Re: keyboad left ALT not working on console - thinkpad t410

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 4:15 PM Kenneth Hendrickson wrote: > > > What does xev say? Fri Feb 10 11:53:21 2023 KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x381, root 0xdb, subw 0x0, time 3969702, (-364,-21), root:(267,365), state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen

keyboad left ALT not working on console - thinkpad t410

Hi all, running 7.2, I don't understand how to configure wscons because my left alt key does not work on console. wsconsctl reports keyboard.type=pc-xt When I press ALT it seems it turns UTF-8 on to print a codepoint. I'm using a lenovo thinkpad t410. Any idea? Thanks, Luca

Re: dd: /dev/rsd1c: device not configured

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 4:56 AM Nick Holland wrote: > And yeah, he really wants you to UNDERSTAND what you are doing. > Total jerk, I know. I got confused by the MAKEDEV, thinking I have to create a required disk. In fact, using one of the disks in hw.disknames worked as expected. > The obvious e

Re: dd: /dev/rsd1c: device not configured

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 3:01 PM Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 02:36:22PM +0100, Luca Ferrari wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install 7.0 in a virtual box machine using full disk > > encryption, following > > <https://www.openbsd.org/faq

dd: /dev/rsd1c: device not configured

Hi, I'm trying to install 7.0 in a virtual box machine using full disk encryption, following . I've done it on real hardware without a problem, but I'm not understanding the error in the virtual box machine. In particular, I cannot copy random data o

Re: adding firmware during installation

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 3:03 PM Noth wrote: > > Run the installer as usual, then once that has finished: > > umount /mnt2 (this is where the install sets are) > > remove installer usb drive and insert usb drive with the firmware > > mount /dev/sd1a (or sd1i if using vfat) /mnt2 > > cp /mnt2/iwn-fi

Re: adding firmware during installation

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 2:30 PM Kapfhammer, Stefan wrote: > yes, you need to do stuff manually, because you are going an unusual way. the fact is, as far as I understand, that before installing etc.tgz the system will not have /etc/firmware writable, and at that time I can simply reboot and insta

Re: adding firmware during installation

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:44 PM Kapfhammer, Stefan wrote: > extract the files of the firmware package before and place them > in [mountpoint-during-installation]/etc/firmware. Sorry, but this is not clear to me: what do you mean with mountpoint? Because I'm installing from rd0a, that is not writ

Re: adding firmware during installation

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:49 PM Jan Stary wrote: > But you already have the iwn firmware, > so you must have some other connection ... I don't have ethernet connection, or it would be easier! I have downloaded the firmware from another computer, and placed into a second USB stick that I mount du

adding firmware during installation

Hi all, I'm installing OpenBSD 7.0 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T410, and I need the firmware iwn-firmware-5.11p1.tgz for the wireless card. Therefore, I opened a shell from the installer, mounted the USB stick I placed the downloaded firmware on, and now I'm stuck: I cannot install it because pkg_add is n

Re: question about libreadline

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:48 AM Omar Polo wrote: > $ ./configure CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/ereadline \ > LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -lereadline' > Seems to work! Thanks. > btw, it would be nice to have it in the port tree. I might do it > sometimes in the following days if someone doe

Re: question about libreadline

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 10:31 AM Omar Polo wrote: > readline from ports shouldn't be needed. Moreover, port's readline > install files as `libereadline', so it should be difficult to pick those > header by accident. Since I'm curious, what if a program needs newer readline? It will need liberead

question about libreadline

Hi all, this could be trivial, but I have a doubt about libreadline. In short: I've a program (pspg) that is crashing, and after inspecting the core I found in the backtrace a reference to libreadline. The program has been linked to libreadline 4, but in the system readline 7 is installed. My doubt

Re: the balance between OpenBSD and life

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Teng Zhang wrote: > I'm an OpenBSD user and not an linux user. I study in university. I usually > have too much homework need to do and sometimes have no time to play > OpenBSD(the situation is similar to @Luca Ferrari). I just want to know how &g

Re: the balance between OpenBSD and life

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Teng Zhang wrote: > I can't adjust the time for OpenBSD and my life appropriately. Could you > please share your experience with me about how you adjust your time between > OpenBSD and your life. > thanks for any reply. % emacs -nw -Q -f doctor How can we help

Re: Comprehensive user's/programmer's manual for OpenBSD: Do they exist?

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:12 PM, David Lou wrote: > I wasn't able to find such a thing but perhaps I just missed it. I > am wondering if anyone in the community knows whether such manuals > exist for OpenBSD. Manpages are nice but they're not what I'm looking > for. Uhm...one thing I've learn duri

Re: question about raw disk devices

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > The block devices are mostly historic artifact. You usually want the > character device; the block device is almost exclusively for mount. > It's probably a mistake to try to use both at the same time. > Thanks, therefore I can assume that raw

question about raw disk devices

Hi all, this may sound trivial, in the case please insult me, but I've a little doubt about disk devices. In the OpenBSD way there are two devices: a block one and a character one (and I believe this is the rightmost way). You do low level operations on the raw device and mount the block device. O

Re: Documentation on rc.conf.local lacks important warning

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Even though the misunderstanding does not seem to occur often, > it does seem somewhat unsurprising because a lot of other software > encourages the (imho questionable) practice of copying example > configuration files. I think the document

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Sia Lang wrote: > Virtual machines/emus and canadian cross builds should be able to reduce > the amount of iron, no? > I don't think virtual machines are the solution: I see them as another buggy ecosystem on which developers will try to debug their code. A lot of

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Bob Beck wrote: > And actually, if you're reading this, you can help by passing this on > to people you know *off these lists*. Is it worth to post a "call for support" on the official website front-page (and the foundation one too)? Just to emphasize the need for

Re: OpenBSD for mobile

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Jan Lambertz wrote: > Here and there small companies come up with an open hardware approach ( > openmoko) but the plattforms commonly do not survive. I ha dsome hopes related to the Vivaldi tablet (http://makeplaylive.com/index.html#/open-hardware/vivaldi), even

Re: is zeroing CRYPT needed?

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:49 AM, obsd, cgi wrote: > Wouldn't it be much easier that before I create the bioctl softraid CRYPTO > I would dd zero the psychical disk for the first.. dunno, 10 MBytes? I don't see how and why it should be easier. We are talking about a single line dd command with a d

Re: is zeroing CRYPT needed?

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:08 AM, obsd, cgi wrote: > according to: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bioctl > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m count=1 > > is needed. but Why? Isn't already explained? "the first megabyte of it should be zeroed, so tools like fdisk(8) or disklabel

Re: Feedback about Desktop Environments

My favourite desktop is KDE, but I have to admit it has some concepts that can scary a new user, like the management of desktop icons and folders. Therefore KDE 3 is better than 4 for this kind of users, but I would not suggest to use such an old version. I'm not a gnome fan, even if I've seen a lo

Re: crontab(1) confused by su(1)?

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Jan Stary wrote: >> Could someone please provide an example >> where su(1) confuses crontab(1)? If I get it right the problem is not running crontab, rather modifying the crontrab files. In such case the following could be an example: I ask su(1) to become anothe

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Thomas Jennings wrote: > Regretfully, I have decided to abandon OpenBSD Uhm...and I guess OpenBSD is feeling the same for abandoning you ;)! I believe people, from time to time, should try to read source code and track the development. It will remove this stupid me

Re: Millions of files in /var/www & inode / out of space issue.

I suspect the application described here should not use a filesystem, probably a database will be better for the aim. However, assuming it is not possible to fix/change the application behavior, I guess using several filesystems/mount points will help. While ZFS (and many others) will be good at ha