Advice on integrated video on friends system

2005-03-15 Thread James Earl
Hi, A good friend of mine asked me to setup FreeBSD and GNOME on his home computer for his family to use. It is an old IBM Aptiva. The usual stuff works, but of course it has to have integrated video: ATI Rage Pro Turbo chipset. I'm running the latest Xorg in the ports tree and started with a c

Re: Advice on integrated video on friends system

2005-03-15 Thread James Earl
er <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd start by getting the specs for the monitor and manually entering > them into the xorg.conf file. This looks to me like the case of the > monitor shutting itself down because the sync is out of the supported > range. > > man xorg.con

Re: Advice on integrated video on friends system

2005-03-15 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:46:10 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know about Xorg and hardware compatibility for an ATI Rage Pro > chip, but from what you are describing I would tend to point to an > issue with the monitor settings rather than the video card itself. If > t

Re: accounting package

2005-03-16 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:30:06 -0500, Harry Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a client server accounting package for industrial equipment > dealers and distributors that will handle serialized whole good inventory, > parts inventory and a service shop. Text based Unix or Linux platf

vmstat output

2004-01-18 Thread James Earl
When the output from 'vmstat -i' has plus signs after a device, does it have the same/similar meaning as the plus signs in 'systat 1 -vmstat'? For example: irq11: cbb0 an0 130561 59 James ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: why all my devices on my Thinkpad wish to use IRQ 11?

2004-01-18 Thread James Earl
Quoting Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello. I recently brought a new Thinkpad T40 notebook and installed FreeBSD > > 5.2 RELEASE on it. Now on this notebook it seems every device is trying to > use irq 11, making every drive timeout. > > The irq 11 devices are: > #dmesg | grep "irq 11"

Re: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread James Earl
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 07:25, Eric F Crist wrote: > What do people here use to edit HTML documents? I usually use Dreamweaver, > but I haven't gotten the time to try to get wine working so I can run > Dreamweaver on FreeBSD. > TIA I use the Bluefish gtk2 web editor almost everyday (www/bluefish-

Re: Port Forwarding

2004-01-19 Thread James Earl
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:58, Rishi Chopra wrote: > What I want to do: (1) Change firewall type from 'OPEN' to 'SIMPLE' and > (2) Forward ports 412 and 5800 to my Win2k box. > > What I have: The setup is pictured below. > IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, IPDIVERT and IPFILTER are all enabled in >

RE: Web Editing?

2004-01-19 Thread James Earl
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:03, fbsd_user wrote: > Are all the html editors people have been talking about in this > thread run on the X desktop? > Do any of then work without X, just from the command line? Yes, Emacs will run with or without XFree86. James ___

Re: Port Forwarding

2004-01-19 Thread James Earl
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:58, Rishi Chopra wrote: > Here's the rc.firewall file, with comments trimmed for formatting: > > [Ss][Ii][Mm][Pp][Ll][Ee]) > > > # set these to your outside interface network and netmask and ip > oif="rl0" > omask="255.255.

Re: Port Forwarding

2004-01-20 Thread James Earl
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:04, Rishi Chopra wrote: > No, those are the values in the file. I had posted a previous question > to the list asking what the right values should be (my rl0 interface is > configured via DHCP) - any ideas what I should put in this section? > > J

Re: Port Forwarding

2004-01-20 Thread James Earl
y the gateway for DNS requests) what do I need to do? What would > the rule look like? > > James Earl wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 13:58, Rishi Chopra wrote: > > > >>What I want to do: (1) Change firewall type from 'OPEN' to 'SIMPLE

Re: how to config FBSD pc to work on non-dhcp lan

2004-01-20 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:27, fbsd_user wrote: > Have FBSD gateway connected to internet with private Lan behind it. > Manually configured an MS/Windows on Lan. > Now trying to add FBSD PC to Lan. > > Put ifconfig statement in rc.conf to assign PC it's Lan IP address. > Loaded resolv.conf with IP

Re: no more wireless

2004-01-20 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:56, Kenzo wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew L. Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Kenzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:29 PM > Subject: Re: no more wireless > > > > > > Is it possible that your pcmcia conf

Re: Port Forwarding

2004-01-22 Thread James Earl
If the variables for the 'SIMPLE' rules are setup properly, 'SIMPLE' should be no different than using 'OPEN' from your win2k's perspective. This is assuming you don't have a broken rc.firewall file. Looking at your original post, your sample was missing the 'onet' variable. # set these to your

Re: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and X11R6 build on 5.0-CURRENT in one set

2003-02-04 Thread James Earl
My 4.7-RELEASE XFree86 also states 5.0-CURRENT. I installed the XFree86 distribution using /stand/sysinstall. Everything works fine. :) On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:08:15 -0500 Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 9:15 PM +0700 1/16/02, Pavel Burovsky wrote: > >Excuse me for, perhaps, p

Re: portupgrading problems

2003-02-04 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 10:00:23 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some time ago I chose FreeBSD over all other *nix systems because I found > the system better managed, easier to administrate, better supported and > simpler to update and upgrade both the OS and the programs - especially > through p

Re: Can't run "newaliases"

2003-02-04 Thread James Earl
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:56:04 -0800 (PST) "Michael K. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All: > > I'm trying to run the "newaliases" command which worked fine the last time > I ran it some time ago. Also, if I copy the aliases file to another > machine and run it there it works with no trou

Re: BBS

2003-02-05 Thread James Earl
You may want to also check out: net/citadel I used to run Citadel+, so I'm not sure how Citadel/UX differs, plus that was a few years back :) On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:10:57 -0800 Remington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a side project i would love to start my own telnet(ssh) BBS box using > Fre

Re: advise on gateway-setup

2002-10-02 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:03:51 -0400 "Michael H. Semcheski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Ok. After this little self promo its time for my questions. > >The building I live in has 200+ apartments which in near future will > >share an (I hope) powerful internet connection. Now I was put in-c

Setting up a web server the proper way

2002-10-05 Thread James Earl
In reading the tuning manpage I came across the section entitled "STRIPING DISKS," and it suggests "you should only stripe partitions that require serious I/O performance, typicallly /var, /home, or custom partitions used to hold databases and web pages." I only have a single drive to begin wit

Re: Dual-Homed

2002-10-08 Thread James Earl
I'm not sure if I totally understand... I'm trying. Perhaps you want your FreeBSD machine to be a bridge, not a gateway? On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 17:02:37 -0400 Steven King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need help trying to get my FreeBSD machine dual-homed. I will try to > explain the situation a

Re: Dual-Homed

2002-10-08 Thread James Earl
rface2 from the internet nor > can you reach the internet from interface2.. I can only get to other > machines that are on the same subnet as interface2.. > > > James Earl wrote: > > >I'm not sure if I totally understand... I'm trying. Perhaps you want you

Re: faxserver

2002-10-09 Thread James Earl
mgetty+sendfax We use HylaFAX here at our office, and have had great success. Initially we had problems with reliability because of the modem we were using. We changed to a different modem (Multitech MT1932ZDX) and we rairly see dropped connections. Good luck. On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:56:42 +0

Re: Dual-Homed

2002-10-09 Thread James Earl
want them to go through. The only thing that I'm aware of that comes close to this, is natd, but I've only set that up so it redirects incoming traffic destined to port whatever, to a specific machine on the LAN. I don't see why it couldn't work in the reverse for you. Y

Stand-alone or combo web server/gateway

2002-10-11 Thread James Earl
I recently setup two FreeBSD machines. One a dual-homed gateway running natd and ipfw of course, the other a web server running apache2. The dual-homed gateway is hooked up to an ADSL Internet connection, and the web server sits behind the gateway machine, and has all port 80 traffic forwarded

Virtual host aliases and ip forwarding

2002-11-15 Thread James Earl
I'm looking into different ways to connect an Internet connected machine to a local network while still preserving the security of the internal network to some degree. I am not very familiar with virtual host aliases, but I'm trying to understand. If I had a real ip address, and an alias ip addr

Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem

2002-11-19 Thread James Earl
> > When I know try to send a mail to 'userone' with 'mail -v userone' > > I get the following error (same error in /var/spool/clientmqueue): > > userone... Connecting to localhost.mydomain. via relay... > > userone... Deferred: Connection refused by localhost.mydomain. > > One more thing to add:

Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem

2002-11-20 Thread James Earl
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:25:49AM +0100, Mark wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "James Earl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:29 PM > Subject: Re: Basic mail and Sendmail problem > >

Re: CVSup over an SSH tunnel

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
You bet you can. ssh -2 -N -f -L [localhost port]:[cvsup-server-ip]:[cvsup-server-port] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For example: ssh -2 -N -f -L 6000:cvsup.ca.freebsd.org:5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you'd simply change your supfile to point to localhost, and possibly use the -p [port] option on the co

Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
I'm in the process of setting up primary and secondary name servers. This is my first time setting up named so I'm kinda a newbie in this area. My question is in regards to in-addr.arpa entries in named.conf and zone files. In the FreeBSD Handbook and alot of other resources, I've noticed ho

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
On 2003.03.27 11:38 Victor Bondarenko wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:31:54AM -0700, James Earl wrote: [...] > Or, do I even need to worry about reverse DNS entries since my ISP > already has them setup? If your ISP has reverse DNS for your IP(s), there's really no point in you mapp

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
Thanks for the help everyone! From your suggestions, it appears reverse DNS is setup properly. Now if only my ISP could provide as good of support, as all of you provided me! :) James ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
Thanks for the help everyone! From your suggestions, it appears reverse DNS is setup properly. Now if only my ISP could provide as good of support, as all of you provided me! :) James ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Reverse DNS and single IP address space

2003-03-27 Thread James Earl
- Original Message - From: "Victor Bondarenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "James Earl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jaime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "James Earl" <[EM

Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-24 Thread James Earl
Hi, I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any experiences or development plans? My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD gets just past the boot menu and then stops. OpenBSD boots further but not all the way, and

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread James Earl
PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Earl >Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Intel Mac experiences > > >Hi, > >I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting >FreeBSD inst

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread James Earl
es the screen go blank, etc.) Ohh, and as Ted was saying, MacOS X is built on BSD :) James Earl wrote: > I'm not joking. This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it? > > On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Please tell me your joking, do

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread James Earl
es appear at the bottom of the screen after the boot menu, does the screen go blank, etc.) Ohh, and as Ted was saying, MacOS X is built on BSD :) James Earl wrote: > I'm not joking. This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it? > > On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-25 Thread James Earl
ork with. At first glance, sounds like a hardware driver issue, but by knowing nothing about you or your computer then that you have an intel mac that is hanging after boot, then no real help can be offered. James Earl wrote: > Do you have an Intel Mac? > > On 5/25/06, Adrian Pavone <[EMAIL

Re: Intel Mac experiences

2006-05-26 Thread James Earl
On 5/26/06, vayu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can understand the desire. OS X does have a polished and beautiful desktop environment, but it is not FreeBSD. If money were no object for me, I would want a Macbook Pro with a triple boot of OS X, Win XP and FreeBSD. Back to the original topic: Ja

ftpd.conf chroot not working

2006-08-24 Thread James Earl
I'm having problems getting the /etc/ftpd.conf chroot command to work. However, if I append a directory after the username in /etc/ftpchroot that does work. It seems like ftpd.conf isn't even getting used. The reason I want to use ftpd.conf is it supposidly allows the use of escape strings such