Re: View / test *-ttf fonts

2024-05-26 Thread John McCue
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 02:22:30PM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: Is there a way to view the *-ttf fonts? So I know what it will look like ... The only way I know of is using xclock(1), for example: % xclock -geometry 720x60+50+260 \ -digital -face "FONT NAME:pixelsize=40" \

Re: cvs and older versions of a file

2024-05-26 Thread John McCue
On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 09:03:11AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: I messed up a .Xresources . How do I tell cvs to give me a previous copy? It has been a long time since I used cvs, but you can try: % cvs log .Xresources Find the rev you want to diff with then % cvs diff -rREV .Xresources

Re: Programming Motif / mwm

2024-05-20 Thread John McCue
. John On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 5:20???PM John McCue wrote: On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 10:46:18AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: >I want to tweek the menu used in Motif. > >I want it larger; can I make the fonts bigger? > >I believe there is no 'f.font' . Is it possible to do this? >

Re: Programming Motif / mwm

2024-05-18 Thread John McCue
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 10:46:18AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: I want to tweek the menu used in Motif. I want it larger; can I make the fonts bigger? I believe there is no 'f.font' . Is it possible to do this? Then how? mwm us configured using ~/.Xdefaults, for example this can be done for

Re: intel videocard performance degraded severely after 9.4 update

2024-05-09 Thread John McCue
On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 10:34:49AM +, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, John McCue wrote: I have a R52e and the internal wifi does now work with the router provided by my ISP (comcast).?? I believe a "Edimax N150" dongle may work, but I have not tried it yet. Maybe you have a diff

Re: intel videocard performance degraded severely after 9.4 update

2024-05-08 Thread John McCue
On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 12:51:55PM +, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I updated my trusty R52 ThinkPad to 9.4 - i915. All went quite well. wifi is unreliable - but that is most probably the same isue I have on the T30 and I am already investigating that with Martin. I have a R52e and the

Re: RC6 (and later)

2024-03-15 Thread John McCue
t with RC5, the corruption will go away once the heavy process ends. So I will see if the issue occurs on RC6 and maybe create a new PR if it does. John On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 5:33?PM John McCue wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 09:16:38AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: >There is now NetBSD-10.0R

Re: RC6 (and later)

2024-03-15 Thread John McCue
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 09:16:38AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: There is now NetBSD-10.0RC6 -- I don't ever recall seeing RC5 or later. Why so many *RC created this time? I am fine with this :) I have a very minor video issue with X on 10 and each RC the issue gets better. (PR was created)

Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-13 Thread John McCue
On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 01:11:05PM +, Liam Proven wrote: I use this excellent multiboot tool instead of writing USB sticks. It saves me hours. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html NetBSD 9.3 and 10 are both throwing errors saying they can't locate /boot. Is it just me or my machine? I

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

2023-12-13 Thread John McCue
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 11:22:31AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: The correct size is "not on its own partition". Why not have /var along with / on the same filesystem? Thanks -- /var on wd0e was given to me -- by install.sh Sticking it in / just makes a lot of sense (sp?) ... Up to you :)

Re: Is use of 'binary' mode necessary to open files on NetBSD?

2023-12-02 Thread John McCue
On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 09:18:56AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: I am using gcc 12.1 on NetBSD 9.3 amd64 in a c++ application that complies using standard std20. There is this c++ standard library class ifstream. Using method ifstream::open files are opened. So far I was under an impression that on

Re: NetBSD 10 Beta: Updating The Base System -- October 20 Followup

2023-11-04 Thread John McCue
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 03:39:49PM -0500, Jay F. Shachter wrote: Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Michael van Elst would write on Tue Oct 10 15:14:31 2023: And does my PKG_PATH variable remain http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/10.0/All or do I now change it

Re: would anybody use binary packages for NetBSD/i386 10?

2023-08-13 Thread John McCue
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 08:32:20AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: In contemplating bulk builds and resources, I wonder if there are still people who: are running NetBSD/i386 (as opposed to amd64) I have an old i386 System that is on 9.3, once 10.0 is released I plan on upgrading that system to

Re: Noise from backup-disk

2023-07-22 Thread John McCue
On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 03:32:57PM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: Heard noise when I mounted a HD that is connected to USB . How to I test this? Not sure what you want to test, but maybe umount it and do something like: # dd if=/dev/r of=/dev/null and see if any errors occur. Another thing is to

Re: Cannot Install From NetBSD-9.3-amd64-install.img -- Friday Afternoon Followup

2023-07-14 Thread John McCue
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 04:56:52PM -0500, Jay F. Shachter wrote: Esteemed Colleagues: I got a little further in the installation procedure, thanks to your advice regarding the disabling of nouveau. Now the installation procedure is dying with the message Status: openpty() failed

Re: Cannot Install From NetBSD-9.3-amd64-install.img

2023-07-13 Thread John McCue
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 07:51:26PM -0500, Jay F. Shachter wrote: Esteemed Colleagues: I cannot install NetBSD from NetBSD-9.3-amd64-install.img (despite the fact that the name of the file contains a promise that I can). I do not know how you created the USB drive, but there are two type of

Re: SOLVED: wpa_supplicant startup a boot issue

2023-03-08 Thread John McCue
2023 at 09:42:53AM -0500, John McCue wrote: Hi All, I replaced the HDD on my Thinkpad T420 with a larger Drive. I then reinstalled NetBSD 9.3. Install went well, but during install config I selected "config network". I got lost there and I thought nothing was done. The end re

wpa_supplicant startup a boot issue

2023-03-08 Thread John McCue
Hi All, I replaced the HDD on my Thinkpad T420 with a larger Drive. I then reinstalled NetBSD 9.3. Install went well, but during install config I selected "config network". I got lost there and I thought nothing was done. The end result is, via rc.conf, wpa_supplicant is failing to start.

Re: Build original Csh on Linux and FreeBSD.

2022-09-03 Thread John McCue
On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 07:21:57PM +, Matheus wrote: Hello. I'd like to know if it's possible to build Csh (not Tcsh) on Linux and FreeBSD. Pkgsrc doesn't have the sources for Csh, though they're found in the system's sources, located in bin/csh. For Linux see this:

Re: Anyone had problems with .Xresources ??

2022-07-09 Thread John McCue
On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 03:38:05PM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: must I ask "$HOME" -- or the full dir-name? Does not matter, I use $HOME since it is shell agnostic. On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 5:32 PM John McCue wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 10:09:16AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: >if

Re: Anyone had problems with .Xresources ??

2022-07-09 Thread John McCue
On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 10:09:16AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: if I do: xrdb .Xresources I have no issues, try xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources in your ~/.xsession (or .xinitrc) I works, and the MWM menus loop as I had it. WHEN I BOOT NetBSD -- the file (db is gone??) gives me a menu with ONLY