Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-14 Thread Timothy Smith
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: ./configure gets *** The libIDL-config script installed by libIDL could not be found *** If libIDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the LIBIDL_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to libIDL-config.

Re: Box Mysteriously Rebooting?

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Stover
Jeff Bethke wrote: Hi All, I have a host that has been super relilable without issues. Then, I had a power outage. After that, the host has stayed stable for anywhere from 6 to 48 hours... Then the host mysteriously reboots itself. I swapped out the power supply (figuring a fried power

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Stover
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me while I am not at work if something goes wrong with my infrastucture/network/servers? In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my FreeBSD

Re: hidden file attribute

2005-05-14 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Fri, 13 May 2005 20:37:37 -0700, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a hidden file attribute in FreeBSD as there is in Windows? No, there isn't. If so how do I unset it? Or allow certain users to be able to view the files without unsetting it. If by hidden files you mean

Re: 5.4 package install woes... :(

2005-05-14 Thread James
On Thursday 12 May 2005 06:55 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Well, it's been two days now of watching both from work and from home the building of /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and I started this thinking it would be an hour or two adventure for after about 19 inserting/reinserting of disks

Strange kernel messages

2005-05-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
Hi all! I occasionally get these in my daily security run output (which is worrying in itself) Limiting closed port RST response from 1629 to 200 packets per second the number of these can range from one or two, to sometimes 25 - 30 although the latter case is rarer. Usually there's about six

Re: Strange kernel messages

2005-05-14 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Colin, Saturday, May 14, 2005, 9:14:20 AM, you thoughtfully wrote the following: Hi all! I occasionally get these in my daily security run output (which is worrying in itself) Limiting closed port RST response from 1629 to 200 packets per second the number of these can range from

Re: Strange kernel messages

2005-05-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 09:14:20AM +0200, Colin J. Raven wrote: Hi all! I occasionally get these in my daily security run output (which is worrying in itself) Limiting closed port RST response from 1629 to 200 packets per second the number of these can range from one or two, to sometimes

Re: video card

2005-05-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 06:27:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Is there are better driver for my video card than the standard, generic vga0 driver? My video card is a Diamond Viper v550 vidoe card which uses the nVidia Riva TNT chip. The card uses the AGP interface and has

2005-05-14 Thread nana
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openntpd-3.6.1p1_1,2

2005-05-14 Thread Darrel
Anyone have some insight of this problem? ntpq associations ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt === 1 60268 8000 yes yes nonereject 2 60269 8000 yes yes nonereject 3 60270 8000 yes yes

RE: ASUS A8V-E onBoard Gigabit Ethernet Marvell 88E8053 Chipset

2005-05-14 Thread Joseph Borg
Any word on a driver for this chipset? It doesn't seem to be detected at all. I have read here: http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/if_sk.html that it's not yet supported by the sk driver, however other chips of a similar type are supported. Is there any word on if it's supported anywhere by

Re: Strange kernel messages

2005-05-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
On May 14 at 09:19, Daniel Gerzo responded helpfully: Limiting closed port RST response from 1629 to 200 packets per second your kernel is limitting number of icmp ping requests to 200, someone is possibly trying to ping -f you. You can also decrease/increase this limit with net.inet.icmp.icmplim

System Crash when kldload if_ndis

2005-05-14 Thread Matt
I'm not sure if the problem I am having is with the kernel modules I am using (I've tried with two different ones) or with the ndis module itself or what. I am running FreeBSD 5.4 amd64 on an Asus A8V-E Deluxe motherboard, AMD 64 3000+, 512MB RAM. The ndis drivers I am using are for a Marvell

[no subject]

2005-05-14 Thread kylie pye
i need help with my laptop its a toshiba te2100 and the screens black even when i turn it on and have the battery cord being charged what has made this happen? is there anything i can do to fix it? _ REALESTATE: biggest

Re:

2005-05-14 Thread Timothy Smith
kylie pye wrote: i need help with my laptop its a toshiba te2100 and the screens black even when i turn it on and have the battery cord being charged what has made this happen? is there anything i can do to fix it? _ REALESTATE:

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ed Stover wrote: [ ... ] I know some people that run big brother and are satisfied by it. http://www.bb4.org/ I would second this recommendation. Big brother is relatively simple to configure, although it is by design more of a monitoring tool, and is less active about responding to changes,

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Mike Woods
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me while I am not at work if something goes wrong with my infrastucture/network/servers? In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my FreeBSD servers

Re: Loading USB Drivers with Parameters

2005-05-14 Thread Xian
On Saturday 14 May 2005 05:12, William Bloom wrote: I've had occasion to want to be able to load the ucom driver while customizing how it attaches devices. Especially, I have the Qualcomm 5220 EVDO modem card in mind, which can function as a USB serial device but does not make itself known as

ipfilter and logging...

2005-05-14 Thread Per Berger
Hi! So I've installed ipfilter and ipnat with help from the handbook. It works great so now my box is connected to my ADSL connection. But... (there is always a but...) I am confused regarding logging. The handbook says that I can add security.* in syslog.conf and specify a logfile to log the

RE: ipfilter and logging...

2005-05-14 Thread fbsd_user
add security.none to the line for /var/log/messages file to stop ipfilter from logging to that file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Per Berger Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 8:28 AM To: FreeBSD questions Subject: ipfilter and logging...

Re: Replacing hdd in multiboot system

2005-05-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kenneth W Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Can I boot MS-DOS from da0 and FreeBSD from da1 using boot managers available with FreeBSD? If so, how do I configure that? (In other words, replace LILO on da0.) Sure. How you do it depends on which boot manager you use. With the

Re: Hints for small file system

2005-05-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mail.schatti.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you had to choose amongst the available filesystems on 5.4 to contain just about 500kB to a MB, which would you use, and with what parameters ? Which of these has the lowest administration overhead, the lowest space overhead ? Generally I go with

Re: Long-standing sound driver issues

2005-05-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll try this on FreeBSD-Questions first, then FreeBSD-Stable if I don't get an answer here; not sure which is best. I run FreeBSD-Stable (4.10) with two sound cards: a SoundBlaster AWE64 and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. I use two because I can't get full

Re: sendmail NOINET6=true

2005-05-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Abu Khaled [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sendmail[1579]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 279: Unknown address family inet6 in Family=option Comment out that line and the message will go away. Comment it out in the .mc file as well, and it won't come back next time you update.

Re: setup 5.4 NFS install server?

2005-05-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Rikli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With 5.4, I dumped -disc1 onto the NFS server, but was prompted for the next disc to get perl package(s?). So I dumped -disc2 into the same place on the NFS server, but sysinstall continued to prompt for the next disc on subsequent attempts. I'm

Re: openntpd-3.6.1p1_1,2

2005-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Darrel wrote: Anyone have some insight of this problem? ntpq associations ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt === 1 60268 8000 yes yes nonereject 2 60269 8000 yes yes nonereject 3

5.4-RELEASE: mouse won't work (suspect KVM switch)

2005-05-14 Thread Robert S
I've just installed the latest 5.4-RELEASE on a PC using a kvm switch. I am completely unable to get the mouse to work. The switch is a no-name one with two ports (in a metal case!!). It's been fine up until now, though I don't know if I've used FBSD on it. When I (re)start the mouse daemon,

Re: 5.4-RELEASE: mouse won't work (suspect KVM switch)

2005-05-14 Thread Matt
Does the mouse work when not routed through the KVM box? Robert S wrote: Spam Received See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?63.251.163.114 X-Scanned-By: mailscanner.tera-byte.com I've just installed the latest 5.4-RELEASE on a PC using a kvm switch. I am completely unable to get the mouse to

Re: incoming mail access issue

2005-05-14 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Paul Keyes wrote: Hi, Thanks for the questions. I am using Sendmail as an MTA: *) is your mailserver a public service or a local one ? I can't figure out how to configure this. How do I do it? I've tried modifying my /etc/mail/hostname.mc and running: make make install make

RE: ipfilter and logging...

2005-05-14 Thread Per Berger
On Lö, 2005-05-14, 15:00, fbsd_user skrev: add security.none to the line for /var/log/messages file to stop ipfilter from logging to that file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Per Berger Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 8:28 AM To:

Re: 5.4-RELEASE: mouse won't work (suspect KVM switch)

2005-05-14 Thread Wayne
Robert S wrote: I've just installed the latest 5.4-RELEASE on a PC using a kvm switch. I am completely unable to get the mouse to work. The switch is a no-name one with two ports (in a metal case!!). It's been fine up until now, though I don't know if I've used FBSD on it. When I (re)start the

95% packets dropped with Atheros in FreeBSD 5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I'm having problems with an Atheros PCI card (D-Link G520) when running FreeBSD 5.4 i386: 1. I've been testing the card with the computers placed within 4 feet of the wireless router. 2. When I tested the card in a AMD64 socket 939 computer, it worked fine in Windows XP (rules out hardware

Re: 5.4-RELEASE: mouse won't work (suspect KVM switch)

2005-05-14 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 14 May 2005 07:46, Wayne wrote: Robert S wrote: I've just installed the latest 5.4-RELEASE on a PC using a kvm switch. I am completely unable to get the mouse to work. Can anybody help me out of this predicament? I realise that KVM switches can be tricky beasts. Hey Robert

Re: 5.4, switching disks during install...

2005-05-14 Thread Tony Shadwick
It did this to me as well. :\ On Tue, 10 May 2005, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, Was installing 5.4 and decided to pick some packages from the sysinstall menu and found myself being prompted every 2 or 3 packages to take out disk-1 to install disk-2 then take out disk-1 and install disk-2

Saving panic information

2005-05-14 Thread -
Hi, I've had weird behaviour when using 5.3-RELEASE and using KDB (it would try to boot /kernel, which is 4.X behavior), so I'm asking for anyone's confirmation on the right kernel options / rc.conf stuff for a debugging + panic saving kernel. Is this correct? - @ kernel: makeoptions DEBUG=-g

write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Ross Adams Lippert
It was extracting the distribution into / over ftp and said /: write failed, filesystem is full this was after doing a newfs on /. Has anyone run into this problem? I am not subscribed. If I should be tell me. If not, put me in the cc-line. -r

NFS read-ahead?

2005-05-14 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm using an app that reads big files in small chunks. When using NFS this takes a huge amount of time, while I see user cpu roughly at 50% and system CPU again at roughly 50%. I suspect NFS is sending packets for each read (even 1 bytes) and this might generate a big overhead. Is it (or

changing users default shell

2005-05-14 Thread mojo fms
i know you use to be able to change it in /etc/passwd but im kind of out of date on how it is done on newer versions of fbsd.. i cant find any real info execpt for adduser in the handbook.. I want to change a users shell from sh to bash.. thanks ___

Re: changing users default shell

2005-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mojo fms wrote: i know you use to be able to change it in /etc/passwd but im kind of out of date on how it is done on newer versions of fbsd.. i cant find any real info execpt for adduser in the handbook.. I want to change a users shell from sh to bash.. thanks

Re: changing users default shell

2005-05-14 Thread albi
On Sat, 14 May 2005 10:28:07 -0700 mojo fms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i know you use to be able to change it in /etc/passwd but im kind of out of date on how it is done on newer versions of fbsd.. vipw is still valid for that :) i cant find any real info execpt for adduser in the handbook..

Re: Hints for small file system

2005-05-14 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:29:37PM +, mail.schatti.ch wrote: If you had to choose amongst the available filesystems on 5.4 to contain just about 500kB to a MB, which would you use, and with what parameters ? Which of these has the lowest administration overhead, the lowest space

clone cd disk to cd disk

2005-05-14 Thread fbsd_user
Looking for command line job that will clone a bootable cdrom disk raw sector by sector to blank cdrom so its also bootable. Any recommendations on how to do this so? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:54:53PM -0400, Ross Adams Lippert wrote: It was extracting the distribution into / over ftp and said /: write failed, filesystem is full this was after doing a newfs on /. Has anyone run into this problem? Only when I made / too small. Kris pgpkWFG7WRMo8.pgp

5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-14 Thread fbsd_user
I have seen this problem on the questions list since 5.0 first can out as development version. Here 5.4 is now stable release and this problem is still not fixed. I have been using the same pc to test installing stable versions from miniinst.iso every version since 3.4 without any problems. Even

Re: fwd: They are so young and have very beautiful bodies.

2005-05-14 Thread yuri van Overmeeren
There are no small parts. Only small actors.Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.Achilles absent was Achilles still! They are so young and have very beautiful bodies, and now when theyre 18, theyll do all what you want! V1rgin girls, which are trying this firstly!

Re: about FreeBSD 4.11

2005-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
When its runs ask me for login and password and i dont know them.What to type for login and password? Type in your id and password. If you don't have one, then maybe you are not authorized to be on that machine. And i have on second hard disk windows operating system. How to swich

Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
It was extracting the distribution into / over ftp and said /: write failed, filesystem is full this was after doing a newfs on /. Has anyone run into this problem? You are going to have to give more information. What do your file systems look like? Sure I have had that happen when

xconfiguration

2005-05-14 Thread paul klatt
I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the mouse does not work correctly. I would appreciate the help. I am using the kde desktop ___

xconfig

2005-05-14 Thread paul klatt
I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the mouse does not work correctly. I would appreciate the help. I am using the kde desktop ___

xconfig

2005-05-14 Thread paul klatt
I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the mouse does not work correctly. I would appreciate the help. I am using the kde desktop ___

Fwd: xconfiguration

2005-05-14 Thread paul klatt
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: xconfiguration Date: Sunday 03 January 1999 04:20 am From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the

Fwd: xconfiguration

2005-05-14 Thread paul klatt
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: xconfiguration Date: Sunday 03 January 1999 04:20 am From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the

Fwd: xconfig

2005-05-14 Thread paul klatt
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: xconfig Date: Sunday 03 January 1999 04:26 am From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the mouse does

xconfig

2005-05-14 Thread paul klatt
I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the mouse does not work correctly. I would appreciate the help. I am using the kde desktop ___

Re: setup 5.4 NFS install server?

2005-05-14 Thread Steve Rikli
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Steve Rikli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With 5.4, I dumped -disc1 onto the NFS server, but was prompted for the next disc to get perl package(s?). So I dumped -disc2 into the same place on the NFS server, but sysinstall continued to prompt for the next

Re: clone cd disk to cd disk

2005-05-14 Thread Fabian Keil
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for command line job that will clone a bootable cdrom disk raw sector by sector to blank cdrom so its also bootable. Any recommendations on how to do this so? I would chose readcd + cdrecord, but dd + burncd should work as well and can be used with

Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Ross Adams Lippert
I'm sorry I was not more specific. /var has 256MB /tmp has 256 / has 256 /usr has 4500MB newfs had been run on everything. ftp was passive. Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it anywhere. This occurs 3% of the way into the extration of base into / via ftp. I did burn

RE: clone cd disk to cd disk

2005-05-14 Thread fbsd_user
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for command line job that will clone a bootable cdrom disk raw sector by sector to blank cdrom so its also bootable. Any recommendations on how to do this so? I would chose readcd + cdrecord, but dd + burncd should work as well and can be used

Intel High Definition Audio

2005-05-14 Thread Andy Miller
I recently purchased a new computer that came with the new Intel High Definition Audio integrated sound. I can't seem to get the audio working. I tried snd_ich since it looks like this chipset is ICH6, but this did not work for me. Below is the output of pciconf for this device: [EMAIL

Re: xconfiguration

2005-05-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 04:20:12AM +, paul klatt wrote: I am having a problem configuring x in free bsd I am having problem disabling the virtual desktop the desktop is to large for my monitor and the mouse does not work correctly. I would appreciate the help. I am using the kde desktop

Re: Fiber Channel

2005-05-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 14), Guilherme said: How to install a hba device in freebsd 5.4?? This device is emulex model lp982... The device was found, but dmesg show me this: serial bus, Fibre Channel at device 7.0 (no driver attached). Which module I have to load in the kernel?? There are no

kernel module configuration

2005-05-14 Thread Cheng Jin
Hi, Is there a way to compile only kernel modules that one needs like with Linux's configuration file? I included only the drivers I need in the kernel config file, but all the modules got compiled anyway. :( I looked around both in the kernel config dir and google, but didn't find anything that

Re: kernel module configuration

2005-05-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 03:23:53PM -0700, Cheng Jin wrote: Hi, Is there a way to compile only kernel modules that one needs like with Linux's configuration file? I included only the drivers I need in the kernel config file, but all the modules got compiled anyway. :( I looked around

Re: clone cd disk to cd disk

2005-05-14 Thread Fabian Keil
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for command line job that will clone a bootable cdrom disk raw sector by sector to blank cdrom so its also bootable. Any recommendations on how to do this so? I would chose readcd + cdrecord, but dd +

kde kdm mouse

2005-05-14 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I have the latest installation of freebsd 5.4 on my laptop, kde kdm 3.4. The laptop has a synaptic mousepad endowed of two buttons that in normal conditions are not used at all being enough to double-hit on the pad to have the same effect as that of pressing the left button. Now at boot time I

Re: They are so young and have very beautiful bodies.

2005-05-14 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 14 mei 2005, at 22:14, yuri van Overmeeren wrote: There are no small parts. Only small actors.Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.Achilles absent was Achilles still! They are so young and have very beautiful bodies, and now when theyre 18, theyll do all what

LBA and CHS parameters of my FBSD partition differ!

2005-05-14 Thread Marcello Maggioni
Hi all, I have FreeBSD 5.4 installed after a buildworld from 5.3 . The problem is that during the setup of the system a warning message appeared and notified me something about Wrong disk geometry or something like that. I ignored the message and installed the system which booted and worked fine

Filesystem was not properly dismounted (5.4-RELEASE)

2005-05-14 Thread VnPenguin
Hi all, On my FreeBSD 5.4 system, when I do reboot or shutdown -h and reboot, there is always a warning at boot time: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted and fbsd starts filesystem check over / partition (~5GB) :( Anyone could explain me why this ? Any solution for help ? Thank you,

Re: Filesystem was not properly dismounted (5.4-RELEASE)

2005-05-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:14:21AM +0200, VnPenguin wrote: Hi all, On my FreeBSD 5.4 system, when I do reboot or shutdown -h and reboot, there is always a warning at boot time: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted and fbsd starts filesystem check over / partition (~5GB) :( Anyone

RE: clone cd disk to cd disk

2005-05-14 Thread fbsd_user
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fabian Keil Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: clone cd disk to cd disk Its my understanding both of your suggestions only read the

Re: ipfilter and logging...

2005-05-14 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Per Berger thusly... The handbook says that I can add security.* in syslog.conf and specify a logfile to log the firewall. But there is already an entry in syslog.conf security.* from install ( I am running 5.4-RELEASE upgraded from 5.3 via cvsup (which

RE: changing users default shell

2005-05-14 Thread Steven R Howe
or just to be a know-it-all with anither answer pw usermod username -s /path/to/shell I personally use vipw to mod user account info, but use this to add users. Good Luck -steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mojo fms Sent:

Re: can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

2005-05-14 Thread Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: ./configure gets *** The libIDL-config script installed by libIDL could not be found *** If libIDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the LIBIDL_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to

Cannot mount ThinkPad removable cdrom device under FreeBSD-5.4

2005-05-14 Thread Eirik Fossgård
hi, I have an IBM removable cdrom device which I'm trying to use under FreeBSD-5.4 RELEASE. I connect it on the USB ports on my ThinkPad X40, insert a cdrom (neil young) but I cannot mount it: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom yields: cd9660: /dev/cd0: Device not configured. A dmesg then

Re: NFS read-ahead?

2005-05-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Sat, 14 May 2005 19:11:22 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: If yes, is there a way to set it up to perform some read-ahead? Hi, Take a look at the -a and -r options on mount_nfs ---Mike Mike Tancsa, Sentex

Auf Streife durch den Berliner Wedding [Incident: 050514-000916]

2005-05-14 Thread Musictoday
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Mouse scrolling problems

2005-05-14 Thread Roman Shakin
I am trying to get my mouse scrolling to work in firerox, and I did the Zaxizmapping 4 5 in xfree config. And my what my wheel does instead of page down and up it does back and forward button. What can I do? -- -- Roman Shakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) +1

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Stover
Chuck Swiger wrote: Ed Stover wrote: [ ... ] I know some people that run big brother and are satisfied by it. http://www.bb4.org/ I would second this recommendation. Big brother is relatively simple to configure, although it is by design more of a monitoring tool, and is less active

Re: Mouse scrolling problems

2005-05-14 Thread Subhro
On 5/15/2005 7:27, Roman Shakin wrote: I am trying to get my mouse scrolling to work in firerox, and I did the Zaxizmapping 4 5 in xfree config. And my what my wheel does instead of page down and up it does back and forward button. What can I do? Install imwheel from the ports collection and

silencing the boot beep

2005-05-14 Thread Allan Bowhill
Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying beep when BSD partition selector comes up? Also, has anyone got a decent setup for a synaptics touchpad attached to a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? 5.4-STABLE Thanks in advance! :) -- Allan Bowhill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Mouse scrolling problems

2005-05-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Insert this in your XF86Config file (or xorg config file) For a wheel mouse, in the following section of XF86Config: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 add the following: OptionButtons 5 OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 to

Re: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-14 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 14 May 2005, fbsd_user wrote: I have seen this problem on the questions list since 5.0 first can out as development version. Here 5.4 is now stable release and this problem is still not fixed. I have been using the same pc to test installing stable versions from miniinst.iso every

RE: LBA and CHS parameters of my FBSD partition differ!

2005-05-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Well, your skirting the thin edge since you obviously have a dual-boot system - but if a fsck of the FreeBSD partition, and a chkdsk /f of the XP partition turn up nothing, your probably fine. What is going on is your motherboard BIOS is old, and doesen't understand disk drives that report more

Re: kde kdm mouse

2005-05-14 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Vittorio De Martino wrote: I have the latest installation of freebsd 5.4 on my laptop, kde kdm 3.4. The laptop has a synaptic mousepad endowed of two buttons that in normal conditions are not used at all being enough to double-hit on the pad to have the same effect as

RE: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive

2005-05-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of fbsd_user Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive Power management and APIC have been bios disabled