Re: Support for AMD/ATI Firepro M7820

2018-02-10 Thread Raymond Lillard
Great news, thank you On 02/10/2018 04:51 PM, li...@wrant.com wrote: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:18:22 -0800 Raymond Lillard I have a Dell M6500 Precision workstation with an Nvidia FX 3800M. I would like to wipe it and install OBSD. I can get a Firepro M7820 for it.  If I do, will any of the OBSD

Support for AMD/ATI Firepro M7820

2018-02-10 Thread Raymond Lillard
I have a Dell M6500 Precision workstation with an Nvidia FX 3800M. I would like to wipe it and install OBSD. I can get a Firepro M7820 for it.  If I do, will any of the OBSD drivers work or will I be stuck with fb performance. I see no mention of Firepro on the OBSD web site and google is no hel

OpenBSD on Dell m4800 -- Anybody tried it?

2015-04-15 Thread Raymond Lillard
I am considering the purchase of a Dell Precision M4800 laptop with the intention of installing OpenBSD on it. Has anyone here ran OBSD on one of these? I will configure it with an AMD FirePro M5100. Google has fail to find anyone who has tried this. Thanks Ray

Re: Zenocara & Intel Crestline Graphics

2014-10-12 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 10/12/2014 12:35 AM, Doug Hogan wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 02:13:05PM -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote: I have the opportunity to purchase a Dell laptop with "Intel Crestline Graphics" hardware. Crestline appears to be marketing speak for: intel GM965/GMA X3100 Can someone advic

Zenocara & Intel Crestline Graphics

2014-10-11 Thread Raymond Lillard
I have the opportunity to purchase a Dell laptop with "Intel Crestline Graphics" hardware. Crestline appears to be marketing speak for: intel GM965/GMA X3100 Can someone advice me as to the likelihood of using the h/w or will I be limitied to the framebuffer? Mr. Google has failed me. Ray

Sparc64 Build Farm

2013-06-13 Thread Raymond Lillard
As many of you may have noticed, Bob Beck is planning to assemble a Sparc64 build farm for ports/packages. I am donating on my own already, but I noticed this on Craig's List in Northern California and hoping others will help too. Here's a way. The total need is 8-10 v210/v215 units, 6 seems to

Re: dhcp and dns

2013-02-03 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 02/02/2013 08:56 PM, bofh wrote: I'm running 5.2. And starting to have more and more things that need IP addresses pop in and out of the house. Rather than hardcoding everything into dhcpd.conf, I thought I'd check with you guys to see what you use to have new devices register into DNS? I'm

Re: momentary keyboard glitch

2013-01-14 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 01/14/2013 06:57 AM, STeve Andre' wrote: Last night I experienced something I have never seen before. Sitting in KDE, I noticed that my keyboard had changed. Any character pressed resulted in its control equivalent, so an A or a was ^A, etc. Thinking that this was very bizarre,

Re: How to list available all hard disks in OpenBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Raymond Lillard
Hi, Sometimes I just can't let well enough alone ;-) Add this to your .profile Fdisk-l () { sysctl hw.disknames | sed -e 's/[,=]/\ /g' ; } From my laptop command line: ryl@smag {~} Fdisk-l hw.disknames sd0:f07ccfaba910bc8e cd0: sd1:21a268bf64300a23 ryl@smag {~} vi .profile ju

Re: Xfce4 and ctrl:swapcaps not working (ugly WORK-AROUND)

2012-12-20 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 12/20/2012 02:33 AM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:49:12PM -0800, Raymond Lillard wrote: Hello Misc, I am running -current (amd64) on a Lenovo w500. I start Xfce4 from the command line with startx. I have added: exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 to

Xfce4 and ctrl:swapcaps not working

2012-12-19 Thread Raymond Lillard
Hello Misc, I am running -current (amd64) on a Lenovo w500. I start Xfce4 from the command line with startx. I have added: exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 to ~/.xinitrc. Everything comes up nicely, but I cannot swap the Control_L and CAPS_LOCK automatically at startup. I can swap them

Re: Backing up an Android phone to an OpenBSD laptop

2012-09-26 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 09/25/2012 11:25 PM, Robert Connolly wrote: Hello. I'm just looking for advice, not a howto. I realize this is not an OpenBSD specific topic, but since I'm trying to get Linux and OpenBSD to cooperate, anyone I ask for advice will refer me elsewhere. I want to do backups of my Android phone

Re: DHCPD give lease to specific machine brand

2012-06-28 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 06/27/2012 08:58 AM, sven falempin wrote: only way ? http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.1/packages/i386/isc-dhcp-server-4.2.3.2.tgz 2012/6/27 sven falempin Hello Imagine i want all the brand X in subnet Y WWW say :<< It seems that ISC DHCP can do the trick: class "testclass" { match if s

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-17 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 06/17/2012 12:31 PM, Peter J. Philipp wrote: Having followed OpenBSD for quite some time I noticed that good developers come and go. They come in, make something great happen, and disappear again. Also there have been forks and I also noticed that no fork gets a light judgment. Rightfully so

STARTTLS DSA vs RSA

2012-03-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
I have an OpenBSD system with sendmail/TLS configured according to starttls(8) which calls for DSA keys. I have a situation where an MS Exchange Server contacts my sendmail in an attempt to transfer a message. The transfer fails with "no shared cypher". This sendmail handles over 10k messages p

Re: root/boot on softraid in 5.0

2011-12-22 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 12/22/2011 09:07 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:08:08PM -0800, Josh Grosse wrote: Woops. I misread your post. The commits were September 19, which is -current, beyond 5.0-release. You must either migrate to -current, or await 5.1-release. Ah, ok, thanks for the cla

Re: spamd-setup in crontab

2011-11-15 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 11/14/2011 06:28 AM, James J. Lippard wrote: I had the same problem, which I worked around by changing my spamd.conf to use a local file instead of FTP, and downloading the traplist.gz file in my daily.local. That is, my spamd.conf now looks like this: uatraps:\ :black:\ :m

root filesystem on softraid

2011-10-28 Thread Raymond Lillard
I saw the commits for this a few weeks past and thought I'd give it a go. I have successfully built a RAID1 on two ~500GB physical drives. The root filesystem is on partition "a". I shutdown the machine and replaced one of the disks with a fresh unused one to test the rebuild process. All seems

Re: USB voltmeter or DAQ module, small, inexpensive, with OpenBSD support

2010-01-28 Thread Raymond Lillard
Ralph Becker-Szendy wrote: For one of my OpenBSD machines, I need to be able to measure a few analog voltages, and act on them in a control process. The requirements are quite simple compared to typical data acquisition: I absolutely need two voltage inputs, either 0-20V or 0-100mV; doesn't h

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-17 Thread Raymond Lillard
Brad Tilley wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:12 -0800, "Randal L. Schwartz" > wrote: >>> "Brad" == Brad Tilley writes: >> Brad> I use ed in emergencies when /usr is inaccessible, but I'm a lot >> more >> Brad> comfortable with vi. Will a static vi ever live in /bin? Helping >> someone >> Brad>

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Raymond Lillard
Bob Beck wrote: >> boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. > > Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from > that release tarball. > > man release > > to figure out how to do that. > > Now you may ask, why don't we do that? We simply do not have the >

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour (OT)

2009-03-31 Thread Raymond Lillard
frantisek holop wrote: > > -f > > -- > number of vulcans to replace a bulb? precisely 1.00. Are you sure it isn't 1.000? or maybe 1.? Way back in the Dark Ages when I went to school, 1 was thought to be more precise than 1.00. I think it still might be so in some circles.

Re: Strange WLAN issue with ral(4) in hostap mode

2009-01-02 Thread Raymond Lillard
Todd T. Fries wrote: > There are power savings for 802.11 that OpenBSD does not support; this is > entirely independent from saving battery via cpu clocking and it is also > entirely independent from saving battery via adjusting the transmit power > of the radio. The power savings for 802.11 actua

Re: Atheros AR2413A supported?

2007-07-09 Thread Raymond Lillard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juan Miscaro wrote: > I would like to know if this wireless network card is supported by > OpenBSD 4.1: It' simple to find the answer. The answer itself of course is sad. - From CVS: > CVSROOT: /cvs > Module name: src > Changes by: reyk_(_at

Re: Can't make 3.7-stable release

2005-11-03 Thread Raymond Lillard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! ...Same problem, again (it was already covered some time ago). When I run the last step in building a release (see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html) , i.e. # make release I get a message informing me that /dev/svnd0a is full. This occurs while make is w

SIIG Cyber 4S PCI (quad serial) -- chip change

2005-11-01 Thread Raymond Lillard
Dear Misc, I purchased a SIIG Cyber 4S PCI (quad serial). After installation of the card and a -current kernel (2005-10-31) I find the chip is not being configured. Looks like the classic chip change without a product number change. The dmesg lines which are problematic are: vendor "Oxford",

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2005-10-14 Thread Raymond Lillard
Francisco Valladolid wrote: Abit A8XV Pro work fine. I assume you intended to say "Abit A8VX Pro". It's a minor nit, until you type it into Google. ;-) On 10/11/05, Simon Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm interested in building a machine for use as an OpenBSD workstation and would

Re: RAID for dummies

2005-10-10 Thread Raymond Lillard
J Moore wrote: I want to set up an OBSD box as a file server for some Windoze boxes. I think a RAID 1 setup will provide sufficient reliability - and it appears to be the cheapest way to go. I don't desire to become an expert on RAID, I don't want to spend a lot of money, and I'm confused by

Re: FileSystem Corruptions? Very important Files at stake.

2005-10-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
STOP -- DON'T DO ANYTHING ELSE w/o expert help at your side. Justin Wong wrote: Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. After searches on the internet turned up nothing, I found your site about your love for OpenBSD. My problem is that when I boot, I get an error /dev/rwd0a BAD SUPER BLOCK

Re: One time passwords?

2005-09-27 Thread Raymond Lillard
stan wrote: I find myself in the position sometimes when away from home having access to only M$ machines with a base OS load only. I don;t have telnet open on my home network, but i was considering opening it up on the OpenbD firewall, and using some sort of one time password scheme. Would t

Re: nat problems when using address pool

2005-09-16 Thread Raymond Lillard
Chris Smith wrote: OpenBSD 3.7 Some hosts will experience poor to seemingly no Internet access when using NAT address pools - web sites time out, even pings to remote addresses fail. Using: nat on $ext_if from !$ext_if -> $ext_if:0 works fine. Using: nat on $ext_if from !$ext_if -> $ext_if

Re: named error

2005-08-25 Thread Raymond Lillard
Qv6 wrote: Folks, I'm in the process of configuring named with a "split-view", but I'm having what I consider a minor issue which I haven't quite figured out. Here's the significant snippet from named.conf: view "internal" { // What the home network will see match-clients { "clients"; };

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-23 Thread Raymond Lillard
J. Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:37:12 -0600 Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We are heading towards making the real 3.8 release soonish. I was wondering, when can we start pre-ordering our cd-sets? We normally setup pre-orders 1 month before. We might do it a bi

Re: Device not configured (APM, sound, modem)

2005-08-03 Thread Raymond Lillard
Z L wrote: I installed OBSD3.7 on my laptop. Things that are not working are: sound and modem (dial-up internal laptop modem) and apm. For modem, sound and apm it says: "Device not configured". For APM I tried to set the apmd_flags=YES in rc.conf. For sound and modem I tried the things that are

Re: Ammunition needed to defend OpenBSD/pf

2005-08-03 Thread Raymond Lillard
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: Rod.. Whitworth wrote: Somebody sent me a query asking for a justification for my proposal to supply a firewall/router using OpenBSD when there was thsi device: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=327 , with all its claimed bells and whistles. Anybody know what, if an

floppy37C.fs image too big for device

2005-06-23 Thread Raymond Lillard
Dear Misc, Yesterday, I cvs updated my 3.7-release tree and performed all steps necessary to make a new release to propagate to other i386 boxes. All went well until it was time to create the "floppy37C.fs" image. My theory is that the latest updates have just slightly bumped up the kernel size

OT: Need CDROM drive for Sun Netra T1-105

2005-06-17 Thread Raymond Lillard
I recently rescued a Netra T1-105 that needs a CDROM. What I need most is the paddle card and ribbon that connects between the motherboard and the CDROM drive itself. It looks like I could find a suitable drive easily enough, but finding a paddle card and ribbon has been problematic. I realize

Re: Laptop CD Audio

2005-06-14 Thread Raymond Lillard
Christian Jones wrote: Hi, all. I've been putting a laptop (Dell Inspiron 1000) through the motions in order to submit its status to the OpenBSD i386 laptops page. In doing so, I've tested out a bunch of things I've never used before, and I've hit a snag with playing audio CDs (from the raw dev

Re: Build Userland Problem

2005-05-27 Thread Raymond Lillard
Cody Holland wrote: Hello, I hope I have the right list. I'm pretty new to OpenBSD and this is the 1st thing I've ever posted. I'm trying to upgrade a Sun Netra T1-105 from 3.6-stable to 3.7-stable. I've got the instructions and everything is going great until this command: cd /usr/src/etc &&

Re: [Fwd: Re: IMAP servers]

2005-05-22 Thread Raymond Lillard
Brian wrote: Is the Thunderbird problem you refer to here something like it taking a couple minutes after opening the client before you can actually see new messages? No, I haven't seen that problem. The problem I that have seen and assume was being referred to, is that dovecot sends t-bird a

Re: IMAP servers

2005-05-22 Thread Raymond Lillard
Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Gaby, What do you use to do IMAP under OpenBSD? I switched from Dovecot to Courier-imap when Thunderbird started having problems with it. I like both servers. Dovecot has since added a parameter in the config file to enable a work-around for the thunderbird problem. Ra

Re: Mail Server Architecture

2005-05-10 Thread Raymond Lillard
Kevin wrote: > Ray Lillard wrote: 2. Open source virus tools like ClamAV use an independent database that is often updated sooner than Norton et.al. and is often more comprehensive. The last time I actually researched the signature release history of AV vendors (Clam/Trend/McAfee/Symantec(N

Re: Mail Server Architecture

2005-05-10 Thread Raymond Lillard
Smith wrote: After mulling over the idea of having a virus/spam filter on an MTA, I believe that the best solution is to use an enterprise anti-virus program like Norton Anti-Virus and an email client that supports Bayesian spam filtering. The setup should be where the anti-virus server downlo

Re: Hackathon 2005

2005-04-30 Thread Raymond Lillard
Dear auto... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Theo, Perhaps your a bit "ininformed" yourself.. unless there is some weird canadian/US translation going on here, I am pretty sure that the word you were looking for was infact, "uninformed". :) Nor is there any su