use sndiod remote microphone

2013-08-26 Thread Fung
have read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#audioserver now two OpenBSD pc A B A add sndiod_flags=-L- to /etc/rc.conf.local, plug in a microphone. so B how to set and use the remote mic? what i want: 1. B can hear the sound from A's mic (live broadcast). 2. What program in B should I

Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-26 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:19:11PM -0600, Michael Paul Zamot wrote: Hello, my name is Michael Paul Zamot, I'm from Costa Rica. I'm using OpenBSD since two months ago and I'm in love with it. I'm planning buying a laptop, perhaps a screen of 11 or 12 inches. I would like to know if you know

Re: use sndiod remote microphone

2013-08-26 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:47:03AM +0800, Fung wrote: have read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#audioserver now two OpenBSD pc A B A add sndiod_flags=-L- to /etc/rc.conf.local, plug in a microphone. so B how to set and use the remote mic? on host B, any program using

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

2013-08-26 Thread Denis Maros
Hi Alexander, Yes, i'm talking about 2*20 character LCD display connected to 24 pin parallel port on motherboard. I've tried to access this device simply via this command: # echo Test /dev/lpt0 ksh: cannot create /dev/lpt0: Device busy Yeah, failed. Do you suggest any other method/code to try if

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

2013-08-26 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Monday, August 26, 2013 10:41 CEST, Denis Maros denisalima...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alexander, Yes, i'm talking about 2*20 character LCD display connected to 24 pin parallel port on motherboard. I've tried to access this device simply via this command: # echo Test /dev/lpt0 ksh: cannot

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

2013-08-26 Thread Denis Maros
Hi Sebastian, I've already tried lcdproc but got no success. 2013/8/26 Sebastian Reitenbach sebas...@l00-bugdead-prods.de On Monday, August 26, 2013 10:41 CEST, Denis Maros denisalima...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alexander, Yes, i'm talking about 2*20 character LCD display connected to 24

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

2013-08-26 Thread john slee
Hi, On 26 August 2013 14:11, Denis Maros denisalima...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, i'm talking about 2*20 character LCD display connected to 24 pin parallel port on motherboard. I've tried to access this device simply via this command: # echo Test /dev/lpt0 If it's one of the common

Re: IPSec and routing of IPv6

2013-08-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-08-25, Gregor Best g...@ring0.de wrote: Hi people, I am having a few problems getting routing of IPv6 over IPSec to work. I have two nodes, one is a server, one is my laptop. On the server, I have IPv6 access over a gif interface. There is a /64 routed to the server, which I want to

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-08-24, Jason McIntyre j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote: as far as packages, i doubt the man pages would be changed. i guess you could talk to the individual port maintainer if you wanted. this type of patch wouldn't be appropriate for the ports tree. sometimes you will have success if you

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

2013-08-26 Thread Steve Fairhead
On 26/08/2013 09:41, Denis Maros wrote: Yes, i'm talking about 2*20 character LCD display connected to 24 pin parallel port on motherboard. I've tried to access this device simply via this command: # echo Test /dev/lpt0 ksh: cannot create /dev/lpt0: Device busy Yeah, failed. Do you suggest any

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:27:36AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: you will then end up with some of them switching to dreadful MiB etc. ;) Kinda off topic and I take it you were being sarcastic, but your mentioning of the dreadful MiB reminded me about the LibreOffice spreadsheet I'm using to

Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Paul Zamot
On 2013-08-26 00:42, Stefan Sperling wrote: In my experience, now that video is out of the way, the thing to look out most for is getting a well supported built-in wireless card. That's starting to become difficult when buying new laptops because most drivers are lacking support for newer

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:27:36AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: you will then end up with some of them switching to dreadful MiB etc. ;) Kinda off topic and I take it you were being sarcastic, but your mentioning of the

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-08-26, Erling Westenvik erling.westen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:27:36AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: you will then end up with some of them switching to dreadful MiB etc. ;) Kinda off topic and I take it you were being sarcastic, but your mentioning of the

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:27:36AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: you will then end up with some of them switching to dreadful MiB etc. ;) Are there strong opinions against following standards and start converting to the proper terms for gigabytes (decimal, base 10, 1GB = 1000^3 bytes) and

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
Imo you are introducing a new meaning of proper. Disk sizes have been in base 2 units since forever. The fact that marketing material uses base 10 units does not change what's proper. Here's a suggestion for new prefixes in use of these units. Full prefix plus unit shown for example.

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:29:24AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:27:36AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: you will then end up with some of them switching to dreadful MiB etc. ;) Are there strong opinions against following standards and start converting to the

Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-26 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:19:11PM -0600, Michael Paul Zamot wrote: Hello, my name is Michael Paul Zamot, I'm from Costa Rica. I'm using OpenBSD since two months ago and I'm in love with it. I'm planning buying a laptop, perhaps a screen of 11 or 12 inches. I would like to know if you know

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2013 Aug 26 (Mon) at 16:55:33 +0200 (+0200), Erling Westenvik wrote: :I guess all it boils down to is the question why OpenBSD shouldn't use :standard unit names, that is GiB for gigabytes and GB for gibibytes? We *are* using the standard unit names. Marketting droids aren't allowed to create

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:53:55AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Imo you are introducing a new meaning of proper. Disk sizes have been in base 2 units since forever. The fact that marketing material uses base 10 units does not change what's proper. Here's a suggestion for new prefixes in

Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On 2013-08-26 00:42, Stefan Sperling wrote: If the built-in wireless card doesn't work, your options are to replace it with a supported card or get a supported USB-based one. If you shop around for used minipci cards or USB wifi sticks with names matching the ones listed in driver man pages, you

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:07:01AM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:27:36AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: you will then end up with some of them switching to dreadful MiB etc. ;) Kinda off

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:27:36AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: you will then end up with some of them switching to dreadful MiB etc. ;) Kinda off topic and I take it you were being sarcastic, but your mentioning of the

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 04:55:33PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: I guess all it boils down to is the question why OpenBSD shouldn't use standard unit names, that is GiB for gigabytes and GB for gibibytes? Now, that was kinda embarrasing. Of course I meant GB for gigabytes and GiB for

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/26/2013 10:55 AM, Erling Westenvik wrote: ... Lets say I'm happening to have lots of smaller disks that I'd like to create partitions for on larger disks. Reading on the label on one such small disk that it has a capacity of 160GB, and knowing that this means 160 * 1000^3 bytes, makes it

Re: What should we look before buying a laptop?

2013-08-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/26/2013 09:24 AM, Michael Paul Zamot wrote: ... Are there any particular laptop model you can recommend? Regards, Michael Zamot same advices as always... Load OpenBSD on a flash drive. Go to the store, boot from the flash drive, see how it runs OpenBSD...and put your fingers on the

Installation on EdgeRouter Lite

2013-08-26 Thread Radio młodych bandytów
Hello, I'm just reading through Octeon installation instructions: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/octeon/INSTALL.octeon What caught my attention is a statement: There is no USB support yet, which means that there is no storage (no onboard CompactFlash), and Ethernet

Re: In some man pages Mb means MB, in others it means Mb/s

2013-08-26 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:01:25PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: On 08/26/2013 10:55 AM, Erling Westenvik wrote: ... Lets say I'm happening to have lots of smaller disks that I'd like to create partitions for on larger disks. Reading on the label on one such small disk that it has a capacity of

PF+ALTQ and real time monitoring

2013-08-26 Thread Andres Chavez
Hi, can anyone tell me the best or at least the most used real time bandwith monitoring tool, when using the PF+ALTQ solution please? thanks in advance.

EuroBSDCon 2013 early bird rates through August 31

2013-08-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
EuroBSDCon 2013, set in sunny Malta, is only a month away. The main program is at http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/talks-and-schedule/ Register via http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/registration/, early bird rates apply through August 31. See you in Malta! - Peter

Re: PF+ALTQ and real time monitoring

2013-08-26 Thread andy
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:24:12 -0400, Andres Chavez fluxboxtrem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, can anyone tell me the best or at least the most used real time bandwith monitoring tool, when using the PF+ALTQ solution please? thanks in advance. We use Graphite for the display of data received by

Re: how to aggregate a single TCP connection, is posible?

2013-08-26 Thread andy
This is a question with many solutions, each with their own benefits and disadvantages and is a subject of some history. If you are connecting two servers directly together without using a switch in-between them, then round-robin is for you. However if you need to have switches in the mix there

Re: X reverts to vesa driver with 2013-AUG-24 snapshot

2013-08-26 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:35:18PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: help? should I wait for next snapshot? Some of the integrated graphics parts were previously disabled due to various issues. The radeondrm code we have now is a complete re-port though so try this: Index: radeon_kms.c

Re: X reverts to vesa driver with 2013-AUG-24 snapshot

2013-08-26 Thread patrick keshishian
On 8/26/13, Jonathan Gray j...@jsg.id.au wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:35:18PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: help? should I wait for next snapshot? Some of the integrated graphics parts were previously disabled due to various issues. The radeondrm code we have now is a complete

Re: X reverts to vesa driver with 2013-AUG-24 snapshot

2013-08-26 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:45:00PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: On 8/26/13, Jonathan Gray j...@jsg.id.au wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:35:18PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: help? should I wait for next snapshot? Some of the integrated graphics parts were previously disabled