All,
What's currently recommended as a FreeBSD laptop platform?
I'm using an IBM/Lenovo T42 at the moment, but that's shortly going back, so:
Things I like:
* Suspend to RAM works
* Nice enough keyboard
* Workable screen resolution (1024x768, big enough for four xterms)
* Reasonably li
Alexandre Vieira wrote:
I was also told that http://www.serverpronto.com/ is freebsd friendly and
extremely cheap.
Since this seems to have become a recommendation thread, I'm a happy
customer of http://www.johncompanies.com/. They offer discounts to open
source contributor's too.
N
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Is it possible to (from the command line) switch virtual consoles while
within X?
Since I upgraded X on my laptop resume from suspend has been a little flaky.
But if I make sure I run 'zzz' from within a text virtual terminal the
laptop has (so far) always resumed correctly.
I could create
Mark Willson wrote:
I've got an IBM T42 laptop that's currently running 5.4, and it's working
nicely at the moment. ACPI works well enough that suspend to RAM works
('zzz'), the audio works, USB devices are recognised, and the battery life's
reasonable (with est enabled).
Is anyone aware of
I've got an IBM T42 laptop that's currently running 5.4, and it's working
nicely at the moment. ACPI works well enough that suspend to RAM works
('zzz'), the audio works, USB devices are recognised, and the battery life's
reasonable (with est enabled).
Is anyone aware of any regressions in la
I'm failing to understand how getrusage() works, which is a bit perplexing,
because it doesn't seem like it would be terribly complicated.
I've attached the code. My aim is to verify that I can use getrusage() to
do (admittedly crude) instrumentation of which functions in my program are
allocati
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:54:46PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Bruce A. Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I personally like the PDF versions, which, for a variety of reasons,
> > didn't make it to the "FreeBSD Project-produced" ISO images. (Some of
> > the CDROM/DVD vendors might put them
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 11:25:15PM -0500, Scott Corey wrote:
> Quite awhile back I remember that there were some FreeBSD books in the
> making i.e. "Advanced BSD System Administration" provisional title and
> "BSD in a Nutshell" what happened to them?
Still in progress, I believe. "BSD in a Nuts
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:48:30AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> What length of time would you prefer?
I'd say at least a week. As various others have pointed out, it's going
to be at least 24-48 hours before interested parties have pulled down
ISOs from mirrors, burnt CDs, and installed from t
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:41:18AM -0500, Christopher Schulte wrote:
>
> At 11:44 PM 6/26/2001 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> >I've rewritten section 19.2.2.1 and 19.2.2.2 at
> >
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.ht
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:34:03AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> From: "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD
> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:00:59 +1200
>
> > "19.2.2.2. Who needs FreeBSD-STABLE?
> > If you are a commercial user or someone who puts max
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on, but then the machine locks up o
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:12:27AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
> I've noticed that 'www/en' no longer works as a valid tag for cvsup files.
> But the 'www/en' directory still exists. I must have missed something
> somewhere. Is there revised documentation somewhere?
What do you mean by 'tag'? On
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:20:18PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2001, at 22:51, Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> > Done.
>
> Did I miss the commit? When was this done?
21:50 last night, to src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile, on the
RELENG_4 branch. ID 1.17.2.2.
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 05:55:13PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> > > Just because the problem is difficult to solve does not mean it can not be
> > > or should not be solved.
> > Fine, how about you solve it and the rest of us will get back to all
> > the o
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:29:43AM +1200, Dan Langille wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Christopher Schulte wrote:
> > At 03:45 AM 4/10/2001 +1200, Dan Langille wrote:
> > >Give meaningful and widely used names to things which people are familiar
> > >with.
> >
> > -CURRENT fits all those requirements
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:54:32PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> Next, the case of the bind and ntpd updates. Yes, these were fixed
> in -STABLE and -CURRENT very quickly, but were only documented in UPDATING.
> How many people who are running -RELEASE have this? That's right, none. If
> the
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:19:18PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> I don't believe this is correct; I have functioning anonymous FTP with:
>
> ftp:*:14:5::0:0:Anonymous FTP Admin:/var/ftp:/nonexistent
>
> Anything involving no password must be wrong, surely?
Mea culpa, you're quite right.
N
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:22:06PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> Empirical evidence shows that the original ftp passwd line is correct.
> I propose the following patch instead, which deals with the "release
> name" issue but should (I think) reflect the realities of anon FTP.
> (Picture the same
I've pulled down the RC2 candidate, and have it on CD on one machine,
which I'm then using as the source of an FTP install to another machine
(which has a non-functional CDROM, natch).
INSTALL.TXT in the root of the release says
[...]
1.1 Installing from a network CDROM
---
Kenneth,
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> Hello -stable & -docs:
>
> I'm trying to "track" documentation similarly to -stable.
> I can cvsup the "docs-supfile" Just Fine, but what needs to
> be done afterward?
Chapter 7 of the FDP Primer, at
http://www.f
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:01:09PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> ===> Cleaning for tidy-2804
> ===> Cleaning for w3m-0.1.11.p.17
> ===> Cleaning for docproj-1.1
> make: don't know how to make all. Stop
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop in /usr/src/release.
> *** Error code 1
>
> I'm going to h
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:01:09PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> ===> Cleaning for tidy-2804
> ===> Cleaning for w3m-0.1.11.p.17
> ===> Cleaning for docproj-1.1
> make: don't know how to make all. Stop
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop in /usr/src/release.
> *** Error code 1
>
> I'm going to h
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:03:50AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On a recent email Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
> >..., rc.conf was recently changed (in -current) to not
> >start inetd, portmap or sendmail. If you are actually relying on
> >any of these daemons, and you actually notice the differenc
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:18:12PM -0500, Henry F. Marquardt wrote:
> I agree, this is a 'lost' technology, a solution in search of a problem.
> Even the palm crowd doesn't use it much that I've seen - I remember some of
> the early marketing hype there with people swapping IR business cards - I
>
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:33:58PM -0500, Shawn Barnhart wrote:
> I guess I don't care which tools I use, so long as they do the right
> thing, and, most importantly THAT THE METHODS ARE TOTALLY DOCUMENTED
> WITH ALL THE QUIRKS IN THE FSCK'N HANDBOOK AND NOT JUST IN THE MAILING
> LIST ARCHIVE!
>
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FreeBSD-stable Conspectus, week ending 12th June 2000
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:55:59PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> Sorry to jump in in the middle of this thread, but I must agree with
> Brennan that FreeBSD's online documentation is woefully incomplete. A
> person upgrading from 3.x to 4.0-release shouldn't have to subscribe to a
> mailing lis
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 09:26:27PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 11:54 AM -0700 2000/4/3, Doug Barton wrote:
> > I realize that you don't want to accept responsibility for your
> > actions, but please stop posting hear trying to convince us that there is
> > some way we could have unloaded
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 04:42:34PM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote:
> How about having an UPDATING and an UPGRADING file?
Lack of people to update them. Then people complain when they get out
of sync.
If you (or anyone else reading this) wants to step forward and maintain
either of these files,
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:03:33PM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote:
> As for improving documentation I may just make a bsd search site.
http://www.google.com/bsd
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:24:48PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> What is needed is a *comment* in GENERIC telling users to change net to tty
> if they want to use their printers.
Agreed. Attached is a trivial patch to GENERIC, for -stable only. The
same line in GENERIC in -current lo
Mike,
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 04:40:05PM -0800, Mike s wrote:
> Well, i have already taking the iniative in starting
> what it is i have been talking about.
That's great. It gives people a chance to see what you have in mind.
Actions speak a lot louder than words.
> I have a lot of documentat
Vince,
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 08:32:32PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> I offer to help make changes quite often. The last couple of times they
> fell on deaf ears and I have much better things to occupy my time with
> than chasing people around.
Sorry about this. I try and make sure that
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 01:08:36PM -0700, David Bushong wrote:
> I have an update to /usr/share/misc/magic I'd like to submit, but have no
> clue where to send it. Pointers?
Use send-pr(1). See the "How to Contribute" section in chapter 19 of
the FreeBSD Handbook.
N
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On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:36:16PM -0700, Spiderman wrote:
> In cvsup(1) there is a refrence to sup(1) which doesn't exist.
> Should it exist?
No it shouldn't. However, CVSup is a port, rather than a part of the
FreeBSD base system, so this should ideally have gone to
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