Re: ATB.com

2024-05-05 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi Austin, You can try checking how your DNS is set up. If you are not using your ISP, the website may think you are in a faraway location and redirect you wrongly. I had this issue with ANZ (Australian bank) a while back. Check your DNS browser settings on firefox and chromium too. If they ar

Re: Power consumption of Pinebook Pro running OpenBSD

2024-05-04 Thread Brett Mahar
>The lack of hardware accelerated video >*anything* on the PBP (unless this has changed in the last couple of releases) >will murder your battery life and make >videos rather stuttery. > Thanks Daniel, Based on your info I will do the opposite of what I had planned, and install OpenBSD on my de

Power consumption of Pinebook Pro running OpenBSD

2024-05-04 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi misc, I am getting a Pinebook Pro soon and just wondering how many hours the battery tends to last from a full charge with OpenBSD? Use case is some web browsing, light code compilation and coding in terminal, watching occasional tv show on mpv. Brett. -- Sent from my Android device

Re: ssh -Y behaviour change

2018-09-12 Thread Brett Mahar
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:03:17 +0200 Solene Rapenne wrote: | > | Brett Mahar wrote: | > | > | > I recently updated my amd-64-current machine to the Sept 7th snapshot (previous snapshot was July 17th). | > | > | > | > Prior to update both firefox and iridium browsers we

Re: ssh -Y behaviour change

2018-09-12 Thread Brett Mahar
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:13:27 +0200 Solene Rapenne wrote: | Brett Mahar wrote: | > I recently updated my amd-64-current machine to the Sept 7th snapshot (previous snapshot was July 17th). | > | > Prior to update both firefox and iridium browsers were able to be run using 'ssh

ssh -Y behaviour change

2018-09-11 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi to all in OpenBSD-land! I recently updated my amd-64-current machine to the Sept 7th snapshot (previous snapshot was July 17th). Prior to update both firefox and iridium browsers were able to be run using 'ssh -Y' as another user on the same machine. Now they do not run - firefox never fini

Re: "make update" on /usr/ports has errors switch to -current

2014-09-16 Thread Brett Mahar
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:40:47 +1000 vic...@pcug.org.au wrote: | Hi, | | I thought [during the last stage of switching to -current] the | Makefile's $PKG_PATH variable in /usr/ports had to be set the same | as it is in ~/.profile. ie. PKG_PATH=ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub | /OpenBSD/5.5/packages/

Re: dwb questions

2014-09-13 Thread Brett Mahar
| When the process starts, it issues an error message: | | dwb:/usr/local/lib/libestdc++.so.16.0: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.57.0 : WARNING: symbol(_ZN11__gnu_debug17_S_debug_messagesE) size mismatch, relink your program | | | Also, if anyone could point me to the info about adding | noscript/flashb

Re: Has anyone gotten qemu to install a Linux vm on OpenBSD5.5, 64bit?

2014-09-13 Thread Brett Mahar
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:15:59 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: | Hi all, | | Has anyone gotten qemu to install a Linux vm on OpenBSD5.5, 64bit? Hi Steve, There's a readme that is installed when you install the qemu package, you should check that out. I had opensuse running a while ago (lots of the othe

Re: Real time programming in OpenBSD

2014-09-10 Thread Brett Mahar
| | However, I can't do that task because I don't know the OpenBSD developers | mindset and I don't know yet is this the right community. I'm | interested to put effort in controlled manner and help to remove ambiquity. | | I'm still probing this community. | Hi Matti, Best way to see what thi

Re: Automatically start cwm

2014-07-17 Thread Brett Mahar
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:59:16 + Fabian Bakkum wrote: | Dear OpenBSD fellows, | | I'm looking at using OpenBSD for digital signage, therefore I need to | automatically start a X session with cwm. The problem is, is that | xdm does not support automatic logins, which I understand, | because it

Re: Snapshot and packages

2014-05-24 Thread Brett Mahar
| >>> | >>> I thought I understood the different flavors of OpenBSD but apparently | >>> not since I keep getting version errors when I try to add packages to | >>> sparc64 snapshots. The packages I'm trying are from the | >>> /snapshot/packages/sparc64 folder on the same mirror I got the snapshot

Re: smtpd and wsmouse problem after current upgrade

2014-04-20 Thread Brett Mahar
On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 08:18:45 +0200 Zoran wrote: | I upgraded to 15th april snapshot and found smtpd not able to start. Not authomatically, nor manually. During sysmerge I wrongly decided to set my old conf file and delete what was offered. Now, I cannot go any further. I type from the tablet.

Re: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

2014-04-07 Thread Brett Mahar
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:08:08 +0100 Norman Gray wrote: | Brett, hello. | | On 2014 Apr 7, at 12:36, Brett Mahar wrote: | | > Maybe I missed some of the posts but instead of all these crazy convoluted methods, just install to a usb drive on a regular computer (ie one with a cd rom) then b

Re: Install 5.4 onto netbook... almost

2014-04-07 Thread Brett Mahar
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:35:31 +0100 Maurice McCarthy wrote: | Another possible solution is to make a default 5.4 install to a raw qemu image in OSX or FreeBSD and dd that to a usb stick. | | Regards | Moss | Maybe I missed some of the posts but instead of all these crazy convoluted methods, ju

Re: APU firmware

2014-04-06 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi misc@, I just emailed PC-Engines sales about the updated bios, they said: "We will update to the new BIOS for new production batches. In the meantime, you can request upgraded BIOS in the order comments." So, think I'll get one soon. Brett.

Re: Trouble with rtorrent

2014-02-23 Thread Brett Mahar
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:22:36 +0400 Kirill wrote: | Hello! | There is my trouble with rtorrent: | after couple of seconds downloading it stops and begin write to disk (no | writing while download). And again and again and again... | Any ideas, please? | I found ditching it and instead using tran

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2013-12-28 Thread Brett Mahar
On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:42:24 +0100 Riccardo Mottola wrote: | Hi, | | nobody has a clue? The only definition I could find is in mpbiosvar.h | and for sure mpbios.c uses it (malloc), this is why I enabled mpbios. | | what else could it be? I also tried removing my previous build | directory, wi

Re: OpenBSD VPS Providers

2013-12-11 Thread Brett Mahar
| > >> I'm looking for a VPS provider that supports OpenBSD (preferably the | > >> latest version). I've obviously found a few but what I really want is | > easy | > >> to create and destroy instances in the same way you can on Digital Ocean | > >> and Linode (which I use for my Linux boxes). | > >

Re: nvidia driver what do you recommend

2013-10-28 Thread Brett Mahar
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:20:32 +0100 "Peter J. Philipp" wrote: | I remember someone else writing to this list before saying the nvidia | driver is really slow. I just upgraded my main workstation from 5.3 to | 5.4 and it indeed is. | | So I'm wondering what driver I should use because the choppyn

Re: fresh checkout of tagged 5.4 FTBFS

2013-10-22 Thread Brett Mahar
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:23:19 -0500 "Shawn K. Quinn" wrote: | Is it not supposed to be possible to build a checkout of tagged 5.4 | source from 5.3-stable? | Not usually, the differences are too great (apart from the changes between -release and -stable, there is about a 6 months development cy

Re: ntpd issue

2013-10-13 Thread Brett Mahar
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:23:22 +1000 mufurcz wrote: |There is an issue with ntpd (read below). Any idea why I am not |geting the right time? | au.pool.ntp.org Some of the NTP servers that au.pool.ntp.org returns are very slow to respond, I found it better to use it just to find the IP addresses

Re: Intel i7-4770 + z87 chipset - drm error, re0 is missing lladdr, unknown + not configured

2013-10-10 Thread Brett Mahar
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:48:43 -0400 RD Thrush wrote: | I noticed some anomalies in the dmesg on this new system. | ... | | 2. dhclient doesn't work with the onboard nic (possibly since the lladdr is 0:0:0:0:0:0. You could check this by adding a random lladdr line to your /etc/hostname.re0 lla

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-22 Thread Brett Mahar
On 09/23/13 07:34, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:28:24PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: >> There are some tools in the ports tree, like ports-readmes, that fulfill >> the same purpose but make use of the infrastructure to do a better job. >> http://ports.su/ is based on this. > p

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-22 Thread Brett Mahar
On 09/22/13 22:03, Roelof Wobben wrote: > > 2) Is a new version of Cinnamon avaible for OpenBSD and if so, > how can I install it. > The easiest way to find out what is available is by looking at http://openports.se/ The x11 page shows the window managers which have been ported to openbsd. B

GCC 2.95 mention in intro(3)

2013-09-12 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi misc, I think the GCC 2.95 line is no longer relevant. This time I remember to: ok? Brett. Index: src/share/man/man3/intro.3 === RCS file: /usr/cvsync/src/share/man/man3/intro.3,v retrieving revision 1.57 diff -u -p -u -r1.57

xfs still in heir(7)

2013-09-05 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi Misc, Since xfs is in the attic, should it be removed from the hier(7) man page? Brett. Index: src/share/man/man7/hier.7 === RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man7/hier.7,v retrieving revision 1.110 diff -u -p -u -r1.110 hier.7 --- sr

name collision in sis(4)

2013-05-31 Thread Brett Mahar
It seems like sis occurs twice in section 4 of the manual (amd64-current) $ man -k sis sis (4) - SiS 900, SiS 7016, and NS DP83815/6 10/100 Ethernet device sisfb (4/loongson) - SiS 315 Pro frame buffer sis (4) - SiS and XGI video driver

Re: Poor NFS performance

2013-05-10 Thread Brett Mahar
On 05/10/13 14:04, Sebastian Neuper wrote:>> When I look at `top`, the CPU stays below 10% most of the time. The >> network is 1Gbit/s both sides and switch. So I think I could get a >> better performance than 20MB/s while coping files to and around >> 4MB/s when coping from that server. >> >> Bu

Re: Atom D2550 (cedarview) working now with kms?

2013-03-23 Thread Brett Mahar
On 03/24/13 08:00, Ted Unangst wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 00:39, Brett Mahar wrote: Hi, Now that the KMS stuff has arrived (thanks for that!), I'm looking at this device from Shuttle http://axcco.com/xs35v3.html. It has an Atom D2550 with "Intel GMA 3650 Graphic engine", sh

Atom D2550 (cedarview) working now with kms?

2013-03-23 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi, Now that the KMS stuff has arrived (thanks for that!), I'm looking at this device from Shuttle http://axcco.com/xs35v3.html. It has an Atom D2550 with "Intel GMA 3650 Graphic engine", should it work as well as the Pineview series Atoms do in displaying Xvideo output? Also the audio chips

Re: openBSD 5.2 amd64 on lenovo x201s, part 2 apm support and overheating

2013-01-29 Thread Brett Mahar
On 01/29/13 21:17, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: Hi, is apm/apmd the only wat to change the fan speen? The fan speen never goes above: hw.sensors.acpithinkpad0.fan0=4527 RPM +- few RPMs if i set apmd -C or -A the laptop powers off after a while without any warnings. with apm -L or -H its running, b

Re: openBSD 5.2 amd64 on lenovo x201s

2013-01-04 Thread Brett Mahar
IMHO OpenBSD is pretty usable in a laptop, old or modern. Most of things run in the right way. From my point of view only a few things are missing now: [...] - no NTFS support http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&form

Re: openbsd clusters

2012-12-25 Thread Brett Mahar
>I'm looking for an openbsd solution for my home since I first throw a glance >at our new expensive 'thing'. > > So what hardware would you buy for an openbsd file server, to get it > fast enough to provide hd video media assets via network? Which set is a > robust and > good solution and tested

Re: Building ramdisk (was "trees, 3rd time's a charm (ok+tests)" )

2011-10-21 Thread Brett Mahar
> > # vnconfig -l > > vnd0: not in use > > vnd1: not in use > > vnd2: not in use > > vnd3: not in use > > # > > vnd's, not vnodes. Is OpenBSD causing my dyslexia or merely bringing to light a preexisting condition? > The likely cause of it being busy before is a previous attempt to build the

AMD64 snapshot and current, error: ports and package libraries don't match

2011-07-13 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi, Yesterday I downloaded and fresh installed amd64 snapshot. I tried to add some packages (xfce4-panel, xfdesktop, & leafpad) from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/ (same ftp site I got the snapshot from), and I got error messages that "Error: Libraries in packing-lists

No packages 'gnome-utils' in snapshots and build from ports fails

2011-06-02 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi, I installed the 5/31/11 i386 snapshot and am installing gnome from ports (downloaded ports file from same ftp://ftp.openbsd.org mirror on same date). I installed eog; gedit; gnome-session; gnome-audio; gnome-control-center; gnome-media; gnome-panel; gnome-terminal; and nautilus with no problem

tcpdump shows packets going from 0.0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0.0, what does this mean?

2011-05-22 Thread Brett Mahar
Hi misc, I have been playing around with pf lately, and have noticed a bunch of packets going from 0.0.0.0.0 to 0.0.0.0.0. I know 0.0.0.0 sometimes means the network address, but am not sure why these packets are getting through the firewall, or even if they are. Also, when tcpdump says (for