On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 10:59:15PM -0800, pstern wrote: > hello: > > I recently put a couple of Dell optiplex 7010 machiens in operation using > OpenBSD 5.6 and 5.7. Both machines have a radeon card in them. > > vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 7470" rev 0x00 > > I ran into the video going to gray screen during the boot process when it > tried to switch to high res. I disabled the radeondrm temporarily to get the > machines to boot. > > I found the radeondrm-firmware-20131002p2.tgz at firmware.openbsd.org > > Trying to use pkd_add would not work because it kept reporting the archive > was corrupt. I believe the problem was actually the signature in the archive > wasn't current and could not be validated against the certificates in > /etc/ssl or /etc/signify. Nope. it's that it's signed with the firmware keys... which is why you install firmwares with fw_update and not pkg_add.
> I ended up manually loading the firmware in /etc/firmware, which resulted in > bypassing verifying the archive, but the archive expanded without a problem. > The machines run fine with the contents of that archive in place. > Is there something wrong with that archive? The fact that it looks like a normal package doesn't mean it's a normal package. Since you expanded it manually, you can look at the @signer line in the contents. You'll see the signature name in all its glories. The design of signify means it's the *commands* that decide which signatures they trust. There are three classes of keys in openbsd. Trying to verify a fw-signed archive with a pkg-checking command won't work.
