Re: serial/ulscom: response timeout using pySerial/esptool.py

2024-04-25 Thread Tomek CEDRO
CP2102 are pretty good ones and never let me down :-) Is your UART connection to ESP32 working correctly? Can you see the boot message and whatever happens next in terminal (cu / minicom)? Are RX TX pins not swapped? Power supply okay? Are boards generic devkits of custom hardware? ESP32 in

Re: 'poweroff' seems to (only) halt as of main-n267841-0b3f9e435f2b

2024-01-30 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:49 PM David Wolfskill wrote: > The machines where I track head (& stable/14) daily get powered off once > they have finished their work for the day; this is done via "poweroff". > > I noticed (this morning) that one of them never actually powered off > yesterday. After

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-28 Thread Tomek CEDRO
Yes! Installer is always used in emergency it would be great to provide some servicing tools there too :-) For years I was using bootable Linux to fix people computers and it would be nice to have that in FreeBSD :-) +1 for memstick full with additional service utilities (fix partitions, mount

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

2024-01-24 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 6:30 PM Warner Losh wrote: The in-kernel gpart copes so much better. > (..) > I wouldn't object to making these ports (..) +1 for moving fdisk and bsdlabel to ports instead deleting :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info

Re: noatime on ufs2

2024-01-12 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 6:15 PM Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Tomek CEDRO writes: > > I am reading this interesting discussion and please verify my general > > understanding: > > 1. There is a request for change in core OS / FS mechanism of file > > access time

Re: noatime on ufs2

2024-01-10 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 1:50 AM Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Olivier Certner wrote on > > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:01:48 UTC : > > > What I'm saying is that, based on others' input so far, my own (long, > > > even if not as long as yours) experience and some late reflection, is > > > that

Re: noatime on ufs2

2024-01-10 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM Olivier Certner wrote: > Both the examples above prompt some straight objections on the current > usefulness of "atime". First, unless you've disabled building the locate > database in cron (enabled by default, on a weekly basis), access times on > directories

Re: Seemingly random nvme (nda) write error on new drive (retries exhausted)

2023-06-08 Thread Tomek CEDRO
what filesystem? is TRIM enabled on that drive? have you tried disabling trim? i had similar ssd related problem on samsung's ssd long time ago that was related to trim. maybe drive firmware can be updated too? :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info

Re: photo/video on tty console with the new VT/framebuffer

2023-05-19 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 2:51 PM Ivan Quitschal wrote: > could you please tell us how did you do to make mpv working ? > > when i try to run it, i get something like this: > $ mpv --vo=drm video.mp4 > (+) Video --vid=1 (*) (h264 424x240 30.000fps) > (+) Audio --aid=1 (*) (aac 2ch 44100Hz) >

Re: photo/video on tty console with the new VT/framebuffer

2023-05-19 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 2:29 PM Yuri wrote: > Tomek CEDRO wrote: > > On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:44 PM Alastair Hogge wrote: > >> On 2023-05-19 11:30, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > >>> On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:28 PM Alastair Hogge wrote: > >>>> As long as those p

Re: photo/video on tty console with the new VT/framebuffer

2023-05-19 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:44 PM Alastair Hogge wrote: > On 2023-05-19 11:30, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > > On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:28 PM Alastair Hogge wrote: > >> As long as those packages support DRMKMS and does your GPU, you can to a > >> degree. I noticed video works fo

Re: photo/video on tty console with the new VT/framebuffer

2023-05-19 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:28 PM Alastair Hogge wrote: > As long as those packages support DRMKMS and does your GPU, you can to a > degree. I noticed video works for mpv and games/sdl, tho, I cannot get > input working. I tried the Doom 3 port, and watched movies with mpv all > from the vty just a

Re: Delay in 14.0-RELEASE cycle and blocking items

2023-05-15 Thread Tomek CEDRO
Thanks Glen, no rush, quality first, it takes time :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info

Re: Support for more than 256 CPU cores

2023-05-05 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 3:38 PM Ed Maste wrote: > FreeBSD supports up to 256 CPU cores in the default kernel configuration > (on Tier-1 architectures). Systems with more than 256 cores are > available now, and will become increasingly common over FreeBSD 14’s > lifetime. (..) Congratulations! :-)

Re: Arm64 Tier 1 FreeBSD 13 Phones

2023-02-27 Thread Tomek CEDRO
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:07 AM grarpamp wrote: > FreeBSD Phones... Not really a "FreeBSD phones" just "phones" or "mobile multimedia capable embedded devices" as anything can run on them :-) For instance NuttX RTOS on PinePhone takes kilobytes in total:

Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

2012-12-07 Thread Tomek CEDRO
As I get ffs_valloc kernel panic on my / I want to check for badblocks but cannot do that from the system itself so I need another FreeBSD instance to run badblocks on unmounted /. There are no badblocks on LiveCD and I cannot simply download it with pkg_add -r. Installing another system just to

UTF-8 console

2012-11-15 Thread Tomek CEDRO
Hello :-) I was wondering if its possible to have UTF-8 console? ISO seems to be a bit outdated these days and less comfortable for multinational applications :-) Best regards :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___

Re: Failed to switch consoles in 9.0-RC3

2012-11-09 Thread Tomek CEDRO
Thank you Jean-Sebastien, very useful hint with vidcontrol!! :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Tomek CEDRO
WARNING!!! When AllowEmptyInput = False AND Hal is running really really bad things happen to Xorg!! Keys are messed up and screen is refreshed only after mouse move! Things are slow and the end of the word is near :-) AllowEmptyInput seems to be exclusive with Hal!! Please confirm :-) --

Re: Failed to switch consoles in 9.0-RC3

2012-11-08 Thread Tomek CEDRO
Thanks for hint :-) For some reasons I need to have console usable after/during xorg is active, for instance at the moment I have problems with xfce4 and no console keeps me away from seeing what is wrong and even getting back into xorg. This is why I don use WITH_NEW_XORG anymore because is

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Tomek CEDRO
8-bit scene is still alive and rox! :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info On Nov 8, 2012 6:11 PM, Chuck Burns brea...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/8/2012 10:58 AM, Richard Kuhns wrote: On 11/08/12 10:45, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: I have tested