Re: X/DRM freeze on 7.2

2022-10-24 Thread Patrick Harper
Hi, https://docs.mesa3d.org/envvars.html#radeonsi-driver-environment-variables For me freezes happen only when hardware acceleration is enabled so this might be a good place to start. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Fri, 21 Oct 2022, at 19:56, Mickael Torres wrote: > He

Re: radeondrm / radeon 8570

2022-01-29 Thread Patrick Harper
In Chrome, try logging on to chrome://flags and enable #ignore-gpu-blocklist. Make sure hardware acceleration is enabled in the settings as well. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, at 23:46, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > is anyone trying to use an older radeondrm c

Re: can't get fonts to show up

2021-12-14 Thread Patrick Harper
I would read the fonts(7) man page first. Specifically the 'Installing fonts in Xft' section. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, at 23:38, Carson Chittom wrote: > I have purchased some fonts that I like, and I want to use them > throughout my OpenBS

Re: RTL8852AE wifi driver

2021-11-20 Thread Patrick Harper
You need to get the authors to change the license to an acceptable one first, as GPL won't cut it. https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, at 15:24, Moritz Messner wrote: > Hello, > > there seems to be a working driver

Re: Should 80MB of RAM be enough for kernel relinking on i386?

2021-09-22 Thread Patrick Harper
full list of supported hardware. https://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html Patrick Harper

Re: Should 80MB of RAM be enough for kernel relinking on i386?

2021-07-16 Thread Patrick Harper
> Your swap is only 256MB. That seem too low. (We have walked away > from making it correspond to physical memory, but still, it seems > uncomfortably low). > > As well, /usr seems a bit large, leaving not much for /home. > > The autoallocation scheme might have made a less than perfect > deci

Should 80MB of RAM be enough for kernel relinking on i386?

2021-07-14 Thread Patrick Harper
#x27;done') [done] DNS domain name? (e.g. 'example.com') [my.domain] home DNS nameservers? (IP address list or 'none') [none] Password for root account? (will not echo) Password for root account? (again) Start sshd(8) by default? [yes] Do you expect to run the X Window Syst

Re: USB speakers

2020-08-15 Thread Patrick Harper
Can you post your /etc/rc.conf.local ? -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, at 17:21, Justin Muir wrote: > Wondering whether anyone has experience with Logitech USB speakers? > > Plugged in mine, did the rcctl rsnd/0 thingi from multimedia FAQ: > # rcct

Re: Realtek Edimax AC1750 USB gets properly detected but not configurable in ifconfig

2020-06-06 Thread Patrick Harper
Judging by the dmesg there is at least one unoccupied PCIe slot that could accommodate an adapter such as a Silverstone ECWA2-LITE. This would allow you to use Mini-PCIe cards that normally go in laptops, including all of the iwm(4) devices. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sat

Re: More than 16 partitions

2020-04-25 Thread Patrick Harper
> Medoesn't a care a flying fsck about what is "trendy". Is this the most ironic sentence ever posted on here? Dubiously censoring an expletive with a common 'Unix' utility isn't motivated by some sort of desire to feel like a part of the righteous ones? Come on.

Re: More than 16 partitions

2020-04-25 Thread Patrick Harper
ough for you to get by on this forum without scrutiny. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, at 18:06, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: > "Groot" wrote: > > I've tried and failed to create more than 16 > > partitions on OpenBSD. First of all

Re: Iridium vs Chromium

2020-04-12 Thread Patrick Harper
I'm puzzled that you thought my statements were a complaint. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, at 22:30, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Patrick Harper wrote: > > > I mean that all Chromium releases are made available for OpenBSD-stable > >

Re: Iridium vs Chromium

2020-04-12 Thread Patrick Harper
I mean that all Chromium releases are made available for OpenBSD-stable (excluding the previous release at any given time, as with all existing port maintenance). My understanding of -current is that it is meant for testing, not usage. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sun, 12

Re: Iridium vs Chromium

2020-04-12 Thread Patrick Harper
The effort to support Chromium and Firefox (sans ESR) on OpenBSD akin to Windows/macOS/'Linux' has not happened. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sun, 12 Apr 2020, at 16:49, Raymond, David wrote: > My problem with iridium is that it is based on an older version of >

Re: Issues with X and Gnome on OpenBSD new install

2020-01-09 Thread Patrick Harper
Did you follow /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/gnome ? -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, at 23:05, Michael G Workman wrote: > Hello, > > OpenBSD is a great operating system, glad to have been to installed it > successfully. > > I installed

Re: What happened to 6.6/sgi?

2019-12-08 Thread Patrick Harper
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=156941089510768&w=2 -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sun, 8 Dec 2019, at 16:29, Stefan Hagen wrote: > Hello * > > I was browsing around and noticed that there are no files for the SGI > platform on the mirrors. SGI is mention

Re: Display flickers after upgrade to 6.6

2019-10-31 Thread Patrick Harper
I can confirm that switching to EXA made GNOME usable. This'll only work up to Northern Islands cards/IGPs though. Guess I'll be holding off of a GPU upgrade for a while longer. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, at 13:47, Patrick Harper wrote: > I

Re: Display flickers after upgrade to 6.6

2019-10-31 Thread Patrick Harper
is loaded, but in 6.5 and prior 3D-accelerated stuff was usable. Cayman should be fine with 8 million pixels. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Wed, 30 Oct 2019, at 13:12, Jeff wrote: > On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 17:59:41 +0200 > Federico Giannici wrote: > > > On 2019-

Re: Cannot add login class (ports/meta/gnome/pkg/README-main)

2019-09-18 Thread Patrick Harper
Adding an empty line at the end of login.conf fixed my problem. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, at 14:21, Patrick Harper wrote: > Hi All, > > For a while this file has instructed a new login class to be added to > the end of /etc/login.conf,

Re: Cannot add login class (ports/meta/gnome/pkg/README-main)

2019-09-17 Thread Patrick Harper
I'm using 6.5-stable including the binary package updates. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, at 14:21, Patrick Harper wrote: > Hi All, > > For a while this file has instructed a new login class to be added to > the end of /etc/login.conf, as per

Cannot add login class (ports/meta/gnome/pkg/README-main)

2019-09-17 Thread Patrick Harper
e daemon seems to continue running), whereas it should display the gdm greeter. Whether or not this is a byproduct of the staff class settings I don't know. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com

Re: What is you motivational to use OpenBSD

2019-09-02 Thread Patrick Harper
What motivates me to stay on OpenBSD is that I want the free desktop concept to work. This system + Arcan + GNOME-like interface seems, to me, like an compelling way to get there. I hope I can shoehorn this project into my life and then reality in some fashion. -- Patrick Harper paia

Re: Puffy — format SVG

2019-06-16 Thread Patrick Harper
An SVG with the textual logo exists at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/OpenBSD_Logo_-_Cartoon_Puffy_with_textual_logo_below.svg -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, at 19:37, Stephane HUC "PengouinBSD" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAG

Re: OpenBSD runs only in RAM from a USB Flash Drive

2019-05-31 Thread Patrick Harper
FFS isn't a journaling filesystem so any 'wear', even on primitive flash storage, won't be enough to worry about. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Fri, 31 May 2019, at 03:41, sove...@vivaldi.net wrote: > 30 May, 2019 > > Greetings OpenBSD aficionados

Re: Missing file and Man page for out-of-date

2019-05-25 Thread Patrick Harper
It was renamed to pkg_outdated. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sat, 25 May 2019, at 22:17, Michael Alaimo wrote: > The /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/out-of-date program is missing. > > I remember it being in OpenBSD 6.3. > > It is still referenced in /usr/ports

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-25 Thread Patrick Harper
Binaries stopped being committed to the Mozilla archive after 52.0.2 but the port seems to be active. I assume 60esr is supposed to work on sparc (still) as some recent patches refer to it in the filenames. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sat, 25 May 2019, at 18:54, john o goyo

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-25 Thread Patrick Harper
Oracle's Beijing Team maintains a port of FF60esr for Solaris/sparc that might be useful (another mostly big-endian arch). https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sat, 25 May 2019, at 12:54, Ric

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-24 Thread Patrick Harper
So you think everyone replying to this thread is an idiot? -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Fri, 24 May 2019, at 18:38, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > > On 5/24/19 10:26 AM, Patrick Harper wrote: > > Is it acceptable for third-parties to produce and distribute physical &

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-24 Thread Patrick Harper
Is it acceptable for third-parties to produce and distribute physical copies of releases, using official logos, similar to those made for 6.0 and prior by the project? -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-23 Thread Patrick Harper
Thank you for helping me keep this thread going. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Thu, 23 May 2019, at 20:04, Daniel Jakots wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2019 19:51:45 +, "Patrick Harper" > wrote: > > > Our ideas of the setup process aren't equal so I

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-23 Thread Patrick Harper
Our ideas of the setup process aren't equal so I disagree. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Thu, 23 May 2019, at 18:16, Raul Miller wrote: > This looks like violent agreement. (It's perhaps worth noting that if > you change the first word here from "No" to

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-23 Thread Patrick Harper
is ludicrous. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Thu, 23 May 2019, at 16:58, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > Patrick Harper wrote on Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:50:54PM +0100: > > > I think OpenBSD could be made easier to set up for GUI applications > > if so

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-23 Thread Patrick Harper
o]' There might be a reason for cwm key bindings to not use Mod4, but those who have the key available might appreciate not having to create a custom cwmrc so they can avoid conflicts with default keyboard shortcuts in some ports. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-23 Thread Patrick Harper
Epiphany/GNOME Web is fine, but make sure you have the ports tree loaded for stable updates, WebKit is not the safest code base in the world. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Thu, 23 May 2019, at 07:21, John Gould wrote: > Can someone suggest a modern graphical browser for Open

Re: USB sound card not playing

2019-05-20 Thread Patrick Harper
See Errata 6 of this paper: https://www.mouser.com/pdfdocs/5chipset3400chipsetspecupdate.PDF If you have a B2 stepping of the Intel 3400 chipset then the only way you can get around it is with a PCI(e) USB card with a good chipset. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Mon, 20 May

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-14 Thread Patrick Harper
On Tue, 14 May 2019, at 09:09, ULF wrote: > If from one side is true that many modern interfaces (mostly M$, though) > are made for people who know nothing about computing, from one another is > clear that some good ones (in terms of usability) help the user to keep > concentrated on his work. > >

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-09 Thread Patrick Harper
red automatically based on the Xserver dpi setting, cwm is the easiest to set up as only the border and font sizes need changing. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-22 Thread Patrick Harper
X200 is a bad idea, Core 2 Duos will never get microcode updates for Spectre bugs. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, at 08:30, flipchan wrote: > I got the x200 with libreboot and openbsd > > On June 19, 2018 10:47:24 AM UTC, Kaya Saman wrote: > >

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-20 Thread Patrick Harper
No drm support for Kaveri in OpenBSD 6.3. There is support in current now so 6.4 should work better when it arrives. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, at 14:03, Johan Mellberg wrote: > Hmm. I have that one and there’s something fishy with the graphics, when

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-20 Thread Patrick Harper
HP EliteBook 745 G2? -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, at 09:01, Thomas Frohwein wrote: > No AMD laptop recommendations in this day and age? Also buying used or > refurbished laptops on eBay is a security risk from the outset - ask > yourself how well you

Re: Poor browser performance in OpenBSD

2018-06-20 Thread Patrick Harper
Module FvwmWinList + "" Nop + "Banner" Module FvwmBanner + "ScrollBar" Module FvwmScroll 50 50 + "Background"Module FvwmBacker +

Re: Poor browser performance in OpenBSD

2018-06-20 Thread Patrick Harper
I beg to differ, on my setup at least, the full GMaps in Chromium runs silky smooth as intended. This is a Cayman (radeon) graphics card driving a 4K monitor through dual 1920x2160 signals (hooray xrandr). I've never tried Intel graphics though. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.co

Re: Poor browser performance in OpenBSD

2018-06-20 Thread Patrick Harper
tion "XkbRules" "base" > [18.263] (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > [18.263] (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" > [18.263] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "/dev/ > wskbd" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6) > [

Re: Poor browser performance in OpenBSD

2018-06-20 Thread Patrick Harper
Also, in the about:flags page in Chromium, try enabling the 'Override software rendering list' (#ignore-gpu-blacklist) setting. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, at 01:28, Patrick Harper wrote: > Post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > --

Re: Poor browser performance in OpenBSD

2018-06-20 Thread Patrick Harper
Post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, at 00:20, Максим wrote: > fw_update was among the first commands after the install process :-) > hardware acceleration definitely works. > > --  > > > 20.06.2018, 10:

Re: The wireless card TL-WN725N version 3 works fine

2018-06-18 Thread Patrick Harper
Not to put too finer point on it but the FAQ asks you to send the dmesg output as plain text in the body of an email to @dmesg, with some comments in the subject. External links are not very helpful. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, at 07:33, Guillaume DUALÉ

Re: chromium and firefox - myths and facts?

2018-06-11 Thread Patrick Harper
In that case, are the Chromium updates in current worth attempting to backport to stable? Or are the stable builds safer than the backported Firefox builds throughout the six months or so that they remain frozen? -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, at 06:56, Theo

Re: Beg for Atheros wifi driver

2018-05-25 Thread Patrick Harper
Is this a laptop you're dealing with? Vendor firmwares tend to enforce a whitelist of permitted cards for the internal mini-PCI(e) slot. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Wed, 23 May 2018, at 13:46, Chris Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 07:43:09AM +, Antal Is

Re: Plans to port the amdgpu(4) driver? (=to support Radeons made 2014/2015 and after.) Hardware/other donations needed?

2018-04-30 Thread Patrick Harper
native refresh rate that support the MST mode (two virtual panels at 1920x2160), while its longer brother, the V7900, can do SST mode. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sat, 28 Apr 2018, at 11:00, Joe Gidi wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:49:53AM -0400, Joe Gidi

Re: Plans to port the amdgpu(4) driver? (=to support Radeons made 2014/2015 and after.) Hardware/other donations needed?

2018-04-25 Thread Patrick Harper
ing casual >assessments. > >If you feel you can trim it down, you're welcome to remove code you deem >unnecessary and submit patches to the tree. Those of us who have a bloaty mainstream browser with Javascript enabled can read the whole exchange at https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7u54d3/lisa_su_we_are_ramping_production_of_gpus/dtkcysq/?context=3 -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com

Re: Regarding latest errata

2018-04-17 Thread Patrick Harper
I agree. Your initial response was all I needed, I thought I needed more because I'm an absolutist. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, at 10:28, Theo de Raadt wrote: > What a futile and pointless discussion. > > > Assuming that is the case, was i

Re: Regarding latest errata

2018-04-17 Thread Patrick Harper
Assuming that is the case, was it 6.3 or 6.1 that was not 'active' from the 2nd to the 15th? Conveniently the original 6.3 release dates are now censored on the website, but if it had been built for the projected date then it would not have needed the 14th patches. -- Patrick Har

Re: Regarding latest errata

2018-04-17 Thread Patrick Harper
ugh I suspect this sort of anomaly might not be practically avoidable. (Theo received this twice, sorry) -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, at 08:19, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Huh? We've told everyone 2 releases maintained with errata/syspatches, > 6 mo

Re: Regarding latest errata

2018-04-17 Thread Patrick Harper
x27;t know what is more important. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sun, 15 Apr 2018, at 12:02, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Patrick Harper wrote: > > > Unless I am mistaken, the errata posted on the 14th April is the first > > that has been applied to more than

Regarding latest errata

2018-04-15 Thread Patrick Harper
Hi All, Unless I am mistaken, the errata posted on the 14th April is the first that has been applied to more than two releases, implying that 6.1-stable is still supported. Does this signify a change to the lifecycle process? Regards, -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com

Re: Why are so many people running and writing about current snapshots

2018-03-28 Thread Patrick Harper
e in six-month release cycles. Ubuntu is the obvious one. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, at 07:09, Consus wrote: > On 14:46 Tue 27 Mar, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > > CentOS 5 is EOL since March 31st 2017 ;) > > CentOS 6 should be on extended sup

Re: Has anyone got OpenBSD Arm to run on the Marvel Espresso Bin?

2018-03-28 Thread Patrick Harper
Armada 3700LP chipset not supported at present. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Sun, 25 Mar 2018, at 22:11, Z Ero wrote: > If yes is the on board ethernet switch supported? What wifi cards are > supported in the miniPCIe slot? >

Can't build new base system on HP 2133

2018-03-02 Thread Patrick Harper
aid0: 256 targets root on wd0a (43e83944173a150c.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b umass1 at uhub0 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0 "Generic Mass Storage Device" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 7 umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd0 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI0 0/direct removable serial.058f6366058F0OB1 sd0 detached scsibus4 detached umass1 detached umass1 at uhub0 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0 "Generic Mass Storage Device" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 7 umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus4 at umass1: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd0 at scsibus4 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI0 0/direct removable serial.058f6366058F0OB1 sd0: 7695MB, 512 bytes/sector, 15759360 sectors hw.sensors.cpu0.temp0=55.00 degC hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=57.00 degC (zone temperature) hw.sensors.acpiac0.indicator0=On (power supply) hw.sensors.acpibtn0.indicator0=On (lid open) hw.sensors.lisa0.raw0=3 (OUT_X) hw.sensors.lisa0.raw1=1 (OUT_Y) hw.sensors.lisa0.raw2=53 (OUT_Z) Regards, -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com

Re: Using OpenBSD on a thinkpad?

2018-02-20 Thread Patrick Harper
As long as your Libreboot firmware uses SeaBIOS and not something exotic, you shouldn't have any problems. -- Patrick Harper paia...@fastmail.com On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, at 01:00, crimeangot...@nigge.rs wrote: > > Hey everyone, I am pretty stupid when it comes to less us