Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:24:57PM -0400, Gerald Thornberry wrote: > you'll often hear that OpenBSD exists at the pleasure of its > developers, not the users. Absolutely. They put in the time and > effort. They would do so, presumably, if we users did not exist. Maybe. But - forgive me for bei

Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:17:23PM +0100, Wim Wauters wrote: > I think you underestimate the importance of this "misc" mailing lists, > this is not the place to demonstrate a lack of understanding of what > OpenBSD is about > or that you haven't read anything about the OpenBSD release system :-)

Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Wim Wauters wrote: > Everything the OpenBSD project has been carefully thought through, so > asking silly questions - especially ones based on the latest fashionable > feature added to other, more convoluted, operating systems - will get > RTFM replies

Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-23 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:34:29AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > Contrarily to what you might think, this email is NOT an exhaustive > description of things as they are. It's a very quick, oversimplified summary, > of a taxing process and decisions. There are glaring mistakes, for the sake > of simp

Re: Where I ma? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:10:39PM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: > The developers do this the way they want to. > They accomplish a lot with extremely limited resources. Yes, I appreciate the hard work of the devs. > You and I do not even get to have an opinion. Of course, you have right to not

Re: Where I ma? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Where I ma? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
mes and so on? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
t want to offence anyone. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
iam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
y that "latest"). Above are my rather theoretical thoughts... not sure, just asking. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ught, that's the mailing lists are for. Maybe I'm wrong. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Rolling release?

2008-04-22 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
enient for both devs and users? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Power button doesn't work properly

2008-04-18 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
nt" is recognized by apmd. Perhaps there's a way to change its action - I mean: instead of trying to "enter requested state" (whatever it is), just to execute /etc/apm/powerdown ? OpenBSD 4.2 i386 -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: envy24-based card for OpenBSD [was: "VIA Announces..."]

2008-04-10 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
Maybe someone will find it useful: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/audio/partners/partners_envy24.jsp -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Resampling? [was: "VIA Announces..."]

2008-04-10 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
dio quality issue however. [..]" -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

envy24-based card for OpenBSD [was: "VIA Announces..."]

2008-04-10 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
24bit/96kHz DAC and ADC; * CS8427 digital transceiver; Also: http://www25.big.jp/~jam/audiocard/audiophile/ -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"

2008-04-10 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
heart of the card is the Envy24 HT-S Chipset" - with a photo on the side. A photo of... ENVY 24PT. Immediately below - image of ENVY 24HT-S. :-O What a pity; the card has quite good reviews. OK, must look further... -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"

2008-04-10 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ttp://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/articles/show/654 -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"

2008-04-09 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
7;ll have to make a comparison with Audigy soon... ;) as I can see, there are even (semi?)professional cards built using Envy; like f.e. this one: http://www.ixbt.com/multimedia/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"

2008-04-09 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
#x27;t support > the HT version though. Yes, I noticed it's there - but does the driver support all of the available capabilities? The "VIA opening" won't be of any help in this particular case? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: "VIA Announces Strategic Open Source Driver Development Initiative"

2008-04-09 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
would be something using VIA Envy24(HT) - which is reportedly better than Audigy(2)? Time to swap? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-08 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
NetBSD haven't any prelink/prebind feature now. So what exactly is making firefox's startup time under NetBSD much shorter? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-08 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ly "it's just the way it is", and one has to live with that. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-08 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
rrors. I'm afraid, one has to wait a little(?) for something a'la NetBSD's RelCache. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-08 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-08 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
che (aka ELF prebinding), f.e. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2002/12/04/0017.html You mean, exactly this is making a difference? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-08 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ifference, isn't it? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: GTK2 - solved

2008-04-07 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
Thanks to Andreas' help: I forgot, that I had C_INCLUDE_PATH "manually" set before... yes, when it doesn't interfere, all compiles OK. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

GTK2 - what's wrong?

2008-04-07 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
0/gtk/gtkentry.h:151: error: syntax error before "gtk_entry_get_invisible_char" In file included from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:106, from base.c:1: /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkimcontextsimple.h:49: error: syntax error before "gunichar" In file included from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:118, from base.c:1: /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkmain.h:99: error: syntax error before "GOptionEntry" /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkmain.h:103: error: syntax error before '*' token #v- -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Any Audigy users here?

2008-03-30 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: Any Audigy users here?

2008-03-30 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
oundcards and soundcard-drivers, and then to make a try to activate that second output. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Any Audigy users here?

2008-03-30 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: Any Audigy users here?

2008-03-30 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
lly want to extend emu(4), your best bet is to do more > back-porting from there. Perhaps the only option for today, as I see... -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Any Audigy users here?

2008-03-30 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
se. You mean: presently one can't rely on the drivers from 4Front Technologies? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Any Audigy users here?

2008-03-29 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
nd needs the agreement of the party to be published. Especially such emotional one. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
er will forward _your_ private correspondence to the public. If you don't like your opponents attitude - just stop talking to him, and it's enough. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ht argue that those ports are broken, > but I'd guess there are quite a lot of them. "Hardcoded"? So, changing LOCALBASE could be even dangerous, I'm afraid. Nothing can I do then with this. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: need some help with base httpd

2008-02-18 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: need some help with base httpd

2008-02-18 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
s all. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ral _public_ answers to _quite private_ letters. Is it something specific to this list? Didn't see something like this before. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
t quite proper way? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > If - for example (just example!) - one > doesn't even has to remember, that at the "./configure" stage there wasn't > any need to switch to another directory-tree. &qu

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
o, if you can compile a source package, building a basic port > should be doable. and from there, documenting dependency info is > probably useful anyway, right? Yes, reading now the "porting" docs... -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
(or not) by you. #v- ...and I agree with the above. OK, no flamewar - that'll be all from my side - I can live with current setting. But it doesn't mean, that I'm unable to see, that it _can_ be solved a little bit better. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
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Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
laying with "./configure" switches - they could be busy... porting software to OpenBSD, for example. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
;s default for all source packages since years. So, why not to install all the ported software into something like /usr/pkg, or /usr/ported, for example? It does work in NetBSD - it could work exactly as good in OpenBSD. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
;t need any funding to fix this. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
hat you want, other times it doesn't. Are they willing to take a suggestions from the users side? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

SQLite 3.5.6

2008-02-13 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
as of yet). Exactly the same issue I had earlier, trying SQLite 3.4.2 with TCL/Tk 8.5.0. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: setting up a noiseless workstation]]

2008-02-02 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ones needed...) - but it had, in practice, less power than Pentium II 400. Which is fanless as well. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
th DVI capable of doing > 1920x1200? ...and why exactly PCI? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ron 700 (a little less, but not that much). -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Test Limerick, please ignore

2008-01-29 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
m / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Re: Test Limerick, please ignore

2008-01-29 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
can see at least one: I *had* to make some tests, I was in contact with the list admin - but you don't have to show off here, with your "poetry". Seems, you want to. That's the second - and last - explaining from my side. I want to add, that such (over)reaction of several p

Apologies - there were troubles with (new?) list protection

2008-01-28 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
ren't the case. It seems, that all is fully functional now. Sorry for all inconvenience. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

2 questions from new user: wsconscfg and /usr/local

2008-01-28 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
stalled. Wouldn't be reasonable to create new hierarchy, especially for the "native" OpenBSD software (from binary packages and ports) - I mean: something like /usr/pkg in NetBSD? What do you think? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

One more try (sorry) - please ignore...

2008-01-28 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
Testing: still problems... -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Console mode problems

2008-01-28 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
t a question, but an example of workaround "how to obtain the proper results" rather. But perhaps someone does know answer to previous two? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

2 questions from new user: wsconscfg and /usr/local

2008-01-28 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
be reasonable to create new hierarchy, especially for the "native" OpenBSD software (from binary packages and ports) - I mean something like /usr/pkg in NetBSD? What do you think? -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Just testing - ignore, please...

2008-01-28 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
It's just a test. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski

Test, please ignore...

2008-01-28 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
Just testing; sorry for inconvenience. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski