Re: firefox buid error..

2005-12-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... trying to build firefox firefox-1.5 from ports. machine: 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug 15 20:16:14 EDT 2005 upgraded www ports last night and today. mozilla port was updated today agian. port build stops at the same place. pkg_add -r brings down

Re: Copying kernel and OS

2005-12-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: On 12/10/05, Damon Blom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank's. Is there an easy way to install ports on slow machine using nfs after portupgrade on fast machine? For one port I guess you could do a nfs mount of faster machine ports after doing make on ithe port and

Re: FreeBSD starter machine

2005-12-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Matt S. Gann wrote: I have a few questions about FreeBSD. I am just beginning to get into UNIX. I know a few line commands, but really want to get familiar and comfortable with the OS. I have been intrugued by FreeBSD for many years now, but I own a windows-based PC and am not keen about

Re: FreeBSD starter machine

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 12/13/05, Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A way to use your current machine for both operating systems without dual booting is to install a second hard disk, install FreeBSD and select which to boot from in the bios. It's a slight faff changing boot disk

Re: DVD burning GUI

2005-12-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Frank Staals wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nicolas, I forget to say that I'm using Gnome, does k3b work with it? On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Nicolas Blais wrote: |On December 26, 2005 01:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all, | | Can you point me to some good GUI to CD/DVD burning

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with

Re: TFT monitors and Xorg

2006-03-15 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Joseph Vella wrote: I think the most significant hardware upgrade I've done in 15 years was the widescreen display. Being able to have two windows open side by side is a whole new world. This is what I have, right now it's on sale. Normally I'm not particularily fond of Dell, but this

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Peter wrote: No, I have a decent heatsink and a 120 mm chassis fan. I touch the heatsink and it is not even warm. This can actually indicate a problem - if the heatsink is not making proper contact with the cpu heat is not getting transferred = hot cpu and cool heatsink. Might be worth

Re: Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

2006-03-15 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Duane Whitty wrote: Andrey V. Semyonov wrote: Is it possible and what docs do describe setting a mozilla-bin from Mozilla Suite as URL-browser in Thunderbird? Mozilla Suite and Thunderbird are installed from ports. ___ Hi Andrey, Yes it is

Re: TFT monitors and Xorg

2006-03-15 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Joseph Vella wrote: This is what I have, right now it's on sale. Normally I'm not particularily fond of Dell, but this monitor rocks: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=usl=ens=dhscs=19sku=20053YRcategory_id=4009 As a matter of interest what graphics card are you

portmanager and linux-flashplugin6 removed

2006-04-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi I've just cvsup'ed ports and run portmanager -s. Part way through it asks me if it can remove linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 because of the licencing issue. When I say no portmanager quits. Actual output below. 1) Would it be possible for portmanager to at least allow me to complete the

Re: portmanager and linux-flashplugin6 removed

2006-04-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
RW wrote: On Thursday 20 April 2006 22:25, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi I've just cvsup'ed ports and run portmanager -s. Part way through it asks me if it can remove linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_3 because of the licencing issue. When I say no portmanager quits. Actual output below. 1) Would

blueyonder uk mirror?

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi My ISP Telewest/Blueyonder hosts some FreeBSD stuff at ftp.blueyonder.co.uk but they are usually a few weeks behind releases. Would it be of interest to get them up to speed as a mirror and/or cvsup mirror? If so how to go about it? I would be happy to approach them. Thanks Chris

Re: blueyonder uk mirror?

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Ceri Davies wrote: On 2 Jan 2006, at 14:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi My ISP Telewest/Blueyonder hosts some FreeBSD stuff at ftp.blueyonder.co.uk but they are usually a few weeks behind releases. Would it be of interest to get them up to speed as a mirror and/or cvsup mirror? If so

Re: Mozilla plugins broken after port upgrade

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Hill wrote: This led me to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-December/107925.html ...which was exactly what I was looking for. For acroread make sure you rename /usr/local/bin/acroread7 to /usr/local/bin/acroread. Beech, Thank you that, and especially

Re: Can't build mplayer-skins: checksum missing error

2006-01-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I wish it were possible to just ship mplayer with the default skin only, and leave the others in the mplayer-skins port; I always have problems with this port and I never use anything but the default. But that's another issue. Not the answer to

Re: wirless ap detection utility

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Imran Imtiaz wrote: which is the best wireless ap detection and signal strength utility cause i have installed bsd-aitool and used its utility dstumber which gives me the following error error: unable to ioctl device socket: Operation now in progress so is there any other utility for this??

Re: Will FreeBSD run on an Intel Pentium II with 32MB RAM ??

2006-02-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:46:48AM +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote: Hello, I have a machine with an Intel Pentium II processor and 32 MB of RAM.Will i be able to run FreeBSD 5.4 on it ? Where are you? I have a biscuit box and a half of 72pin EDO and old SDRAM... Chris

Re: 6.0 stable: linuxpluginwrapper port build failure

2006-02-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 2/20/06, Chandan Haldar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot for the direction. All goes well until portupgrade asks me to run 'pkgdb -F', which asks me to resolve stale dependencies. I have a large number of ports installed and the dependencies seem somewhat

Re: Invalid address running apps using wine-1.1.8,1

2008-11-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: Hi, I'm getting an Invalid address error trying to run Windows apps under WINE. wineconsole cmd works OK though, and so does winefile. The error seems to only occur with apps that aren't supplied with WINE, eg. C:\Program Files\Winampwinamp.exe wine: could not load

Re: Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Robert Huff wrote: RW writes: Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have been done on a system? I did a portupgrade -arR recently and want to know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't run that portupgrade under script...)

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which is really annoying. FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun

mount_msdosfs -o large?

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, I have a 250gb usb hard disk formatted fat32. With just mount_msdosfs I get %mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 mnt/usb mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Disk too big, try '-o large' mount option: Invalid argument The large option does seem to work: %mount_msdosfs -o large /dev/da0s1 mnt/usb %mount ...

Re: mount_msdosfs -o large?

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: chrisw) % However I can't find anything about the large option in man pages for mount, mount_msdosfs or fstab. Would this be suitable text to go in the -o options section of mount_msdosfs(8)? large Mount a filesystem larger than 128gb WARNING: This uses at

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its

Re: Bios chip update suggestions

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick. I want to find an bio's update that adds booting from usb memory stick. I know the desktop uses AWARD bio's chip

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup.

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP

Re: Portmanager gives me an error message

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade keeps failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I get this error: sudo portmanager x11/xterm -l -u According to the man page you don't need the -u when doing a single port, see

Re: LTSP in freeBSD

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Mbung Linux wrote: hello, Right now ,i'm success to installing freeBSD in my computer,can you help me... please send me how to building FreeBSD with LTSP,i want to make a small networking,before i'm using fedora core 4.0 with LTSP 4.1. Is this what you are looking for?

Re: Portmanager gives me an error message

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:03 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Eduardo Cerejo wrote: I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade keeps failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I get this error: sudo portmanager

Re: Portmanager gives me an error message

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Eduardo Cerejo wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:03 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Eduardo Cerejo wrote: I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade keeps failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I get

coretemp for AMD?

2009-01-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hello, Can I read cpu die temperature for my AMD Athlon 64 X2 cpu with coretemp? According to http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/supportlist.html it includes AMD processors but when I load coretemp.ko sysctl still can't see dev.cpu.?.temperature. Is this even the same coretemp as the website

Re: coretemp for AMD?

2009-01-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Josh Carroll wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello, Can I read cpu die temperature for my AMD Athlon 64 X2 cpu with coretemp? According to http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/supportlist.html it includes AMD processors but when I load coretemp.ko

Re: coretemp for AMD?

2009-01-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Mike Clarke wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2009, Josh Carroll wrote: For (supported) AMD processors, check out k8temp(4). That gives very odd results for me: curlew:/home/mike% sudo k8temp CPU 0 Core 0 Sensor 0: 13c CPU 0 Core 0 Sensor 1: 11c CPU 0 Core 1 Sensor 0: 19c CPU 0 Core 1 Sensor 1:

Re: Screen problem on booting

2009-02-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or so in every line of text. After login, once I type startx the X Window system seems to

Re: Screen problem on booting

2009-02-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On 2/2/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 Since a few days I've noticed something weird. On booting, all the text I see is shifted to the left, so I lose the first ten letters or so

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jaime wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, t-u-t marshc...@gmail.com wrote: if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all other files except that one or two, is there a way to do that in a

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 06 February 2009 02:55, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I think you should be able to do it with a combination of -prune and -delete (or -exec rm -rf {} \; ) on a find command. Substitute your other commands for rm -rf in the -exec above. I would give you a working

Re: Bios chip update suggestions

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:37:55 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick

Re: OT: The official stool for FreeBSD users?

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Mel wrote: On Monday 23 February 2009 10:56:20 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-n ow/ I think it might for a great official stool for FreeBSD as soon as the designer's

Re: How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On Friday 27 February 2009 08:06:04 SERGIO RODRIGO DE CAMARGO PAULI wrote: How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD? /usr/ports/sysutils/eject/ ? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: One USB drive boots, the other doesn't...

2009-03-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Peter Steele wrote: I have a process with creates bootable USB disks with FreeBSD 7.0. The creation of the USB disks is prettystraightforward. We have a master OS image saved as a tarball, and when we want to create a new USB disk, we simply create a single bootable UFS partition on the target

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) .

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Saifi Khan wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote: HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet, except for the following: From HP site, Network Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller (10/100/1000 NIC) Wireless

usb sound card

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them supported in FreeBSD? Also [OT] what is the sound quality like? I find it hard to believe that a device that is available for around £1.50 can be as good as a PCI card costing quite a lot more. The onboard sound chip on

Re: usb sound card

2009-03-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them supported in FreeBSD? looks like it is - man snd_uaudio from manual it looks like it's standard of USB audio interfaces so all should work - unless some manufacturers don't comply to standards. thanks

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: PC-BSD===http://www.pcbsd.org/ DesktopBSD===http://www.desktopbsd.net/ And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes Windows users feel at home: Download something from the web manually, then click next, next, next, finish and have an

Energy use (was installing freebsd on windows)

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it. On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have done an excellent job of course. windows vista runs well too

new package system proposal

2009-04-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all I was thinking about the waste of energy and time involved in lots of people around the world all compiling the same code such as openoffice, firefox, kde etc and wondering how the package system could be improved. Ports is rightly a flagship element of FreeBSD. The benefit is

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
:22 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Ports is rightly a flagship element of FreeBSD. The benefit is configureability and consistency. The obvious downside is it takes so long to update a desktop machine with a normal set of ports installed, particularly lower spec hardware

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Matthew Seaman wrote: Polytropon wrote: Compiling applications in general will lead you into one main problem: Many ports have different options that need to be set at compile time. For a set of n options, 2^n packages would be created, if I consider the WITH_SOMETHING options only. One

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Whitehouse
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time. Make that ports tree available as part of this package system and compile a typical desktop set of ports ... Isn't this exactly what is currently done

Re: C programming question

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have built with a micro controller a system of power plugs that can be controlled through the serial port. I have 2 plugs that i can start/stop and check the status of them. This is accomplished by sending different letters (eg. A/W) to start/stop one of

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-07 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Matthew Seaman wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: You've suggested solutions to a couple of Polytropon's objections, thank you. Do you think there is anough mileage in my suggestion to make it worth putting in front of some ports people? What would have to happen to take it forward? I could

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bob Johnson wrote: - reduced energy use for everyone. I think the difference in energy use would be so small as to be pointless. If I have a system that consumes 75 kilowatt hours per month, and I spend an extra 0.05 kilowatt hour per month updating ports, is the difference (less than 1/10

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/8/09, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote: On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: The drawback I can see is the disk space required to keep several generations of packages online

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:25:13 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Is there a quick way to find out how big are the tarballs without downloading them all or adding them up one by one? I think it's possible to obtain an FTP ls listing and then use awk to get

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Ok here's an improved description of how it works. The key to the whole thing is the snapshot of the ports tree. Everything else follows from that. Build process: A predetermined set of packages is built from a ports tree. The most benefit comes with packages which would acceptable for use with

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Glen Barber wrote: Manolis, Thanks again for taking the time for this. [snip] The site does not yet contain any other pages or info, as Glen is still working on the web content. Please send us your feedback (including problems, suggestions and success stories!) either on the list or

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi guys, When you have a minute please would you have a look at a proposal for changes to the packages system I posted which is kind of a ports equivalent of freebsd-update involving a 'ports-snapshot'. The original post is here http

(OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :(( Thanks Chris ___

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/12 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Chris On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Sure. I'll do a test run with XFCE and we can discuss details afterwards. That's great, look forward to the results Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies recursively not just next level up? Or a port? I tried ports-mgmt/pkg_tree but it only seems to work with installed ports. I don't care if I get duplicates as long as every dependency is listed at least once. Thanks

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Graeme Dargie wrote: My grandmother had a HP that just died too. My brother took the first stab at it, describing it as a likely DC-DC converter problem, and I was seeing indication of a bad seat on the CPU. It was working just fine and for the CPU to become unseated is not likely. I tore

Re: make run-depends-list-recursive?

2009-04-14 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Hi Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies recursively not just next level up? Or a port? I tried ports-mgmt/pkg_tree

graphics card/monitor question

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all, My motherboard has onboard nvidia GeForce 8300 graphics rated up to 1920x1080 (1080p). It has VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. Are there any issues using a 1920x1080 monitor with HDMI like LG electronics W2361V? Eg would this mode need special drivers? Or should it all just work?

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: at first I'm lookings for a cots (commericial, off-the-shelf) solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks. I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Paul Shi wrote: I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc.

Re: Support for Asus MicroATX Boards

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Uwe Laverenz wrote: Am 08.01.2010 16:43, schrieb Anselm Strauss: chips. I can't find real evidence on the supported hardware list whether the following chipsets are really working with FreeBSD 8.0 or not. Maybe I have an Asus M4A785TD-M EVO running with RELENG_8 and it works fine. There

What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi I have a 120gb SATA disk with the following eco# fdisk ad4 *** Working on device /dev/ad4 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be

Re: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it?

2010-01-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: ... That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 is an invalid HFS type. So try a few other things eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Dan Naumov wrote: CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a tiny bit faster. What I want and care about for this system are

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Alexander Motin wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a tiny bit faster. What I

Re: (No subject header)

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
doug schmidt wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Lars Hartmann l...@chaotika.org wrote: Hi, i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use version of software so i could boot form a memory stick? (i have no other

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Frank Shute wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem attached. I thought my power supply must have died so I

flash gotcha?

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Whitehouse
hi I am installing flash on a fairly fresh installation of 8.0 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 GENERIC i386. linux_base-f10-10_2 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5 muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for

Re: Using webcam Windows driver

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers

skype webcam no device found

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy. Any suggestions very gratefully

Re: skype webcam no device found

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Thursday, April 01, 2010 a las 06:42:20AM -0400, Alejandro Imass escribió: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, I have my webcam setup and working

Re: skype webcam no device found

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_

Re: gdm background picture missing

2010-04-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wangjian...@gmail.comwrote: Any suggestion on stepsto solve the problem? Follow the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING when you are updating ports. Another option would be to pkg_delete * and install everything again from

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Programmer In Training wrote: I really don't know where to look for this. I've never even heard of USB powered speakers until I got these (no, I don't pay much attention to what's available unless I have a great need for it). I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 18:31, Chris Whitehouse wrote: snip Unless you insist on an operating system solution what you are really after is a 5 volt supply. What about buying a mains USB charger of the right capacity, or if you are handy with bits of wire have a look I

Re: Online school for FreeBSD

2010-04-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:34:59PM -0800, jt wrote: I've been doing searches for online schools that teach FreeBSD. I've been trying to learn on an off for years but when it starts getting complicated, I get stuck. The handbook don't do allot of good. You can download the

Re: [RESOLVED, for now] Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 21:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... If speakers on USB 2.0

Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto

2010-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the whole process and so on...

Re: Does small bsd cd exsit?

2010-04-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
??? wrote: Hello, everyone, I want to try a bsd distribution. However, after downloading the PC-bsd (DVD, over 3GB) from the web through all night, my download tool gave me an error signal... Then I found it may too much big to some extent. Does a small one exsit, with a full GUI destop? I

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
B J wrote: I have a Compaq Presario SR2180NX, which uses a P5LP-LE motherboard. When I bought the machine second hand three years ago, I originally installed and ran FreeBSD 5.5 without the error message. I recall that it began appearing after I installed and ran 6.3, though I don't think it

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
B J wrote: snip I created an ASL file and located what appeared to be the code block where that value was set. I followed the statements and nothing appeared to be unusual. (Of course, I might have missed something because I don't have much experience with ACPI programming.) I was able to

Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
B J wrote: snip One thing I did notice, however, is when I compiled that file and got two errors arising from: Store (Local0, Local0) where Local0 hadn't been defined in that part of the code. I have no idea how that came about, but it successfully compiled after I commented out that

setting ccache path

2010-04-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi I have just installed devel/ccache. I set up /etc/make.conf , /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile according to /usr/local/share/doc/ccache/ccache-howto-freebsd.txt to include /usr/local/libexec/ccache in roots path but ccache doesn't get used. I think it is because roots path is set

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured

Re: ziz a dumb question?

2010-05-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply (and more

Re: how to protect my system from third party apps crashes

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Sorry sent to OP only... On 21/04/2011 11:21, Michael wrote: Hello. I'm having stability issues on my desktop system running FreeBSD 8.2-R on amd64. It happens quite often that some application (say web browser) goes nuts and totally locks-up my system. When it happens it looks like the

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things.

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 04/05/2011 20:53, Chris Brennan wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerryje...@seibercom.net wrote: Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found portmanager to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case, if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles

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