From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 15:51:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251A716A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:51:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7DF43D48 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:51:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4OFpPJA056330; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:51:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EEF77617A; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:51:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:51:24 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it Message-ID: <20050524155124.GA19377@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <428BB4F80002D437@ims1d.cp.tin.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <428BB4F80002D437@ims1d.cp.tin.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Articles, Tutorials & hardware setting in loader.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 15:51:27 -0000 --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:33:10PM +0200, vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it wrote: > As a newbye I just need a pointer, a hint to the following two subjects: >=20 > 1) Where can I find a clear explanationt on how to use the many, > multilingual articles, books, tutorials and documentation coming with > a standard 5.4 version (in sgml format). In a nutshell, how can I > obtain a "readable" article or tutorial starting fron those files? Normally HTML and plain text formats of the italic translations are installed in /usr/share/doc/it_IT.ISO8859-15/. English docs can be found in /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/. > 2) Trying to solve a problem with my touchpad mouse I had to add > hw.psm.flags=3D"0x100" into /boot/loader.conf.=20 The meaning of the flags for the psm driver is explained in the psm manpage. Execute 'man psm' from the console or xterm. > I tried hard googling to find a complete explanation on those commands > that I understand prevent from rebuilding kernels with specific > options, but I only met fragmentary stuff not a complete view on the > subject. Have you anything to suggest? The so-called sysctl above as nothing to do with recompiling the kernel. It is just one of the many kernel parameters that can be changed without recompiling the kernel. See 'man sysctl'. HTH, Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCk018EnfvsMMhpyURAvZRAJ4omqRqBlaxBPwXkq7GAs37Dbr/hACfQN/l Jmn6txW7kCJOoXAfmRHFpQM= =j9zb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO--