mandoc for report writing?

2019-06-19 Thread Paul Swanson
if mandoc is suitable for such a purpose. Regards, Paul Swanson

Re: Research and OpenBSD: How can I help?

2019-02-19 Thread Paul Swanson
in formulating new ideas or direction. Nonetheless, thanks for your thoughts. Regards, Paul Swanson Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Feb 20, 2019, 04:54, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Short answer: > > Shut up and hack. > > The same answer

Research and OpenBSD: How can I help?

2019-02-13 Thread Paul Swanson
is set in stone yet, so I thought it'd be fun to hear from those in know about areas of priority need within the OpenBSD community. Are there particular problems that could benefit from new ideas or solutions? Please let me know your thoughts! Regards, Paul Swanson

Re: ProtonMail login crashes Chromium / Iridium

2019-01-15 Thread Paul Swanson
Hi Vincent, Thanks for sharing that post of yours. I just want to confirm that disabling the automatic asm.js to WebAssembly conversion has worked. Looks like that particular experimental feature is well broken atm. Cheers Paul Swanson Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based

ProtonMail login crashes Chromium / Iridium

2019-01-13 Thread Paul Swanson
the following thread but no change. https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/9devx1/openbsd_63_and_protonmail_login Just use my email alias or any common first name to replicate the fault. My system is OpenBSD 6.4 amd64 on Intel i5 with 8GB RAM. Regards, Paul Swanson

Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-11 Thread Paul Swanson
Ted, thanks for those tips. I'll get stuck into it and report back once I've made some progress. Paul Swanson Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 11, 2019 7:28 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Paul Swanson wr

Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Swanson
Hi Ted, Thanks for your email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, January 10, 2019 10:09 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Paul Swanson wrote: > > > This laptop is essentially all Intel Skylake under the hood some I'm > > wondering > > why it's not playing

Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Swanson
BSD as my main system and I'm really enjoying it so far. Thanks in advance, Paul Swanson *** dmesg *** OpenBSD 6.4 (GENERIC.MP) #3: Thu Dec 20 19:19:32 CET 2018 r...@syspatch-64-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8460333056 (8068MB) avail mem = 8194650

Re: ahci error during install of 6.4

2019-01-06 Thread Paul Swanson
from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Dec 29, 2018, 08:37, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 08:18:38AM +0000, Paul Swanson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently trying to install 6.4 on a Dell Latitude E7470 laptop (Intel >

ahci error during install of 6.4

2018-12-28 Thread Paul Swanson
Hi, I'm currently trying to install 6.4 on a Dell Latitude E7470 laptop (Intel Skylake). During the whole disk (G) partitioning process, setup fails with the following messages: newfs: wtfs: write error on block 8352576: Input / output error ahci0: attempting to idle devices

Re: Setitimer() resolution?

2018-12-14 Thread Paul Swanson
Alex, Yes, I'm developing an audio application that'd greatly benefit from 1ms or greater precision. I'll look into both those options. Thanks, Paul S. Original Message On Dec 14, 2018, 20:02, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:27:12PM +0000, Paul Swan

Is HPET timer accessible in userland?

2018-12-13 Thread Paul Swanson
Hi, Is the HPET timer on AMD64 available to developers in OpenBSD user land? If so, how? Thanks in advance, Paul S.

Setitimer() resolution?

2018-12-13 Thread Paul Swanson
Hi, I'm trying to understand how interval timers work in OpenBSD, but I'm a little stuck on this line from the getitimer / setitimer man page: "Time values smaller than the resolution of the system clock are rounded up to this resolution (typically 10 milliseconds)." Does this mean that 10

Search OpenBSD mailing list archives?

2018-12-12 Thread Paul Swanson
Hi, Is there a facility for searching the mailing list archives? I can't seem to find one. Cheers, Paul Swanson