mpx on laptop produces pointer but does not show usb mouse

2013-08-23 Thread Super Bisquit
Says right there. http://alec.mooo.com/mpx.html Followed the instructions in the link. Second part will have more info. Thanks much and apologies. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To

Re: ps_strings

2013-08-18 Thread Super Bisquit
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=228128 http://www.dolphinburger.com/cgi-bin/bsdi-man?proto=1.1&query=ps_strings&msection=5&apropos=0 On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina < cjpug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi people, > > Despite I made a request not long ago[1], I'm

Re: I am frustrated

2013-08-03 Thread Super Bisquit
Calm down for a minute. There are people who work with embedded systems on the different mailing lists. Think about things first. You were given some suggestions in that thread. The problem is convincing the embedded market and not those who maintain FreeBSD. You need the hardware along with the s

Re: Kern.hz= +1 hertz at anything 2500 and above.

2013-07-25 Thread Super Bisquit
I haven't done much messing with scheduling. It is set at the default ULE for this machine. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 25 July 2013 02:51, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > >> improved with a higher kern.hz rating. Unless the future holds an > emu20k2, > >> there will

Re: Kern.hz= +1 hertz at anything 2500 and above.

2013-07-24 Thread Super Bisquit
getting enough time to run? etc. > > > > -adrian > > On 24 July 2013 15:35, Super Bisquit wrote: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-September/051789.html > > > > This is the thread that I was referring to earlier. Since the patch is > for

Kern.hz= +1 hertz at anything 2500 and above.

2013-07-24 Thread Super Bisquit
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-September/051789.html This is the thread that I was referring to earlier. Since the patch is for 2009, what are the chances it would work with 10.x or 9.x? On PowerPC machines with a low MHz rate- or any machine with a CPU rate of 800 MHz or

Increasing the kernel hertz rate in 10.0, RELEASE, and CURRENT

2013-07-23 Thread Super Bisquit
At 2500 Hz, the tick rate increases by 1 Hz per cycle. There was mention of a patch that would allow the rate to be as high as 40k without this effect. --I'll post the link as soon as I find the mailing list thread-- Will this patch work with the current available releases?

Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction

2013-05-28 Thread Super Bisquit
In the case of firmware loaded systems, all of them aren't going to work with a single boot loader. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: > > On May 28, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On 5/28/13 7:49 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 05/27/13 23:36, Alfred Perlstein

Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction

2013-05-26 Thread Super Bisquit
May I- and others- see the hyperlink to the project, please? On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: > > On May 25, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Super Bisquit wrote: > > > Please don't turn this into an architecture dependent mess. PCBSD is > i386 & > > A

Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction

2013-05-25 Thread Super Bisquit
Please don't turn this into an architecture dependent mess. PCBSD is i386 & AMD64 only. On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Dirk Engling wrote: > On 26.05.13 01:07, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > > I'm not aware of any movement there (on either side of the table). I'd > > personally be very suspiciou

Exporting environment from Linux to FreeBSD

2012-04-08 Thread Super Bisquit
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=89377+0+archive/2008/freebsd-java/20080203.freebsd-java is the template given for me to follow. I have Debian running on an iMac G4 and FreeBSD running on a QuickSilver G4. 1. The assumption is that the script is ran on the iMac. Considering that SSH be

Re: will 9.2 be called 'diehard'? or maybe Naktomi?

2012-03-13 Thread Super Bisquit
"Energizer Bunny" is more threatening. On 3/13/12, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > http://modcult.org/read/2008/2/20/nakatomi-socrates-bsd-9-2 > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To

Re: Kernel memory usage

2012-03-12 Thread Super Bisquit
CPU architecture and model have a lot to do with performance. You will also get different results if you used qemu in place of VirtualBox. Qemu allows you to choose different emulated architectures, CPUs, and machine bases. What's the downside? You have to use the command line. Install qemu and run

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-02-18 Thread Super Bisquit
The individual maintainers of each architecture have the right to make a "PRE-RELEASE" of the system at any time. Come to think of it, anyone who can has that right- that is to make a pre-release. On 2/18/12, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:45:47PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: >> 1. In

Re: CUDA porting effort?

2012-02-17 Thread Super Bisquit
I'd be willing to try building it on the Power(PC) platform. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Eric McCorkle wrote: > Given that NVidia is releasing the CUDA platform source on a limited > basis, is anyone actively working to port it to FreeBSD? The reason I > ask is that to get access to the so

Re: Bugzilla file reported. gnome developers want freebsd help

2011-04-29 Thread Super Bisquit
Let the individual know that the gnome developers are willing to work with him. For gnome desktop devel, here's the link and project: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/kulakovad/4001 On 4/29/11, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 29.04.2011 23:30, Super Bisqu

Bugzilla file reported. gnome developers want freebsd help

2011-04-29 Thread Super Bisquit
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648430 It doesn't seem that there was any before this willing to submit a bug report about networking. The gnome developers are willing to work with the freebsd project. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: kernel dumps on powerpc/pmap questions

2011-04-03 Thread Super Bisquit
Apologies; but, he can get more help from one of the two of you before he can get any from the FreeBSD hacker mailing list. On 4/3/11, Super Bisquit wrote: > Why don't you ask Whitehorn or other members of the FreeBSD PowerPC > team this question. Very few of the hackers deal wi

Re: kernel dumps on powerpc/pmap questions

2011-04-03 Thread Super Bisquit
Why don't you ask Whitehorn or other members of the FreeBSD PowerPC team this question. Very few of the hackers deal with anything outside of standard i386 and AMD64 platforms. nwhiteh...@freebsd.org chmeeed...@gmail.com Justin Hibbits On 4/3/11, Andreas Tobler wrote: > Hello all, > >

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-29 Thread Super Bisquit
I'm just going to clarify a statement I made earlier on this thread in order to remove some possible misconceptions. One can only boot 32bit PPC on a 32bit PPC machines and have it work properly. The same applies for 64bit ppc machines. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Julien Laffaye wrote: > O

Re: multi-boot bootstrap?

2011-03-28 Thread Super Bisquit
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:59 PM, wrote: > Now, how are you going to multiboot OpenBSD and NetBSD on a PowerPC >> > machine > >> from the same hard disk. >> > > I didn't say anything about a requirement for booting multiple OSes from the same disk. I said: Go through all the disks and look >>

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-28 Thread Super Bisquit
work. It won't work on sparc (64/ultra), and it won't work on arm. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Super Bisquit > wrote: > > The ppc 32bit series does not boot directly into the boot loader prompt. > You > &g

Re: multi-boot bootstrap?

2011-03-28 Thread Super Bisquit
Now, how are you going to multiboot OpenBSD and NetBSD on a PowerPC machine from the same hard disk. From what I know, one or the other can only be as the first entry and it then has to be set from the forth prompt. So, you will need two disks to boot , saya: OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, and Ma

Re: New Boot-Loader

2011-03-27 Thread Super Bisquit
And what if I need to boot into single user mode? On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > Hi fellow hackers, > > I'm designing an open-sourced replacement boot-loader for FreeBSD. I feel > that the existing options in the boot-loader menu today can be whittled down > significantly

Re: Unable to compile drm.ko on powerpc

2011-01-13 Thread Super Bisquit
know the open firmware commands for switching default graphic slots. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > AGP is derived from PCI, so AGP devices show up on the PCI bus. All the AGP > kernel module does is provide hooks to manipulate some advanced features of >

Re: Unable to compile drm.ko on powerpc

2011-01-12 Thread Super Bisquit
behind. On 1/12/11, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 01/12/11 02:39, Super Bisquit wrote: >> http://slexy.org/view/s2NSVy7aTU >> >> The build also fails looking for machine/specialreg.h. This file is only >> found on i386/amd64 processors. Drm.ko is needed by agp.ko.

How do I change the default graphics card on a Powermac G4 Quicksilver?

2011-01-12 Thread Super Bisquit
The last email I sent stated that the drm kernel module could not be built because specialreg.h is an i386 only function. I am also aware that the agp module needs drm to run. Why did I ask for help? The PowerMac G4 Quicksilver has an agp graphics slot. I also know that OpenFirmware is related to O

Unable to compile drm.ko on powerpc

2011-01-12 Thread Super Bisquit
http://slexy.org/view/s2NSVy7aTU The build also fails looking for machine/specialreg.h. This file is only found on i386/amd64 processors. Drm.ko is needed by agp.ko. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

drm.ko/radeon build stops with specialreg.h

2010-11-21 Thread Super Bisquit
FreeBSD SNAPSHOT-9 from people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn not ppc64. In the directories of /usr/src/sys/modules/drm/ and of /usr/src/sys/modules/drm/radeon the build breaks with specialeg.h not found. Using find -f /|grep specialreg.h only leaves me with /usr/src/sys/(x86-variant)/include/speialreg.h.