Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-13 Thread Miles Keaton
On 11/13/05, Luk van den Borne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should load cpufreq in your /boot/loader.conf. cpufreq is the > backend that FreeBSD uses for (dynamic) CPU scaling. > cpufreq_load="YES" > > rc.conf: > powerd_enable="YES" > powerd_flags="-a adaptive -b adaptive -n adaptive" THAT WO

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-12 Thread Miles Keaton
> Miles Keaton wrote: > > I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if > > anyone can explain ("for dummies") how to use the new cpufreq + > > SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the > > way that sysut

FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-12 Thread Miles Keaton
I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain ("for dummies") how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5? (I was using est+estctrl in F

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE / 6.0 audio drivers for Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High Deficition Audio Controller

2005-10-13 Thread Miles Keaton
> After spending a few years with FreeBSD, you'll learn to > actually check if a piece of hardware is supported > before buying it. > One of the most popular points against FreeBSD is > hardware support. Taking into account the fact > that many local PC/server vendors try to assemble > boxes using

Re: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE / 6.0 audio drivers for Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High Deficition Audio Controller

2005-10-13 Thread Miles Keaton
> >Looking for audio drivers for Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High > >Deficition Audio Controller. > There is no driver for High Definition sound controller. But you can use > a program to get sound. It's called Open Sound System. It works most of > the sound controllers. I am not able to use it

Anyone using a PCMCIA SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ?

2005-10-11 Thread Miles Keaton
Anyone using a PCMCIA SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ? http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?product=10769 FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE not recognizing it at all, even though FreeBSD hardware page says "snd_emu10k1(4) driver supports ... Creative SoundBlaster Audigy (EMU10K2 Chipset)" http://www.freebsd.o

FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE / 6.0 audio drivers for Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High Deficition Audio Controller

2005-10-11 Thread Miles Keaton
hi fellow FreeBSD'ers - Looking for audio drivers for Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW Intel High Deficition Audio Controller. I got a lovely laptop this weekend : the Asus Z71v http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=5&l2=70&l3=0&model=609&modelmenu=1 Assured by the Linux geek at the store that everythin

new Ruby 1.8.2 makes portupgrade core-dump on FreeBSD 4.10 - anyone else?

2005-01-01 Thread Miles Keaton
The new Ruby version 1.8.2 now makes portupgrade core-dump Ruby on FreeBSD 4.10 for me. Has anyone else seen this? Sorry I don't even know how to do a proper bug-report for this. I'm just a lowly user. :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: for Centrino (Pentium-M) - ways to decrease CPU power?

2004-12-15 Thread Miles Keaton
> Install sysutils/estctrl, works for me. PERFECT! Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

for Centrino (Pentium-M) - ways to decrease CPU power?

2004-12-15 Thread Miles Keaton
Can FreeBSD tell a Centrino (Pentium-M) CPU to decrease its CPU power? I have a laptop (Gateway 450ROG) whose CPU seems to run hotter in FreeBSD doing *nothing* than it does in Windows doing almost anything. So much so that the loud "emergency" fan kicks on often to cool the CPU, even when the c

Re: MP3 Audio CD Burning

2004-09-08 Thread Miles Keaton
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:25:02 -0500, Brian Finniff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to burn a CD from an .MP3 file? If so, how would I do that? You need to install sox: cd /usr/ports/audio/sox ; make install clean Then I wrote this little PHP script that seems to work well: # go throug

Re: newest PHP port upgrade broke php5-mbstring-5.0.1 ?

2004-08-29 Thread Miles Keaton
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:24:20 +0530, Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really fishy. I can't see anything wrong. Did you cvsup your ports > tree with ports-all? If not then I would recommend to do so and then > try the upgrade. And do not forget to do a "make clean" without "s > before starting to

Re: newest PHP port upgrade broke php5-mbstring-5.0.1 ?

2004-08-28 Thread Miles Keaton
p.s. Sorry I meant to say "My portupgrade just took PHP from 5.0 to 5.0.1" - (PHP not FreeBSD) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: newest PHP port upgrade broke php5-mbstring-5.0.1 ?

2004-08-28 Thread Miles Keaton
bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD me.my.com 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #7: Fri Jul 23 15:03:16 PDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/make.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/defaults/make.conf,v 1.97.2.81 2003/07/12 23:22:51 gshapiro Exp $ # # NOTE: Please w

newest PHP port upgrade broke php5-mbstring-5.0.1 ?

2004-08-28 Thread Miles Keaton
My portupgrade just took FreeBSD from 5.0 to 5.0.1 But unfortunately it seemed to break php5-mbstring-5.0.1 At startup and every time I try to run PHP I get this: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20040412/mbstring.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/20040412/mbs