Re: cpuspeed: getting a list of available freq's

2011-05-22 Thread David Steiner
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:09:21AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > is there an API or syscall to get a list of available cpu frequencies, > > that the CPU supports? > > No. > > Not all rate/power adjustments are done in terms of frequencies. Some > are done based on bus clock adjustment, or how

cpuspeed: getting a list of available freq's

2011-05-22 Thread David Steiner
hello, is there an API or syscall to get a list of available cpu frequencies, that the CPU supports? greetings, David

Distributed Multihead X Project (dmx)

2011-05-19 Thread David Steiner
hi, is DMX (http://dmx.sourceforge.net/) supported in xenocara? i see it's in the source directory (/usr/xenocara/xserver/hw/dmx). has anyone got it working? how do i compile it? (i saw an --enable-dmx option in a configure script..) greetings, David

Re: cmpci(4) and S/PDIF?

2011-05-11 Thread David Steiner
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:23:36PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > In article <20110511133647.ga3...@mango.fritz.box> you write: > > > > Has anybody had success using the S/PDIF output of a cmpci(4) sound > > > card? > > > > yes! my soundcard just arrived, which i bought for SPDIF playback w

Re: cmpci(4) and S/PDIF?

2011-05-11 Thread David Steiner
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 05:35:07PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Has anybody had success using the S/PDIF output of a cmpci(4) sound > card? > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de > yes! my soundcard just arrived, which i bought for SPDIF playba

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-03 Thread David Steiner
On Sun, 01 May 2011 11:07:25 -0400 Nick Holland wrote: > On 05/01/11 07:13, David Steiner wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:24:30 -0400 > > Nick Holland wrote: > > > >> > >> um... > >> bsd.rd assumes console. > >> > > >

Re: Openbsd 4.9 released May 1, 2011

2011-05-02 Thread David Steiner
On Sun, 1 May 2011 08:16:26 -0600 (MDT) Bob Beck wrote: > > May 1, 2011. > > We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.9. > This is our 29th release on CD-ROM (and 30th via FTP). We remain > proud of Ope

Re: bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-05-01 Thread David Steiner
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:24:30 -0400 Nick Holland wrote: > > um... > bsd.rd assumes console. > which i don't have and am looking for a workaround. maybe bsd.rd should assume: accepts commands from a file/stdin to be automated? or even better: similar to yaifo allow ssh connections to finish the u

bsd.rd and (automated) upgrading

2011-04-30 Thread David Steiner
can the upgrade process via bsd.rd be automated? i'm thinking of upgrading remote machines, which are only available via ssh . like this: fetch the latest bsd.rd from ftp. replace /bsd.rd. echo 'boot bsd.rd' >> /etc/boot.conf reboot from here on, i'd like to automate the upgrade process, by provi

Re: Flash Video in Firefox

2011-04-27 Thread David Steiner
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:50:31 -0400 Nicholas Schmidt wrote: > Works like a champ for me on Youtube and a Intel ULV Core2 processor > running -current. The video performance on the Intel DRM x3100 > chipset isn't fluid on anything 720p, but is fine in SD. Great find > that will make the significant

irc

2011-04-27 Thread David Steiner
A true lurker would have seen the unwritten rule "Shut up. If someone starts speaking, complain." thoughts?

Re: Flash Video in Firefox

2011-04-27 Thread David Steiner
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:23:49 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > On 2011-04-26 13:19:53 David Steiner > wrote: > > > > > 1) pkg_add gecko-mediaplayer > > 2) > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideoreplacer/ > > > > works here on

Re: cpu performance counters (cache hit/miss etc)

2011-04-27 Thread David Steiner
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:02:09 -0400 Luis Useche wrote: > > Did you try searching for the subject of your message? > > > > $ apropos 'cpu performance counters' > > pctr (1) - display CPU performance counters > > pctr (4/AMD64) - driver for CPU performance counters > > pctr (4/i386) - driver for CPU

cpu performance counters (cache hit/miss etc)

2011-04-26 Thread David Steiner
hi. is there a convenient way to display CPU cache statistics in openbsd? like the amount of L1/L2 hits/misses? there's OProfile for linux, Vtune for Linux/Windows, cachekit for Solaris, but what's available for the best OS out there? sure i could read the intel manuals on accessing the special p

Flash Video in Firefox

2011-04-26 Thread David Steiner
1) pkg_add gecko-mediaplayer 2) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideoreplacer/ works here on -current amd64. i tested youtube and blip.tv sofar without any trouble. HTH, David

Re: 49.html typo

2011-04-25 Thread David Steiner
> -Suppport for Mobility Radeon HD 4200 > +Support for Mobility Radeon HD 4200 nice patch! thanks.

hi / installer / sound SPDIF

2011-04-23 Thread David Steiner
Dear misc readers, First of all i'm glad to have just switched to OpenBSD as my primary desktop OS and would like to thank all the developers involved! :) After many years of fussing with linux, OpenBSD is like a breath of fresh air. For completeness, i'll quickly mention some minor issues i had

Re: NFS mount can't read files.

2011-02-08 Thread David Steiner
> Did you try udp v3 mounts? That's the default for a reason. > >-Otto > that did the trick! (on linux it defaulted to tcp, and i first thought udp would be unreliable so never tried that.) cheers

Re: NFS mount can't read files.

2011-02-08 Thread David Steiner
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Pieter Verberne wrote: > On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:02:31 +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> See thread at the bottom. I have also problems reading files while >> mounting from Ubuntu. I cannot read files larger than +/- 18KB. >> >> /etc/exports: >> /home/