Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:27:12PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Aloha, I dont use the keypad at all. Keys and Mouse only. The HP Mini touchpad is centered below the keyboard, but the keyboard had regular sized keys which is good. I think if you have a wireless mouse on any

Re: VirtualBox not opening... from 7.2 STABLE, (GUI KDE 3.5)

2009-09-10 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:10:11 +, Jeronimo Calvo jeronimocal...@googlemail.com wrote: But I am getting following error when launched from the terminal: # VirtualBox No protocol specified Failed to open the X11 display! Of course. You are trying to write to the X display as root, but

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. This stick is called a TrackPoint, as far as I remember. It has been common in portable computers built by IB and Toshiba.

Re: DVD-R not recording .iso

2009-09-10 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:33:27 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, on FreeBSD 8 Current I have installed growisofs. I want to burn a DVD R of /path/7.2-RELEASE-p1-i386-disc1.iso . #growisofs -dvd-compat -Z

device nodes in usb2 stack

2009-09-10 Thread Alexander Best
i was wondering why some device nodes appear as regular files under /dev (like ulpt or da e.g.) and some don't? if i attach my usb dongle device i get this dmesg output: ugen1.2: vendor 0x0a12 at usbus1 ubt0: vendor 0x0a12 product 0x0001, class 224/1, rev 2.00/15.93, addr 2 on usbus1 but no

Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall

2009-09-10 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the future we get a much bigger IP block, is there a more efficient way

About DHCP

2009-09-10 Thread Ley
I heared that freebsd will boots very slow if enables dhcp. Is that true? I am a adsl user and I can not get a certain IP, how can I make freebsd boots fast? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: About DHCP

2009-09-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ley pyp...@gmail.com: I heared that freebsd will boots very slow if enables dhcp. Is that true? I am a adsl user and I can not get a certain IP, how can I make freebsd boots fast? If DHCP makes the system boot slowly, then it's not FreeBSD's fault. DHCP addresses are acquired

Re: VirtualBox not opening... from 7.2 STABLE, (GUI KDE 3.5)

2009-09-10 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Great!! I will try running the app as a regular user, as I did add myself on the virtualbox group... Should be alright from there... I'll let u know as soon as i finish my portupgrade -a (thats taking year and a half) lol Thanks!!! 2009/9/10 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009

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2009-09-10 Thread Eko Bilgisayar ve İletişim Hizmetleri Ltd . Şti
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Sites using FreeBSD

2009-09-10 Thread Arvin Zuberbuehler
Hi there, Is there a chance to get listed under Sites using FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nutshell.html#INTRODUCTION-NUTSHELL-USERS? Or are there any possibilities for advertisements on any pages of

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. This stick is called a TrackPoint, as far as I

Re: Correct way to configure an IP range for firewall

2009-09-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Seamanm.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: Am I correct in assuming that I just need to add four ifconfig_vr0_alias[0-3] lines to rc.conf? What happens if in the future we get a much bigger IP block, is there

What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

2009-09-10 Thread Michael David Crawford
Just in case there are any netbook manufacturers listening in, or employees of such manufacturers: What I'd really like to see is a netbook with a regular size screen. I've been shopping around some, and have so far been unable to find what I desire. What I mean by that is that I want a

DVD drive not detected

2009-09-10 Thread Tony McC
Hello, I am currently using 8.0-BETA4 amd64 and I noticed yesterday that my PC's internal DVD reader/writer is not detected at boot time. I'm not sure whether or not this was the case with BETA3 since I don't use the drive all that often. It was certainly working ok with 7.2-STABLE though. I

Re: What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

2009-09-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:54:50AM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: Just in case there are any netbook manufacturers listening in, or employees of such manufacturers: What I'd really like to see is a netbook with a regular size screen. I've been shopping around some, and have so far

Re: What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

2009-09-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com writes: Just in case there are any netbook manufacturers listening in, or employees of such manufacturers: What I'd really like to see is a netbook with a regular size screen. I've been shopping around some, and have so far been unable to find what I

Upgrading 6.0 to 6.x... without /var

2009-09-10 Thread jaymax
I have a 6.0 installation without a /var slice. Instead I have a soft link of /usr/var to a /var@ file. Now I am attempting an upgrade to 6.4 and getting an error condition. I am using Disk 1 of the 6.4 distro Upgrade [Upgrade an existing system] All [All system sources. binaries and X-Windows

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. This stick is called a TrackPoint, as far as I

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as

Problem installing FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE.

2009-09-10 Thread Rom Albuquerque
Hi. I'm having trouble installing 7.1 release. The details of my system : Motherboard : EliteGroup (A740GM-M) RAM : 3G DDR2 800Mhz CPU : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core processor Disk :WD 500GB SATA DVD : Samsung DVD/Writer Super Write Master Primary OS :

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:07:04PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I just turn off the touchpad in my ThinkPad's BIOS/CMOS settings. That's pretty much the *first* thing I do with a new ThinkPad, before I even install a halfway

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE.

2009-09-10 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Rom Albuquerque a_rom...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi. I'm having trouble installing 7.1 release. The details of my system : Motherboard : EliteGroup (A740GM-M) RAM : 3G DDR2 800Mhz CPU : AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core processor Disk :WD

reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-10 Thread John Almberg
My Apache 2.2 instances are running about 18 Meg each. I've been thinking about doing something to trim these down, and I think tomorrow is the day to take action. They are getting out of hand. I've done a bit of research on this. I think the way to get started is to eliminate unused modules.

linux-pango won't install

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
For some reason, the x11-toolkits/linux-pango port won't install on my FreeBSD 7.2 system. When I try, I get the following: [Gathering depends for x11-toolkits/linux-pango .. done] --- Installing 'linux-pango-1.10.2_3' from a port

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:58 PM, John Almberg wrote: My Apache 2.2 instances are running about 18 Meg each. I've been thinking about doing something to trim these down, and I think tomorrow is the day to take action. They are getting out of hand. [ ... ] But what about the set that is left after

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-10 Thread Linda Messerschmidt
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: I assume that some are critical to the basic operation of Apache. I am hoping I can google a list of these tomorrow. Obviously these I'll have to live with. This is a pretty short list, and Apache won't start without

Re: 7.2-RELEASE/amd64 - weird stuff in dmesg

2009-09-10 Thread Alex R
Any ideas??? Anyone?? Alex R wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone could shed some light on the following messages I am seeing in dmesg: 33aarrpp:: uunnkknnoowwnn hhaarrddwwaarree aaress format (0x) ress format (0x) arp: unakrnpo:w nu