Re: gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-12 Thread Patrick Bowen
Chuck Swiger wrote: Patrick Bowen wrote: I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. What I want to know

gmirror on a laptop.

2006-03-11 Thread Patrick Bowen
List; I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. What I want to know is whether this is such an incredibly bad

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-03-02 Thread Dmitri Pisarev
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitri Pisarev wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/27/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] Click on Browse Find and Select: 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-BETA2-i386-disc2.iso That should be disc 1, sorry:

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-27 Thread Dmitri Pisarev
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-27 Thread Dmitri Pisarev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dmitri Pisarev wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). I need

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitri Pisarev wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop

cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Dmitri Pisarev
I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer. The question is, is it posible to copy the freebsd patition

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). I need to install freebsd on to my laptop computer

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Dmitri Pisarev
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon 3200+, WD 80G HDD). I need to install freebsd on to my

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc. 40G HDD) and a desktop computer running FreeBSD 6.0(athlon

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/26/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/26/06, Dmitri Pisarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got laptop Toshiba Portege 3480CT(no floppy, no CD-ROM, no booting from USB flash supported etc

Re: cloning freebsd from desktop to laptop computer.

2006-02-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/26/06, Jordan Mendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if a similar tool exists for the BSD bootloader, but there might be one. man 8 boot0cfg http://tinyurl.com/jsyuz (assuming I can type, which I cannot afford to do) -- -- ___

small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5 drive in it later. 2 years ago

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Xn Nooby wrote: I dont particularly trust the online lists of laptops that work with FreeBSD, since my other laptop is on one of them. No specific laptop advice but I would have thought of that laptop list as a starting point. I wouldn't trust any single occurrence of this laptop works

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Micah
Xn Nooby wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5 drive

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
I forget exactly what I tried a few months ago, I thought I tried everything everyone said. The hints you mentioned look different, so maybe I better try them. Maybe the hints came from another thread, after I had given up. If my existing laptop can be made to run FreeBSD without having to attach

Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions?

2006-02-17 Thread Xn Nooby
thats an awesome website! I will check it out more thoroughly over the weekend, they had a lot of used thinkpads thanks! On 2/17/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x

Help needed - Hard lockups and reboots on laptop

2006-02-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
(sending again, i think the list server rejected the big attachments) Hi all, I've been running FBSD 6 on my laptop(hardware and software specs below) for the last 3 weeks. I have been experiencing spontaneous reboots (NOT panics, just blip, off it goes to restart), lockups and some app crashes

Compaq Pressario 700 (laptop): X totally unconfigurable

2006-01-26 Thread f . gibbs
Hello, I just received FreeBSD 6.0. It installed flawlessly on a Compaq Pressario 700 Athlonbased laptop until I rebooted and saw that the viewable portion of the screen was in the upper left quarter of the screen. The resolution appears to be set alright based on the icon size in KDE (which

Re: Compaq Pressario 700 (laptop): X totally unconfigurable

2006-01-26 Thread Lorin Lund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just received FreeBSD 6.0. It installed flawlessly on a Compaq Pressario 700 Athlonbased laptop until I rebooted and saw that the viewable portion of the screen was in the upper left quarter of the screen. The resolution appears to be set alright based

Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Li, Qing
Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running FreeBSD 6.0? If you've done it, could you please share your tricks with me. Thanks, -- Qing ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running FreeBSD 6.0? If you've done it, could you please share your tricks with me. I've got a C600 laptop working with sound. Not sure if it's

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread SPYRIDON PAPADOPOULOS
-0800 Subject: Sound on Dell D600 laptop Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running FreeBSD 6.0? If you've done it, could you please share your tricks with me. Thanks, -- Qing

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:37 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running FreeBSD 6.0? If you've done it, could you please share your tricks with me. I've

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Alan Gerber
the driver at startup. The proper driver as I recall is snd_ich, so you'll need to use the line: snd_ich_load=YES -- Alan Gerber Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running

RE: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Li, Qing
Thanks all. snd_ich_load=YES I don't have the above, wasn't quite sure which one to load because it's a SigmaTel, though /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pcm/ac97.c appears to include it. I'll give it a try. Thanks again. -- Qing

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:46, Kiffin Gish wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:37 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running FreeBSD 6.0? If you've done it, could you please share

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Jerry Dunham
On 12 Jan 2006 at 12:37, Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running FreeBSD 6.0? If you've done it, could you please share your tricks with me. I've got a C600

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Jerry Dunham wrote: On 12 Jan 2006 at 12:37, Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, January 12, 2006 12:15, Li, Qing wrote: Has anyone successfully gotten the sound to work on the Dell D600 laptop running FreeBSD 6.0? If you've done it, could you

Re: Sound on Dell D600 laptop

2006-01-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:55:42AM -0800, Li, Qing wrote: Thanks all. snd_ich_load=YES I don't have the above, wasn't quite sure which one to load because it's a SigmaTel, though /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pcm/ac97.c appears to include it. I'll give

RE: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-23 Thread Gayn Winters
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:35 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD On 12/22/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From

RE: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:26 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-22 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 12/22/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:26 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot

Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop

RE: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
boot off floppies and try a ftp install. Or, boot windows and burn the freebsd cd in the laptop (i assume the laptop has a cd burner) sounds like a media error. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Tuesday, December 20

Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-21 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 21 Dec 2005 12:01:22 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD

Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-21 Thread Derrick Ryalls
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:02 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD Greetings, I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000

Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-21 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 12/21/05, Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:02 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD

2005-12-20 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Greetings, I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot

Re: [PATCH] Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ruben de Groot Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:37 AM To: Peter Clutton; Derek Tracy; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [PATCH] Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop Following up on myself; the patch below (relative to 5.4-RELEASE) makes my vaio VGN-S5M/S

Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound drivers...then go from there Ok i have done a kldload snd_driver and it recognises it perfectly. Got Ac97 and ID and memory info etc on the dmesg line. However nothing

Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-17 Thread Owen Jeremiah
IIRC, the recommended step to do is do: kldload snd_driver and then do: cat /dev/sndstat to get the correct driver (in my case it is snd_ich). After that you put the driver into loder.conf (in my case: snd_ich_load=YES). Hope it helps. Regards, OJ

Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Clutton
sound buttons on the laptop, for mute and outside sound (by default), but they are really soft keys, so they couldn't really have turned off the sound, and now be not responding (which was one of my early theories. Any help would be appreciated, ___ freebsd

RE: [PATCH] Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
@freebsd.org Subject: [PATCH] Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop Following up on myself; the patch below (relative to 5.4-RELEASE) makes my vaio VGN-S5M/S recognise the SATA controller for what it is. Before: atapci1: GENERIC ATA controller port 0x18a0-0x18af,0x1894-0x1897,0x18b0-0x18b7,0x18b8-0x18bb,0x18c0

[PATCH] Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
Following up on myself; the patch below (relative to 5.4-RELEASE) makes my vaio VGN-S5M/S recognise the SATA controller for what it is. Before: atapci1: GENERIC ATA controller port 0x18a0-0x18af,0x1894-0x1897,0x18b0-0x18b7,0x18b8-0x18bb,0x18c0-0x18c7 irq 18 at device 31.2 on pci0 ad4: 76319MB

Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread Dev Tugnait
Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound drivers...then go from there On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 15:41 +1100, Peter Clutton wrote: Hi everyone, wondering if anybody could help me out. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-release on a Sony Vaio, and just about everything worked

RE:Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread myfreebsd
The sound device listed in Sony's specs says ac97-compatible on board sound. I tried the open source sound drivers with no luck. OSS is the sound server, not the sound card driver. It controls which programs have access to the sound card. You need to have the driver for the card loaded for OSS

Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound drivers...then go from there Thanks for that, I forgot to mention I had tried that to no avail. It doesn't seem to recognise it. I will do it again so I can say exactly what

Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread Chris
Peter Clutton wrote: On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound drivers...then go from there Thanks for that, I forgot to mention I had tried that to no avail. It doesn't seem to recognise it. I will do it again

Re: Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-16 Thread Dev Tugnait
Try opensound drivers http://opensound.com On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:41 +1100, Peter Clutton wrote: On 11/17/05, Dev Tugnait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a kldload snd_driver, then test your sound. This loads all the sound drivers...then go from there Thanks for that, I forgot to mention I

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
, but not by 6.0's ad4: 76319MB FUJITSU MHV2080BH/0025 [155061/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33 Why is it connected to the secondary slave? It's also only achieving UDMA33. Unless it's an old laptop, that should be at least 66 or 100. Did you move the drive and change the cable? I would have

Sound Configuration, Sony Laptop with ac97

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Clutton
Hi everyone, wondering if anybody could help me out. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-release on a Sony Vaio, and just about everything worked right off the bat. However when starting Gnome, i get a message about how it can't open the sound device, and sound just isn't working for me. The sound device

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Billy Tallis
On 11/13/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of ram. 16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
comment. I have FreeBSD 5.4 release running smoothly on my Vaio. I wouldn't imagine the device.hints can help you, it sounds like the hardware isn't compatible or something and it can't see it. Exactly what is the laptop - make/model/specs. What hard drive, and what bus is it attached

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/14/05 23:56 Billy Tallis said the following: The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel. From the information I have found online, BTX does not seem to be as what are the errors you're getting at the btx boot: prompt ? -- Regards,

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Peter Clutton
] at ata2-master UDMA33 Why is it connected to the secondary slave? It's also only achieving UDMA33. Unless it's an old laptop, that should be at least 66 or 100. Did you move the drive and change the cable? I would have guessed that putting it there behind your DVD would be enough to cause

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-14 Thread Billy Tallis
On 11/14/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/05 23:56 Billy Tallis said the following: The real problem is that BTX never gets around to loading any kernel. what are the errors you're getting at the btx boot: prompt ? There are no errors at the boot: prompt. It is when I hit

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-13 Thread Luk van den Borne
2005/11/12, Miles Keaton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Miles Keaton wrote: I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-13 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Miles Keaton wrote: Miles Keaton wrote: I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do

FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Derek Tracy
not find any of the disks. I have been doing some research on this and a few people were able to install the 5.4 release (I have not tried it myself) on this laptop so it only stands to reason that 6.0 should work. My Question are there any options that I can give the boot loader i.emodules, disable

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-13 Thread Miles Keaton
On 11/13/05, Luk van den Borne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should load cpufreq in your /boot/loader.conf. cpufreq is the backend that FreeBSD uses for (dynamic) CPU scaling. cpufreq_load=YES rc.conf: powerd_enable=YES powerd_flags=-a adaptive -b adaptive -n adaptive THAT WORKED! Thanks

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on Sony Laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Peter Clutton
wouldn't imagine the device.hints can help you, it sounds like the hardware isn't compatible or something and it can't see it. Exactly what is the laptop - make/model/specs. What hard drive, and what bus is it attached to? Are there any error messages on the emergency holographic shell, i think you can

BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Billy Tallis
I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of ram. When I boot to the installation cd, I get the register dump and BTX halted message, and the screen then goes blank but the power stays on. I have disabled

Re: BTX halt on laptop

2005-11-13 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 11/14/05 07:54 Billy Tallis said the following: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a Toshiba Sat. Pro 445CDX laptop with no floppy drive. This laptop has a pentium processor and 16MB of ram. 16MB of RAM, that doesnt sound like much. -- Regards, /\_/\ All

FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-12 Thread Miles Keaton
I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5? (I was using est+estctrl

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-12 Thread J. Martin Petersen
Miles Keaton wrote: I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5? I'm

Re: FreeBSD 6 on Centrino laptop : how to prolong battery life with cpufreq (like est and estctrl did)

2005-11-12 Thread Miles Keaton
Miles Keaton wrote: I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq + SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5

Better laptop support in 6.0?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul Waring
A while back I spent a lot of time trying to get FreeBSD 5.3 working on my Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 laptop with no success. I was wondering if version 6 adds anything that would be more likely to make it possible to install FreeBSD on my laptop? I currently use it on a server system

Re: Better laptop support in 6.0?

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/11/05, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while back I spent a lot of time trying to get FreeBSD 5.3 working on my Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 laptop with no success. I was wondering if version 6 adds anything that would be more likely to make it possible to install FreeBSD on my

Re: Better laptop support in 6.0?

2005-11-11 Thread Paul Waring
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:51:15AM -0800, Peter Clutton wrote: I can't comment on your previous problems, as I've got FreeBSD 5.4 running on a state of the art Sony vaio laptop, I use it for everything. Not sure what could be causing the CDs not to work, without error messages

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-31 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 30, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all connections

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-30 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I'd strongly recommend pf(4) over IP Filter. The PF firewall seems to have all

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-30 18:23, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-31 16:45, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-10-30 18:23, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer

laptop firewall rules

2005-10-30 Thread andy
Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all connections out and keep state, but block all incoming from the outside. TIA

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-30 Thread Eric F Crist
On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all connections out and keep state, but block all incoming from

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-30 Thread Vitaly Cherny
On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let all connections out and keep state, but block all incoming from

Re: laptop firewall rules

2005-10-30 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Vitaly Cherny thusly... On 10/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good example of a firewall ruleset for a wireless interface in a laptop, or a pointer to documentation? I want to use IPFilter on 6.0 rc1. I want to let

Re: How to remove a Hotplug Laptop CD/DVD Drive

2005-10-26 Thread Thomas Linton
, if any kind of hotpluging (e.g. PCI Adapters) is supported by freeBSD? Regards, Thomas. On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:00 +0200, Michal F. Hanula wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:27:22PM +0200, Thomas Linton wrote: What is the correct and safe way to remove a Hotplug CD/DVD Drive from a Laptop

Re: How to remove a Hotplug Laptop CD/DVD Drive

2005-10-24 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:27:22PM +0200, Thomas Linton wrote: What is the correct and safe way to remove a Hotplug CD/DVD Drive from a Laptop? If the drive is on a separate IDE channel, try atacontrol stop channel mf

How to remove a Hotplug Laptop CD/DVD Drive

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Linton
What is the correct and safe way to remove a Hotplug CD/DVD Drive from a Laptop? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DPMS on laptop not working

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Clark
Hi, I just installed Freebsd on a Dell Latitude C600 with 14 SXGA screen. It needs to be on all the time so I need a way of turning the screen off. I have played with sysctl hw.acpi.* thingies to get it to suspend. But none of the power states only turn the screen off. I want to

Re: DPMS on laptop not working

2005-09-27 Thread Fabian Keil
Paul Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Freebsd on a Dell Latitude C600 with 14 SXGA screen. It needs to be on all the time so I need a way of turning the screen off. I want to get DPMS working so I can do xset dpms force off but it doesn't work. Nothing happens and I get

laptop question...

2005-09-18 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I'm about to purchase a sager np3880 laptop: http://www.discountlaptops.com/index.php?section=specsmodel_id=1176category_id=category_theme=c1 and want to know if there might be any problems with the hardware especially the usb and video. Has anyone been able to get wuxga (1900x1200 screen sizes

laptop question...

2005-09-18 Thread Boris Karloff
I'm Curious, Why did you select this laptop over other, more common brands (HP, Sony, Toshiba, etc)? Prices are similar. http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/SubCategory.asp?SubCategory=32 My vote is to abandon Windows XP, and, for that matter, MS office. OpenOffice is really becoming a formidable

Re: laptop question...

2005-09-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 18 September 2005 at 11:59:37 -0700, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: I'm about to purchase a sager np3880 laptop: http://www.discountlaptops.com/index.php?section=specsmodel_id=1176category_id=category_theme=c1 and want to know if there might be any problems with the hardware especially

Re: HP Pavillion laptop work with any version of FreeBSD?

2005-09-13 Thread Michael L. Hostbaek
WOB (wayofbsd) writes: I posted the error messages to the mobile list, and didn't get a response - I guess no one has this type of laptop. Has anyone had any luck with any version of FreeBSD on any version of HP Pavillion laptop? Just yesterday, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-REL

Re: Laptop questions

2005-09-12 Thread Parv
the installed copy. To work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice manipulation. Well, i was able to manipulate the slices while Partition Magic 6.x

Re: Laptop questions

2005-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
run from the installed copy. To work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice manipulation. Well, i was able to manipulate the slices while

Re: Laptop questions

2005-09-12 Thread Derrill Guilbert
are booting the machine you cannot run from the installed copy. To work on the main disk (most likely your case with a laptop), you must make the boot floppies it tells about in the Partition Magic documentation and then boot from them to do the disk slice manipulation. Well, i was able

HP Pavillion laptop work with any version of FreeBSD?

2005-09-12 Thread WOB
I have never been able to get through an install of either 5.4 or 6.0 on my HP Pavillion zv5445us laptop. Trying to install 5.4 would poweroff the latop, and 6.0 hangs during the install. I have not tried 4.10, and was hoping I wouldn't have to. I had tried earlier version of 5.x when

Laptop questions

2005-09-11 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. I'm on the verge of getting myself a laptop. As this is my first laptop, and I'm rewarding myself for a recent accomplishment, I figured I'd go all out and get the top of the line Dell. I know, IBM has some great notebooks, as does Gateway and particularly Apple. I'd like to get

Re: Laptop questions

2005-09-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hey all. I'm on the verge of getting myself a laptop. As this is my first laptop, and I'm rewarding myself for a recent accomplishment, I figured I'd go all out and get the top of the line Dell. I know, IBM has some great notebooks, as does Gateway and particularly Apple. I'd like

Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Ben Paley
Hello, Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? There's no /dev/sda at the moment. I can't seem to find out how the card connects internally - neither usb nor scsi look very likely... Any more ideas? Cheers, Ben

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? If not, try 'pciconf -lv', 'usbdevs' and 'camcontrol devlist -v' to see if it is on the PCI, USB

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Ben Paley
On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop? Is there anything in /var/log/messages? Not so far as I can see, nor in dmesg

Re: Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

2005-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote: Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my dell inspiron 6000 laptop

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