The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-09-30 - 2007-10-20

2007-10-21 Thread Dan Langille
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xorg install problem

2007-10-21 Thread AN
I am trying to install a new system with Gnome and xorg on 7.0 beta 1. Here are the steps I have taken: install 6.2 release cvsup to releng_7 as of 10/21/07 buildworld -sucessful installworld -sucessful reboot into 7.0 beta set packagesite to ft2.nl.freebsd.org pkg_add xorg-7.3_1 - fails with

RE: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erich Dollansky Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:17 AM To: User Questions Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box. Hi, Gerard wrote: On October 17, 2007 at 07:44PM

add application names to the drop-down menu??

2007-10-21 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, Can anybodytell me how to add apps to the Gnome drop-down menu beneath the string Applications? (Upper-left-hand corner) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org

Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-21 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I'd like to upgrade my sendmail version in advance of upgrading to the next release of the OS. I was wondering if I cvsup the version of the OS I want, then do : # cd /usr/src/lib/libsm # make obj make depend make # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil # make obj make depend make # cd

Rebuilding world

2007-10-21 Thread Roberth Sjonøy
Hello, i am updating FreeBSD to 8-CURRENT, and im at the 23.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System part of the handbook, when running make buildworld, this occours: install -o root -g wheel -m 444 dir-tmpl /usr/share/info/dir install:No such file or directory ***Error code 1 Stop in

Cloning a Windows Xp single hard drive to RAID 0 array

2007-10-21 Thread Frank Gaenger
I have a system built on a Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard. At present it has only one 250GB SATA hard drive. I would like to modify the system by installing two (2) SATA 320 GB drives in RAID configuration. I have read the info on your web site about cloning a hard drive to RAID

Re: flash drive question -- can it be incompatible with FreeBSD

2007-10-21 Thread Adam J Richardson
Andriy Babiy wrote: Hi everybody, While looking for a new USB flash drive, I found that some of them come with: - U3 feature - ReadyBoost feature - security software, either pre-installed or zipped on the drive - hardware data encryption Some of them need partitioning/formatting. My question

OpenLDAP 2.3/pam_ldap/nss_ldap: not working in FreeBSD 7.0-PRE!

2007-10-21 Thread O. Hartmann
For weeks now I tried to get an OpenLDAP-server on a local FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box running, but with no success. Within the last 8 weeks I tried nearly EVERY tutorial and there explained setups, but whenever I try to authenticate or find an ID for an existing user in the DIT, I receive either

mplayer / snd_hda / Xorg; intel driver problem

2007-10-21 Thread Frank Staals
Not so long ago I aquired a new laptop. Appart from some issues which were to be expected everything works fine; appart from one thing: When playing videos with mplayer it hangs up my system at random times( Mostly within half an hour of videplayback though ) . The video-playback stops, sound

Re: xorg install problem

2007-10-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
AN wrote: I am trying to install a new system with Gnome and xorg on 7.0 beta 1. Here are the steps I have taken: install 6.2 release cvsup to releng_7 as of 10/21/07 buildworld -sucessful installworld -sucessful reboot into 7.0 beta set packagesite to ft2.nl.freebsd.org pkg_add

Re: xorg install problem

2007-10-21 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 09:13 +, AN wrote: I am trying to install a new system with Gnome and xorg on 7.0 beta 1. Here are the steps I have taken: install 6.2 release cvsup to releng_7 as of 10/21/07 buildworld -sucessful installworld -sucessful reboot into 7.0 beta set packagesite to

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-21 Thread Ghirai
I managed to run XP on qemu, it was pretty painless. I'll try with vista the next couple of days and report back. --- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: xorg install problem

2007-10-21 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, AN wrote: I am trying to install a new system with Gnome and xorg on 7.0 beta 1. Here are the steps I have taken: install 6.2 release cvsup to releng_7 as of 10/21/07 buildworld -sucessful installworld -sucessful reboot into 7.0 beta set packagesite to ft2.nl.freebsd.org

Re: Dual Routers

2007-10-21 Thread Josh Paetzel
lysergius2001 wrote: Thanks. Sort of. I would still like to use the ethernet connection to connect to both the adsl modem and my internal network which uses fixed ip addresses, and have option to use the wireless connection via cable modem to the internet. Does that make sense? Since

broadcom network card problem

2007-10-21 Thread svetimas alien
Hello, I have lenovo v200 laptop with boardcom network card but my FreeBSD 6.2 does not detect it. I tryed loading win drivers, with kldload, converted with ndisgen but always get kernel panic. pciconf -lv shows this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0 class=0x02 card=0x3c2c17aa chip=0x1713144e4 rev=0x02

Re: add application names to the drop-down menu??

2007-10-21 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 05:16:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Can anybodytell me how to add apps to the Gnome drop-down menu beneath the string Applications? (Upper-left-hand corner) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-21 11:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to upgrade my sendmail version in advance of upgrading to the next release of the OS. Why? # cd /usr/src/lib/libsm # make obj make depend make # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil # make obj make depend make # cd

Re: ccache and DESTDIR for ports?

2007-10-21 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Erik Cederstrand escribió: Hi! I'm installing a small set of ports into lots of jails, using the DESTDIR support recently added to the ports system. Each jail contains a unique CVS revision of FreeBSD. I'd like to speed up compiles by using ccache, but as I understand it, I'll have to

/dev/console and syslog

2007-10-21 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I'm having an issue where if I have syslog output something to /dev/console, it comes back to syslog again as a kernel: message. I've verified that this is definitely something with /dev/console, since even if I do : valhalla# echo STRAIGHT TO CONSOLE /dev/console I can :

Re: add application names to the drop-down menu??

2007-10-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:43:59PM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 05:16:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Can anybodytell me how to add apps to the Gnome drop-down menu beneath the string Applications? (Upper-left-hand corner) gary --

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-21 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, i am updating FreeBSD to 8-CURRENT, and im at the 23.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System part of the handbook, when running make buildworld, this occours: Before anyone gets on my friends case he is using 6.2 (i386) with the current cvsup files on a

Re: syslog marking sendmail output as kernel:

2007-10-21 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
So something IS sending it twice, once at pri 22, no flags, then once at 166 flags 17. (Unless by some configuration flukeyness its reprocessing the line). So IMHO its not getting something improperly terminated. Its getting the line twice at different pri/flags causing it to prepend

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-21 Thread Bruce Cran
Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, i am updating FreeBSD to 8-CURRENT, and im at the 23.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System part of the handbook, when running make buildworld, this occours: install -o root -g wheel -m 444 dir-tmpl /usr/share/info/dir install:No such file or directory ***Error

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-21 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
On 2007-10-21 11:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to upgrade my sendmail version in advance of upgrading to the next release of the OS. Why? I can afford the time to start/stop sendmail here and there, but I have to schedule the maintenance window

Re: Build transmission with gtk+ support

2007-10-21 Thread Michael Johnson
On 10/20/07, User Roberth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, anyone sucsessfully installed transmission with gtk+ support from ports? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net-p2p/transmission]# make install clean You may specify the following on the command line: WITHOUT_OPENSSL=yes to disable

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 01:22:51AM +0200, Roberth Sjon?y wrote: Hello, i am updating FreeBSD to 8-CURRENT, and im at the 23.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System part of the handbook, when running make buildworld, this occours: install -o root -g wheel -m 444 dir-tmpl