X freezes on snapshot install

2008-08-13 Thread Mihai Popescu B. S.
Hello, I run OBSD from snapshot install (OpenBSD 4.4-beta (GENERIC) #976: Fri Jul 11 16:41:38 MDT 2008) and recently I've run in some troubles with X server. I think some clever eye can spot the problem and give me a hint. One time after using gmplayer I've closed X session but the shell

the snapshot way

2008-01-06 Thread Mihai Popescu B. S.
Hello, I used to work with OpenBSD-realease and OpenBSD-stable by applying the patches for the base and upgrade the packages. Since the packages are not updated anymore for the -stable branch (still no announcement on the project's web page) I switched to the -current option. I don't want to go

A sad thread - RMS vs. OpenBSD

2008-01-06 Thread Mihai Popescu B. S.
Hello, I came to the misc@ list from Journal links just to see what is the real discussion about RMS and OpenBSD. From the start I have to tell the list that I'm sad. I have read sad things and now I think I should not read those things. In fact someone should put a waring label like Read with

strange kernel driver application behaviour

2006-07-16 Thread Mihai Popescu B. S.
Hello, I'm trying since 3.8 release to figure out what's wrong on my desktop computer. Now I'm running 3.9 and I still have this strange behaviour (dmesg attached to the end of this text block). The issue is related to the sound applications. The hardware is a VIA8233 AC97 + ICEnsemble ICE1232.