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  1. p5ycho

    FreeBSD 8 ahci(4) with amd740, SB700: timeouts when detecting devices at boot

    For anyone who runs into this problem: the "hint.ahci.0.msi=0" loader tunable fixes things for me.
  2. p5ycho

    Support for Wacom graphic tablets in 8.0 ?

    I had things running on my Thinkpad x60t, but things went belly-up after the Xorg 7.5 update. I don't use the tablet functions that often, so I let it be. This is an RS232 tablet though. I guess the USB problems are because of the new USB stack that went stable with 8.0-RELEASE? You probably...
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    X.Org 7-4 -> X.Org 7.5 upgrade -- issues and questions

    Just finished compiling. My intel-video-based Thinkpad X60t runs fine. Two problems though. My keyboard repeat rate is default again. It seems my HAL policies are picked up, but not acted on. 43203-38: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/atkbd_0' 43252- freebsd.driver = 'atkbd' (string)...
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    Intel X25-V SSD Sector Alignment Questions

    In this case i meant conforming to the C/H/S boundaries. So you are still compatible with the 70-80's layout. That doesn't really matter, except for the fact that the beginning and ending of a partition will cross an erase block. For theoretical flash lifetime optimisation only the sector/page...
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    Intel X25-V SSD Sector Alignment Questions

    Whoops, read over your post. Thanks :) Has anyone here actually encountered problems with ignoring the legacy layout? I've used 1MB offsets in both FreeBSD and Ubuntu without any problems. To me it's not worth the hassle.
  6. p5ycho

    Intel X25-V SSD Sector Alignment Questions

    The only thing that really matters is that the filesystem sectors are aligned with the flash pages in your SSD. These are usually both 4KB in size. If these don't match up, every write to your SSD will result in 2 4KB writes instead of 1, since the flash memory used can only write in blocks of...
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    stopping and restarting portupgrade

    Well, don't. just do: portupgrade -PRw kdebase4
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    zfs v15 and newer

    What we have now they can't take from us. If they decide to keep future code to themselves that would suck, but nothing we can do about it. By the looks of it, ZFS being GPL'ed will never happen. Oracle wants Solaris to be their high-end OS. Let's hope they keep OpenSolaris cddl and uptodate...
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    Intel X25-V SSD Sector Alignment Questions

    So, the goal is to write the 4K filesystem sectors aligned with the 4k pages of the SSD flash. Note that most recent controllers have enough intelligence and 'decoupling' between LBA adresses and internal flash locations to almost completely resolve the performance and aging hit that comes with...
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    stopping and restarting portupgrade

    add the -w option to resume the process without cleaning the previous work. and read the manual (man portupgrade), that's where i looked for you.
  11. p5ycho

    screen: Keep Your Processes Running Despite A Dropped Connection

    There, i'm using tmux now. To make life easier, i've added auto-reattach to my .bash_profile: # If possible, reattach to an existing session # If not possible, create a new session. if [ ! $TMUX ]; then tmux list-sessions > /dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exec tmux new-session...
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    The Laptop/Notebook thread

    You are probably running Win7 by now Installed FreeBSD 8.0 on my X60T a few weeks ago, took the time to install the wacom drivers a few days ago. The wacom tablet functions work just fine (tested briefly in Gimp). My X60t has a serial wacom tablet, X61T probably has so too. All you need to...
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    screen: Keep Your Processes Running Despite A Dropped Connection

    Well, the functionality you want is a bit of a hassle in screen. Basically, screen can read the commands you enter, and grab the input starting from the last character of your prompt. I use bash myself, and the last character of the prompt is "$". So, i would add the following to my .screenrc...
  14. p5ycho

    java/eclipse 3.4.2_2 fails to install

    Fixed the problem, removing /usr/local/eclipse solved it.
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    java/eclipse 3.4.2_2 fails to install

    Hi, I can't seem to get java/eclipse to install. I had it working before, (this was 3.4.2_1) but a little mistake with pkg_cutleaves and *poof*, deinstalled by accident. I've installed a clean ports tree, recompiled the dependencies, no luck. If anyone can shed some light on this problem...
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    Harddrive sector size

    I'm willing to bet that this jumper aligns the 4K sectors to the default partition alignment on XP systems. Vista and above align partitions on an offset of exactly 2048 sectors from the start of the drive. XP and earlier use sector 63 i believe, which is not a multiple of 4KB. So, either use...
  17. p5ycho

    portsnap and time clock

    Is your date set correctly too? Year? You can doublecheck with "ntpdate -q pool.ntp.org".
  18. p5ycho

    FreeBSD 8 ahci(4) with amd740, SB700: timeouts when detecting devices at boot

    I did, latest bios is from november 2008. Normally it's not that hard to replace the AHCI Option ROM (which is a part of the complete bios file) if you have the correct tools. Unfortunately the newer AHCI bios is of a different size, this screws up the internal linking in the bios file. I think...
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    FreeBSD 8 ahci(4) with amd740, SB700: timeouts when detecting devices at boot

    Tango48, what motherboard did you use? Need to know so i can copy the latest revision option ROM from that bios. I have AHCI option ROM version 74 in latest bios. edit: i ripped a version 78 ahci bios from a gigabyte motherboard bios. Unfortunately the option ROM has a different size than...
  20. p5ycho

    Via Nano fileserver mobo recommendations (NAS, ZFS etc)

    when i purchased one of the first via boards with a nano cpu, freebsd wouldn't work in 64bit mode. Had to patch bootloader, and things were unstable. Went for a low-power AMD solution instead. Please doublecheck if a Nano CPU works in 64bit mode before you buy one. Edit: and if you want to use...
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