Re: USB peripherals hang, nothing in messages

2024-03-15 Thread Laurence Tratt via misc
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 05:12:29PM +0500, ofthecentury wrote: > My USB mouse and keyboard hang intermittently. > > Very weird things happen, i.e. my mouse's red LED > light begins to flicker in a very weird fashion, or my > keyboard stops responding and my sound output > is suddenly muted by itse

Re: xscreensaver-settings keeps on crashing

2023-10-19 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 03:46:51AM -0500, Luke Small wrote: Hello Luke, > I discovered that if I run xfce desktop that I have on here for thunar > file manager, that it works. I don’t know why. > > I can’t run xscreensaver-settings under fvwm. The screensavers work > though. > > Any suggestions?

Ryzen 9 (7x000) users: do you experience hangs?

2023-07-18 Thread Laurence Tratt
A small number of us with AMD Ryzen 9 (i.e. chips in the 7x000 range) machines have been experiencing regular (often daily), or semi-regular hangs, but without any obvious cause. What we don't know is if we're the unlucky few, or whether this might be a wider issue. So, to see if there is some sor

Re: All my Rust programs stop working on OpenBSD 7.3

2023-04-11 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 08:53:55PM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote: Hello Theo, > with something like this in Cargo.toml: > > [dependencies.ring] > version = "^0.16" > path = "/usr/local/share/ring-0.16.20" In case it's useful to anyone else, one can set this globally in ~/.cargo/config.toml

Re: Hardware for OpenBSD based access point

2022-03-15 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 01:52:15AM +0100, Nicolas Goy wrote: Hello Nicolas, > I use OpenBSD for all my network gears except wireless access points. > > My current access points are getting old and I'd like to replace them. I was also in the same place a year or so ago. After seeing many recommen

Re: USB Camera

2020-09-25 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 03:42:36PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: Hello Jan, >> *However*, uvideo currently doesn't support the ability to set things like >> zoom, pan, and, exposure. That latter is a problem for cameras (like my >> Logitech C920) that do auto-exposure: no matter what framerate you ask

Re: video(1) -s size default overrides -r rate

2020-09-21 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:44:17PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: Hello Jan, > Presumably, as the default -s size is picked, and the camera cannot do 30 > fps in that size, -r 20 is chosen instead. > > If that's correct, the default size in effect overrides a specified rate. > Is that intended? > > It d

Re: USB Camera

2020-09-18 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 03:46:25PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: Hello Jan, > Can people please recommend an USB camera that is known to work well with > OpenBSD? Since Marcus fixed MJPEG support in uvideo recently, most USB cameras will probably work pretty well with uvideo. *However*, uvideo curren

webcam fixes and changes in -current

2020-08-29 Thread Laurence Tratt
Lots of us have to use webcams more than we used to. There have been some recent changes in OpenBSD support for webcams that some might find useful. Most of the hard work was done by Marcus Glocker, with input from Ingo Feinerer, sc.dying, and myself. The first change is that MJPEG in cameras now

Re: vesa vs. wsfb?

2017-07-06 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 05:20:14PM -, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Hello Christian, > Between the vesa(4) and wsfb(4) X11 video driver, are there any advantages > one has over the other? > > I have a brand new laptop (Kaby Lake) whose integrated graphics chipset > isn't yet supported by inteld

Re: Computer hangup : scsi_xfer pool exhausted!

2016-01-28 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:31:28AM +, Sébastien Morand wrote: Hello Sébastien, > I have a computer hanging up every 4/5 days. It's no more accessible by > network and keyboard is not responding. The only message displayed in > console log is "scsi_xfer pool exhausted!" which is documented by

Re: iwm0: could not initiate 2 GHz scan

2016-01-12 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:13:03AM -0700, Chris Wojo wrote: Hello Chris, > Currently, I'm running a snapshot 5.9-beta # 1800. > > I'm trying to connect to a wireless access point but receive "iwm0: could > not initiate 2 GHz scan" from dmesg. > > dhclient comes back with no link. I saw this yest

Re: Thinkpad X1 Carbon Suspend issue

2015-05-26 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 08:21:19PM +0100, Bojan Nastic wrote: > Anyone having much luck with 5.7 or -current on Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2nd gen > (Haswell chip)? It works pretty well (including wireless), although on my machine the lack of a specific video driver means that things in X can be painfull

Re: "offline" mail setup for road warrior

2013-03-13 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 12:18:50AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > i have my own mail server, that i can setup as i want. > i am travelling with my notebook. my preferred setup would be something > that downloads my mails when i am connected, then i can write answers > locally even when being off

Re: several X servers on one host

2012-12-03 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:53:44PM +0400, Alexei Malinin wrote: > Indeed, I ran two X servers at the same time a long time ago. > But from time to time I have a need to do so (that is, to run one more X > session on behalf of another person, without destroyingmy active X > session)... I sometimes

Re: Soekris equivalent

2008-12-18 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:38:43PM -0500, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > Is anyone aware of an equivalent for the Soekris Net 5501-70. I'm looking > to prototype an OpenBSD border gateway that offers web proxy capabilities > through squid cache but squid is a bit of a memory hog and I'd like to

Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-28 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:00:22PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: >> As a possibly complimentary idea to PKG_CACHE, I wrote a simple script a >> while back which bulk downloads packages: > You don't need this script to minimize service down time. > > The normal way to slurp down packages of on an instal

Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-26 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:20:50AM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way that pkg_add -u can save packages that it > installs into a specified directory. > > I think I could save a lot of bandwidth if this were possible, as I have > several machines to update with snapshots

Re: Machine will not recover from 'deep sleep' state [ IBM Thinkpad T41 ]

2007-12-02 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 03:54:42PM +0100, Ted Unangst wrote: [Mark Thomas] >> If I close the lid on this laptop ( Thinkpad T41 ) the machine goes into a >> deep sleep but will not recover with OpenBSD 4.2. With 4.1 this worked >> flawlessly. xorg is not running during these tests. > it will often

ACPI slowness on amd64 bsd.mp

2007-06-08 Thread Laurence Tratt
The latest amd64 snapshots have ACPI enabled. On my Shuttle SN25P, with an AMD dual core processor, this leads to a significant decrease in performance. For example, given the same bsd.mp kernel on an unloaded system, here's a time'd compile of an application with ACPI disabled: gmake 50.99s us

Re: keyboard lockup, KVM, dual-boot

2007-02-26 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:10:43PM +0100, Stefan Kell wrote: > I want to use this machine as a dual-boot system together with windows. It > is connected to a standard PS2-KVM, no USB-mouse or keyboard. Installation > of both Windows and OpenBSD 4.0 from CDs worked without any problems. But > now i

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T43p won't do external VGA output properly

2007-01-11 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:46:59PM +0100, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > The built-in LCD display works fine at 1600x1200. > My problem is that I can't get external video output properly. There > seem to be two cases (neither one of which fits my definition of "properly"): > * If, in the BIOS setup,

Re: Weird behaviour of KDM

2006-11-22 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Dr. Harry Knitter wrote: > sometimes I get the right resolution (1280x1024) sometimes only standard > vga (600x480). > > How can I tweak my system to get a reliable KDM with a resolution of > 1280x1024? I'm not sure exactly when, but at some point somethi

Re: Lenovo notebooks

2006-10-30 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:44:41AM +0100, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > The main thing I've found which doesn't work at all well is sending video > to the external video connector to drive a projector for conference > presentations. The usual tricks like changing the X resolution (with > 'xrandr')

Re: Thinkpad hibernation

2006-07-10 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:46:16AM -0400, Philippe Meunier wrote: > I have a Thinkpad laptop (T43) and I'm about to install OpenBSD on it. > I have a few questions regarding hibernation though. I've read various > documents online so I'm fairly confident with regard to the "how" but out > of curi

Re: Anyone using a Asus K8N-VM or A8V-VM?

2006-06-24 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:03:22PM -0500, Emilio Perea wrote: > I have been using an Asus A8V since February. Had lots of problems at > first, which seem to have been due to the use of the multiprocessor kernel > with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. Had no problems with the plain bsd kernel, > but it

Re: Sun X2100

2006-04-19 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:19:07PM -0400, stan wrote: > I'm considering purchasing a Sun X2100 to use a an OpenBSD based firewall. > > Any hardware issues I should be aware of? > > What have been peoples experince with these (or similar) machines? Although it's not directly OpenBSD related, you'l

packagesbootstrap 0.1

2005-06-22 Thread Laurence Tratt
I have made available the first release of packagesbootstrap at: http://tratt.net/laurie/obsd/packagesbootstrap/ >From the description: packagesbootstrap is a small utility which bulk downloads OpenBSD binary packages. The downloaded packages can then be installed en masse, minimising do