Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-07 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:44:07AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: ... The FreeBSD installer shows the same ACPI errors as NetBSD and OpenSolaris, and it remains to be seen where it's going to be fixed first. Hopefully all at once with a BIOS update... Cheers, Patrick

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD [Was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]

2010-01-07 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:24:42AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: Booted NetBSD 5.0/amd64 with no problem -- but with ACPI errors noise on the console. Rebooted w/o ACPI -- the console is clean. Installed 5.0.1, via FTP. (Again, what a beautiful installer NetBSD has!...) ACPI -- errors on

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD [Was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]

2010-01-07 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Joerg (Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:10:50 +0100) * | You know, it would help if you would include the most basic data in an | unmanagled form. acpiec0 is clearly complaining during your boot about | not being able to install an handler for the region. Pretty much | everything else is fallout

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-07 Thread David Holland
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:51:58PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote: You might like to know about apropos(1): I am told that officially apropos(1) is deprecated, and substituted with man -k. Which does, in fact, say that it's the same thing. I think deprecated may mean little more than

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-07 Thread David Holland
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:44:07AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: But: man -S N STRING to work, and man -S N -k STRING not?... I think you're looking for man -s, which works fine. I didn't even know -S existed. It seems that the problem is that -S is defined

Re: PR 42583: ACPI errors, HP DV6-1334US [Was: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD]

2010-01-06 Thread Martin Husemann
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:42:12PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote: Try 'shutdown -p now'. I've had problems with deadlocks when using halt -p due to processes not dying on time and the kernel getting stuck on their resources (or even panicking). Another test is: sysctl -w

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-06 Thread der Mouse
time cat /usr/pkg/lib/python2.5/test/audiotest.au /dev/audio = [ silence ] real0m2.912s How large is that file? In particular, if it's not pretty close to 23296 (2.912*8000) bytes, something is wrong. dmesg | egrep -i 'sound|audio' = [ nothing ] Assuming that dmesg by itself

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-06 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Matthew (Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:43:04 -0500) * |uname -sr; man -w ptrace; man -S 3 -w ptrace; man -S 2 -k ptrace | | You might like to know about apropos(1): apropos == man -k (or: apropos ~= man -k) No? | $ apropos trace | | [...] | kdump (1) - display kernel trace data | ktrace

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD

2010-01-06 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- I/Alex (Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:44:07 -0500) * | No offense here, but I think I'll be more comfortable staying with | FreeBSD for now. Last message of the day re my laptop: FreeBSD 8.0 installed and boots, with: * No ACPI errors polluting the console or dmesg. * halt -p is halt -p ==

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD [Was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]

2010-01-05 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 09:47:19AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:24:42AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: Can something be done about the ACPI errors popping up every (roughly) minute? Will filing a PR help? Please file one and let's hope it helps (at first glance

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD [Was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]

2010-01-05 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:11:23PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Unless the polling for battery and TZ is disabled, it won't. Do they deliver reliable data with these errors? If not, disabling sounds like a valid option. Martin

Re: The imperfect beauty of NetBSD [Was: NetBSD vs. FreeBSD]

2010-01-05 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 02:31:10PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:11:23PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Unless the polling for battery and TZ is disabled, it won't. Do they deliver reliable data with these errors? If not, disabling sounds like a valid option. I