Samsung ML-2015 with CUPS 1.4 on Arch Linux

As you might know (yeah, right), I am a proud owner of a Samsung ML-2015 laser printer, this paper-munching, smoke-exhausting hellish machine (which is, in fact, an ML-2010 re-branded for the russian and post-soviet states, so that Samsung can provide localised support). Updating to CUPS 1.4 on Arch Linux kind of broke the printer. It’s [...]

Naughty timer ACPI-safe, hangs on FreeBSD on Koolu

After updating the CVS tree from STABLE, rebuilding and reinstalling world and the kernel, I have found that: boot hangs at DHCP discovery (dhclient), devd start-up, and one more place; key repeating doesn’t work, you have to press a key every time; the date doesn’t update; you can’t restart or shut down. All these have [...]

Note to self: see which FreeBSD kernel modules are loaded

Use kldstat.

Synaptics touchpad on FreeBSD

Was misidentified as IntelliMouse. To fix it, I modified psm.c as described, then recompiled the kernel. Edit: some features were disabled after that, that’s because I forgot to enable the appropriate modules to be compiled, too. Funny enough, at a first glance everything was fine, I was only missing support for sound and NTFS (didn’t [...]