Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:53PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: > Yes this is quite silly. Stallman insists on "free" software, and > distributions are only acceptable if they shove that software down > the users throats in the stead of something else, thus restricting > the users freedom. illegal

Re: cvsweb browsing out of sync with latest src?

2007-12-09 Thread Karl Sjodahl - dunceor
On Dec 10, 2007 8:14 AM, Amarendra Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > It appears that browsing OpenBSD src/ through cvsweb points to old > src, and not the latest one. For eg., > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/ turns up many > utilities which now have been moved und

Re: Revision on Macbook Guide

2007-12-09 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 9, 2007 3:45 PM, Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > Thanks for your message > > On Dec 9, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Thomas Delaet wrote: > > > I tried booting 4.2 i386 images (amd64 did not work) on my macbook. In > > every case (bsd.rd, bsd and bsd.mp) I got the following as t

cvsweb browsing out of sync with latest src?

2007-12-09 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, It appears that browsing OpenBSD src/ through cvsweb points to old src, and not the latest one. For eg., http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/ turns up many utilities which now have been moved under src/usr.bin/. Can someone clarify as to why do I see this difference? Or am I

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Lars Noodén
Steve Shockley wrote: > ... more important than respecting patents. You need to differentiate there between legitimate patents and US-style software patents (which include also business methods, formulas, and algorithms). Let's not throw away our analytical ability here. In regards to RMS, I hav

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Lars Noodén
Thanks for reminding about BSD-talk. There is a lot of good stuff there in the archives. Rico Secada wrote: > ... > As I have understood, this isn't true about OpenBSD, or am I wrong? Maybe there is some problematic stuff in the Ports. -Lars

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Travers Buda
* Kevin Stam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-09 23:41:28]: > Exactly. Distributions need systems to prevent users from installing nasty > unfree software. Something like...DRM. Oh wait.. > > On Dec 9, 2007 11:27 PM, Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, what Stallman seems to be saying

Re: ftp-proxy feature request / tags

2007-12-09 Thread Bryan S. Leaman
OK, I'm trying to accomplish this with tags. However, ftp-proxy is always putting "quick" in the rules, so no further processing is done and my reply-to tagged rule (located after the anchor) is never matched. Would it make more sense to not use quick when -T option is used with ftp-proxy?

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
GPL is non-free so go figure what it means. This horse is pretty dead so lets leave it rot in piece. On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:15:46AM +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > I have just listed to the interview of Richard Stallman on BSDTalk: > http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/10/bsdtalk132-richard

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Kevin Stam
Exactly. Distributions need systems to prevent users from installing nasty unfree software. Something like...DRM. Oh wait.. On Dec 9, 2007 11:27 PM, Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, what Stallman seems to be saying is that preventing users from > running the software they choose is m

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Ray Percival
So, what Stallman seems to be saying is that preventing users from running the software they choose is more important than respecting patents. Slavery is freedom.

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Steve Shockley
Rico Secada wrote: In the interview he states: "I am unhappy with the various distributions of BSD, because all of them include, in their installation systems, the ports system, they all include some non-free programs. And as a result I can't recommend any of them." "Include" is an incorrect wo

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Kevin Stam
I believe the religious nut is talking about software in ports/packages. He seems to see unfree software as something morally wrong, and as a result, won't recommend any distribution that lets it's users even INSTALL non-free software. Same reason he doesn't like Debian, even though they're one of

About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I have just listed to the interview of Richard Stallman on BSDTalk: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/10/bsdtalk132-richard-stallman.html In the interview he states: "I am unhappy with the various distributions of BSD, because all of them include, in their installation systems, the ports syste

Re: Seg fault by cc1 on AMD-K6-2

2007-12-09 Thread Nick Holland
Andy Hayward wrote: > On 09/12/2007, Mats Erik Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> First, I have OpenBSD 4.2 running on this machine using >> AMD-K6-2/350 on an AT-mainboard with VIA chipset VT82C598 >> and VT82C586B. (Well, both AT and ATX in fact.) I have not >> detected any trouble until I p

Re: error while creating CA

2007-12-09 Thread badeguruji
sorry the error is: # openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout private/cakey.pem -out cacert.pem Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key ..+++ ...+++ writing new private key to 'private/cakey.pem' Enter PEM pass phrase: Verifyi

Re: error while creating CA

2007-12-09 Thread badeguruji
Thank you Nick. I setup default values for this section, as i read on net, but it seems it is not working like that. After i changed the value of "contryName" variable as you pointed (instead of depending on default value variable for supplying default value), it is NOT giving that error now.

pf ruleset correctness

2007-12-09 Thread Aaron
I have written my first real (I've toyed around quit a bit) set of pf rules and I was wondering if people on the list would take a minute or two (ok maybe more than that actually) to evaluate them and let me and other n00bs to pf, know if I have come even close to what a complete/sane/efficient

Re: freeBSD7.0 advertised.

2007-12-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
who cares people? On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:04:01AM +0100, ropers wrote: > For the benefit of the archives, the FreeBSD PDF URL given above is > incorrect. The correct URL is > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf or if that > doesn't work http://tinyurl.com/34nabm

Re: Azalia driver doen't playback 22050 rate

2007-12-09 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:23:27PM -0800, Diego Fernando Nieto Moreno wrote: > Thanks for the response, > > But, How can I play audio and video (i.e. youtube) to 44100Khz ? In Linux and > FreeBSD it works fine try gnash or yt or some such from ports/packages. > I record from FXTV with 16 bits S

Re: Revision on Macbook Guide

2007-12-09 Thread michael enoma aghayere
On 20/11/2007, Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have had quite a few requests to come up with a new guide for the Macbook > and OpenBSD. I haven't really thought that there was that much to update, so > I haven't been doing too much on it. However, since there is a new -

Re: freeBSD7.0 advertised.

2007-12-09 Thread ropers
I apologize for prolonging this thread, but I had to share this with you: >From the aforementioned PDF: "SMPng, step 3: Then make it fast; FreeBSD 7.0 (...) > Major shift of focus from correctness to optimization, with impressive results" LOL.

Re: Seg fault by cc1 on AMD-K6-2

2007-12-09 Thread Unix Fan
Greetings :) Have you considered running a passes with memtest86? I have the feeling one of those RAM modules is defective, I still own a few K6-2 systems and they work perfectly. ;) -Nix fan.

Re: Azalia driver doen't playback 22050 rate

2007-12-09 Thread Diego Fernando Nieto Moreno
Thanks for the response, But, How can I play audio and video (i.e. youtube) to 44100Khz ? In Linux and FreeBSD it works fine I record from FXTV with 16 bits Signed (LSB) but it record noise :-( Sincerely Diego Fernando Nieto CompumundoHypermegared.org --- [EMA

Re: Hardware RAID on Intel 82801 based mobo

2007-12-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/09 13:38, Manuel Ravasio wrote: > OpenBSD 4.2 installs correctly and detects all hardware, as long > as no RAID array is configured on the Intel 82801 controller. When > he tries to configure a "hardware" RAID array, OpenBSD can "see" > the array as wd0, but no configuration is possible

Re: freeBSD7.0 advertised.

2007-12-09 Thread ropers
For the benefit of the archives, the FreeBSD PDF URL given above is incorrect. The correct URL is http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf or if that doesn't work http://tinyurl.com/34nabm

Re: freeBSD7.0 advertised.

2007-12-09 Thread new_guy
badeguruji wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there anything on OpenBSD like the one below for > FreeBSD. It presents material very clearly and > cleanly, makes look freebsd very attractive. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0 Preview.pdf > > Thank you. > > -BG > > _

Re: Azalia driver doen't playback 22050 rate

2007-12-09 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:38:46PM -0800, Diego Fernando Nieto Moreno wrote: > Hi > I can't play audio files with AudioRate 22050Khz. your hardware (Realtek ALC888) does not support 22050 Hz sampling rates. no hardware supports 22050Khz, btw. > I record with 16bits Unsigned (MSB) to 44100 sampl

Re: error while creating CA

2007-12-09 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/9/07, badeguruji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > although i have setup the default country_code to 2 characters only ("US"). I > was not able to find out why, am i getting below error, while trying to setup > my own CA: > > # openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout private/

Hardware RAID on Intel 82801 based mobo

2007-12-09 Thread Manuel Ravasio
Hello list. A friend of mine is trying to install a OpenBSD 4.2 box in order to run it as a file server, print server, etc. He bought a Intel DQ965GF MiniATX motherboard and a nice and pretty little case to store it in. He also bought 2 SATA disk because he would really like to build a mirrored

Azalia driver doen't playback 22050 rate

2007-12-09 Thread Diego Fernando Nieto Moreno
Hi I have a Intel DG33FB, with OpenBSD 4.2-CURRENT Kernel. This motherboard has a Realtek Audio Chip. I can't play audio files with AudioRate 22050Khz. For example, in XMMS when I tried to play a mp3 file (22050Khz) it sounds bad. And I received the following error. azalia_open: flags=0x2 az

Re: freeBSD7.0 advertised.

2007-12-09 Thread Jason George
>There is a comic related to the 4.2 release (which I'm too lazy to >find and reference at the moment) in which "puffy" and other related >creatures are in a race. Yes, I know the comic was OpenBSD produced >and centric, but it hit home anyway. > >There is a frame that shows a Daemon (represe

Re: Revision on Macbook Guide

2007-12-09 Thread Aaron Hsu
Hello Thomas, Thanks for your message On Dec 9, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Thomas Delaet wrote: I tried booting 4.2 i386 images (amd64 did not work) on my macbook. In every case (bsd.rd, bsd and bsd.mp) I got the following as the first kernel message: "kbc: cmd word write error" For all kernels, I e

error while creating CA

2007-12-09 Thread badeguruji
Hello, although i have setup the default country_code to 2 characters only ("US"). I was not able to find out why, am i getting below error, while trying to setup my own CA: # openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -keyout private/cakey.pem -out cacert.pem Generating a 2048 bit RSA private

Re: Seg fault by cc1 on AMD-K6-2

2007-12-09 Thread Andy Hayward
On 09/12/2007, Mats Erik Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, I have OpenBSD 4.2 running on this machine using > AMD-K6-2/350 on an AT-mainboard with VIA chipset VT82C598 > and VT82C586B. (Well, both AT and ATX in fact.) I have not > detected any trouble until I patched libssl according to

Re: font problem with OpenBSD 4.2

2007-12-09 Thread John Kaiser
Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > I have made a clean installation (not an upgrade) of OpenBSD 4.2 on my pc. I've been using OpenBSD as my one and only os since 4.1 (gettind rid of windows and linux) without any regrets. > For web browsing and mail, i use mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird instal

Seg fault by cc1 on AMD-K6-2

2007-12-09 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello all, I am trying to untangle a strange segmentation fault created by gcc using AMD-K6-2, but not with Pentium-II. In particular, any hints on particular information bits needed to pinpoint the error will be appreciated. First, I have OpenBSD 4.2 running on this machine using AMD-K6-2/350 on

Re: Revision on Macbook Guide

2007-12-09 Thread Thomas Delaet
I tried booting 4.2 i386 images (amd64 did not work) on my macbook. In every case (bsd.rd, bsd and bsd.mp) I got the following as the first kernel message: "kbc: cmd word write error" For all kernels, I enabled acpi and disabled apm. Kernels boot fine, but as you can expect, I was not able to do

Re: freeBSD7.0 advertised.

2007-12-09 Thread badeguruji
first thing first. i am sending emails on this list because i have already made my decision to use OpenBSD. my intention is not arguing about which OS is better. I understand (for myself) that, OpenBSD is best (for me). But, a good thing (that presentation attempt), is a good thing. And, to wish (

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-09 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Jake Conk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ultimately it doesn't really matter but I love top posting because it > goes with the flow of using email. That is a discussion which has been beaten to death too many times to matter. One of the better summaries of the pros and cons of various posting an

Re: OpenBSD for routing & firewalling a 100Mbit/s connection

2007-12-09 Thread NetOne - Doichin Dokov
Carl Roberso ??: NetOne - Doichin Dokov wrote: In fact, we use also a bit more complicated BGP setup. Don't know if it would be in any help for you Doichin, your practical, "hands-on" examples are "true gold" for me, really. Again, thank you very much for your help. My router/fi

font problem with OpenBSD 4.2

2007-12-09 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
I have made a clean installation (not an upgrade) of OpenBSD 4.2 on my pc. I've been using OpenBSD as my one and only os since 4.1 (gettind rid of windows and linux) without any regrets. For web browsing and mail, i use mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird installed from the packages. However,

[solved] Xorg 7.2 stuck on Cols x Lines, cant open 1600x1200, 1400x1050 etc

2007-12-09 Thread Gilmar Mendes
On OpenBSD 4.1 xorg open display on 1400x1050. but failed on 4.2 and open 1280x1024 Messages on Xorg.0.log (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range) Solution on xorg.conf: Section "Monitor" #Option

Re: X display corruption on yesterdays snapshot

2007-12-09 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi Matthieu, On 09/12/2007, Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How is this performed? > > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the "Device" section. > But if you're running with my commit of yesterday in the intel driver, > you're probably running with XAA already. I'm

Re: OpenBSD for routing & firewalling a 100Mbit/s connection

2007-12-09 Thread Carl Roberso
NetOne - Doichin Dokov wrote: > > In fact, we use also a bit more complicated BGP setup. Don't know if it > would be in any help for you > Doichin, your practical, "hands-on" examples are "true gold" for me, really. Again, thank you very much for your help. My router/firewalls, after your "tun

Re: httpdv6

2007-12-09 Thread Henning Brauer
* Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-08 17:55]: > and the convention should be that * means 0.0.0.0 for IPv4 only > stacks and :: for dual or IPv6 stacks. that is incredibly stupid, and no, that is not the convention. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services,

Re: X display corruption on yesterdays snapshot

2007-12-09 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/12/2007, Owain Ainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In general, if anyone is seeing some oddness in X, please try setting >> the acceleration method to XAA instead of EXA. Please forward all >> problems to matthieu and myself. dmesgs and xorg.{conf,log} apprec

Re: X display corruption on yesterdays snapshot

2007-12-09 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 09/12/2007, Owain Ainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general, if anyone is seeing some oddness in X, please try setting > the acceleration method to XAA instead of EXA. Please forward all > problems to matthieu and myself. dmesgs and xorg.{conf,log} appreciated. > How is this perfor

Re: X display corruption on yesterdays snapshot

2007-12-09 Thread Owain Ainsworth
In general, if anyone is seeing some oddness in X, please try setting the acceleration method to XAA instead of EXA. Please forward all problems to matthieu and myself. dmesgs and xorg.{conf,log} appreciated. Thanks and regards, -0- -- Now and then an innocent person is sent to the legislature.

Re: Question about new packages for OpenBSD 4.3

2007-12-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/08 22:12, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > I also have a question to about HPLIP. I noticed following messages on > Linux Printing web-site > > hplip/hpijs since 2.7.10 IS NOT OPEN SOFTWARE anymore. > > It downloads BINARY LIBRARIES and FIRMWARE automatically. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root rick 42 N

Re: Question about new packages for OpenBSD 4.3

2007-12-09 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/09 00:26, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Did you mean all the packages that made into 4.3 current ports tree will > be in 4.3 release. I am just aware of > 4.2 release, 4.2 stable and 4.3 current (of course there is 4.1 release > and stable branch)? We have 4.2-release, 4.2-stable, 4

Re: Cannot change MTU of carp interface?

2007-12-09 Thread Carl Roberso
Jake Conk wrote: > > I am able to change the MTU of my nic card where my carp address is > binded to to 9000 but when I try to change the mtu on the carp > interface I get this error, "ifconfig: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument". > Hi Jake. Best of my knowledge (I'm just an OpenBSD user), by looking

PF queues freezes

2007-12-09 Thread Federico Giannici
It seems to me that there is some kind of problem that sometimes emerges in the queues of PF. I know this is a terrible "bug submission", but this is a problem that I'm not able to systematically reproduce. Here it is the description I can give: We have an OpenBSD 4.2-stable amd64 with two sk

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-09 Thread Jake Conk
Ultimately it doesn't really matter but I love top posting because it goes with the flow of using email. Usually when people hit reply they start toping at the top of the email, not the bottom just because thats about how most of the world uses email and you can keep the other email replies

Re: freeBSD7.0 advertised.

2007-12-09 Thread visc
On 8-Dec-07, at 10:57 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: On Sunday 09 December 2007 00:27:01 badeguruji wrote: Hello, Is there anything on OpenBSD like the one below for FreeBSD. It presents material very clearly and cleanly, makes look freebsd very attractive. http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.

Re: Question about new packages for OpenBSD 4.3

2007-12-09 Thread STeve Andre'
On Sunday 09 December 2007 02:26:26 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > If a port has made its way into -current, it will be there when -current > > turns into the next -release version. Thus all the new additions in > > 4.2-current will be in 4.3. > > > > However, not all software packages in the port

Re: freeBSD7.0 advertised.

2007-12-09 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 12/8/07, STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really, you want to do a lot of reading on the web site. Do that > and you'll get good idea of what OpenBSD is "about". > That being said, there's nothing stopping anyone from running their own benchmarks. -aaron.glenn