Re: happy hacker lite 2 keyboard

2010-12-30 Thread Philipp Ost
Zoran wrote: Thaks for reply. I have one in use since ~5 years. The typing feel is a lot better compared to the Logitech keyboard I had before. The only problem I have with mine is that it's not usable with the boot loader menu. It seems to be hardware related as it works fine with other comput

Re: happy hacker lite 2 keyboard

2010-12-24 Thread Philipp Ost
Zoran wrote: I consider buying new keyboard and found happy hacker lite 2 model suiting fine. Is there someone on the list with expe- rience using it? I have one in use since ~5 years. The typing feel is a lot better compared to the Logitech keyboard I had before. The only problem I have wit

Re: Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists

2009-08-30 Thread Philipp Ost
CmdLnKid wrote: On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:17 -, dougb wrote: Howdy, I make this suggestion every time there is a new major release coming, maybe this time will be the one! :) One could argue that with the 2 active stable branches that we have now the freebsd-stable@ mailing list is already q

Re: upgrading ports without recompiling

2009-07-06 Thread Philipp Ost
Ishmael F.E. wrote: [...] . so, ¿how can I upgrade the ports? unfortunatley I don't have time to compile my 64bit system Have you looked at the -PP option of portupgrade? I don't know how portmaster handles upgrades using packages only. HTH, Philipp

Re: Radeon 9250 DRM in 7.2-RELEASE

2009-05-05 Thread Philipp Ost
Steve Polyack wrote: I upgraded my workstation (via source) to 7.2-RELEASE from 7.1-RELEASE about a day ago. After the upgrade procedure, I'm having no luck with using DRM in X11. It worked fine before and gave reasonable performance. Now when I start up X with DRI enabled, both of my screen

Re: remote debug over usb vs. old serial cable?

2009-03-26 Thread Philipp Ost
Ronald Klop wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:22:36 +0100, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 26/03/2009 15:06 Erik Trulsson said the following: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, In the past I could catch a panic during boot via a serial cable connected to another com

Re: Sata disc management

2009-03-06 Thread Philipp Ost
Oliver Pinter wrote: How to can I stop the idle sata disc under fbsd (for power save) ? I searched many hours on google, but I don't find any information for it, only for scsi subsystem. I think a program like camcontrol, but for sata disk. Did you (already) check your BIOS if there's such an o

Re: Burning DVD with files>4GB from console

2008-12-04 Thread Philipp Ost
Hi, Bartosz Stec wrote: [...] Is there *any* way to burn DVDs with files>4GB from FreeBSD console? I succesfully used growisofs for exactly this task ;-) What I did is (for DL-DVDs): # growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0=$file.iso -speed=2 I had to limit the speed, else it wouldn't do anything

Re: Very large kernel

2008-03-01 Thread Philipp Ost
Alex de Kruijff wrote: I noticed that the kernel directory was very large compaired to 6.1. Is this for debugging and can I safely remove the symbols files I want to save some space? Some time ago someone already asked this question on current@ IIRC. Someone proposed to add INSTALL_NODEBUG="ye

Re: 7-STABLE regression that breaks lang/drscheme is src/contrib/gcc/gthr-posix.h 1.1.1.8.2.1

2008-01-23 Thread Philipp Ost
Andrew Reilly wrote: Hello again, [to recap: drscheme, (which is an IDE that runs under the "mred" runtime, built from ports/lang/drscheme (or actually manually from a personal copy of that Makefile that builds the current release: 372, rather than ver 370 in ports)) worked beautifully on my sy

Re: panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block on 7.0-PRE

2007-12-13 Thread Philipp Ost
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Philipp Ost wrote: Hi all, I just got a panic on my 7.0-PRERELEASE box. Here's the backtrace: # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 [...] Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: handle_workitem_freeblocks: block count dev = a

panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block on 7.0-PRE

2007-12-12 Thread Philipp Ost
Hi all, I just got a panic on my 7.0-PRERELEASE box. Here's the backtrace: # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 [...] Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: handle_workitem_freeblocks: block count dev = ad4s1f, block = 7475968, fs = /usr panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block Uptime: 4h

Re: impressive buildworld time

2007-11-14 Thread Philipp Ost
Scott Oertel wrote: Claus Guttesen wrote: Hi. Just installed a new DL360 with 8 cores at 2.33 Ghz and 8 GB ram and 15K rpm sas-disks. When I installed the beta2 from cd 'make -j 9 buildworld' took approx. 20 min. After a recompile of userland and kernel and switch to ULE it went down to:

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Philipp Ost
Jason Slack wrote: I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you have to wipe? Yes, you can upgrade your system without w

Re: kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked -- expected behaviour?

2007-10-19 Thread Philipp Ost
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:06:55PM +0200, Philipp Ost wrote: Vlad GALU wrote: On 10/18/07, Philipp Ost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I'm currently upgrading from 6.2-STABLE (13 Oct. 2007) to RELENG_7. I did the following after csup'ing my source

Re: kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked -- expected behaviour?

2007-10-18 Thread Philipp Ost
Vlad GALU wrote: On 10/18/07, Philipp Ost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I'm currently upgrading from 6.2-STABLE (13 Oct. 2007) to RELENG_7. I did the following after csup'ing my sources: # make kernel-toolchain # make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF

kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked -- expected behaviour?

2007-10-18 Thread Philipp Ost
Hi list, I'm currently upgrading from 6.2-STABLE (13 Oct. 2007) to RELENG_7. I did the following after csup'ing my sources: # make kernel-toolchain # make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL # make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL The last thing 'installkernel'

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-06-27 Thread Philipp Ost
Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: [snipped] Please advice with optimizations or tricks. [...] Did you already looked at 'man 7 tuning'? HTH, Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-18 Thread Philipp Ost
John Walthall wrote: And let's not forget the infamous geometry bug! For me, at least sysinstall > has always, 100% of the time, incorrectly detected my disc geometry. Same here. I ignored it every time and got no problems at all... Sysinstall is adequate, nothing more, nothing less. I don't

Re: kdepim-3.5.6_3, compiler error

2007-05-06 Thread Philipp Ost
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] dentities/libkpimidentities.la -lkabc -lkutils -lkdeui -lartskde -Wl,-export-dynamic -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -ljpeg -L/usr/X11R6/lib libtool: link: cannot find the library [snipped] Do you have that library installed? I had the same problem with

Re: Xorg Modular

2007-05-04 Thread Philipp Ost
Jason Hills wrote: Is there any prevision when will it be on ports? Will beryl, aiglx and stuff come along? Kris did announce it some days ago. You'll want to check the archives of ports@ ;) Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj ___ freebsd-stable@f

Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs

2007-05-04 Thread Philipp Ost
Robert Gray wrote: I had an issue with ripping some DVD's to my laptop before a trip I made (note: no distribution occurred (for the lawyers :))). I wanted to just use dd to do it, but dd would fail after a small amount of data was read. If I first played a little of the DVD with mplayer, then

Re: Do we need this junk?

2007-04-06 Thread Philipp Ost
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? No. Modern i386 and amd64 still have an ISA bus, and devices connected to that bus, even if they don't have ISA slots. Some mainboards for industrial use even h

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-15 Thread Philipp Ost
Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:58:34 -0500 "Nikolas Britton" wrote: We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Brilliant. Let'

Re: Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

2007-03-09 Thread Philipp Ost
Hi all, some time ago Yar Tikhiy posted a message to this list in which he described a way to directly update a 4.11 box to 6.2. The message can be found here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=190896+0+archive/2007/freebsd-stable/20070225.freebsd-stable HTH, Philipp -- www.famil

Re: Stable on Blade server

2007-02-23 Thread Philipp Ost
Martin wrote: Hi, I work for a little web agency/isp and we are going to buy new hw to sustain the growinng demand of our customers. We're 100% FreeBSD-only and i was looking to buy IBM blade servers: can anyone reccomend any of them? models? particular hw/firmware/misc I don't have any part

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Philipp Ost
Volker wrote: For my dentist I'm currently in the process of destroying some tape cartridges (SLR7) and also two hard disks (147G SCSI). [snipped] Is there any chance to speed up /dev/random? Would a hifn accelerator card help here to get FreeBSD produce garbage faster? As there is medical d

Re: keyboard

2007-01-08 Thread Philipp Ost
Cristian Fatu wrote: I want to disable keyboard port ... can somebody help me ? Comment out the following lines in your kernel configuration: device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller device atkbd # AT keyboard device psm # PS/2 mouse HT

Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-25 Thread Philipp Ost
Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: 1) it seems that problem is in /sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.c code rather then in burncd utility (but I'm not 100%-sure here); 2) burncd still does _all_ things which it's useful for: it really burns CDs erases and fixates them. It just incorrectly waits for completio

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-29 Thread Philipp Ost
Charles Sprickman wrote: [snipped] Performace with scp was around 200KB/s, ftp wavered between 300-500KB/s. This did not appear to be a duplex mismatch - unmanaged switch showed them all at 100/Full, put some other hosts on the same ports/cabling and got near wire speed. I just checked wit

Problems with man and less/more

2006-11-14 Thread Philipp Ost
Hi list, I just stumbled across a oddity when I use the `man'-command piped through `less' or `more'. What I do is the following: 1. $ man $some_program This works without problems. 2. $ man $some_program | less or: $ man $some_program | more This works without problems until I type

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-10-26 Thread Philipp Ost
SiteRollout.com wrote: Two questions to kickstart my participation on this list: 1.) How exactly do I know whether I am running the STABLE or CURRENT release, as when I run uname I can only see the following relevant info: FreeBSD server4.domain.info 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sat S