Re: ESCape codes displayed instead of processed in pager

2012-03-30 Thread Jim Bryant
Matt Thyer wrote: On Mar 29, 2012 5:18 AM, Jim Bryant kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com mailto:kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since I have upgraded to 9-stable, I have noticed that the manpages seem to be munged up with displayed instead of processed ESCape codes. I believe

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-28 Thread Jim Bryant
1:23:14pm argus(50): lsof -n | awk '{print $2 \t $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort lsof: Command not found. 1:35:12pm argus(51): man lsof | cat No manual entry for lsof 1:35:38pm argus(52): find /usr/src -iname \*lsof\* 1:36:42pm argus(53): find /usr/src -type f -iname \*lsof\* 1:36:50pm

ESCape codes displayed instead of processed in pager

2012-03-28 Thread Jim Bryant
Ever since I have upgraded to 9-stable, I have noticed that the manpages seem to be munged up with displayed instead of processed ESCape codes. an example: 1:41:05pm argus(8): man man MAN(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MAN(1) ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-28 Thread Jim Bryant
bundles, etc). STAY AWAY FROM HP dv-ANYTHING ESPECIALLY!!! THE AMD VERSIONS ARE EVEN MORE PRONE TO FAILURE!!! Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Jim Bryant on Thursday, 14 July 2011: stay away from newer hp laptops. been repairing laptops for money in recent years. HP laptops made after 2008 generally

Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop

2011-07-14 Thread Jim Bryant
stay away from newer hp laptops. been repairing laptops for money in recent years. HP laptops made after 2008 generally have serious issues with BGA lifting, and usually require motherboard replacement after 1-2 years. also their manuals have even more undocumented disassembly instructions,

Re: problem with urtw

2011-06-13 Thread Jim Bryant
would manufacturer-supplied linux driver source code suffice? i can't buy you one, but i can send you the linux driver sources. Adrian Chadd wrote: On 11 June 2011 03:48, Jim Bryant kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com wrote: this is with if_urtw.c patched to change L to B as you supplied. I'm here

Re: problem with urtw

2011-06-10 Thread Jim Bryant
.. any more ideas? If anyone wants to play themselves, look on ebay for WiFiSky 1500mW B/G with 6dBi antenna. It seems that half of Hong Kong is selling these for under $20 USD. Bernhard Schmidt wrote: On Thursday, June 09, 2011 22:34:18 Jim Bryant wrote: I just bought one of those chinese

kvm_open errors on /proc/*/mem in top

2011-06-09 Thread Jim Bryant
i'm not sure which list this belongs to, so i'm posting to -hackers and -stable. i've noticed for a while now that during heavy activity (for instance buildworld), that top will get these kvm_read errors when reading proc mem entries. i have included a screenshot of what happens during such

problem with urtw

2011-06-09 Thread Jim Bryant
I just bought one of those chinese (apparently the same unit relabeled and being sold by multiple companies) realtek RTL8187B wifi units. The price is right. The label name on this one is WiFySky 1500mW. other than the fact that the case it is enclosed in is really cheesy, there is a more

Re: wifi issues under -stable

2010-09-29 Thread Jim Bryant
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Jim Bryant wrote: i have two laptops, both are Compaq(HP) C300 series using the motherboards with the 945GM chipset and using T7200 and T7600 Core2 Duos. One (this one) has an intel pro wireless 3945ABG installed, which returns: wpi0: Intel(R) PRO

wifi issues under -stable

2010-09-22 Thread Jim Bryant
i have two laptops, both are Compaq(HP) C300 series using the motherboards with the 945GM chipset and using T7200 and T7600 Core2 Duos. One (this one) has an intel pro wireless 3945ABG installed, which returns: wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6 wpi0: Driver

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-03 Thread Jim Bryant
i just noticed this too... had a build going of qt-creator, and then started a /usr/src make clean, and had to abort the qt-creator build to get the make clean to finish. it was taking forever to even paint the xterm in the make clean window. -stable built as of last week, amd64 kernel,

what's up with cvsup?

2010-09-03 Thread Jim Bryant
is it just me, or are all the cvsup servers down? i've tried this on several machines, i can ping some of them (not all), and the ones that can be pinged all timeout when doing a make update in /usr/src. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: what's up with cvsup?

2010-09-03 Thread Jim Bryant
my bad. it was a router firewall setting. Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 03:00:04PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: is it just me, or are all the cvsup servers down? i've tried this on several machines, i can ping some of them (not all), and the ones that can be pinged all

How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-17 Thread Jim Bryant
One line summary: Too many files in a top-level UFS-2 filesystem directory will cause a panic on mount. Kern/Critical/High Priority/SW-Bug Which FreeBSD Release You Are Using: 6.3-STABLE Environment (output of uname -a on the problem machine): FreeBSD wahoo.sd67dfl.org 6.3-STABLE

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-17 Thread Jim Bryant
FYI: The system assigned kern/120781 to this bug report. IMHO, a security advisory should be issued ASAP. Jim Bryant wrote: One line summary: Too many files in a top-level UFS-2 filesystem directory will cause a panic on mount. Kern/Critical/High Priority/SW-Bug Which FreeBSD Release