Re: Graphics Performance with the new KMS Driver...

2012-07-18 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Jakub Lach wrote: > Hey, 60fps looks like it's synced to your refresh rate. > > Do you have at least > > > > > > > > > > in .drirc ? > > I had not changed driconf from the default config, so this might explain the frame

Graphics Performance with the new KMS Driver...

2012-07-16 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 9-stable on a new desktop machine equipped with an i3 2120 CPU (HD Graphics 2000). I compiled xorg with WITH_NEW_XORG=true and WITH_KMS=true, following the instructions on http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU . Xorg seems to be running without crashing and I have confirme

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
For me it is the lack of support for suspend/resume on laptops. I don't want to turn off my laptop when I am in the middle of doing something but need to put the laptop aside. I love using FreeBSD on servers, workstations and even a computer I have hooked to the TV at home for multimedia purpose, b

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:20 PM, David Chisnall wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm sending it > to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number of users. > > I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material (which

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
to get around this problem by installing through a PC-BSD CD instead? I have never tried PC-BSD. Does their installer rely on libdisk at all? Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: After doing some more research, it seems

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1 Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it? I don't suppose you built a custom kernel without the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option? You need it unti

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same problem than described by this person: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 So you get the same "file system full" message a

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
GB of RAM which I guess should be plenty enough to start the installer without swapping... The hard drive is a 80GB WD IDE drive. The machine is not configured to use any RAID. Thanks! Peter C. Lai wrote: Well try turning off ACPI, HyperThreading, etc.? On 2010-02-08 09:01:28PM -0500, Pierr

FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I have a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.0 on one of my machines. It is an older Pentium with HyperThreading. It was running fine with 7.2 but the kernel crashed after a buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/reboot of 8.0. I had not updated FreeBSD on that machine for a while so I decided to b

Re: How to enable CPU turbo mode on FreeBSD?

2009-09-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009 8:57:32 pm Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I have an overclocked i7 920 CPU for which I have enabled Turbo Mode in the BIOS (21x multiplier). The base clock is set at 190 MHz, so the CPU frequency with Turbo mode activated should be 3990 MHz

Re: How to enable CPU turbo mode on FreeBSD?

2009-09-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Bruce Cran wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:57:32 -0400 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I have an overclocked i7 920 CPU for which I have enabled Turbo Mode in the BIOS (21x multiplier). The base clock is set at 190 MHz, so the CPU frequency with Turbo mode activated should be 3990 MHz. However

How to enable CPU turbo mode on FreeBSD?

2009-09-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I have an overclocked i7 920 CPU for which I have enabled Turbo Mode in the BIOS (21x multiplier). The base clock is set at 190 MHz, so the CPU frequency with Turbo mode activated should be 3990 MHz. However the maximum value FreeBSD amd64 shows for the CPU frequency in dmesg and sysctl i

Problem with CPU freq in 7.1-STABLE -- take 2

2009-01-13 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
225/-1 150/-1 75/-1 dev.est.0.freq_settings: 1500/-1 1200/-1 1000/-1 800/-1 600/-1 This used to work correctly in 7.0... Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To u

Problem with CPU freq in 7.1-STABLE

2009-01-06 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
/-1 225/-1 150/-1 75/-1 dev.est.0.freq_settings: 1500/-1 1200/-1 1000/-1 800/-1 600/-1 This used to work correctly in 7.0... Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

boot0 is hanging...

2008-06-13 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I just did two different installations of 7.0-stable on a new machine and I have some issues with the boot0 boot loader. I have two identical drives on that machine. The first two slices on the drives are supposed to be bootable and they are mirrored with gmirror: gmirror label -v -h -b

boot0 is hanging...

2008-06-12 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I just did two different installations of 7.0-stable on a new machine and I have some issues with the boot0 boot loader. I have two identical drives on that machine. The first two slices on the drives are supposed to be bootable and they are mirrored with gmirror: gmirror label -v -h -b

Status of ZFS in -stable?

2008-05-16 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know memory allocation problem eith zfs has been fixed in -stable since the release of 7.0? Is zfs more "stable ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, s

Status of ZFS in -stable?

2008-05-12 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know if the memory allocation problem with zfs has been fixed in -stable? Is zfs considered to be more "stable" now? Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Status of ZFS in -stable?

2008-05-12 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know if the memory allocation problem with zfs has been fixed in -stable? Is zfs considered to be more "stable" now? Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

CPUTYPE for FreeBSD AMD64 running on a Pentium D

2006-04-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I have FreeBSD AMD64 running on a Pentium D and I would like to know what should I use for the CPUTYPE variable of make.conf. Thanks Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: "couldn't map interrupt" problems with updated 6.0 kernel

2006-01-31 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
It works now with the updated src/sys/dev/pci/pci.c Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 03:36:32PM +0200, husnu demir wrote: h> It also caused the some problems with my machine. I get all the files by hand and replaced the whole pci subsystem. Can somebody revert what is committed to

"couldn't map interrupt" problems with updated 6.0 kernel

2006-01-30 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
puter with exactly the same hardware configuration without any problem. How can I fix it? Thanks!! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:06:12 -0800 Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: nate> Thank you for tracking this down. It is interesting that BIF is nate> heavyweight while BST is not. I guess that is expected behavior by OEMs nate> which only test on

atapci0: failed to enable memory mapping!

2005-11-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
that supported Intel SATA controller? Would memory mapping increase I/O performances significantly? Sorry if it is a dumb question Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)

2005-11-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 20 November 2005 at 23:01:41 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Sun, November 20, 2005 01:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 19 November 2005 at 21:37:03 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 t

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:24:16 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ok, there is new development. I realized by playing with debug.acpi.disabled="smbat", debug.acpi.disabled="smbat cmbat" and debug.acpi

Re: cmbat related ACPI change between 6.0-release and Nov 10th -stable sources is making Dell laptops to hang

2005-11-21 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I have submitted a new PR about this, I hope someone will be able to fix it soon... Vlad GALU wrote: On 11/20/05, Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Since I upgraded from 6.0-release to 6.0-stable on Nov 10th, my laptop hangs for about 1-2 seconds everytime a b

cmbat related ACPI change between 6.0-release and Nov 10th -stable sources is making Dell laptops to hang

2005-11-20 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
what change to cmbat related stuff could be causing this problem? Thank you! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-17 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Nate Lawson wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: pldrouin> Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my pldrouin> laptop is ba

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-16 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Nate Lawson wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: pldrouin> Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my pldrouin> laptop is back to normal when I remov

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-15 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Nate Lawson wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: pldrouin> Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my pldrouin> laptop is back to normal when I remov

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-15 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:40:36 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: pldrouin> Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my pldrouin> laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugi

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-14 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:40:36PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Yep, smart battery is definately the problem. The performance of my laptop is back to normal when I remove the xfce4-battery-plugin. acpiconf -i loop reproduces the problem for me too. So it looks like

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-14 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Last friday I did a cvsup src/buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld/mergemaster on my laptop from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE and since the performance of my laptop (Dell Precision M70 with a Pentium M 2GHz) is not good. It behaves

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-13 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:35:23PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi. On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:40:53PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I wanted also to add that my mouse pointer hangs on X since the upgrade. So the

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-13 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Oliver Brandmueller wrote: Hi. On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:40:53PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I wanted also to add that my mouse pointer hangs on X since the upgrade. So the computer behaves as if it was under heavy load even if the CPU usage is almost 0% cpufreq/powerd? Did

Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-13 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I wanted also to add that my mouse pointer hangs on X since the upgrade. So the computer behaves as if it was under heavy load even if the CPU usage is almost 0% Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Last friday I did a cvsup src/buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld/mergemaster on my laptop

Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-13 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
hange in the FreeBSD sources could be causing this? Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-06 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Nate Lawson wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Matthias Buelow wrote: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sysctl dev.cpu and look at the current frequency setting. If low, then your system is affected and will be fixed soon when I mfc. If not, perhaps you have an interrupt storm (vms

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-06 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthias Buelow wrote: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sysctl dev.cpu and look at the current frequency setting. If low, then your system is affected and will be fixed soon when I mfc. If not, perhaps you have an interrupt storm (vmstat -i) Just for the record. I ran vmstat -i i

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-03 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Christian Brueffer wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:16:48PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Since I upgraded from 5.3-stable to 5.4-prerelease, I've noticed that my computer is hanging badly under load. I've a P4 2.53 GHz without hyperthreading (no SMP). I use the same kernel conf

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-02 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthias Buelow wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Check your kernel config. SCHED_4BSD, then. options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler yes. mkb. I have this option too. Do I have to change it for something else? ___ freebsd-stable@fre

5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-02 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
luxbox and Mozilla takes forever (meaning ~5 sec) to refresh the screen. Even vi hangs. I do not see any warning/error message. Is it a known problem with 5.4? Thanks Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled, 5.3-stable

2005-03-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I have updated a system from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.3 (I did a fresh new installation from scatch). At the same time we put a new CPUs in there. The system is now a dual Xenon 3.2 GHZ with hyperthreading. When there's load on the server, it crashes. Here is what I get on the console: kernel trap 12