Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Laurence Rochfort
I have a Sandybridge chipset and am glad to say that with the arrival of my 5.1 CDs I now have the correct X resolution. However, I cannot switch from X to console or shutdown from X, both just give a blank screen. I can reboot from X and shutdown if booted to console however. I understand the

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: I have a Sandybridge chipset and am glad to say that with the arrival of my 5.1 CDs I now have the correct X resolution. However, I cannot switch from X to console or shutdown from X, both just give a blank screen. I can reboot from X

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
Hey there On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: However, I cannot switch from X to console or shutdown from X, both just give a blank screen. I can reboot from X and shutdown if booted to console however. Check this thread for more info:

intel h61 sata ahci problem

2012-04-28 Thread Peter Blokland
hi, I got a new Intel dh61ag board, with onboard sata provided through the h61 chipset. When booting with the controller set to ahci, obsd does not find any disks. trying to install 5.0/amd64, I see : ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 6 Series AHCI rev 0x05: msi, unable to reset controller

Re: intel h61 sata ahci problem

2012-04-28 Thread Peter Blokland
hi, ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 6 Series AHCI rev 0x05: msi, unable to reset controller disregard, I thought I had the latest BIOS, but I didn't. updating it fixed all of my problems. on to installing... -- CUL8R, Peter.

Re: MPLS VPN on OpenBSD

2012-04-28 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
Have you noticed the paper which Claudio Jeker had presented at EuroBSDCon 2011? http://2011.eurobsdcon.org/papers/jeker/MPLS.pdf Althought the talk is listed at http://www.openbsd.org/events.html it is missing at http://www.openbsd.org/papers/

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread patrick keshishian
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: I have a Sandybridge chipset and am glad to say that with the arrival of my 5.1 CDs I now have the correct X resolution. However, I cannot switch from X to

Re: MPLS VPN on OpenBSD

2012-04-28 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting Rolf Sommerhalder rolf.sommerhal...@alumni.ethz.ch: Have you noticed the paper which Claudio Jeker had presented at EuroBSDCon 2011? http://2011.eurobsdcon.org/papers/jeker/MPLS.pdf Althought the talk is listed at http://www.openbsd.org/events.html it is missing at

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
Here is a naive question: How does one determine whether or not a system is/has Sandybridge? I ask, cause I have a lenovo x120e that has similar issues to what is reported here with Sandybridge; specifically switching from X to console and back. From Lenovo specification, you systems looks

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread patrick keshishian
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a naive question: How does one determine whether or not a system is/has Sandybridge? I ask, cause I have a lenovo x120e that has similar issues to what is reported here with Sandybridge; specifically switching from

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Laurence Rochfort
There are no naive questions, but unfortunately a lot of elitist answers. The sandy bridge video adapters are denoted gt1 gt2 and gt2+ and the cpus i5 and i7 Check your pcidump to see if you have a non Intel adapter present, its quite rare to have Intel integrated graphics and a secondary

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:35, patrick keshishian wrote: right. i suppose, what I really meant was, based on the dmesg from OP, how does one determine sandybridge-ness? (my eyeballs didn't catch any obvious references). Or does one need to read the manufacturer's marketing docs to know?

Re: undeadly (window managers)

2012-04-28 Thread Brett
bleh ... it does what it advertizes and works pretty fine, I've used it for years and the fact that it's a stone age version does not prevent me from working with it both at home at work. the reason why i like it is precisely because it's simple and doesn't come with tons of features