On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Jonathan Thornburg <jth...@astro.indiana.edu> wrote: > I wrote > | In a thread back in November 2011, > | B http://marc.info/?t=132173453400070&r=1&w=1 > | I reported intermittent kernel/X hangs (usually under near-idle loads) > | on a Thinkpad T60 widescreen laptop (alas I misspelled the name as > | "Tinkpad" in the Subject: line) running 5.0-stable amd64. > [[...]] > > You asked: >> Do you have possibility to try a snapshot to see if problem still persist? > > Hmm, good idea -- I see in http://openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20120125 > that the radeon driver has just beeen updated. B Unfortunately I'm going > on a business trip in a week and I don't know if I'll have time for a > snapshot before I leave -- otherwise it will have to wait until March. > > I've been using OpenBSD for 11+ years, but I've never tried snapshots. > I'll RT a few FMs on how stable-->snapshot upgrades work.....
1) download snapshot bsd.rd 2) place it in / 3) reboot and choose to boot from bsd.rd in boot prompt 4) choose Upgrade instead of Install 5) sysmerge -s -x 6) check current.html if you need to add/remove/change something 7) pkg_add -ui > > ciao, > > -- > -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu> > B Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA > B "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the > B B powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." > B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B -- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam
