xfreerdp and stuttering sound

I am remoting to a Windows machine to view Widevine encrypted videos, and need to forward the sound. My xfreerdp line is: xfreerdp /h:2560 /w:3712 /d:[hostname] /u:[username] /sound:sys:sndio \ /v:[hostname] I see the video, but the sound stutters badly. Closing other applications does not improv

Re: Docking station and external monitor

On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 11:29:16 +0200 "Tobias Fiebig" wrote: > Heho, > You have one of those fancy dual-cpu things (nvidia optimus); This > can be somewhat difficult, see also: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T530 > > "When using NVIDIA Optimus the Display port will not be acce

Docking station and external monitor

I have a ThinkPad T530, with a recently acquired docking station that I am finally attempting to use. It doesn't pick up on the displayport to the external monitor. I have read acpi(4), acpidock(4), sensorsd(8), and sensorsd.conf(5), and I don't know how to get there. dmesg below sig, -- Edward

Re: Starlabs Lite Mk IV support

On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 13:46:50 -0800 Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Chris Narkiewicz [he...@ezaquarii.com] wrote: > [...] > > It shouldn't be hard for them to do a spin with OpenBSD 7.0 > or OpenBSD-current and send you a dmesg. That would help. > > The AX201 is supported under OpenBSD in 802.11n mo

Re: -- SPAM --Daily digest, Issue 5579 (22 messages)

From: Ares On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 05:51:52 +, Ares wrote: Subject: Re: Unable to log in with Pubkey after upgrade to 7.0 Date: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >Emiel Kollof wrote: > > > >> Ivo Chutkin schreef op vr 22-10-2021 om 15:23 [+0300]: > >> > Hello all

Re: xlock doesn't unlock any more

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 20:01:56 - (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2021-10-21, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > [...] > > Did xlock lose the setgid bit or group ownership? > Did /usr/X11R6 gain a nosuid mount option that it shouldn't have? > > $

self-encrypting disks

Lots of the new SSDs are self-encrypting, often using OPAL conjunction with a Trusted Platform Module. Does this get in the way of using a disk with OpenBSD? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

xlock doesn't unlock any more

After a reinstall and restore of data and /usr/local (not the rest of /usr, that is from a fresh snapshot) xlock no longer unlocks. I added the +allowroot option: same behavior. Running cwm. .xsession, .cwmrc, and dmesg below. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL #!/bin/sh # $Xorg: xini

Re: 4K display, teeny-tiny things

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 20:24:10 +0100 cho...@jtan.com wrote: > Joe Gidi writes: > [...] > [...] > > This "problem" is proving quite entertaining on a ~13" laptop. I > don't use that machine for much so I mostly ignore it (it helps > that it has a touch screen that "just works") but the issue >

4K display, teeny-tiny things

Picked up a 4K display (LG 27UPS650) and it's gorgeous. Bright colors, crisp, lovely. The console fonts and some application fonts are now dialed in WRT size. But application menu bars have tiny icons and tiny titles, and their man pages don't address that. Do those settings live in libraries I'm

FireFox crashing on credential submission

Has anyone else seen Firefox crashing when submitting web site credentials? This has been happening for about a week in snapshots. I'd submit a bug on Bugzilla, but that's one of the sites that generates a crash. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

the 6.9 release being out....

...remember that it's time to donate what would be the price of the CD set. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: sysupgrade failure logs

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:44:37 -0700 "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > You are outside the box, by changing tons of stuff. > > People who operate inside the box won't be able to help you. > > And it is even less likely when you are dishonest in the original > email. You claimed your sysupgrade use was com

panic "locking against myself"

I've had a couple of panics: mtx(something) (address) locking against myself in the last couple of days. The most recent address was 0x821c63c8 How do this get tracked down? No core files from anything in the applicable time window. dmesg below signature. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft W

Re: Security & Compliance - A/V

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 23:33:34 +0100 Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote: (snip) > I am not aware of any publicly available set of documents that > provide the direct checkoffs for OpenBSD with respect to specific > compliance regimes, but I’m fairly certain that you will find useful > answers by

Re: Security & Compliance - A/V

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:35:45 -0500 Nick Holland wrote: > On 2020-11-25 17:10, Brogan Beard wrote: > [...] > > Something to consider: run the AV against your boxes -- elsewhere! > > I have a similar situation at $DAYJOB. Not OpenBSD, but an OS that > similarly has little malware written for

Re: sysupgrade doesn't like the path

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:04:52 -0600 "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > [...] > > fw_update, sysupgrade, pkg_add, syspatch, and some other things have > heuristic issues near release, and it is difficult to fix because > what we release gets

sysupgrade doesn't like the path

sysupgrade is looking for files in 6.9 (which isn't being found). Is this due to a slow mirror upgrade or just "near release stuff"? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: Filling a 4TB Disk with Random Data

On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:38:55 -0400 "Eric Furman" wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, at 10:28 AM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > [...] > > This is why if you are serious you use a degausser. > The truly serious use a smelter. I am not making a joke. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

The 16 partitions thread

Some people read replies in misc and say, "wow, Theo and the OBSD devs are obnoxiously harsh.' I read the 16 partitions thread and think, "I marvel at their patience with interlocutors who have not read the relevant source code and give no indication that they would understand it if they did." --

Browser tabs crashing if running via X forwarding.

For a couple of weeks now, FireFox (snapshot) has returned a "Gah. Your tab just crashed." error when running it via Putty .73 from Windows 10 using mingw as the X server. Iridium works. grep firefox /var/log/messages (from today): Apr 8 13:11:30 pav /bsd: firefox[70423]: pledge "dns", syscall 9

Re: OPenBSD 4.9 i386, Asus EEE 701, no network

On 2019-01-01 12:13:47, oletus wrote: > > Owain Ainsworth-2 wrote > >> - "ifconfig lii0" returns: > >> lii0: flags=8843 mtu > >> 1500 lladdr > > > >>priority: 0 > >>media: Ethernet autoselect (none) > >>status: no carrier > >>inet6 >

Re: Advice on Security Cameras

> From: "Elias M. Mariani" > Date: 2019-01-01 17:46:25 > > Hi list, > I'm thinking in installing some cameras in my private home, I have > been looking for solutions, my concern is that I wish to be able to > look the videos from outside the house and I'm a little paranoid about > the

panic booting with bsd.rd from the September 15 2018 snapshot

trap type 18, code 0, pc=81374ace gsbase 0x81870ff0 kgsbas 0x0 panic: trap type 18, code 0, pc=81374ace dmesg below. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL OpenBSD 6.4-beta (GENERIC.MP) #294: Wed Sep 12 19:50:03 MDT 2018 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/

Re: Running your own mail server

> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 10:55:40AM -0700, jungle Boogie wrote: > > Ken, > > > > Just curious, are you using pf to filter out the bad websites for > > you kids? I find that to be more challenging for our older daughter > > to not stumble into the bad stuff and not the wholesome sites like > > ope

Re: Change Windows10 disk to OpenBSD, but not sure what disklabel and fdisk mean

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:35:04 -0700 Chris Bennett wrote: > OK > I see that i needed to use fdisk -v > > Any need to preserve any existing stuff? (and how if so?) > > > Primary GPT: > Disk: sd0 Usable LBA: 34 to 1953525134 [1953525168 Sectors] > GUID: 0b27fac9-4c45-460c-b321-f6ba7ccacfb9 >

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

> Message-ID: 20180716172740.20b5a7ff () mephala ! kappastar ! com On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:27:40 Marko wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:05:09 -0300 > Man Hobby wrote: > > > What is the opinion of employers about OpenBSD? > > There is reason for to learn use OpenBSD to find job? > > If not, why?

Re: dump/restore and crontab(5)

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:25:37 -0400 "trondd" wrote: > On Mon, July 2, 2018 8:14 am, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > [...] > > I'd have to look later to see if my dumps are coreectly grabbing the > crontabs. But first, try looking in /var/backups either on disk, or &g

dump/restore and crontab(5)

Having clobbered my crontab (5) file in error (-r and -e are close) I merrily went to my level 0 dump to restore it. It's present on the dump (which is to file) but the restored file is zero bytes. Should I have run those dumps manually instead of as cron jobs? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton

Re: Gtk-WARNING and cannot open display attempting to forward X

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:01:19 -0600 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > Since the snapshot of the 16th, I cannot run X apps from a W10 box > with PuTTY and mingw. No config changes to Windows, put X11Forwarding > yes back into sshd_config.dmesg and sshd_config below signature. > Dis

Gtk-WARNING and cannot open display attempting to forward X

Since the snapshot of the 16th, I cannot run X apps from a W10 box with PuTTY and mingw. No config changes to Windows, put X11Forwarding yes back into sshd_config.dmesg and sshd_config below signature. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.102 2018/02/16

font path ignorance

Built a new system, and it didn't have all the fonts that were on the old one. I looked for msttcorefonts as a package, and didn't find it. So I went through ports and found it, and some other font sets that I remembered from before, make, make build, make install. At the end of each make install

no X login

After upgrading to the Jan 4 amd64 snapshot, I do not see a login box. I can ssh to the machine, and run X applications in an X server, but no graphical login at the console. dmesg below. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL OpenBSD 6.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #324: Thu Jan 4 23:44:04 MST

Re: bug tracking system for OpenBSD

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:05:53 -0800 Kai Wetlesen wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > > There are many decisions that would need to be made that will piss > somebody off. Decisions like what software/platform to use, where to > host the thing, and how much the tool should integrat

Re: Automatically restarting services/daemons after crash

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:01:58 +0300 Mihai Popescu wrote: > [...] > > Not OpenBSD related, but I was truly amazed people like you still > exist and still set up computers for others! > For you curiosity about user case, I preffer such a service not to be > started at all. > > Money(online bank

stickers

Now that there are no CDs, are stickers also gone? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: screen black after attaching to inteldrm, June snapshots

On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 06:27:56 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > Since the June 7 snapshot and the one before that, once inteldrm is > attached: > > inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel G41 Video" rev 0x03 > > the screen goes black. Seems similar to the issue noted

screen black after attaching to inteldrm, June snapshots

Since the June 7 snapshot and the one before that, once inteldrm is attached: inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel G41 Video" rev 0x03 the screen goes black. Seems similar to the issue noted here: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144317809403958&w=2 dmesg below. -- Edward Ahlsen-Gira

Re: Firefox: Recenty instable

On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:47:36 +0100 Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 11:19:18PM +0100, Stefan Wollny wrote: > [...] > > [...] > > [...] > > I found this quite helpful. > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=148925156914633 > > Since raising datasize-cur in /etc/log

Re: Fw: Re: https://undeadly.org

I have used and enjoyed undeadly for around ten years, and wish to acknowledge Paul for having been helpful to me on more than one occasion. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:01:36 -0700 "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > [...] > > That is yet another example of interactive use, of an installer > feature designed for NON-INTERACTIVE USE. > > I feel like we're being pushed to support a set of use cases which > are not core functionality. > > The inst

Re: autoinstall with local file

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:06:35 + Robert Peichaer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 06:20:25AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > [...] > > The installer looks at the filesystem provided by bsd.rd itself, not > the filesystem on disk. > Thanks. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

autoinstall with local file

The man page seems to indicate that autoinstall will work with an auto_upgrade.conf file on the local machine, but specifying the path as: /auto_upgrade.conf or file://auto_upgrade.conf or file:auto_upgrade.conf do not work. Is this still a "watch this space!" feature? -- Edward Ahlsen-Gi

Re: Is 6.1 expected to happen soon?

On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 20:25:12 -0500 Ax0n wrote: > My advice: If you really want the performance boost and you think a > recent snapshot will provide it, make sure your backups are good and > test the snapshot on comparable hardware as best you can. I usually > restore the dump to a similar system,

ddclient failure to start

ddclient won't start from rc.d with this configuration: rc.conf.local: ntpd_flags= xdm_flags= httpd_flags= doas_flags= ddclient_flags=-file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf pkg_scripts=ddclient ddclient.conf: # Configuration file for ddclient generated by debconf # # /etc/ddclient.conf # #opendns #

forwarding sound as well as video

I sometimes remote to my snapshot desktop from a WIndows laptop and it would be interesting if sound could come along (I use Putty). Does anybody so this? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

scheduler changes in the 22 March Snaphot

Wow. It's as if somebody hit the good video in FF switch. Kudos to all. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Hosting a virtual Windows instance

Does anybody do that (e.g., deal with a stupid mandatory web site)? If so, what host do you use? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: OpenBSD 5.8 on VMware 5.5

> From: Fabio Almeida > Date: 2015-12-01 16:18:43 > Message-ID: CAGd5O8LpM3Dz8N7fq8edWmuqnxnBEVgN16QETsOtHo69Ote_-w () > mail ! gmail ! com [Download message RAW] > > Hi Felipe, > > I'm running OpenBSD VMWare guests without problem, both as Firewall, > IPSec VPN and FTP/SFTP servers.

Re: printing change over the ages

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 07:20:56 -0700 Theo de Raadt wrote: > [...] > > Having read CUPS code, and aware of how things interface withit, it is > something I definately try to shy away from. > That was what I had thought was the case. > But it is true that our lp suite receives insufficient mai

printing change over the ages

Saturday I saw this line on tech from Theo: lpd lpr lpq lprm (yes, legacy software, but still) Is CUPS become more "the thing" among developers? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

changing swap partition upon adding RAM

I just doubled RAM in my October 7 snapshot machine. I'd like to have enough swap for a crash dump. I have plenty of unallocated disk, but it's not adjacent to wd0b. I disklabeled myself a wd0l, same size, of type swap, but I'm not sure that's right. wd0l has an offset of over a billion, so it may

doas.conf

There seems to be know sample configuration file for doas. I complains of not being enabled, and the man pages do not say how to do that. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: xkci recommendations

On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:48:06 +0100 ropers wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 08:47:27AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > > > I got a card to exploit the xkci support, > > > > > On 21 March 2015 at 21:00, Bryan Steele wrote: > > You didn't sen

xkci recommendations

I got a card to exploit the xkci support, and but it turned out to want a Windows driver and therefore doesn't work (don't buy Anker® Uspeed USB 3.0 PCI-E Express Card with 4 USB 3.0 Ports and 5V 4-Pin Power Connector for Desktops [VL805 Chipset]). What are some USB 3 cards that DO work? -- Ed

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3400 (78 messages)

Many thanks to all respondents. Problem solved with dump. -- Ed

disk change-out and packages

I decided to upgrade the internal drive, so I hooked up the new on on the CD's usual SATA channel and installed, having adjust the disklabel more to suit me (the auto partition of /usr left it really tight on space, and home was not big enough). First method: mount all the slices in /tree and run

trouble with a large disk

I have a brand spanking new 3TB disk (Seagate ST3000) and it is not behaving. fdisk -i runs and runs and eventually the console goes black except for an immovable mouse pointer. sshd is killed, have to manually power down. If power on with the disk attached (usb) an on, an odd message appears and t

Re: Daily digest, Issue 3339 (16 messages)

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 05:20:04 -0700 owner-m...@openbsd.org wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:10:27 -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard > wrote: > > > I am missing something really obvious. httpd exits logging thusly: > > > > Dec 27 10:05:07 $hostname httpd[28709]: fatal: se

httpd puzzlement

httpd doesn't serve pages on my Dec24 snapshot system (hasn't ever, actually). I am missing something really obvious. httpd exits logging thusly: Dec 27 10:05:07 $hostname httpd[28709]: fatal: send server: Can't assign requested address rc.conf.local and httpd.conf files are below. httpd.conf se

Re: Donations to OpenBSD

This is from the Electricity thread but seems on point: > Dear Misc, > > In re electricity, please do one of the following: > > 1.Send money. > 2.Convince OTHER PEOPLE to send money. This next bit is important, and is being overlooked again: > 3.Stop summoning the Good Idea Fairy t

Re: ssh connections dropped after creating a keypair on the server

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:07:47 -0700 Ryan Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:12:41AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > I added a second -current box to the house. Since the first (named > > FIRST below) had never had anywhere to ssh to, I created its first > > keyp

ssh connections dropped after creating a keypair on the server

I added a second -current box to the house. Since the first (named FIRST below) had never had anywhere to ssh to, I created its first keypair. Now the Win7 laptop (LAPPER) running Putty has its connections to the first -current box dropped before authentication. The key from the laptop is still in

Re: sysmerge trouble

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:59:57 -0800 Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard > wrote: > > Took a while to submit this, but for the past ~ six weeks of > > snapshots sysmerge fails thus: > > > > ERROR: failed to populate from /us

Re: sysmerge trouble

On 2014-02-24 "Shawn K. Quinn" wrote: Date: 2014-02-24 10:49:03 > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014, at 03:45 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > Took a while to submit this, but for the past ~ six weeks of > > snapshots sysmerge fails thus: > > > > ERROR: failed

sysmerge trouble

Took a while to submit this, but for the past ~ six weeks of snapshots sysmerge fails thus: ERROR: failed to populate from /usr/src and create checksum file dmesg below. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL OpenBSD 5.5-beta (GENERIC.MP) #294: Fri Feb 21 13:57:47 MST 2014 dera...@am

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

Dear Misc, In re electricity, please do one of the following: 1. Send money. 2. Convince OTHER PEOPLE to send money. 3. Stop summoning the Good Idea Fairy to the developers. I have seen the suggestions, and it's not that none of them could possibly work. It's that all of them *woul

Re: font weirdness

> From: Alexander Polakov > Date: 2013-09-03 12:25:50 > Message-ID: 20130903122550.GA27589 () watashi ! plhk ! ru > > * Ed Ahlsen-Girard [130903 16:18]: > > Has anyone else noticed that some fonts are not displaying the right > > character? Some substitut

font weirdness

Has anyone else noticed that some fonts are not displaying the right character? Some substitutions, some blanks? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: font weirdness

On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:56:51 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that some fonts are not displaying the right > character? Some substitutions, some blanks? > Sorry that is from the 8/29 snapshots, and the two before. I did uninstall libreoffice and replace it wi

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

> But really, it's an extraordinary event for snapshots to be broken, > and it is important that people test them. > I have been running snapshots for years. I don't recall anything broken in base that I even noticed. There were some problems with ports, but they were fixed about as rapidly as up

Re: firefox crashes

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:32:59 +0100 Eric Huiban wrote: > On 01/28/13 13:43, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:55:35 +0100 > > Eric Huiban wrote: > > > >> On 01/23/13 01:43, Salil Wadnerkar wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >

Re: firefox crashes

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:55:35 +0100 Eric Huiban wrote: > On 01/23/13 01:43, Salil Wadnerkar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On my amd64 machine, firefox crashes regularly after some time. > > > > [...] > > > > $ uname -a > > OpenBSD passport.my.domain 5.2 GENERIC.MP#17 amd64 > > > > I am on OpenBSD current

Re: setting WOL for Realtek 8168

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:50:36 +0200 Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:56:33AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > While I can set wol for this interface, the setting does not > > survive shutdown. I have found no bios settings that seem to > > pertain. Th

setting WOL for Realtek 8168

While I can set wol for this interface, the setting does not survive shutdown. I have found no bios settings that seem to pertain. This system is not dual-boot. Is this a quirk of the 8168? Do I need to look for jumpers? ;-) -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENE

Re: Dilemma: between OpenBSD and NetBSD

On 2012-08-11 18:43:56, Miod Vallat wrote: >> You will find idiots on @misc. It's one of the few things not in the >> FAQ. >We'd rather not have idiots in the FAQ (-: >Miod Alfred E. Neumann was in FAQ until May; the precedent is set. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

Re: German Government claims to be able to break PGP and SSH

ve. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de > And of course, the German security services are pleased as punch to give a precise answer to this question in public. Just the way US Naval Intelligence was so proud to get public credit for breaking Japanese codes in 1942 while the war was still going on. Ed Ahlsen-Girard

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200 Mihai Popescu wrote: > How did you install the firmware? > > I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up > the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and > OpenBSD so I was not aware that I need to download some f

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200 Mihai Popescu wrote: > How did you install the firmware? > > I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up > the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and > OpenBSD so I was not aware that I need to download some f

iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

A Sony Vaio (VPCCA25FX) cannot configure its Intel WiFi Link 1000, complaining thusly: iwn0: could not read firmware iwn0: error, 2, could not read firmware iwn-1000 I have installed iwn-firmware-5.6. There is a /etc/firmware/iwn-1000 file present, 335056 bytes, dated Dec 31, permissions 400, own

snapshots

Are the snapshot building machines on holiday? -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL

claws-mail segfaults after updating to 29 May snapshot

dmesg below. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC) #12: Sat May 28 17:41:19 MDT 2011 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.66 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

On Sun, 15 May 2011 06:47:54 +0200 "Timo Schoeler" wrote: > > > -- Urspr. Mitt. -- > Betreff: Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot > Von: Tomas Bodzar > Datum: 15.05.2011 01:38 > > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard > wrote: > >

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

On Sun, 15 May 2011 01:35:49 +0200 Tomas Bodzar wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard > wrote: > > On Sat, 14 May 2011 11:15:43 -0400 > > Ted Unangst wrote: > > > >> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard > >> wrote

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

On Sat, 14 May 2011 11:15:43 -0400 Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard > wrote: > > xxxterm closes when attempting to open any page other than :fav > > > > Firefox opens momentarily is started in safe mode, but closes almost > >

xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

I installed the May 11 snapshot, and now: Acroread complains that a plugin is missing. xxxterm closes when attempting to open any page other than :fav Firefox opens momentarily is started in safe mode, but closes almost immediately. Anybody who can tell me where the logs woul be (nothing in var

Re: Flash Video in Firefox

On 2011-04-26 13:19:53 David Steiner wrote: > > 1) pkg_add gecko-mediaplayer > 2) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashvideoreplacer/ > > works here on -current amd64. i tested youtube and blip.tv sofar > without any trouble. > > HTH, > David Which Firefox? It's not working on

.xsession never finishes

Recently .xsession began to take much longer to finish. Upgrading to the 25 Jan snapshot has not changed this. I don't know how long it takes anymore, because I can't wait 5+ minutes every time I log in. The selected background color does display, and the xconsole log displays in the top left co

Re: failure to mount: "invalid argument"

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:25:43 -0600 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Disregard. Forgot to newfs. > New disk for backups (1TB, first 250G NTFS for a Windows box, 500G > ffs, remainder unpartitioned, so: > > # /dev/rsd0c: > type: SCSI > disk: SCSI disk > label: HDS721010CLA332 >

Re: failure to mount: "invalid argument"

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:25:43 -0600 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Forgot dmesg: OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC) #614: Mon Jan 10 00:15:18 MST 2011 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.66 GHz

failure to mount: "invalid argument"

New disk for backups (1TB, first 250G NTFS for a Windows box, 500G ffs, remainder unpartitioned, so: # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: HDS721010CLA332 duid: 8f7cc589a5b8d0d1 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 121601 tot

Re: printing

Jacob Meuser wrote at 2011-01-02 1:24:20 wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:26:38AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 02:07:02PM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > > Jacob Meuser wrote > > > at 2011-01-01 19:34:40: > > > > > >

Re: printing

Jacob Meuser at 2011-01-02 0:26:38 wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 02:07:02PM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > Jacob Meuser wrote > > at 2011-01-01 19:34:40: > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 07:03:52AM -0600, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > &g

printing

First, Happy New Year! I resolved last week to stop using Windows to print from my OpenBSD machine, so I re-read man pages for and re-tried CUPS, lpd, foomatic, etc. As it stands now, here is my printcap: # $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $ #lp|local line printer:lp=/d

Re: Executing from crontab only does the job when I logged on.

"Orestes Leal R." , at 2010-12-27 16:40:12, substantially ignored: "So, read the logs, describe your setup more completely such as by ^ ^^ including a full dmesg." ^ ^ ^ My experience has been that when the developers ask for a d

Re: easy snapshot updates

Ted Unangst wrote: Date: 2010-12-11 22:19:29 > > My home internet connection, for various reasons, tends to alternate > between the two quality levels of "blows balls" and "blows giant > balls". This makes downloading and installing new snapshots an > exercise in frustration. I noticed th

OT: Disadvantages of using virtual firewalls like OpenBSd

From: carlopmart Date: 2010-11-23 12:38:04 > > Hi all, > > First of all, I don't want to start a flame. I will to know your > opinion about using virtual firewalls in virtual infraestructures > like vmware, kvm ,xen, etc ... like OpenBSD. > > Advantages are very clear for me: p

Re: Building a Practical Penetration Test Lab

> From: "Chet Langin" > Date: 2010-11-12 14:50:59 > > -Original Message- > > >I have run OpenBSD in production on both VMWare server and ESXi. It > >was > the only machine >facing the Internet that the auditors had no > findings on. > > > >-- > > > >Edward Ahlsen-Girard >

Re: Building a Practical Penetration Test Lab

From: Michal Date: 2010-11-12 10:15:34 > >> I can confirm that OpenBSD doesn't always work as a virtual > >> machine. So I would focus on using OpenBSD as the host and using > >> some other OS as a client in QEMU. > >> > > If you insist and I don't know about the latest version, then >

Re: help

From: Armando Date: 2010-11-08 12:00:56 > On 11/08/2010 12:49 PM, Scott McEachern wrote: > > On 11/08/10 06:40, Gaby Vanhegan wrote: > >> On 8 Nov 2010, at 11:33, Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: > >> > >>> On 8 November 2010 10:46, steve wrote: > help > >>> I need somebody. > >> help...

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