On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, Marc Espie wrote:
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.
I saw that pkg_add is discouraged at the bottom of the man page for
fw_update.
Trying local update
# ls -la /etc/firmware/*.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1224091 Aug 8 15:08
/etc/firmware/radeondrm-firmware-20131002p0.tgz
# fw_update -n -v -p /etc/firmware/radeondrm-firmware-20131002p0.tgz
fw_update: Path to firmware: /etc/firmware/radeondrm-firmware-20131002p0.tgz
fw_update: Installing firmware:
radeondrm-firmware.file:/etc/firmware/radeondrm-firmware-20131002p0.tgz/ is
empty
Can't find radeondrm-firmware
trying directly from firmware.openbsd.org
fw_upate -n -v -p
http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.7/radeondrm-firmware-20131002p0.tgz
fw_update: Path to firmware:
http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.6/radeondrm-firmware-20131002p0.tgz
fw_update: Installing firmware: radeondrm-firmware.
Error from
http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.7/radeondrm-firmware-20131002p0.tgz/
ftp: Error retrieving file: 404 Not Found
http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/5.7/radeondrm-firmware-20131002p0.tgz/ is
empty
Can't find radeondrm-firmware
What is the correct way to deal with this file?
Thank you
