Re: Updates for old releases

2008-02-22 Thread Edd
do is make your own iso image. See man release. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Updates for old releases

2008-02-22 Thread Edd
ink it is great that you are doing this, however why are you a third party? Can you not upload your binaries to the official mirrors? -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Sun Creator 3D hardware wanted

2008-02-25 Thread Edd
Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: floppy.fs

2008-03-05 Thread Edd
ons if there > are features that can be added to the installer. What features do you have in mind? Some arches do not have cdboot do they? This could be a problem. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-20 Thread Edd
Hi, On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:45:26PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > As far as I know TeXLive will be regular package (you will not need to use > ports) starting OpenBSD 4.3. This is > only second Unix like system after Debian to have fully functional TeXLive > thanks to Edd Bar

Re: iwi(4) does not work with latest snapshot

2008-07-30 Thread Edd
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:19:07PM +0200, Andrea Parazzini wrote: > Hi misc, > iwi(4) does not work, it worked well with 4.3: Will try to repro later. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Jitsi on OpenBSD

2020-03-16 Thread Edd Barrett
that the jitsi server is overloaded. Thanks -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: Jitsi on OpenBSD

2020-03-18 Thread Edd Barrett
in a toolbar. That animation causes the audio to skip. I wish I could kill it! Nonetheless, that's enough for simple audio calls. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Thinkpad X1 5th Gen Microphone

2020-05-21 Thread Edd Barrett
So does it work for someone out there, or is there a bug? Cheers -- stay sane! -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: Thinkpad X1 5th Gen Microphone

2020-05-21 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi Eric, On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:50:36PM +0200, Eric Auge wrote: > Hello Edd, > > All good here, microphone works fine, once I enable recording: > sysctl kern.audio.record=1 Can you share your output of `mixerctl -a` please so that I can diff it with mine? -- Best Regards Edd B

Re: Thinkpad X1 5th Gen Microphone

2020-05-21 Thread Edd Barrett
if they forgot to plug something in... Anyway, thanks for your help -- much appreciated. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: Thinkpad X1 5th Gen Microphone

2020-05-21 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:31:21PM +0200, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: > IIRC, at least some Thinkpads have BIOS options for "sensitive" stuff > like a microphone. Tried looking there? Yeah I did. Mic is enabled. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Radeon 7790 Graphics Freezes

2021-04-18 Thread Edd Barrett
n workaround I could try? I had hoped to try EXA acceleration, but the card doesn't support it. (This is all with -current on amd64). Thanks! -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

XBox360 streaming?

2008-12-15 Thread Edd Barrett
may attempt a port, but it has loads of deps. Alternatives might be Gmediastreamer or fuppes, but whether they work with the xbox 360, who knows... -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

shutdown from XFCE weirdness

2009-01-16 Thread Edd Barrett
ut 32 wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub2 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Sun Microsystems Type 6 Mouse" rev 1.00/1.02 addr 3 uhidev1: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev1: 3 buttons wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 softraid0 at root root on wd1a swap on wd1b dump on wd1b kqemu: kqemu version 0x00010300 loaded, max locked mem=1170828kB DDB symbols added: 334864 bytes Thanks -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Port ZFS to OpenBSD

2009-01-16 Thread Edd Barrett
because of the reasons I moved to > OpenBSD. > > Khalid > I aked Theo about this at OpenCon 2008. To cut a long story short... No -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Port ZFS to OpenBSD

2009-01-20 Thread Edd Barrett
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:45:05PM -0800, Joe S wrote: > It's clear there will be no ZFS in OpenBSD. It's not a priority of the > developers. "ZFS-like" functionality could be added to softraid. This would be more realistic. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Fr

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Edd Barrett
ome code, something may happen. I would even pay for this feature. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 06:22:17PM +0100, Kristaps DE>onsons wrote: > Exactly how much were you looking to pay? Would != could :) Im poor. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

font used on wireframe puff image

2009-03-08 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, Does anyone know the name of the font that was used on the wireframe puff picture? As seen here: http://www.oswebshop.com/images/tshirt-23.gif Thanks -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk

Re: Problems with wireless: no routing table after /etc/netstart

2009-03-18 Thread Edd Barrett
o "delete" the old unused interface when switching between wireless and wired connections. eg. ifconfig em0 delete -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: How to find available wifi access points?

2009-03-21 Thread Edd Barrett
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:14:49AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-03-20, Matt wrote: > > Thank you all - that worked (both 'chan' and 'scan'). > > you should use "scan", "chan" does something else now. bah, this keeps changi

Panic whilst configuring carp/pf

2009-03-30 Thread Edd Barrett
1027 (wd0 bn 1024; cn 0 tn 16 sn 16), retrying wd0c: track 0 not found reading fsbn 1024 of 1024-1027 (wd0 bn 1024; cn 0 tn 16 sn 16), retrying wd0c: track 0 not found reading fsbn 1024 of 1024-1027 (wd0 bn 1024; cn 0 tn 16 sn 16), retrying wd0: soft error (corrected) root on wd2a swap on wd2b dump on wd2b WARNING: / was not properly unmounted carp0: state transition: BACKUP -> MASTER -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: systrace insecure [was: Re: chroot browser]

2009-04-04 Thread Edd Barrett
Howdy, On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:12:42AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > That said, this is not enough reason to entirely delete the code. It > still has uses. It's useful for checking ports are not dumping junk all over the file-system. Please keep it. Best Regards Edd Barrett

Re: Pass, gpg2, gpg

2018-12-10 Thread Edd Barrett
inux.org/index.php/GnuPG#pinentry -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

getty vs. ttyU0

2019-02-09 Thread Edd Barrett
e above C program does not hang on Soekris using /dev/tty00. I can repro on 6.4-stable/amd64 and -current/amd64. I'm out of ideas, so can anyone think of any reason why open(2) on /dev/ttyU0 might block indefinitely? -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: getty vs. ttyU0

2019-02-12 Thread Edd Barrett
On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 06:28:04PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > ttyU0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on For the archives, sthen@ guessed it. You have to add the 'softcar' flag to your ttyU0 entry in /etc/ttys. Works a charm. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

How should vmm hosts access the internet?

2016-10-13 Thread Edd Barrett
rwarding=1). Cheers -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Thinkpad X230t convertible and openbsd

2013-05-07 Thread Edd Barrett
http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x230t/ Is the touchscreen supported? Does it work well? Is anything else unsupported? I see it has one of those useless intel wireless cards too. Can this be swapped out easily? If not I can use my urtwn dongle. Cheers -- Best Regards Edd Barrett

Re: Thinkpad X230t convertible and openbsd

2013-05-08 Thread Edd Barrett
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:22:17PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 23:47, Edd Barrett wrote: > > > I see it has one of those useless intel wireless cards too. Can this be > > swapped out easily? If not I can use my urtwn dongle. > > Depends on wh

Re: Thinkpad X230t convertible and openbsd

2013-05-09 Thread Edd Barrett
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 01:28:05PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > It depends if it is a serial wacom tablet or a usb one. > > See: > http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/X60-Tablet-Wacom-Atheros-5213-amp-others-td67571.html#a67575 Hmm, I am not sure to be honest. -- Best Regards Edd B

Freezing VMs on Bytemark Hosting

2016-07-26 Thread Edd Barrett
emark (or ARP) and had a similar issue, or even a workaround. Like I said, long shot. Cheers -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: Freezing VMs on Bytemark Hosting

2016-07-29 Thread Edd Barrett
qemu? At the moment I am trying to narrow down what the freeze could possibly be related to. I really have no idea. I think I am going to throw up another VM and deploy a DEBUG kernel on it, to see if it gives any clues. What have you tried so far btw? -- Best Regards Edd Barr

Re: Freezing VMs on Bytemark Hosting

2016-07-29 Thread Edd Barrett
this is what I am experiencing. When I started having problems I switched the VM into "legacy mode". Once I did this, vio0 became em0, and the problem persisted. I don't think the issue it network related. The VGA console is not responsive to key-presses at the login prompt. Cheers -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: X200 tablet doesn't work

2014-07-14 Thread Edd Barrett
t; USB device which does work. > There once was support AFAIK, but our X11 changed, so did the Linux X11, > and porting the driver became impossible at some point. Since this only > affects about a dozen users (on-list, anyway) and no developers or X11 > maintainers, no progress has been made. > -Adam > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: Sysmerge problem with xetc56.tgz on July 16 amd64 snapshot

2014-07-17 Thread Edd Barrett
xetcsum > > Indeed, there's no /usr at all in the tarball. Clue-stick welcome if > I missed some key warning... > > Thanks, > > Kent. > > -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: Sysmerge problem with xetc56.tgz on July 16 amd64 snapshot

2014-07-17 Thread Edd Barrett
Ah, The xdm thing is separate. Because `sudo sysmerge -s /snap/etc*.tgz -x /snap/xetc*.tgz` bails out I did not get the recent rc.subr changes. On 18 July 2014 00:24, Edd Barrett wrote: > FWIW, I have the same here. I also notice that xdm did not start as it > usually does. > >

Re: SPDIF not working with azalia(4) based card

2021-12-15 Thread Edd Barrett
igital in mixerctl too) Credit where due, I found this solution here: http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=10953#post66355 -- Best Regards Edd Barrett https://www.theunixzoo.co.uk

Re: Scrotwm does not play nice with some apps

2009-04-14 Thread Edd Barrett
player issue isn't a big deal, the > fact that the same java app can function in one desktop, and not in > another was odd enough for me to ask if someone has had this issue in > the past. Thats a java bug, see the port named "wmname". By the way, this probably should have

OT: Anyone based in Canterbury?

2009-06-22 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, Are there any students or researchers from Kent Uni or Canterbury on this list? -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

FCAL disk anyone?

2009-06-27 Thread Edd Barrett
student scum). Thanks -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-07-03 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:22:04PM +0200, Huy Nguyen wrote: > Hi, > > why don't you install from the network? put bsd.rd on the root of the solaris file system and do: boot disk bsd.rd -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-so

Re: doubts on NFS

2009-07-06 Thread Edd Barrett
missions to make sense. You might consider a YP domain? -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Winbind & Samba on OpenBSD

2009-07-08 Thread Edd Barrett
e work. Winbind is a PAM plugin. OpenBSD does not use this mechanism. I don't know if ypldap can be used to talk to AD? -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

X11 on a Sun Blade 1000 - Repeating keys

2009-07-14 Thread Edd Barrett
pert, just guessing. I did not get this problem on an Ultra 10, when I owned one. DMESG attached. Thanks -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett OpenBSD 4.6-current (GENERIC) #1: Fri Jul 24 19

Re: X11 on a Sun Blade 1000 - Repeating keys

2009-07-15 Thread Edd Barrett
> Sorry if I asked you that already, I can't remember. Are you using xdm? > If so did you disable the getty(8) attached to the console in /etc/ttys? So far so good! Is there a planned fix? Thanks -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer /

Re: EuroBSDCon 2009, Cambridge, UK

2009-07-15 Thread Edd Barrett
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:17:22PM +0100, Fred Crowson wrote: > I've paid for my ticket - this will be my nearest EuroBSD Conference - > I'll not need a flight to this one :~) It's tempting, but oh so expensive. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software develop

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-16 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27:00PM +0200, zexel wrote: > OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. > A clear example of how thing should be done. I will agree with this. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer)

Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-22 Thread Edd Barrett
ope/the_starting.ogg: No such file or directory cp: /mnt/usb/a_fragile_hope/at_the_end_of_the_tunnel.ogg: No such file or direct ory -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-22 Thread Edd Barrett
On 22/10/2007, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does your target dir /mnt/usb exist? It does. I copied another album onto an SD mounted there and listened to it on the way to work today. -- Best Regards Edd ---

Re: OSS audio drivers

2007-10-23 Thread Edd Barrett
7;s an indication that M-audio aim to support UNIX, or just a coinsidence. Try dropping them an email? In all fairness, you would be better off using a nice piece of kit like that on Windows or MacOSX (/me ducks), because the audio editors for NIX are slightly limited in comparis

Re: OSS audio drivers

2007-10-23 Thread Edd Barrett
On 23/10/2007, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which underlying hardware driver does it use? uaudio -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-25 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 22/10/2007, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have an odd one for you here. Im trying to copy music from a hard > disk(FFS) mounted on /mnt/media. I can play the music with mplayer > just fine, but cp seems to refuse to believe that the files e

Re: Odd FFS behavior

2007-10-25 Thread Edd Barrett
On 25/10/2007, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/25/07, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The workaround is to do something like this, with a shorter filename > > or make sure you have a long filename in the root directory of the > partition

Long line scrolling in ksh

2007-10-25 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi there, Is there a way to turn off the long line scrolling in ksh? I have been searching the manual, it mentions the feature, but does not indicate if you can turn it off. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: HD access problems and Audio sounds too fast: (was Re: Keyboard/Mouse problem OpenBSD 4.2)

2007-10-25 Thread Edd Barrett
uality sound card for use with OpenBSD. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Long line scrolling in ksh

2007-10-25 Thread Edd Barrett
On 25/10/2007, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/25/07, Christian Weisgerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to turn off the long line scrolling in ksh? > > > > No. &g

Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Edd Barrett
ere a workaround? Thanks -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Edd Barrett
On 27/10/2007, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A couple of friends have been wanting to try out OpenBSD 4.2 on their > machines, but the 4.2 disk will not boot whereas the 4.1 disk will. I should mention these are i386 boxes. --

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-27 Thread Edd Barrett
d I suppose. But why are these machines not booting the CD's properly? -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-28 Thread Edd Barrett
6 folder but dont see any obvious relevant changes. Do newer snapshots work on this hardware? -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-29 Thread Edd Barrett
oot process. Still > needs to be identified and fixed for 4.3, but it wouldn't be a code > problem. > > Nick. > > Yes, perhaps it is something obscure in manufacturing. Could be a change of the brand of media for example, or something strange. Not a lot we can do about it. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-29 Thread Edd Barrett
umpster > surprise and no previous experience with OpenBSD, trying to give it a > try using a buddy's CD. Dumpster surprise... yes.. A couple of us use OpenBSD for workstation/university stuff. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: snapshots

2007-10-30 Thread Edd Barrett
keep userland and packages as in sync as possible. I remember thinks starting to go wrong in the past as the skew nears 2-3 weeks. Good question though. I guess the packages are built separately to the install sets. -- Best Regards Edd ---

Re: hotplugd for CD's?

2007-11-02 Thread Edd Barrett
e users it would have to be scripted, which would be quite annoying. > > > > Just ideas to make desktop use a little more automated. > > > > Thanks > > > > > regards > tilo > > > > -- > > Best Re

hotplugd for CD's?

2007-11-02 Thread Edd Barrett
ke KDE for example, to use it. Can you see the possibility of changing this so that the group may mount the cdrom, or even a 'user' directive in fstab, which I think I saw in some other operating system (:P). Just ideas to make desktop use a little more automated. Thanks -

Re: OpenBSD Sound

2007-11-03 Thread Edd Barrett
Hello, This thread has been really interesting. On 03/11/2007, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe the code could be taken from mplayer. Mplayer is GPL, so be careful about lifting code. -- Best Regards Edd ---

Fair Internet Sharing with OpenBSD

2007-11-04 Thread Edd Barrett
width), but if 1 person is not using the connection others should be able to share the unused portion. Is there a solution? Thanks -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Softraid queries

2007-11-08 Thread Edd Barrett
me as raidframe on fsck at boot? d) Is there a way to query the status of a volume? (Is this what 'enumerate' means?) Also softraid is not yet listed in the raid options section of teh FAQ. Thanks -- Best Regards Edd -

Re: Problems with pkg_add and partial installed package

2007-11-09 Thread Edd Barrett
help. You just pkg_delete it. pkg_delete partial-freebsd_lib-4.11p0 A package was half way through installing and got interrupted, so pkg_add marked it as partial. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Best way to automate administration of multiple servers

2007-11-14 Thread Edd Barrett
'ing to lots of machines and running the same commands on them all. Unfortunately vi has stopped working for me in multixterm. Might be something to do with the value of $TERM. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Does Xenocara requires sets x*42.tgz

2007-11-16 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 16/11/2007, Zoong PHAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason is the X sets don't have window manager cwm. Where did you get this idea from? It's in the sets. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Softraid Experimentation

2007-11-16 Thread Edd Barrett
ctl softraid0 # ---8<--- Is this correct behavior or is that part not implemented yet? Ideally the volume should continue to function but in some "degraded" state? Is that right? Thanks -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Softraid Experimentation

2007-11-16 Thread Edd Barrett
rebuilding inconsistent volumes either, but what I see so far looks very promising compared to raidframe. For what it is worth, here are my tests: http://vext01.blogspot.com/2007/11/playing-with-new-softraid-driver-in.html -- Best Regards Edd -

Re: Softraid Experimentation

2007-11-16 Thread Edd Barrett
if I am needed. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Please send email directly to misc@openBSD.org (no cc please)

2007-11-17 Thread Edd Barrett
On 16/11/2007, Piet Slaghekke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please send email To misc@openBSD.org and do not CC it to this address. Hilerious

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Edd Barrett
g that what's > needed first and foremost is test reports for the less popular > machine architectures. I can test on sparc64 if you like, but I am unsure what the driver is capable of at this stage. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-19 Thread Edd Barrett
things are not easy to come by. I have been meaning to buy one, but OpenCON has cleaned my wallet out for now :P -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: OBSD Functionality ala DTrace

2007-11-24 Thread Edd Barrett
he LKM (loadable kernel modules) framework still works for OpenBSD, so perhaps you could make a port that makes a module??? I think the nearest you will get to dtrace on OpenBSD is ktrace/kdump, althought these tools are more like truss than dtrace. All of Suns new dtrace/zfs code is

cwm: alt-tabbing behavior

2007-11-24 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi there, I have noticed some odd behavior of the alt-tab feature of cwm. Occasionally alt-tab will get "stuck" at a specific window and refuse to go and futher. Moving the window, will "unstuck" it. Has anyone else noticed this? -

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Edd Barrett
On 26/11/2007, Richard Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.xkcd.com/349/ > > Observe the ALT text on the comic. > > Haven't seen a PR on that one... > > What do they mean by this? -- Best Regards Edd

Replacement functionality if systrace is to be removed.

2007-12-04 Thread Edd Barrett
because I find USE_SYSTRACE (/etc/mk.conf) essential for the TeXLive port. It writes all over the place during the build. Thanks -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Replacement functionality if systrace is to be removed.

2007-12-04 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 04/12/2007, Antoine Jacoutot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Better fix the port then. I think you misunderstood. The port is fixed, but only because systrace allowed me to cut the build short when the build offended. -- Best Reg

Re: OpenCON 2007 thanks

2007-12-05 Thread Edd Barrett
On 05/12/2007, fabioFVZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenCON 2007 is over. > > This year due to problems at work I had to leave OpenCON 2007 > organization in the hands of Marc Balmer and Vera Hardmeier. Thankyou. I had a great time! --

Re: Compliments and Knob Question

2007-12-05 Thread Edd Barrett
to get it to start opening. Clearly most doors work just fine > without knobs. Good answer. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: X display corruption on yesterdays snapshot

2007-12-08 Thread Edd Barrett
On 08/12/2007, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) My main desktop has problems with xterms. If you do something with > large output like dmesg, then the output is complete junk. I mean bits > of characters all misaligned. Here is a screenshot of symptoms. http://flickr.com

X display corruption on yesterdays snapshot

2007-12-08 Thread Edd Barrett
1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt2 at isa0 port 0x3bc/4: polled npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 biomask edfd netmask edfd ttymask mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support softraid0 at root dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b ---8<--- -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: X display corruption on yesterdays snapshot

2007-12-09 Thread Edd Barrett
> How is this performed? -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: X display corruption on yesterdays snapshot

2007-12-09 Thread Edd Barrett
g.cgi?id=13456 may help too. I'd like > to hear if it changes something or not (with EXA or XAA). I'll try this if neccessary too. -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Edd Barrett
On 11/12/2007, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You've got a choice of: > 1/ complete idiot > 2/ senile old fool disconnected from reality > 3/ dangerous political activist with a hidden agenda > Also I like the way he posts and disappears.

Re: Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Edd Barrett
apachectl restart` should display a message as a reminder... -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Edd Barrett
I don't understand "send mail to try to find the message the URL refers to". How do you browse the web? -- Best Regards Edd --- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Problems with USB sticks on 4.2-current. (Panic)

2007-12-22 Thread Edd Barrett
rev 1.00, 9 mixer controls audio0 at uaudio0 softraid0 at root dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x82 dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 dkcsum: wd2 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b WARNING: / was not properly unmounted umass0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1

Re: fvwm in base and repository with security issues?

2007-12-30 Thread Edd Barrett
skbar). But no-where as minimal as anything in base. Icewm links imlib, which would mean importing GPL software into base (big no no). Also it would make base larger. I must admit I use a GPL licensed window manager (JWM), but it was my decision to install it fr

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-10 Thread Edd Barrett
m of > Pentium2 firewalls updated easly. > # Secure Distribution. > The most secure operation system gets distributed on FTP servers > as unsigned binaries. A lot of this is down to manpower or lack thereof. You can make it better if you put some effort in. Failing that,

Re: Problems installing 4.2 from CD

2008-01-11 Thread Edd Barrett
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Fridiric Pli wrote: > Hello, > > Did you check errata 003 ? > http://openbsd.org/errata42.html This does not sound like e003. I have experienced that, and you dont get this far. --- Best Regards Edd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: TeXLive problem

2008-01-13 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Jan 13, 2008 2:02 AM, Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TO: Nikolay Sturm port maintainer of TeXLive Eh? MAINTAINER= Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Also this really belongs on ports@ not [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Dear Nikolay, > &g

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Edd Barrett
n't need or want this > browser to do javascript or flash (I have a different box for > entertainment). Of the browsers in packages, which browser would people > think is likely the most secure? links -g ? -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Sun Ultra 5

2008-01-17 Thread Edd Barrett
If you get a creator3d or xvr500 that will go away. My ultra 5 (without creator) used to be like that. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-25 Thread Edd Barrett
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