11/nvidia-driver port, e.g.: cd /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver sudo make install clean Then set your

[Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze

2006-04-07 Thread Sean Murphy
I have finally come up with a way to use the official drivers from nvidia on Toshiba notebooks with a GeForce4 440 Go (and similar) video card. Normally, using either linux or freebsd and the drivers from nvidia (instead of the default nv driver) would result in a hard freeze as

Re: [Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze

2006-04-07 Thread Sean Murphy
Sorry for the formatting of my solution...a few things got mangled up. For easier reading, check out my post on freebsdforums.org. - Murph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: [Solved] Official Nvidia Drivers, Toshiba Laptop, GeForce 4 440 Cards: Always causes Freeze

2006-04-07 Thread Sean Murphy
On Apr 7, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Sorry for the formatting of my solution...a few things got mangled up. For easier reading, check out my post on freebsdforums.org. - Murph I'm having a conversation with myself here...three posts to get this right :) You can find the post

Which Laptop for FreeBSD

2006-04-06 Thread David Schulz
Hello all, i would like to buy a new Laptop in the very near future, and of course it has to run my favourite OS. I have never searched for a Laptop, and now that i did i am overwhelmed with the confusing variety of different Brands and Models. One of the big Questions i am having is; Should

RE: Which Laptop for FreeBSD

2006-04-06 Thread fbsd_user
This question was just covered in great detail last 2 weeks. Check the archives for subject What laptop do you recommend? Secondly, you should first search the archives for answers to your questions before posting to this list. http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ us this url to search archives

Re: Which Laptop for FreeBSD

2006-04-06 Thread David Kelly
On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:35 AM, David Schulz wrote: If there is anyone out there, that can recommend a new Laptop (Price is not an issue) that runs FreeBSD nicely, please let me know, i would most appreciate it. Apple released Boot Camp for their Intel based machines yesterday. I don't

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-15 Thread Wesley Morgan
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops fully working ? I'm a huge

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) Wesley Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything else seems in order. Thanks for the info Wesley. What about ACPI? btw, what resolution are u running X at? what fps does glxgears report? cheers, Beto ___

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-15 Thread Wesley Morgan
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) Wesley Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything else seems in order. Thanks for the info Wesley. What about ACPI? btw, what resolution are u running X at? what fps does glxgears report? I haven't

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:01:04 +1100 David Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12 one with built-in wireless. thx for your time :) B ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 From: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). From my T43: atapci0

What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread freebsd
hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread andy
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. take a look at the P-series from Fujitsu. I ran FreeBSD

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Marcin Jessa
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] composed: I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly. Do you have the wireless working too on that model, the integrated chip? TIA -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com If your life was

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:58:29 -0800 Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been successful with a suspend/resume cycle while running X. It seems to suspend, but never resumes when in X. If I'm on a vty, it does resume, but the display characters are garbage. vidcontrol mode 80x25

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread hackmiester / Hunter Fuller
On Monday 13 March 2006 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone, I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread David Dean
for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA / SATA with no problems all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Looking

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) PATA

Re: gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/11/06, Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List; I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. What I want

Re: gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Patrick Bowen wrote: I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. What I want to know is whether

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