Horrible console fonts in 11.0 stable

2017-03-11 Thread Lars Eighner
is not for the pathetic X.org). How can anyone work with the horrible text fonts which I suspect are some horrible raster fonts which reset video every time I switch virtual terms? -- Lars Eighner stableu...@larseighner.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Can I get an ISO-8859-1 system back

2016-01-05 Thread Lars Eighner
I upgraded from 9.? to 10.2. I used a custom kernel to avoid vt and raster fonts in sc. I updated as many ports as would build. Now I cannot find an editor that will display my files with accent characters correctly. I know the files are still iso-8859-1 because they are the same size they

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-30 Thread Lars Eighner
will have to hop off the upgrade cycle at some version and hope that I die before it becomes orphaned. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Bring sio up to 8+

2011-05-22 Thread Lars Eighner
It seems increasing unlikely that uart will ever support the only internal hardware modem recently available in the US (PR kern/155196), so what are the chances of sio (which works in 7.x reasonably well and better with a one-line hack) being brought forward?

Why is sio.c still broken?

2009-06-29 Thread Lars Eighner
I was about to trash a modem because the HDLC and buffer overflows were grinding it to halt --- or just about. I switch slots, changed the modem out with and old 28.8, and so forth. Eventually I discovered some really old stuff about sio.c which suggested this: cp4ticks = speed / 10 /

Re: Why is sio.c still broken?

2009-06-29 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:12:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner stableu...@larseighner.com Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org I was about to trash a modem because the HDLC and buffer overflows were grinding it to halt --- or just about. I switch

Re: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762854400, length=8192)]error = 5

2007-10-14 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, d_elbracht wrote: we are trying to diagnose errors seen on 6.2, SMP, amd64, cvsup'ed of 2007-10-09 Mainboard is a Tyan Thunder h2000M (S3992-E) with 16 GB RAM and 2 x Opteron 2216, da3 is on a 3ware 9550-12 we are seeing this error:

Re: File system is Full

2007-10-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Khaled Moussa wrote: My / slice got full and I wonder if there might be any way increasing size through free space on HD? Yes, there is, and I see that someone has already replied calling your attention to growfs. However, there is almost certainly something wrong if /

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-02 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Schiz0 wrote: Hey, I'm wondering how you can increase the resolution of the console in FreeBSD stable. I have read the man page on vidcontrol and googled around a bit, but I'm still confused about what to do. I'm currently running FreeBSD in VMWare on a windows machine (But

Is Makefile.inc1 in 6 wrong?

2006-04-04 Thread Lars Eighner
? -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: Is Makefile.inc1 in 6 wrong?

2006-04-04 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 05:14 pm, Lars Eighner wrote: It appears to me that either I have a wrong version of awk or this Makefile.inc1 is wrong: # # $FreeBSD: src/Makefile.inc1,v 1.499.2.11 2006/04/04 14:24:03 glebius Exp $ # Snippage MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX

Re: Is Makefile.inc1 in 6 wrong?

2006-04-04 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 05:32 pm, Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 05:14 pm, Lars Eighner wrote: It appears to me that either I have a wrong version of awk or this Makefile.inc1 is wrong: # # $FreeBSD

Re: Unkillable zombie sshd-s?

2004-12-02 Thread Lars Eighner
(and it seems they've been zombies for a long time, so parents are probably in error). Can I find out what their parent processes are? (something like tree-shaped ps?) No tree, but try ps -axl. PPID = parent process ID -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner

Can't build STABLE from 5.2.1

2004-11-17 Thread Lars Eighner
/strfile. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

Re: Opera for FreeBSD

2002-11-01 Thread Lars Eighner
? The one in ports is a piece of bloatware that loads slower than Netscape. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119 AUSTIN TX 78751 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Installworld fails: unknown groups games

2002-06-23 Thread Lars Eighner
upgraded all kinds of text handling ports to get the handbook to make for 4.4, but evidently that is all broken now. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119 AUSTIN TX 78751 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: We are exporting quality Hanger for cloth, pants

2001-01-15 Thread Lars Eighner
. -- Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.io.com/~eighner/ Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message