iMac G5 (ambient light sensor) and X.org
Hey all, I'm having trouble configuring X on my iMac G5. I'm wondering if anyone has a working xorg.conf for a 17 iMac G5? If so, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, RJ -- em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: dbhsibgeek www: http://www.bellsouthpwp.net/r/j/rjnowling/ Poster: I am a Windows Systems Administrator and work for a pretty large corporation Anonymous: I am so very sorry for you... -- Slashdot
Laptop recommendations
Hi all, I'm looking into getting a new laptop (I start college in the fall). In particular, I'm looking for something OpenBSD compatible. I considering either a Lenovo Thinkpad or the MacBook Pro. From what I've seen you can only boot the macbook pro if you have windows installed. I'm wondering if anybody has experience with the new Lenovo models and the macbook pro? Thanks, RJ -- em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poster: I am a Windows Systems Administrator and work for a pretty large corporation Anonymous: I am so very sorry for you... -- Slashdot
Re: Laptop recommendations
On 5/11/06, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to be when I first heard about it). If you search the archives you'll see dmesgs from the new macs. I had checked the archives for misc@, and what I had read indicated that the Macbook Pro could boot OpenBSD using Parallels virtualization software, but not natively due to hang while probing USB. Also, I'm under the opinion that the wireless doesn't work as they use broadcom adapters under the Airport Express name. I could be wrong though. I was just wondering if that had improved any. See http://www.openbsd.org/laptop.html for a fuller list of options. Likewise, the laptop page ( http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html ) has some info about a T43 and a Z60m. However, searches of the misc@ archives suggest the newer *60 series generally don't work well with OpenBSD. I would of course be careful to order a laptop with an intel wifi adapter. On 5/11/06, Timo Schoeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: appropriate series) i'd say: IBM, definitely. So, any recommendations per specific models? I was looking at the Z and T series... Thanks, RJ
Re: Laptop recommendations
I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. Although I won't buy one immediately, I'll probably get a T43 as they are still available if you look. Maybe support for the ACPI/audio/wifi in the T60 will be better by the time I'm getting ready to buy so I can have the nice SATA drive and dual-core CPU. :) Thanks, RJ On 5/11/06, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi RJ. I would recommend IBM/Lenovo. OpenBSD 3.9 works out of the box including (but not limited to ;) suspend, buttons, ... on my IBM X40. After a hard disk error on my Mac PowerBook (ppc architecture) I discovered that the support from Mac is really sh*t. Having a choice between IBM/Lenovo I strongly recommend an IBM/Lenovo notebook. But check http://www.openbsd.org/laptop.html . HTH, Andreas. On 5/11/06, rjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm looking into getting a new laptop (I start college in the fall). In particular, I'm looking for something OpenBSD compatible. I considering either a Lenovo Thinkpad or the MacBook Pro. From what I've seen you can only boot the macbook pro if you have windows installed. I'm wondering if anybody has experience with the new Lenovo models and the macbook pro? Thanks, RJ -- em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poster: I am a Windows Systems Administrator and work for a pretty large corporation Anonymous: I am so very sorry for you... -- Slashdot -- em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: dbhsibgeek www: http://www.bellsouthpwp.net/r/j/rjnowling/ Poster: I am a Windows Systems Administrator and work for a pretty large corporation Anonymous: I am so very sorry for you... -- Slashdot
Re: Locking processes/users to CPUs in SMP systems
Thank you everyone for the quick responses. :) On 3/24/06, Janne Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure you *really* want this? I mean, even if it was possible, are you sure there would be any gains to it? From what I have read (I'm not an expert on the subject, just curious), cpu affinity is important for performance. Soft affinity attempts to keep processes on the cpu where it's cache is as if the processes are moved a lot, it causes high cache miss rates. In terms of hard affinity, it can make sense for performance in that in some setups, you might want to give a single process or a set of processes the full processing power of a CPU and let the kernel and other programs be run by another CPU. Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6799 (An old article on CPU affinity in the 2.5 Linux development kernel.) However, like I said, it was more just out of curiosity. -- em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poster: I am a Windows Systems Administrator and work for a pretty large corporation Anonymous: I am so very sorry for you... -- Slashdot
Locking processes/users to CPUs in SMP systems
I was just wondering, is it possible to lock a process or user to a specific CPU in an SMP system? Say for example, I had a database and a web server and I wanted to lock each one to a CPU. Or that I only wanted user 'johndoe' to be able to use a second CPU? Thanks in advance. RJ -- em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poster: I am a Windows Systems Administrator and work for a pretty large corporation Anonymous: I am so very sorry for you... -- Slashdot
cgd
Hi, I had read on the mail lists that Ted U. had ported cgd to OBsd for 3.3, but that those patches are no longer maintained and that there are no intentions of re-porting cgd to OBSD. cgd and (s)vnd are the best encryption methods compared with cfs or tcfs, but cgd seems to a more flexible and more fully developed solution designed just for disk encryption, while encryption in (s)vnd seems like an add-on to the loopback system. I was wondering why a permanent port of cgd was not under consideration considering? Thanks, RJ
