From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 26 16:10:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC44914DBA for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 16:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 19:10:58 -0500 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105DC0@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'NatePuri' , questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: two questions Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 19:10:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What kind of problem are you having subscribing to the mailing lists? > -----Original Message----- > From: NatePuri [SMTP:publisher@ompages.com] > Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 5:25 PM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: two questions > > Hello All, > > I'm having a hell of a time subscribing for some reason. Please respond > to > my personal email at publisher@office.ompages.com. Thanks. > > Q1. I installed 3.3 a day ago on my laptop and installed the ports tree. > When I do a 'make' and it tries to download, absolutely *nothing* is > found and always suggest I manually download it and put it in > distfiles/ > Why? > Do you have internet access on that machine? What errors is it returning? Or did you install from cd, and would like to use the distfiles from there? > Q2. I was able to install X flawlessly, but I have one gripe. When I > scroll > up or down, or use opaque moves it's real damn slow and choppy. Why? > Do I need to adjust something? If so, how. Thank you. > That's pretty subjective. What kind of video chipset are you using, and also which X server are you using? Check http://www.XFree86.org/ to see if there is an accelerated server for your vid card. > Again, please respond to email above as I'm not subscribed, and for some > reason, cannot subscribe properly. Thanks. > -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message