Re: general question about setting up gateway

2008-12-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
Richard Yang skrev: hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: general question about setting up gateway

2008-12-19 Thread Fbsd1
Richard Yang wrote: hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: general question - php5 extensions

2008-07-17 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 22:47 -0400, Brad Mettee wrote: Ok, maybe I wasn't as clear as I should have been. It wasn't that I didn't find php5-extensions, or even that it's difficult to use, but actually tracking down the php5-extensions directory in the first place was somewhat of a problem

Re: general question - php5 extensions

2008-07-12 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:47:50 -0400 Brad Mettee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You're portmanager line has been very helpful, everything that I was trying to get installed is actually working! I only had one problem and that's because Mail-Toaster defines itself as a package without defining

Re: general question - php5 extensions

2008-07-12 Thread Brad Mettee
Hadn't even occurred to me to file a PR. Getting the whole process working kinda derailled all trains of thought outside of alright!, it works!. Good idea, will let him know about it. At 07:35 AM 7/12/2008, you wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:47:50 -0400 Brad Mettee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: general question - php5 extensions

2008-07-11 Thread Stut
On 11 Jul 2008, at 20:30, Brad Mettee wrote: I've been banging my head for 2 days trying to get php5 compiled with extensions OR a way to find the .so files so it could dynamically link them. I've finally stumbled on the php5-* directories in the ports tree and it's compiling extensions

Re: general question - php5 extensions

2008-07-11 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:30:21 -0400 Brad Mettee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been banging my head for 2 days trying to get php5 compiled with extensions OR a way to find the .so files so it could dynamically link them. I've finally stumbled on the php5-* directories in the ports tree and

Re: general question - php5 extensions

2008-07-11 Thread Brad Mettee
Ok, maybe I wasn't as clear as I should have been. It wasn't that I didn't find php5-extensions, or even that it's difficult to use, but actually tracking down the php5-extensions directory in the first place was somewhat of a problem because there is no mention anywhere of it in the

Re: general question re: performance

2007-01-21 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Glenn Becker : I'm running 6.2 on an old but not ancient Dell laptop, PIII 1000MHz, which now has seven operating systems on it. I have noticed recently that the graphics-heavy planetarium program Stellarium -- which runs great on my Debian GNU/Linux system -- barely creaks along on FreeBSD

Re: general question re: performance

2007-01-21 Thread Glenn Becker
Patrick - You need direct rendering to be enabled from Xorg. Check it with glxinfo $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes === must be yes What is your graphics card ? It's an ATI Radeon Mobility with 16mb video memory. I got Stellarium to behave based

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 8:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/All/k delibs-3.5.1_1.tbz... Done. pkg_add: package 'kdelibs-3.5.1_1' conflicts with

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:58:08AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 8:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/All/k

Re: general question about packages and ports working together [solved]

2007-01-11 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 04:13 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:10:59AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 04:05 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:47:34AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 03:38

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:49:04PM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, portaudit suggested me to update kdelibs. Ok I've done it via ports. Two days later I wanted to add the package de-koffice-i18n. The package de-koffice-i18n tried to install also my unsecure kdelibs again, if I

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-10 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 02:47 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:49:04PM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, portaudit suggested me to update kdelibs. Ok I've done it via ports. Two days later I wanted to add the package de-koffice-i18n. The package

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-10 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 02:47 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:49:04PM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, portaudit suggested me to update kdelibs. Ok I've done it via ports. Two days later I wanted to add the package de-koffice-i18n. The package

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 02:47 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:49:04PM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, portaudit suggested me to update kdelibs. Ok I've done it via ports. Two days later

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-10 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 03:38 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 02:47 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:49:04PM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, portaudit suggested

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:47:34AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 03:38 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 02:47 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:49:04PM

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-10 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 04:05 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:47:34AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 03:38 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 02:47

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:10:59AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 04:05 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:47:34AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 03:38 schrieb Kris Kennaway: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM

A General Question.

2006-07-26 Thread D W
Hi I hope I am directing my question to the correct address. Could you please send me a link to a page numerating contrasting BSD and Linux, i.e. what are the advantages and disadvantages to either system? Thank you in advance, Daniel. ___

Re: A General Question.

2006-07-26 Thread David Schulz
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php (good one) http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:30 AM, D W wrote: Hi I hope I am directing my question to the correct address. Could you please send me a link to a page numerating

Re: General Question

2006-02-14 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
M. Cummins wrote: Hi. Sorry about the HTML formatted email. I'm extremely interested in installation of a FreeBSD build on a Dell Dimension XPS P133s 133 MHz / 16 MB RAM, with a S3 Trio 64+ PCI (765) and D-Link DFE 530-TX PCI adapter. I've noted the HCL for version 5 (or maybe it was 6?) but

Re: General Question

2006-02-14 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:35:37PM -0700, M. Cummins wrote: Hi. Sorry about the HTML formatted email. I'm extremely interested in installation of a FreeBSD build on a Dell Dimension XPS P133s 133 MHz / 16 MB RAM, with a S3 Trio 64+ PCI (765) and D-Link DFE 530-TX PCI adapter. I've noted the

Re: General Question

2006-02-13 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
- Original Message - From: M. Cummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:35 PM Subject: General Question Hi. Sorry about the HTML formatted email. I'm extremely interested in installation of a FreeBSD build on a Dell Dimension XPS P133s 133

Re: Mozilla 1.3 port problem - general question about bug report

2003-06-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 11 Jun kusa wrote: I have a portudate problem on mozilla-1.3.1,2 after I updated my ports by cvs : I can't get it to recognize all the dependencies and it throws me this error after checking a bunch of things that are marked as ok After the portupgrade, did you do a # cd /usr/ports #

ICC vs. GCC: General question

2003-02-11 Thread Paul A. Mayer
Hi folks, (newbee, forgive my ignorance ... trying to gain some insight ... ) I have general compiler questions following on a thread in -current after the import of 3.2.2. One poster suggests icc for p4 target compatibility over gcc32. I have no specific need (i.e., no particular program to

Re: ICC vs. GCC: General question

2003-02-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:08:05PM +0100, Paul A. Mayer wrote: Thanks, Kris. BTW: Hmmm, fails to build for me: ( lang/gcc32 port) Why do you need to build the gcc32 port when 5.0 already includes gcc 3.2.x? Ktis msg18950/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ICC vs. GCC: General question

2003-02-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:11:42PM +0100, Paul A. Mayer wrote: I have no specific need (i.e., no particular program to optimize) I'm just curious as to which compiler would be preferable for general performance on 5.0-RELEASE. Can icc buildworld/kernel an ports for 5.0? No. It can only

Re: ICC vs. GCC: General question

2003-02-11 Thread Paul A. Mayer
Thanks, Kris. BTW: Hmmm, fails to build for me: ( lang/gcc32 port) FreeBSD asus 5.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Mon Feb 10 10:39:34 CET 2003 root@asus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ASUS i386 gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc32/work/build/gcc' for d in libgcc; do \ if [