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    Which is your desktop environment?

    Home : FreeBSD 8.4 /KDE Office : FreeBSD 9.2 / FluxBox Laptop Home : Windows Vista Laptop Office : Mac OS X HP: BlackBerry 10
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    difference mounting similar USB drives

    Sorry to bring up old post. I had similar problem, FreeBSD 8.4, with Western Digital USB 2T, and got CAM status 0x4. After reading "quirk" thing here, and some trial and error, I finally found the solution, and like to share it here. The USB 2T in my case was at ugen7.11 usbconfig -d ugen7.11...
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    Xorg with Ati

    For 2 years I had stuck with ATI Radeon HD in my computer at home (FreeBSD 8.2, and FreeBSD 8.4) and it was always end up been used as VESA. Using KMS, using with WITH_NEW_XORG=yes or not in make.conf , adding VIDEO_CARD="fbdev vesa radeon ati radeonhd mga" in make.conf, download radeon source...
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    Flash not working in Opera

    I also followed the instructions in the handbook, and check in opera site as well. I remember opera used to work. Now, after upgrading to FreeBSD 8.4, and using Opera 12.16, it didn't want to recognized it, even the path was right (I tried to set the path to /usr/local/lib/opera/plugins and...
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    The fastest HD cloning

    I run dd to clone boot from live DVD. The reason I asked, because I have check that only 24% out of 300GB been used (so dd wasted a lot of 0z here), and it means, in a day I could only install three FreeBSD systems :(. Because I could only have one system for cloning with live DVD, the other 22...
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    The fastest HD cloning

    I need to clone a running FreeBSD/386 with some applications inside it (the 300G HD was set up using GPT), to 20+ identical system and HD (well, it is 22 HD). I tried it using dd (although it worked, but it took almost 3 hours.). gpart shows ada0 GPT 1 freebsd-boot 2 freebsd-ufs 3...
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    Upgrading KDE

    I read the /usr/ports/UPDATING today and it mentions 20130203: AFFECTS: users of KDE SC 4 AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org KDE SC ports have been updated to 4.9.5. kdemultimedia4, kdenetwork4, kde-runtime and kde-workspace ports have been split, they must be deinstalled before running any...
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    Upgrade to 9.1 broke em0/em1

    I got the same problem at my pc at home (it was installed with 8.2). but I was doing a fresh install (it didn't recognize em0 and em1). So, finally I installed 9.0 from an old dvd (for booting), and downloaded the source to buildworld 9.0 . But I am happy with 9.0 (better than 8.2), the only...
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    VirtualBox won't start

    I got the same problem. I solved this with deleting all .vbox-xxxx-ipc in /tmp (where xxxxx is the user id).
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    KDE4 and dbus can not start with regular user

    I found the solution... http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=109924&start=30
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    Approaching the limit on PV entries

    I got the message from my new office desktop, which I just installed freebsd 9 on external usb, and boot from there. your suggestion didn't work, the message appeared right after boot up, before the logging prompt (it appeared every boot, except single user). I tried to increased to 250, still...
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    KDE4 and dbus can not start with regular user

    I did that, and dbus started at startup Additional ABI support: linux. Clearing /tmp (X related). Updating motd:. Starting fusefs. fuse4bsd: version 0.3.9-pre1, FUSE ABI 7.19 Starting dbus. re0: link state changed to UP Starting hald. Configuring syscons: blanktime. Performing sanity check on...
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    KDE4 and dbus can not start with regular user

    I installed FreeBSD 9 (amd64) and KDE 4 to my USB (the ports was taken a week ago), and I am able to boot from there (my office computer came with windows 7 preinstalled, which I don't like to use). However, If I logged in as regular user and run KDE4 I got message saying can not run dbus, can...
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    kompozer not starting

    Thx for the link, I will try to give a shoot (looks complicated for me). I still like WYSIWYG, so right now, I am using wine and kompozer for windows, they run OK including copy and paste.
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    kompozer not starting

    Anyone know how to install BlueGriffon above (I got the same problem with latest kompozer kompozer-0.8b3) ? thx
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    Approaching the limit on PV entries

    @adri I will give a try. However to know the effect of your suggestion, might not be possible. Since the warning appeared without any reason that I know of, and after the server been used for 1 year+.
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    Approaching the limit on PV entries

    sorry to bring this topic up. I got the error message an 26 18:09:05 freebsd1 kernel: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl. when I check my vmap vm.pmap.shpgperproc: 200 vm.pmap.pv_entry_max: 3234117...
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    Bash scripts for pwcview webcam

    Thanks, I solved it.
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    Bash scripts for pwcview webcam

    I am using a webcam (since it is cheap now, and sufficient for a small room) as CCTV and pwcview as the recording software. pwcview has been set to record in picture style so that a 500GB HD can be used for six months. It's been set to produce around 1200 pictures each hour. To maintain a bunch...
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    WD MyPassport issues

    My 500GB Passport is worst (probably WD upgraded the ROM). FreBSD 8.2 just recognized the virtual CD-ROM part. However, if I attach the USB into XP inside VirtualBox and run unlock.exe, freebsd FreeBSD can see the hard drive partition inside USB (and it does read/write using ntfs-3g), even after...
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