Re: nvnet port building problem

2004-12-18 Thread Bozhidar Batsov
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 10:10 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Bozhidar Batsov wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Bozhidar Batsov wrote: I don't see how cvsup again will help. I did it though hoping that my Makefile might have been corrupted. But I still get the same

Re: cvsup newbie questions

2004-12-18 Thread Toomas Aas
Kevin Smith wrote: 1) is there a test utility that I can run that will tell me which cvsup mirror server will be fastest ? I did this the manual way by pinging a few and looking at the ave times coming back. There's a port out there called fastest_cvsup which is supposed to do exactly that.

Re: question

2004-12-18 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hello, You are probably using the shell by defaut csh, you need to do: # rehash Cheers -- dom On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:25:42 -0700, Joel Moross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok im trying to install XFree86 I installed The Ports collection the followed the docs.. To build and install XFree86

Re: Changing hw.snd.pcm0.buffersize in 4.10.

2004-12-18 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:18:27 -0600, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Worked for me as well. Thanks. BTW, to change the buffer size for a CT5880 PCI sound card, the variable uses a slightly different naming convention. cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices:

IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?

2004-12-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
This was going to be a long story, involving why I'm having trouble getting both USB-serial cables and PC-cards to work on this thing, but eventually after Googling around and sorting out the wheat from the chaff it boils down to this: IBM R31 Thinkpad 2656KAM. PC-card slot doesn't work, yet

Re: installing linux lib in FreeBSD

2004-12-18 Thread Toomas Aas
Zachary Huang wrote: I tried to install the JDK 1.4.6 to FreeBSD (release 4.8), but the got following messages: Unpacking... Checksumming... 0 0 Extracting... ELF interpreter /compat/linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found This sounds suspiciously like linux emulator is not working. Do you have Linux

Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?

2004-12-18 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Dave Horsfall wrote: So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3? You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal Alternative [solved]

2004-12-18 Thread Colin J. Raven
Gentlemen (those BCc'd) and List; Pursuant to this earlier request I was ultimately successful in locating a Windows XP Hyperterminal alternative that enabled me to connect to the serial port of a server, but *also* a client that allows ssh and telnet [shudder] sessions within the same

IPFW

2004-12-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, One of our mid-aged servers is running FBSD-4.7 RELEASE. It is a productive server, with lots of clients on it. I have recently activated ipfw, using Webmin as the front end to admin it. Ipfw is up and running, seems OK, BUT I am getting many many of these logs: /kernel: OUCH! cannot

My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Daniel Johansson
Hi, i've had my server up for over a year now and it's been rock solid but for the latest weeks the server has rebooted evert Saturday at exact 04:19:57 because of a find command. I have no idea why and I've checked the cron log and I don't think any crontab is runned at that time. Not as far as I

Re: Variety pack of problems installing 5.3-REL on a HP Pavilion XE746

2004-12-18 Thread Toomas Aas
J. Seth Henry wrote: It crapped out on /rescue. On the SCSI disk, /rescue is 3.5MB. When I checked the ATA drive after stopping the copy, the directory was at 95MB (and the filesystem hopelessly full at 109%). I tried again using copy with the same results. Then, I tar'ed the folder, and

Re: Interrupt storm on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-18 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Hello, I tried the following at the boot prompt: # unload # load /boot/kernel/kernel (- my custom kernel) # set hint.ohci.0.irq=15 The command 'show' at the boot loader prompt shows that the above device hint was set appropriatly. I did this because I set the OHCI device in the computer's bios to

Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?

2004-12-18 Thread David Gerard
Uwe Laverenz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041218 21:39]: Dave Horsfall wrote: So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3? You should use

Re: combining 2 ADSL Lines

2004-12-18 Thread Andrew P.
Hexren wrote: I have the following problem, I have 2 ADSl Lines and would like to combine those 2 into 1 big. I have full control of both the gateway from my LAN and another Server in the internet which I coud use as a second gateway. What I am thinking of is something like virtualizing so that in

Re: Modem/ppp takes 3-4 attempts to connect (56kbps dialup)

2004-12-18 Thread Andrew P.
Ben Washington-Yule wrote: Hi all. For no apparent reason when I type 'ppp -ddial xtra' the modem clicks on, starts dialing, disconnects for some reason, clicks off, starts the process again. It does this about 3-4 times before it connects if it even connects at all. I have tried to figure this

Re: combining 2 ADSL Lines

2004-12-18 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:19:36PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: Hexren wrote: I have the following problem, I have 2 ADSl Lines and would like to combine those 2 into 1 big. I have full control of both the gateway from my LAN and another Server in the internet which I coud use as a second gateway.

Re: cvsup newbie questions

2004-12-18 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 18 December 2004 01:20 am, Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Smith wrote: 1) is there a test utility that I can run that will tell me which cvsup mirror server will be fastest ? I did this the manual way by pinging a few and looking at the ave times coming back.

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d vs /etc/rc.conf question

2004-12-18 Thread Andy Firman
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:00:19PM +, Dick Davies wrote: * Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1210 17:10]: --On Thursday, December 02, 2004 07:39:00 AM -0900 Andy Firman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just took over a FreeBSD box and there is a proftpd.sh script in the

found ur site http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/0457

2004-12-18 Thread Bables Bables
i was wonding how u did this...do u have a doc or some thing on how to set up fbsd? and more importantly do u know of any good free or purchasable programs that can be used in windows to access the freebsd server. i have freebsd 5.3 or that newest on that came out. thanks

Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.

2004-12-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-12-17 23:52, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : system? Autoconf (and automake/libtool) was, as originally : intended, designed to ease cross-platform portability. I'm starting to wonder. But if I want to work on my new project at home, I'll need to come up with some kind

Re: No sound from audio cd's

2004-12-18 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 23:36, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Marco Beishuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how to get sound from audio cd's. Normal sound works fine (from mp3, movies etc.). I have an audio cable attached between the DVD player (Plextox PX-712A) and the soundcard (Creative

Re: Machine doesn't boot after switching from Linux to FreeBSD (solved)

2004-12-18 Thread Chris Zumbrunn
On Dec 5, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: After fdisk, disklabel, and newfs for the disks and the rsync for the data I am left with a system that won't boot. When attempting to boot from the local disks I can't ping the system anymore, when net-booting back into rescue mode I see that

Re: cvsup newbie questions

2004-12-18 Thread Eric F Crist
On Dec 18, 2004, at 12:43 AM, Kevin Smith wrote: Thanks for the tips. For the moment, I'm leaving the OS sources alone and I'm updating the ports collection because my goal is to update gnome to version 2.8. The OS seems to be fine - although I'm sure there are additional bug fixes I can

My FreeBSD 5.3 box got panic: vm_page_free: freeing wired page,auto reboot

2004-12-18 Thread Unreal HSHH
My FreeBSD 5.3 box got panic: vm_page_free: freeing wired page,auto reboot. I need a help. panic: vm_page_free: freeing wired page cpuid = 0 boot() called on cpu#0 Uptime: 7m35s Cannot dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 4 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting...

re: Firefox 1.0 cores while printing

2004-12-18 Thread Robert Huff
Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. Mozilla doesn't yet load libcups. I think mozilla-devel does, though. I have evidence supporting this. Mozilla-devel built on 13 December dumps with a bus error on any attempt to print (printer or file).

X kills su

2004-12-18 Thread Robert William Vesterman
After I exit from X windows, I no longer have the ability to su (to root, at least). It doesn't even ask for my password - it just immediately says bad su from myacct to root. If I then exit, and immediately log back in as myacct, I am able to su to root no problem. I am running 5.3-STABLE,

OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Chris
Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? -- Best regards, Chris Simple jobs always get put off because there will be time to do them

make buildworld dies

2004-12-18 Thread Zachary Huang
Sorry for so many questions. On yet another FreeBSD (4.2), I first did a sysinstall to upgrade to 5.10, it messed up everything because the source (/usr/src) did not match all the config files, so sendmail complains a lot and cannot ssh or telnet to the system. I then did a cvsup (without

Missing /etc/periodic.daily processes in /proc

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Rescorla
FreeBSD Version:FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #2 Platform: x86 I recently ran chkrootkit and it complained about processes that were in ps but not in /proc. Usually these are just transient processed but in this case I investigated and found something weird. Here's a sample output:

Re: Missing /etc/periodic.daily processes in /proc

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Rescorla
Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD Version: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #2 Platform: x86 I recently ran chkrootkit and it complained about processes that were in ps but not in /proc. Usually these are just transient processed but in this case I investigated and found

Re: Old Computers, -Os, Stripping, and 4-STABLE

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:48:42AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: 1. I'd like to know if it's (relatively) safe to use -Os for CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS? Only on 5.3 and above. Kris Thanks but I desided to try it anyways, I set -Os for CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS and cvsup'd

Re: X kills su

2004-12-18 Thread J65nko BSD
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:31:24 -0500, Robert William Vesterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I exit from X windows, I no longer have the ability to su (to root, at least). It doesn't even ask for my password - it just immediately says bad su from myacct to root. If I then exit, and

Re: cvsup newbie questions

2004-12-18 Thread RW
On Friday 17 December 2004 21:11, Kevin Smith wrote: I'm interested in upgrading to gnome 2.8 (and possibly the newer releases of other applications) Gnome is one of the most troublesome metaports to upgrade. See http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ for advice on upgrading.

FreeBSD loader

2004-12-18 Thread Thierry Lacoste
How can I configure the loader of FreeBSD 5.2 such that the default is loading the kernel with ACPI support. I'd like to make minimal changes. I thought I could exchange the values of the variables bootkey and bootacpikey in /boot/beastie.4th but I couldn't find where their values are set.

Re: make buildworld dies

2004-12-18 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:49:53 -0500, Zachary Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for so many questions. On yet another FreeBSD (4.2), I first did a sysinstall to upgrade to 5.10, Wha? 4.2 is very old. and 5.3 is the latest production release. I'll assume the above is a typo for 4.10. I'm

bind+postfix+courier+sals+amavis+spamassian+pop3+mysql+apache+smtp-auth

2004-12-18 Thread tethys ocean
Hi all, I want to setup a mail server Freebsd 5.3 bind 9.0 (dnscahce) +mysql4.0+postfix2.2.20040829,2+courier+sasl etc in the beginning of my installation I am taking such error message courier-mysql-0.45.4 conflicts with installed pakages(s) postfix-2.2.20040829,2 They install files

Re: Old Computers, -Os, Stripping, and 4-STABLE

2004-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:58:22AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:48:42AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: 1. I'd like to know if it's (relatively) safe to use -Os for CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS? Only on 5.3 and above. Kris

Re: make buildworld dies

2004-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:49:53AM -0500, Zachary Huang wrote: Sorry for so many questions. On yet another FreeBSD (4.2), I first did a sysinstall to upgrade to 5.10, it messed up everything because the source (/usr/src) did not match all the config files, so sendmail complains a lot and

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:57:35AM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: Hi, i've had my server up for over a year now and it's been rock solid but for the latest weeks the server has rebooted evert Saturday at exact 04:19:57 because of a find command. I have no idea why and I've checked the cron log

bind+postfix+courier+sals+amavis+spamassian+pop3+mysql+apache+smtp-auth

2004-12-18 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:38:52PM +0200 or thereabouts, tethys ocean wrote: I want to setup a mail server Freebsd 5.3 bind 9.0 (dnscahce) +mysql4.0+postfix2.2.20040829,2+courier+sasl etc in the beginning of my installation I am taking such error message

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:52:47PM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: I checked the memory with memtest86+ and the disc with powermax, maxtors own software. No problems at all with those. Also checked all fans and everything was okay. So I don't think it is any hw error. What about power

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Daniel Johansson
Hmm, I haven't checked the powersuply but I think it is unlikley that it would fail on a find when the box can take very high load and I've done a few rebuilds (kernel + world) on the box without any problems at all. On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:03:19 -0800, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

bind+postfix+courier+sals+amavis+spamassian+pop3+mysql+apache+smtp-auth

2004-12-18 Thread tethys ocean
Hi, I check confiliction package mysql pakages confilict and I found this document http://www.syntheticzero.com/howto/vmail.php and also in this paragraph Notes for FreeBSD users: The courier-imap port in freebsd is kinda messed up with regards to getting the mysql auth stuff to compile...

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: Hmm, I haven't checked the powersuply but I think it is unlikley that it would fail on a find when the box can take very high load and I've done a few rebuilds (kernel + world) on the box without any problems at all. Unlikely

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Tuc
Hmm, I haven't checked the powersuply but I think it is unlikley that it would fail on a find when the box can take very high load and I've done a few rebuilds (kernel + world) on the box without any problems at all. We have a place in CA that assembles our systems, and put it on

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Daniel Johansson
Yeah, it has been rock solid. But if the psu was about to break wouldn't the panics be a little more random? As it is right now it get the exact same panic at the exact same time every week. On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:10:29 -0800, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at

Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?

2004-12-18 Thread Uwe Laverenz
David Gerard wrote: Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop? I'm sure there are laptops, where sound might be a problem, but in general it simply works. I never had a problem with FreeBSD's sound support on a laptop. I even have an old Compaq Armada 1750 here, where only NetBSD and FreeBSD

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Daniel Johansson
Hmm okay, sounds like it could be the PSU after all. Thanks. I think I will try to switch it for another one. By the way is there any way to find out what and why find is ran at that time every night to saturday? I would like to find the script/cron/periodic that run it and see if I can make the

recover from var deletion; mysql apache

2004-12-18 Thread Sean Ellis
Hello, 4.10-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE #0: Mon May 3 16:59:48 PDT 2004 I am working to recover a computer whose /var filesystem, a separate mount point, was entirely deleted. I've put in a new /var using mergemaster, and I'm now trying to restore the mysql databases from dumps. With

bind+postfix+courier+sals+amavis+spamassian+pop3+mysql+apache+smtp-auth

2004-12-18 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:10:22PM +0200 or thereabouts, tethys ocean wrote: I set that but I need pop3 because we have got a lots of virtual host I must look for pop3 competible with courier-imap isnt it?! courier-imap is able to serve its maildirs (no, not mbox) using IMAP

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:12:58PM +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: Yeah, it has been rock solid. But if the psu was about to break wouldn't the panics be a little more random? As it is right now it get the exact same panic at the exact same time every week. ...during a time when the hard

Re: My server gets kernel panic every 7th day

2004-12-18 Thread Daniel Johansson
Yeah, I've ran locate.updatedb ten times in a row, rebuilt kernel + world twice and done a cat /dev/uranom tmp for some Gigs and nothing makes it crash :/ On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:46:45 -0800, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:12:58PM +0100, Daniel Johansson

Firefox headaches

2004-12-18 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Something's not right with firefox. Now that I've got the printing problems more or less solved, it crashes almost every time I hit a page with flash. I've got the latest (from ports updated yesterday) native, and flashplugin-firefox port. Certain websites crash or lock it up at seemingly

Re: Firefox headaches

2004-12-18 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 21:53, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Something's not right with firefox. Now that I've got the printing problems more or less solved, it crashes almost every time I hit a page with flash. I've got the latest (from ports updated yesterday) native, and flashplugin-firefox port.

Runaway Apache

2004-12-18 Thread Mark Edwards
In the last week or so, my FreeBSD 4.10p5 server has started locking up every day or so, to the point where it becomes unusable and must be rebooted to resume service. I've noticed that when it happens, the following type of thing appears in /var/log/httpd-error.log [Sat Dec 18 13:00:18 2004]

Re: recover from var deletion; mysql apache

2004-12-18 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:20:27PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: I am working to recover a computer whose /var filesystem, a separate mount point, was entirely deleted. sudo mysql mysql mySQL.mysql.dump I get an error of ERROR 1049: Unknown database 'mysql' Also, although the web server

Free NCD Explora 451's to a good home

2004-12-18 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys/Gals, I have an old NCD Explora 451 thin client I no longer have room for, as well as a copy of NCDware 5.1.140. (It's on a CD-R, but rest assured, it is a real, licensed copy from NCD). I also have another 451, but I think it has a bad ethernet port - it doesn't pass a self-diagnostic.

Re: ipfw count equivalent for pf

2004-12-18 Thread patrick
So, are there any pf users who can help me write two simple rules to pass through traffic in and out on an interface such that I'll be able to gather statistics? I've read through all the man pages and help on OpenBSD's pf pages, but I am not clear on how to achieve what I want. Patrick On Thu,

Re: Sendmail: host name lookup failure

2004-12-18 Thread Paul A. Hoadley
Hello, On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:32:58AM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: I have a series of mails in the queue, failing on delivery attempts like this: Dec 16 11:19:08 bert sendmail[1043]: iBF403Wb004664: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Identical hard drives, different disklabel sectors/cylinders

2004-12-18 Thread wbwither
Hi all, I've got a problem question about my hard drives. I've installed two brand-new Western Digital 250GB drives on the same channel of a Maxtor-branded PCI/IDE controller (Promise chipset). I've tried different channels, different cables, and using the motherboard's IDE controller --

Re: FreeBSD loader

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
How can I configure the loader of FreeBSD 5.2 such that the default is loading the kernel with ACPI support. with ACPI is the default, is it not? -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

-stable

2004-12-18 Thread Paul
hi, i currently installed 4.10-release and cvsup to get -stable but it gave me 4.11-prelease is there a current tag that allow me to get 4.10-stable? regards, paul ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: -stable

2004-12-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:12:19AM +1100, Paul wrote: hi, i currently installed 4.10-release and cvsup to get -stable but it gave me 4.11-prelease is there a current tag that allow me to get 4.10-stable? This is a FAQ; please read the handbook entry about how the -stable branches work. Kris

cd bake oven - weird error

2004-12-18 Thread Ben Paley
Hello, I'm trying to use cdbakeoven-1.8.9_6 under FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Dec 18 20:09:01 My /tmp isn't really big enough for cdbakeoven to use as a working directory: when I try I get filesystem full errors, so that's no good. But when I try to choose another directory (/usr/tmp, I've

Re: Firefox headaches

2004-12-18 Thread O. Hartmann
Marco Beishuizen schrieb: On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 21:53, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Something's not right with firefox. Now that I've got the printing problems more or less solved, it crashes almost every time I hit a page with flash. I've got the latest (from ports updated yesterday) native, and

Re: recover from var deletion; mysql apache

2004-12-18 Thread Sean Ellis
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:26:13PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:20:27PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libmm.so.13 not found mysql is now cooperating after running mysql_install_db and then being restarted, . But I am left with

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Chris wrote: Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? I think the access to the other mails is missing. The main problem will be

Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?

2004-12-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Uwe Laverenz wrote: You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is quite necessary on a notebook. I downloaded the 5.3 mini-install ISO and tried it out, and yes, it finds a lot

Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?

2004-12-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, David Gerard wrote: Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop? Sound is not one of my priorities (as long as the speakers go beep), but a working PC-card slot (so I can lose the umbilical cord in favour of a WiFi connection back to my server) and USB-serial cables (so I

Re: Identical hard drives, different disklabel sectors/cylinders

2004-12-18 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 December 2004 00:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got a problem question about my hard drives. I've installed two brand-new Western Digital 250GB drives on the same channel of a Maxtor-branded PCI/IDE controller (Promise

Re: FreeBSD loader

2004-12-18 Thread Thierry Lacoste
How can I configure the loader of FreeBSD 5.2 such that the default is loading the kernel with ACPI support. with ACPI is the default, is it not? No. When I let the loader timeout, it does not load the acpi.ko module. This is the second choice. This is the way /boot/beastie.4th

linux-base borked?

2004-12-18 Thread Dick Davies
just a quick sanity check - I'm trying to install linux stuff, and getting security warnings from portaudit about linux-base-7 having xpm vulns. Is that right? -- 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use regular expressions. Now they have two problems.'

Re: (cvsup newbie questions)

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
Joshua Tinnin wrote: Well, if you build a port with make options once, then it will remember your make options. Otherwise, you can enter make arguments in /etc/pkgtools.conf, although this only helps if you know what arguments the ports you're installing might need. What do you mean it

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Chris
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Chris wrote: Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? I think the access to the other mails is missing. The

migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
Need some advice here... I would like to change my mail client from thunderbird to a text based client so I can email from anywhere using just ssh (don't like web based clients, too slow). I would like to try mutt being that it's a very popular text client but I have many questions about it. so

system insists it's up to date (xpm woes)

2004-12-18 Thread Mark
Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble with ports and packages: # cd /usr/ports/graphics/xpdf/ # make install clean distclean === xpdf-3.00_4 depends on executable: freetype-config - found === xpdf-3.00_4 depends on executable: gmake - found === xpdf-3.00_4 depends on file:

Re: system insists it's up to date (xpm woes)

2004-12-18 Thread Mark
Just to clarify, the ports tree was cvsup'd about fifteen minutes ago and the same goes for portupgrade/etc. mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

MD driver on physical ram? (64MB cachable problem)

2004-12-18 Thread Peter Zelezny
Hi All, Would it be possible to use the 'md' driver on a physical address? I'm particularly interested if someone has some hacks or custom patches that would allow this. The problem I have on some old hardware is that the chipset can only cache the first 64MB in L2, but the machine has 128MB

Re: Re[2]: combining 2 ADSL Lines

2004-12-18 Thread Aaron Nichols
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:40:56 +0100, Hexren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this not be circumvented by using a server in the Internet as second Gateway. If I route all traffic (both lines) from my LAN Gateway through a VPN to a second Gateway NAT it there and only then go to the Internet.

Silicon Image 3114

2004-12-18 Thread John Barbieri
Hey there. I want to run a RAID 0 array on a Silicon Image 3114 SATA RAID adapter, but cant find drivers. I found some links on how to patch the kernel, but they dont tell you how to do that, or what needs to be done to do it. Does anyone have an idea, or can point me in the direction, on how

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Chris wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Chris wrote: Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? I think the access to the other mails

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Dec 18, Chris launched this into the bitstream: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Chris wrote: Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? I