Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This reminds me of a problem I have when using a RS-232 console. When the loader is sitting there waiting for a few seconds to see if you will type something, it doesn't always notice keystrokes. I would have to hold the key down (letting it autorepeat) and then it would usually notice. This probl

Re: tcsh's exit codes

2012-06-23 Thread Johan van Selst
rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > There is something wrong with tcsh shell: > > # mergemaster -V | grep '\--run-updates' > Returned exit code 1 > # mergemaster -V | grep -q '\--run-updates' > Returned exit code 141 I believe this has been a feature of csh and tcsh since the dark ages. Negati

Re: Fast syscalls via sysenter

2012-06-23 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 02:17:53PM +0800, David Xu wrote: > On 2012/06/21 20:11, John Baldwin wrote: > >On Monday, June 18, 2012 2:56:30 pm Daniil Cherednik wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>I am trying to continue the work started by DavidXu on implemention of > >>fast > >>syscalls via sysenter/sysexit. >

Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-23 Thread Dieter BSD
Wojciech writes: > 1) i know for a friend that on some motherboards (it was embedded VIA > based CPU) geli doesn't work at typing password. > > 2) in my case (as well as his case) problems happen everytime kernel > function cngets is used, it maybe after being unable to mount root in > a kernel pro

Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I don't know but here you have another idea, perhaps geli asks for password and stops boot sequence before the usb stack is loaded and keyboard is recognized. no. it is recognized and keyboard. in my case - keyboard works but if i type too fast (which is faster than about one key per second ;

Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-23 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 17:09 23/06/2012, you wrote: my friend switched to linux, in spite of lower performance, on his dedicated fileserver machine with VIA processor, only because keyboard didn't work when geli asked for password at boot, or - for whatever reason - in kernel command prompt activated. I don't kn

Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> > yes i have on of those that have "PS/2 reset" issues " Unfortunately even good adaptors have their share of problems. as for now i already planned to rearrange boot sequence of this server and /etc/rc so network would be temporarily up and sshd active until i log in and geli attach needed

Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Rees
On Jun 23, 2012 7:04 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" wrote: > > 100% HIT! > > yes i have on of those that have "PS/2 reset" issues " Unfortunately even good adaptors have their share of problems. I refuse to move from the keyboard I have currently, and occasionally keys get 'stuck' but it's so obvious