Re: usb external disk freezes system [SOLVED ON -CURRENT]

2011-02-18 Thread shwegime
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:05:59PM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: I have an external usb drive which freezes the system, especially if I do some cp of scp of big files, but not necessarily, it happens also with small files, here is the error I

Re: usb external disk freezes system

2011-02-17 Thread shwegime
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:05:59PM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: I have an external usb drive which freezes the system, especially if I do some cp of scp of big files, but not necessarily, it happens also with small files, here is the error I

usb external disk freezes system

2011-02-16 Thread shwegime
I have an external usb drive which freezes the system, especially if I do some cp of scp of big files, but not necessarily, it happens also with small files, here is the error I get: attempting to restore vector in use vecproc 0 veccpu 6boff0 attempting to restore vector in use vecproc 0

Re: 4.8 on Powerbook G4 - Won't boot

2011-01-21 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Joel Rees wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:55:35 -0600 Gable Barber gablebar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Sergiu Partenie pser...@gmail.com wrote: On 15.01.2011, at 22:28, Gable Barber wrote: Fresh install, used entire disk for OpenBSD, and

Re: soekris + openbsd server buy question

2010-12-04 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Martin SchrC6der wrote: 2010/12/3 shweg...@gmail.com: Hello, I'm considering buying a Soekris net5501-70 and install OpenBSD on it to make myself a small server and use it as a proxy (ssh tunnel), it might Forget Soekris. Get a Lanner FW7530 or similar. Best Martin

Re: How to open PDF that requires Adobe 9

2010-12-04 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Brynet bry...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Why are you using xpdf? it's so old and crummy :-). print/epdfview, which uses the poppler library. textproc/mupdf, independent renderer, pretty good. -Bryan. There

soekris + openbsd server buy question

2010-12-03 Thread shwegime
Hello, I'm considering buying a Soekris net5501-70 and install OpenBSD on it to make myself a small server and use it as a proxy (ssh tunnel), it might serve as backup file sever as well. I guess at the most there will be two-three computers connnected at the same time, and there might be some

Re: soekris + openbsd server buy question

2010-12-03 Thread shwegime
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Matt Bettinger wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:28 AM, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm considering buying a Soekris net5501-70 and install OpenBSD on it to make myself a small server and use it as a proxy (ssh tunnel), it might serve as backup file sever as well. I

Re: scp speed ffs/fat

2010-04-29 Thread shwegime
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Claudio Jeker wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:50:45PM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:09 +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: Transfering a file using scp into my home directory gives me this speed (home netword): 658.8KB/s while copying it directly into a

Re: scp speed ffs/fat

2010-04-29 Thread shwegime
I've just tried to issue the same command from linux double booted on the same machine, and it gives me this speed: 2.4MB/s

Re: scp speed ffs/fat

2010-04-29 Thread shwegime
I'v just tried again from obsd, and now it goes at 2.3MB/s Don't know what was on yesterday morning. Sorry for noise.

scp speed ffs/fat

2010-04-28 Thread shwegime
Transfering a file using scp into my home directory gives me this speed (home netword): 658.8KB/s while copying it directly into a usb stick (fat32) gives me this: 1.5MB/s is it normal? This is the fstab entry of home: /dev/sd0h /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2 tks Still on 4.6, I'm a

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-19 Thread shwegime
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 08:48:26AM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, J Sisson wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:28 AM, trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: You can actually have MANY more than 4 OS on one drive, but it does get

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-16 Thread shwegime
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, J Sisson wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:28 AM, trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: You can actually have MANY more than 4 OS on one drive, but it does get rather complicated and not worth the effort which certainly wouldn't help here. The point was that OpenBSD

cannot mount cdrom

2010-03-08 Thread shwegime
I have a cdrom that came with a language course, I can neither mount it nor dd it to an iso image inside openbsd, but it reads fine on my dvd player (the ones you use with your tv set). I have not tried it on windows, and anyway I would like to be able to listen to it on obsd. This is the

Re: cannot mount cdrom

2010-03-08 Thread shwegime
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 08:18:13PM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: I have a cdrom that came with a language course, I can neither mount it nor dd it to an iso image inside openbsd, but it reads fine on my dvd player (the ones you use with your

Re: cannot mount cdrom [solved]

2010-03-08 Thread shwegime
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: shwegime wrote: I have a cdrom that came with a language course, I can neither mount it nor dd it to an iso image inside openbsd, but it reads fine on my dvd player (the ones you use with your tv set). I have not tried it on windows, and anyway I would like

Re: How to create an installation image of OpenBSD for a USB stick?

2010-03-03 Thread shwegime
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Ilya Ilembitov wrote: Hi, all. I have a pretty tricky challenge before me. My main (and only) machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s. The problem is that it doesn't have an optical drive. Second problem is that I live in a dorn, so I only have access to wireless connection,

Re: What does your environment look like?

2010-02-10 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Brynet wrote: Hi, I know not everyone uses OpenBSD for a desktop OS, but I have been for nearly 5 years and I'm quite curious about some of your opinions? do you embrace minimalism or pure aesthetics? are the two mutually exclusive? When I started using OpenBSD

openoffice abort trap

2010-02-02 Thread shwegime
running 4.6 release I need to open some .doc files with some complex graphics in them, and abiword doesn't seem to handle them very well. So I thought openoffice might help. I installed it, but cannot open it, the flash screen comes up, and then crashes right away: ~ $ soffice

Re: openoffice abort trap

2010-02-02 Thread shwegime
Are you running -current packages? If so, running -release base is unsupported. I'm running -release base with -release packages. This is one of the addresses from my .profile: export PKG_PATH=:ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/i386/

Re: openoffice abort trap

2010-02-02 Thread shwegime
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-02-02, shweg...@gmail.com shweg...@gmail.com wrote: running 4.6 release I need to open some .doc files with some complex graphics in them, and abiword doesn't seem to handle them very well. So I thought openoffice might help. I installed it,

Re: iwn stopped working after OpenBSD upgrade in January, 2010

2010-01-22 Thread shwegime
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Marc Espie wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:50:57PM +, leona...@sympatico.ca wrote: I have been tracking openbsd current (i386) for a while. The latest upgrade OpenBSD 4.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #391: Fri Jan 15 14:55:45 MST 2010 and iwn-firmware-5.2.tgz seem to no

Re: Problem with beaver editor and UTF-8/ISO-8859-2 encoding

2010-01-14 Thread shwegime
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:59:47 +0800 (CST) shweg...@gmail.com wrote: To input unicode in termial you might want to check this: ~ $ cat .inputrc set meta-flag = on set convert-meta = off set output-meta = on I've tried to create a file in cyrillic

Re: thinkpad x200 wireless 5100 old issue

2010-01-13 Thread shwegime
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Vadim Zhukov wrote: On 13 January 2010 P3. 06:07:35 shweg...@gmail.com wrote: I just installed a snapshot and run it from a usb thumb. The 'iwn' has exactly the same issues (that is hanging after a minute or so of usage and working again after doing 'up down') as with

thinkpad x200 wireless 5100 old issue

2010-01-12 Thread shwegime
Running 4.6 release. Some time in summer I'd opened a thread about Thinkpad x200 5100 wi-fi nic, of which here is the line from dmesg: iwn0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 Intel WiFi Link 5100 rev 0x00: apic 1 int 17 (irq 11), MIMO 1T2R, MoW, address omissis It turned out that the firmware is not

Re: thinkpad x200 wireless 5100 old issue

2010-01-12 Thread shwegime
Thank you for replying. As you can see from the first line of my post, I'm running -release, and not -current, and I don't plan to run -current since I'm very happy with an upgrade twice a year for the moment. Actually, since the link you provided was from end october, I tried installing it

Re: thinkpad x200 wireless 5100 old issue

2010-01-12 Thread shwegime
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Aaron Mason wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for replying. As you can see from the first line of my post, I'm running -release, and not -current, and I don't plan to run -current since I'm very happy with an upgrade twice a year

Re: thinkpad x200 wireless 5100 old issue

2010-01-12 Thread shwegime
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Brad Tilley wrote: If this machine isn't production, then no harm could come from trying a snapshot. It would give the developers a much better idea as to where you system's at. Use a USB thumb drive if you're that worried about trashing your data. -- Aaron Mason -

Re: thinkpad x200 wireless 5100 old issue

2010-01-12 Thread shwegime
I just installed a snapshot and run it from a usb thumb. The 'iwn' has exactly the same issues (that is hanging after a minute or so of usage and working again after doing 'up down') as with -release, including the 'ping' hanging there and not giving the 'packet loss' error, which I cannot

Re: aucat -l on powerpc problem

2010-01-10 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 08:02:40AM +0100, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:34:40PM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a macmini ppc (g4) that has the following issue with aucat:

aucat -l on powerpc problem

2010-01-08 Thread shwegime
Hello, I have a macmini ppc (g4) that has the following issue with aucat: When using aucat -l, the music skips quite often, but if I use mplayer without aucat as server, it works perfectcly. I must say that the same issue has mpd, that is, using mpd without aucat as server, has the same

Re: aucat -l on powerpc problem

2010-01-08 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:34:40PM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a macmini ppc (g4) that has the following issue with aucat: When using aucat -l, the music skips quite often, but if I use mplayer without aucat as server, it works

jdk build problem (from ports)

2009-12-11 Thread shwegime
I'm trying to install java from ports (to have the java plugin for firefox) but get this error: /usr/ports/devel/jdk/1.7 # make install clean === Checking files for jdk-1.7.0.00 `/usr/ports/distfiles/openjdk-7-ea-src-b59-14_may_2009.zip' is up to date. `/usr/ports/distfiles/jibx_1_1_5.zip' is

Re: jdk build problem (from ports)

2009-12-11 Thread shwegime
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 07:09:55PM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to install java from ports (to have the java plugin for firefox) but get this error: === Patching for jdk-1.5.0.16 `/usr/ports/obj/jdk-1.5.0.16/.prepatch_done' is up to

Re: jdk build problem (from ports)

2009-12-11 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 07:32:24AM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: actually), I'll build 1.6 only, but still get the error, even after cleaning. By the way, I'm running i386 4.6 release. Ignoring previously applied (or reversed) patch. 1 out of 1

Re: Thinkpad x200 suspend to ram and to disk newby help

2009-10-24 Thread shwegime
sorry, I missed your reply in July. Thanks a lot. One more question: I have a dual boot with Vista (I'd love to completely do without it, but I can't at the moment). There is a partition at the endo of the disk as it was shipped by Lenovo. Why is it not used by Fn+F12? Do I still need to do

Re: Thinkpad x200 suspend to ram and to disk newby help

2009-10-24 Thread shwegime
Thank you for your quick reply. I had a look on the Lenovo site, but could not find the floppy you're saying. I used already gparted to make room for openbsd, so I think I could use it again to make some room at the end. I see that fdisk has the hiddeng partition choice for file system, would

Re: Thinkpad x200 suspend to ram and to disk newby help

2009-10-24 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Robert wrote: The X200 uses ACPI. ACPI suspend is still work in progress afaik. Last thing i read about it is that suspend kind of works in some cases, but the resume part doesn't... The X30 is an APM system, so that doesn't realy work for the X200. I don't miss

aucat -l and mpd

2009-10-03 Thread shwegime
hello, while I see there is some talking about aucat, I'd like to pose a question myself. If I use aucat -l and then play multiple sessions of, say, mplayer, everything is fine, but if I start mpd while running aucat as server, mpd refuses to start. Is it possible to make mpd use aucat? Or

Re: aucat -l and mpd

2009-10-03 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Romain Bertrand wrote: Saturday 03 Oct 2009 16:18:15 (+0800), shweg...@gmail.com wrote : hello, while I see there is some talking about aucat, I'd like to pose a question myself. If I use aucat -l and then play multiple sessions of, say, mplayer, everything is fine, but if

Re: aucat -l and mpd

2009-10-03 Thread shwegime
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-10-03, Nick Guenther kou...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:18 AM, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: hello, while I see there is some talking about aucat, I'd like to pose a question myself. If I use aucat -l and then play multiple

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

2009-09-09 Thread shwegime
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, HSL GmbH - Lukas Ratajski wrote: I just signed up for a $5 USD a month subscription using PayPal. I suggest that anyone seeing hard times consider donating a small amount. After PayPal fees, a hundred $1 donations is still around $72 extra for OpenBSD. Citizen of the

Re: Cyrillic fonts in X Window. (fwd)

2009-09-07 Thread shwegime
Actually I cannot get it to work also with xterm*locale: true. But never mind, because having solved the cyrillic input I would have to solve the chinese input, which I also need, and in xterm seems to be quite problematic to have all of this together (scim input does seem to work only with

Re: Cyrillic fonts in X Window. (fwd)

2009-09-05 Thread shwegime
On my system, to use cyrillic in X I did not add any cyrillic fonts, but just these lines in xorg.conf (InputDevice section): Option XkbLayout us,ru(winkeys),de Option XkbOptions grp:lwin_toggle Option XkbVariant nodeadkeys This way you can

Re: Cyrillic fonts in X Window. (fwd)

2009-09-05 Thread shwegime
Well, I could never get cyrillic to work in xterm either, but only in gtk or qt apps. I don't know why it is, maybe it has to do with the lack of locale. So I just gave up long ago trying to use xterm (mlterm has the same issue) for this. Sorry I cannot be of any better help. If anybody know

help with trunk link failover (only the failover nic works)

2009-08-02 Thread shwegime
I run 4.5 -release on a Thinkpad x200, and I would like to have trunk0 working. The problem is it works, that is it switches the nics (one ethernet and one wireless, as per manpage example), but the ethernet nic does not work. I've also tried to boot with the cable inserted, and it does not

Re: Thinkpad x200 wireless hang (5.1 firmware)

2009-07-31 Thread shwegime
Well, maybe the problem is I hav 5100AGB instead. On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Paul wrote: For what it's worth, I bought my x200 with the 5300AGN card and have not had any problems with basic usage (and I've used the wirelesss extensively over the last six months). I'm running 4.5 stable. From

Re: Thinkpad x200 wireless hang (5.1 firmware)

2009-07-31 Thread shwegime
I've tried that, and it seems to do the trick. How would a script look like that does: ifconfig iwn0 down ifconfig iwn0 up every time it sees it hanging, maybe checking with ping or so? tks On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Stefan

Re: Thinkpad x200 wireless hang (5.1 firmware) - ifconfig up/down script

2009-07-31 Thread shwegime
I've made up this script that seems to work. Be warned: I am NOT a developer, so use with care at your own risk. But it seems to work just fine, really... ping -v -c 1 -w 1 192.168.1.1 | grep -q 100.0% packet loss if [ ${?} -eq 0 ] then ifconfig iwn0 down ifconfig iwn0 up fi You can put it in a

Re: Thinkpad x200 wireless hang (5.1 firmware) - ifconfig up/down script (fwd)

2009-07-31 Thread shwegime
actually, I thought that running this every minute maybe is to long a time, since I don't want to wait a whole minute for a page to open, so you can write it like this: #!/bin/sh while true; do ping -v -c 1 -w 1 192.168.1.1 | grep -q 100.0% packet loss if [ ${?} -eq 0 ] then ifconfig iwn0 down

Re: Thinkpad x200 wireless hang (5.1 firmware)

2009-07-30 Thread shwegime
Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Stefan Wollny wrote: -UrsprCngliche Nachricht- Von: shweg...@gmail.com Gesendet: 30.07.09 01:47:16 An: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Thinkpad x200 wireless hang (5.1 firmware) Hello, does anyone have problems with wireless? The

Thinkpad x200 wireless hang (5.1 firmware)

2009-07-29 Thread shwegime
Hello, does anyone have problems with wireless? The problem is it connects fine, but then after a couple of minutes the connection hangs and then evenctually it starts again, and then hangs again, and so on. What could the problem be? I've tried to reinstall Vista, and it works just fine. Is

Re: Thinkpad x200 wireless hang (5.1 firmware)

2009-07-29 Thread shwegime
Of course, sorry, this is my dmesg: OpenBSD 4.5 (GENERIC.MP) #108: Sat Feb 28 14:58:58 MST 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.27 GHz cpu0:

Thinkpad x200 suspend to ram and to disk newby help

2009-07-16 Thread shwegime
Hello evrybody, I just bought a Thinkpad x200 7457ac1 Everything seems to work fine (did not try bluetooth, but I don't have any bluetooth device), but cannot figure out how to make suspend work. If I press fn+f4 or fn+f12 nothing happens, and if I type zzz or zzz -S (either as normal user or