Re: back to "Drive ID Changed"

I just executed: gpt create wd1 I got: gpt: /dev/rwd1: Device already contains a GPT. Destroy it first. Aparrently part of this already done with gpt... On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 8:42 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > Here is my fstab. It still does not work. Does the entire fsta

Re: back to "Drive ID Changed"

=NetBSD_9.2/ffsrw,noatime1 1 ROOT.b=NetBSD_swapnoneswapsw,dp On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 3:43 AM Thomas Mueller wrote: > > from Todd Gruhn: > > > I know nothing about GPT. How do I know I can do this? > > > On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 6:40 PM RVP wrote

Re: back to "Drive ID Changed"

I know nothing about GPT. How do I know I can do this? On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 6:40 PM RVP wrote: > > On Sun, 30 May 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > I got back to this. I still cant get it > > Here is the link to a message from David Brownlee: > > > > https://m

back to "Drive ID Changed"

I got back to this. I still cant get it Here is the link to a message from David Brownlee: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2020/09/28/msg025785.html It totally slipped my mind. I have since updated to NetBSD-9.2. I still cant get anything to work here...

Checking testing DVDs

I got VLC to play a movie without freezing. But every time I get to a certain play-time, VLC freezes, then quits playing. 1) Is there a tool to check the DVD for defects? 2) Is there something else I am failing to set in VLC?

Re: VLC

I got 'libdvdcss-1.4.2' installed. VLC quit crashing when I watched this specific DVD. Does anyone have suggestions what other libs or CODECs I should install. On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:57 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > Is there a nice way to search these mail threads with a SE? > > On

Re: VLC

Is there a nice way to search these mail threads with a SE? On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 8:55 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 8:44 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > > I been using VLC to listen to music recently. > > I tried to watch a DVD -

VLC

I been using VLC to listen to music recently. I tried to watch a DVD -- and it refuses to work. Is it better to invoke VLC 2 different ways : One way for music Another way for video Then I can stick them in an mwm menu and click on the way I wish to invoke VLC...

Re: New kernel config

Just want them gone like all the other "... not configured" messages. I did not know they will mess up acpi power mgt. I guess that means my prob is over :-) On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 4:31 PM Benny Siegert wrote: > > > > On Mon, 24 May 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > >

New kernel config

[ 1.007852] timecounter: Timecounter "hpet0" frequency 2400 Hz quality 2000 [ 1.008169] acpiec0 at acpi0 (H_EC, PNP0C09-1): not present [ 1.008169] SIO1 (PNP0C02) at acpi0 not configured [ 1.008169] pckbc1 at acpi0 (PS2K, PNP0303-0) (kbd port): io 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [

VLC strangeness

I was splitting large MP3s into separate songs using mp3splt. I would listen to each song to see if it is acceptable. Then VLC media player failed to play. I could not use the "Quit" widget. I went back and played some MP3s that I know work. Those fail also! What happened? Whats the solution?

screen brightness

When ever I start NetBSD, the system starts normally, then the screen dims and I have a terrible time reading things. I am trying to upgrade, and I need to read the menu...

Recording a current audio-event

Interesting thought occurred to me: If I am listening to something on the Web, is it possible to catch the sound, and send it to an MP3 file or directly to CD/DVD?

Re: Setting ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in /etc/mk.conf

; On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 3:10 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > > Can ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES have several values separated > > by commas-- or must they all be on separate lines?

Setting ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in /etc/mk.conf

Can ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES have several values separated by commas-- or must they all be on separate lines?

Custom music mixes

Is there a nice way to pull music off of a CD, split it up into separate songs, and produce a custom mix? AAAND what about order: I dont want all the songs by X played back to back. Thanks in advance...

Re: Disk strangeness

Thanks the newfs_udf page and command got me what I want On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 7:04 AM Michael van Elst wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 07:20:08PM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > HMM DVD-RAM? > > Is there a command that would show this? > > cdrecord should show thi

Re: Disk strangeness

HMM DVD-RAM? Is there a command that would show this? I will see what I can do with the UDF info. Thanks On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:18 PM Michael van Elst wrote: > > tgru...@gmail.com (Todd Gruhn) writes: > > >I have 2 different types of compact disks. One is a > >CD-RW

Disk strangeness

I have 2 different types of compact disks. One is a CD-RW, the other is DVD-RW. I was able to initialize the DVD-RW disks using 'cdrecord ... blank=fast' followed by 'newfs /dev/rcd0' I can do 'cdrecord ... blank=fast' to the CD-RW disks, but then newfs fails when I tell it to initialize the

Re: Running VLC

I just played with it some more I can play a music-CD. I still cannot view a movie of DVD... On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 9:01 AM wrote: > > Hallo, > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 08:53:13AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > I was not in the group "operator" -- so I added myself

Re: Running VLC

000800 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 2048 bytes transferred in 1.471 secs (1392 bytes/sec) On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:47 AM wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 06:31:32PM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > All I know that VLC cant talk to the DVD/CD drive. > > > > I have bee

Re: MWM and cut-and-paste

Thanks Benny. I recall doing this before -- but I thouight it was setup with .mwmrc... On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:38 AM Benny Siegert wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:09 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > I recall doing cut-and-paste with MWM/NetBSD many years ago. > > Is it poss to

MWM and cut-and-paste

I recall doing cut-and-paste with MWM/NetBSD many years ago. Is it poss to cut-and-paste long commands instead of retyping them?

Re: Running VLC

10:29:43AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > Thanks for the idea -- I will try that then. > > I used pkgsrc to download and compile from source... > > It shouldn't matter how you installed VLC. > > What errors are you getting? Are the only when you try to play > optical media?

Re: Running VLC

t 9.99.80 at this moment > > пт, 5 мар. 2021 г., 15:41 Todd Gruhn : >> >> I installed with pkgsrc about a week ago. >> I had to uninstall then re-install several packages because an older >> ver was already present. I also noticed that it compiled and updated >> PERL --

Re: Running VLC

gt; I'm running vlc (on current), installed from packages, everything works fine. > > чт, 4 мар. 2021 г., 5:40 Todd Gruhn : >> >> VLC compiled fine. But I get many errors when I run it -- biggest is >> it cant find the >> DVD and/or the CD. Is there a manual I should be seeing? Is anyone >> else running VLC?

Running VLC

VLC compiled fine. But I get many errors when I run it -- biggest is it cant find the DVD and/or the CD. Is there a manual I should be seeing? Is anyone else running VLC?

Unicode to ASCII

I extracted the "text" from a large PDF using a NetBSD prog called pdftotext(1). I got the desired ASCII text, but it has many occurances of the sequence \x{80}\x{9c} ... \x{80}\x{9d} Is there a nice and universal utility that can convert these to ASCII chars? Someone mentioned EMACS... What

Re: Graphics card and work around

t grabbed an AMD Firepro V4900 for $25 off of eBay. It works fine > under 9.1. It's not a powerful card by any means but it accelerates > the desktop just fine and is nice and cheap. > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:04 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > > My system was built with a nVid

making named pipes

I saw a blurb about creating the named pipes that are in /dev/drm (direct rendering). Where was that? Whats the URL? I cant find it with a SE.

Graphics card and work around

My system was built with a nVidia GTX 1660. The system is terribly slow when running X. Blinding fast without X. There is no graphics driver for this card. Any ideas for a graphics card that IS SUPPORTED? What about a graphics driver that supports part of this cards abilities ? I am tired of

Re: Ideas for stripping tags from document

Its OK -- I have it figgered out now On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:09 PM Eric Hawicz wrote: > > On 1/17/2021 6:21 PM, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > HEY Johnny, that thing with tr -d did not work. When I read the > > manpage I got and idea: > > character classes (in this case

Re: Ideas for stripping tags from document

schrieb Johnny Billquist > > : > >> On 2021-01-16 19:45, Todd Gruhn wrote: > >>> I have a large document (18,000L). It is full of tags such as <93> > >>> ,<94> , <95> . > >>> > >>> If I view the doc in a PERL edi

Re: Ideas for stripping tags from document

thanks for the idea, Ignatios. I will try this. On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 3:00 PM wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 01:45:45PM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > I have a large document (18,000L). It is full of tags such as <93> > > ,<94> , <95> . &g

Ideas for stripping tags from document

I have a large document (18,000L). It is full of tags such as <93> ,<94> , <95> . If I view the doc in a PERL editor I see \x{93} , \x{94} , \{95} ... Is there a pkg or command to strip these tags and leave the text ?

Re: PR 55714

Here is my Q: If it is a low-price chip. Then isnt it from China? China must maintain market dominance. SO not testing. On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:10 AM BERTRAND Joël wrote: > > Manuel Bouyer a écrit : > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:59:37AM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote: > >> [...] > >> I

Re: Drive ID changed

I am running NetBSD 9.0_Stable. Is there a new ver out? On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:21 PM Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On 28/09/2020 09:47, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > > > > > > On 2020-09-27 18:23, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 2020-09-2

Re: Drive ID changed

e supposed to have a blank field somewhere? On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:21 AM David Brownlee wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 12:04, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > > WOW! Martin. Thanks. > > > > This is nothing like NetBSD 5.0 . > > Its like learning a new system... > &g

Re: Drive ID changed

WOW! Martin. Thanks. This is nothing like NetBSD 5.0 . Its like learning a new system... On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 5:20 AM Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:47:07AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > > I found this snippet in some NetBSD documentation: > > > > "You will the be

Re: Drive ID changed

I like Jonathans idea. SO, to fix /etc/fstab, I need to rescan the PCI devices, and change the disk id in the file? On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 9:23 PM Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > > > > On 2020-09-27 16:37, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > I recabled the SSD and mechanical hard drives. &g

Drive ID changed

I recabled the SSD and mechanical hard drives. When I start NetBSD from the boot menu, NetBSD gets to the end and gives this message: Starting root file system check: fsck: no match for 'wd0a': No such process Automatic file system check failed, help! Its just cabling. Is there a difference

Man page names

I have noticed that there are many man pages with the name/form *.conf.5 Are all man pages with the form *.* and *.*.* in section 5? Can anyone see future problems caused by linking a.b.c --> a_b_c ?

Support for GTX 1660 graphics board

I just burned the latest boot.iso image of NetBSD to cd and booted it. Here are the boot messages related to vga graphics: [ 1.006121] vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: vendor 10de product 2184 (rev. 0xa1) [ 1.006121] wsdisplay0 at vga0 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using

Boot error-messages

Here is dmesg: [ 1.00] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, [ 1.00] 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, [ 1.00] 2018, 2019, 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. [

pTk mega widget

I have an idea for a Perl/Tk mega widget. How does one find a decent megawidget to use as an example? AAAND why is it so easy to find Python/Tk megawidgets, but yet so difficult to find Perl/Tk megawidget?

Perlman

I have a book titled " Advanced Perl Programming" from O'Reilly. Its dated 1997 (first ed.). Oreilly used to have the complete code for an application called "perlman", which is mentioned in the book. I cant find the code anywhere. Does it even exist? Does anyone have a copy?

PERL vars

I am trying to re-implement a large PERL prog I wrote about 10yrs ago. It has custom vars that you can set in a *rc file. IS THERE a way to track these vars down, and set them in the config file?

listing "commit comments" in CVS

I checked the kernel config file into cvs. I changed the configuration several times; committed, and left a comment. Is there a way to tell cvs to print out the list of comments I left with each/every revision?

Testing a password

I found the master password file. The passwords that were set (root, cvs, my account) all start with $sha$ -- so the passwords are encrypted using SHA? If I write a PERL program that checks passwords (cant use crypt), how would I do this? Any particular modules I need?

GEFORCE GTX 1660

I stumbled on this: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/159361/en-us It has source code, and is for FreeBSD. I have run commercial software that was compiled for FreeBSD on NetBSD (just have to add "Binary Compatibility" to the kernel config. Any thoughts/ideas here?

Slow X-windows AND nVidia GeFORCE GTX 1660

Is anybody running NetBSD+X while using an nVidia GTX 1660 graphics board? What did you did you do to get it to run with NetBSD?

X-windows

I found out from the manual that I have an on-board graphics chip. Can this cause the slowness I have been experiencing? Is there a program that allows me to interrogate this board and see what the PCI address of the on-board graphics chip is; and whether this on-board graphics chip is on or

Slowness of X-windows

I updated to NetBSD-9.1_stable. Xwindows came up without arguing. I did not have to do 'boot c' then disable nouveau. X is still slow. I noticed errors in the upgrade. When I checked the Xorg*log file I noticed Card0 and a couple devices are missing. Here is the Xorg.0.log file (attached).

SLOW X-windows

Today I noticed that I have ca. 30 files named .serverauth #? = 1 char If I have 4 windows open plus the XClock -- shouldnt there only be 5 of these .xauth files? How would this affect the performance of X-windows ? If thats the prob, can the number of .xauth files be limited ?

Re: Changes to PERL

I looked at perldelta -- Nothing useful there. I am mainly interested in changes to system vars, and syntax. At least I know my books are still useful. Thanks On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:29 PM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 05:10:41PM -0400, Todd Gruhn

Changes to PERL

Where is a good place to look for current PERL syntax and examples? (been about 10yrs). Which books should be updated first? (I have 4 of the O'Reilly PERL books)

System-slowness and graphics cards

here is a portion of me Xorg.log.0 file: [ 571.003] (==) --- End of built-in configuration --- [ 571.003] (==) ServerLayout "Builtin Default Layout" [ 571.003] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default nouveau Screen 0" (0) [ 571.003] (**) | |-->Monitor "" [ 571.003] (**) | |-->Device

System slowness and graphics-card

The system I am using was assembled and purchase back in Aug 2019. Some things I noticed: 1) The graphics card (nVidia GEFORCE GTX 1660) needs to be booted using boot -c ; disable nouveau; quit 2) When I compile a package -- and X Windows is NOT RUNNING -- this thing flies

Xresources and cascading menu colors

I decided to uninstall lesstif and try Motif. I noticed 2 things immediately: 1) I got the cascading menus in 3 diff colors 2) When I resize, or drag a menu with the mouse, it moves much faster. Something is definitely wrong with lesstif. Now it is on to getting the desired menu colors.

Setting menu colors in MWM/lesstif

!Mwm*menu*background: Grey27 !Mwm*menu*foreground: White !!! !! First acceptable color pair !! !!! !Mwm*menu*background: Olive !Mwm*menu*foreground: Yellow !!! !! Second acceptable color pair !!

Mwm and coloring cascading submenus

In my root-window I have a (root?) menu with cascading submenus. I figured out how to use .Xresources to define several fg/bg menu-color pairs. THAT APPLIES TO ALL MENUS. What if I want the top menu to have the color pair fg1/bg1; the GAME sub-menu to have color pair fg2/bg2; the APPLICATIONS

Resetting X windows

I tried to set pointer colors under LessTif. I used "xsetroot" ; now I cant access and resize windows, and my menus wont show. I already tried: xsetroot xsetroot -def These did not fix anything. Do I need to reinstall? My goal is to change the colors of the root-pointer, and the

Terrible system slowness

Here is the dmesg from NetBSD-9.0-stable dmesg-9.0-stable Description: Binary data

Terrible system slowness

I decided to get back to running NetBSD on a new computer with a spare drive: Just now I ran /bin/ksh configure for lesstif. The configure operation alone too 45min. (WHY!?) I have 64GB RAM, and a 1TB SATA harddrive. I redid the install this time using cylinders. Swap is 39000 cyl. According to

Pkgtools setup

How much has pkgtools changed since 2010? Are any vars set in /etc/profile? I have mk.conf copied to the /etc dir. Is /etc/ld.so.conf used anymore?

Using pkgsrc; execution speed

I finally got the pkg tools system to work. When I compiled bootstrap, it took 4hrs -- so I killed it and restarted it when I went to bed. The following morning, bootstrap was still compiling. Each step/instruction takes about 15 seconds. I downloaded lesstif.tar.gz from sourceforge. /bin/ksh

Re: Firewall (ipf) problems

Thanks -- at least I have an idea what to look into. On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:09 AM wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 07:48:43AM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > >I got the logging facility working late last night. > >This error message

Firewall (ipf) problems

I got a bleeding edge ver of NetBSD (9.5?) running on a spare drive. I figured out how to connect to the internet and get name service. If I go into rc.conf and set the following: ipmon=YES ipfilter=YES and reboot -- then I CANT PING ANYONE. If I turn off ipfilter using /etc/rc.d/ipfilter

Graphics cards

I have a GEFORCE GTX 1660 card on a new box. Is there a list of supported cards that I can view? I just downloaded NetBSD 9.1 and burned 2 CDs.

Getting NetBSD on this new machine

I have a new box with a Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X motherboard. I comes with UEFI and UEFI-compatibility support module. At the end of the boot sequence, it drops me into the kernel debugger. This is an initial install -- I am currently running the latest version of Windoze. Any help would be

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