From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 05:47:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D460C16A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 05:47:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6132643D31 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 05:47:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@67.116.52.197 with login) by smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Jan 2005 05:47:14 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:47:13 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050113152405.A5302@starfire.mn.org> <200501141534.26119.algould@datawok.com> <20050115212353.A20171@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <20050115212353.A20171@starfire.mn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501152147.13994.krinklyfig@spymac.com> cc: John Subject: Re: Out of the frying pan... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 05:47:15 -0000 On Saturday 15 January 2005 07:23 pm, John wrote: > Oh, and figure out WHAT is going on with Konqueror. On some web > sites, it is just fine and dandy, but on other web sites, it just is > GLACIAL. I'm talking about MINUTES to render a page. The CPU isn't > busy, there's no IO going on - I have NO IDEA what it is waiting for. > It's so bad, it stretches credibility. Then, as I said, on other > web sites, it's just fine. Sometimes is stops with 94% loaded and > just waits a couple minutes - sometimes it pauses with like "12 out > of 19 image loaded," and sometimes it pauses just as soon as it > resolves the new URL and connects to the server. VERY odd. Well, it just told you what's happening. It's waiting to load some images and the page won't render until it happens. IIRC, this happens because of image tags without size parameters, though I'm not entirely sure about that, but the upshot is that the browser doesn't know what the whole page will look like until an image downloads, as there are often page elements which depend on the placement of other elements to determine their own placement. However, AFAIK this is also considered a bug, because Konqueror doesn't handle this issue gracefully, so (again AFAIR) this is something that the KDE project is working to correct. I seem to remember something about this waiting until KDE version 4, however. I don't speak for them, so apologies if this isn't entirely correct. > So - now back to where things were before my fatal load of Win 98. > 1) Figure out Sound FreeBSD > 2) Figure out browers and Plugins for FreeBSD > 3) Try to get some of apm/acpi working > 4) Figure out WHY the system won't recognize (not even IDENTIFY) > a CD in my laptop multi-bay Have you tried mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom You've probably been through that, but can't hurt to mention it. BTW, most of this stuff is covered extensively in the handbook, but unfortunately I've never had much luck with ACPI, mostly due to my hardware. > Those were all issues before my switch to 5.3. > > I have a functional laptop again! YAY! > > Thanks to all, especially you, Andrew, typing with your poor > wrists! It sounds like so far so good. I know the feeling. - jt