Re: Slow 2d performance in X / opera / nvidia drivers

2006-01-11 Thread Martin Tournoy
On 10/01/06, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gimpy# uname -a > FreeBSD gimpy.tcbug.org 5.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 #9: Fri > Jan 6 20:26:44 CST 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GIMPY i386 > > dmesg attached > > Xorg config attached > > Kernel config attached > > I

Re: Slow 2d performance in X / opera / nvidia drivers

2006-01-13 Thread Martin Tournoy
d you try using opera 7.x or 6.x? it those work alright I think opera support would be the best place to be On 12/01/06, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 12 January 2006 04:25 am, Joseph Kerian wrote: > > On 1/11/06, Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Martin Tournoy
> Windows almost runs everything Quite the opposite, try running some application from a few years back on windows 200 or XP, big chance it won't work. > Unix has not matured yet to compete with Microsoft. Yeah, let's just forget that UNIX had stuff like network support before windows even exist

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2006-01-18 Thread Martin Tournoy
Dick Davies => Sorry for sending you this mail twice, accidently pressed enter...(shoudn't eat and write e-mails at the same time...) > So what? That's exactly the same for FreeBSD, even it's core apps. > And vendors rush to support MS' new OSes. There's a very big dump of unmaintained software,

Wake-on-LAN won't work if FreeBSD/Linux shuts down the system...?

2006-01-20 Thread Martin Tournoy
I'm trying to get WoL working, and actually works quite well as long as windows shuts down the system. However, when FreeBSD or Linux shuts down my system, it won't work, and if I manually turn on the system and shut it down again (even before POST is done) WoL will work again(!?!?) I've tried shu

Re: Wake-on-LAN won't work if FreeBSD/Linux shuts down the system...?

2006-01-25 Thread Martin Tournoy
> You ask such a question without saying anything about what NIC > you are using? Forgot to mention that I tried about 5 diffrent NIC's, and 3 or 4 diffrent pc's to... Sorry about that... I've thought about shutting the machine down with acpiconf to, but since I'm using older systems, which don't

Re: forum software / hosting

2006-01-25 Thread Martin Tournoy
> 1) Which forum software runs on FreeBSD? The Operating system doesn't matter, for most forums the webserver (apache, caudium etc.) needs to have certain modules loaded (php, asp, etc.) and/or a database server(mysql, bdb, etc.). Check the program's site to see what is needed, php and mysql are

Re: FreeBSD handbook.

2006-03-03 Thread Martin Tournoy
It's /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile so: cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile should work, although you'll need to set a server in the supfile first... The source will be put in /usr/doc/ On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:21:27 -, Iantcho Vassilev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use one of

Re: Accesing BSD disk under windows

2006-03-07 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:01:21 -, Michael Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:14:43 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Hello, I found an old disk (24 Mo!) and I know I installed BSD on it... years ago. How can I read this disk under windows XP pro? Thank you for your help. Best

Network bridge with IPFW, can't get it working

2006-03-08 Thread Martin Tournoy
Here's the situation: I work at a computer repair shop, as we all know viruses, ad-ware and other mal-ware is a huge problem in the windows world, and a lot of people come to us to have their pc's cleaned up. Some of those programs spread themselves actively, or are used as "zombie compute

Re: Slow floppy operation

2006-03-16 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:50:51 -, Maxim Vetrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've not used floppy in my notebook for a while, then when I did, I found that it worked very slowly :-) Here is the stats: > dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out 1474560 bytes tr

Re: DMA TIMEOUT

2006-04-13 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:53:57 -, Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 13 April 2006 07:47, Wil Hatfield wrote: > I had a similar situation under 6.0. My secondary drive would > throw DMA read > errors at bootup, adding several minutes to the boot process, so > I ran it in > PI

Re: DMA TIMEOUT

2006-04-14 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:57:58 -, Wil Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you use a 80- or 40-ATA cable? If you've configured your drives to do UATA-66 or faster then FreeBSD (or any other OS for that matter) will crash if you connect a second drive... It's an 80 wire. I have two dr

Re: Laughing-out-loud

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
Wrong mailinglist, perhaps, but glad you send it anyway... Might actually go in my mail signature On 06/12/05, Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2005/12/6, Uncle Deejy-Pooh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" > > > Linux: "Where do you want to go

Re: spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and properly connected, both those on the outside and inside. You can also try running from a live-cd, or another harddisk with another installation and see if the problem still occurs, if it does, you know it's a hardware problem and not

Re: kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
It happens, I've experienced quite some problems with floppy's and FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 anyway, if you mount a floppy, pull it out and unmount it the kernel might panic, if the floppy if reading writing and you pull it out the kernel might panic, if you mount a floppy which is damaged or has a dama

Re: Can't reboot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
does the "halt" command work? and the "shutdown" command? On 05/12/05, Benjamin Sobotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > The messages seem fine to me. However, I have no clue why it doesn't > reboot. :) > > Ben > > On Monday 05 December 2005 03:59, Jose Borquez wrote: > > I attempted to reboot

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
Dual-boot is always a bit of a risk to install, backup your important data first... I have good experiences with the GAG bootmanager, which can be installed as a port sysutils/gag, and the website is http://gag.sourceforge.net/ You can just create a boot floppy, and either save the config on the

Re: kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
t; wrote: > Don't top-post, please. > > Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My advice: > > Save all your work before you do anything with a floppy > > Don't do anything with a floppy on critical machines > > Think before you act when

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
On 06/12/05, spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > check this out for multi-boot OS: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER > particularly > 9.10. How can I use the Windows NT loader to boot FreeBSD? > > so if you choose to edit the boot.ini of windows XP s

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
-- Forwarded message -- From: spen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 06-Dec-2005 16:16 Subject: Re: DualBoot To: Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Whatever works for you, the downside of this is that the config file is saved on the filesystem, not the MBR, so if you do the

Re: DualBoot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
Forwarded Well, not entirly, If windows craches, and you to reinstall you'll also need to reinstall the boot manager, not much work, but still... Also, there's a small change of the windows filesystem going bad on the wrong location (where your boot manager is located) and you won't be able to boo

Re: spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
On 06/12/05, Rob Lytle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:19:44 + > Martin Tournoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and > > properly connected, both those on the outside and inside.

Re: booting problems

2006-04-20 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:46:24 -, boy red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have so far installed freeBSD OS and set up the accounts but im having some problems. it just takes me 2 a black DOS type screen and i dont know how 2 get in. by getting in i mean that it doesnt take me to the place where

Re: Window Manager Opinions

2006-04-20 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:48:10 -, Huy Ton That <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a general question; not sure if it belongs in questions but let me know otherwise. I'm currently using gnome2 as my desktop environment on RC 6.1but it is a little dry; What are you all using out there and any

Re: Opinion please on quick and dirty

2006-04-21 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:53:23 -, Low Kian Seong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, Not really a question, rather a plea of opinion. I looked around for a zope howto on FreeBSD but found none, so i wrote my own, and I want to contribute the docs back, but before that can anyone intere

Re: freebsd install on an i386

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Tournoy
I have downloaded the 6.1rc1 iso. I dont mind downloading the release candidate compared to the mainstream because i have been using linux for about 4 months and know my way around. I have to do the following, 1) install freebsd(on a UFS file system) and dual boot it with windows XP(on fa

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0

2006-04-26 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:34:44 -, User Gandalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on a regular x86 PC. I'm using the official install disk. It tells me that there are no CD/DVD drives are detected. I have a Pioneer DVD writer (DVR-110D). That has ATAP

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Martin Tournoy
the /usr/ports/distfiles dir are the source files you downloaded while installing ports. You can safly empty the whole directory You can delete /boot/kernel.old if the new kernel is working /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs can be safly deleted /usr/ports/INDEX-5 can be deleted,

Re: release 6.1

2006-06-02 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:49:42 -, mehmet gogebakan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i would like to install 6.1-RELEASE to my computer , configuration is: 128 MB SDRAM LG cdrom 52x 8 MB Grafic card 40 gb hd p3 800 mhz processor azza motherboard could you please tell me whether this configuration i

Re: Filesystem using tags, not folders?

2006-06-09 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:40:06 -, Kyrre Nygard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! Just a wild thought here ... After noticing how much simpler it is using tags, for instance with my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us -- compared to hours of frustration trying find the right combination of fol

Re: Google Earth... Anyone?

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:41:16 -, Jeff Molofee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: does anyone know how to resolve the following error in googleearth (astro/google-earth) ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> Extracting for google-earth-4 => MD5 Checksum OK for GoogleEarthLinu

Re: Mounting an old drive/filesystem?

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:03:09 -, Reuben A. Popp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, We have an old dusty DECstation (last bootup circa 1993) that is finally being removed from our server room after we do one final dump of the data. If I were to remove its drives to attatch to a mod

Re: HELP! Filesystem EMPTY after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.1

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Tournoy
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:06:38 -, Sven Hazejager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all! I have quite a big problem here I've upgraded my FreeBSD 4.11 to 6.1. Basically, I did a newfs of / and /usr and reinstalled from scratch. That worked. Rebooted in 6.1 single user mode, mounted /, /