Re: startx vs xdm

2016-02-18 Thread mark hellewell
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 at 07:49 Jan Stary wrote: > Why is that? Am I missing something obvious? > What happens if you launch terminals using the `uxterm` shell script? Mark Jan

Re: startx vs xdm

2016-02-17 Thread mark hellewell
If you call the file .Xdefaults it will be used in both scenarios described, with no need for the `xrdb` command. On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 at 08:47 Jiri B wrote: > XDM fires up /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, easy to read. One can even > customize XDM and all other things in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. > > It sh

Re: build an openbsd router/modem

2015-12-22 Thread mark hellewell
On 23 December 2015 at 06:32, Frank White wrote: > Hi, > Yes I am sorry, I want build a small embedded system with openbsd to > connect a lan to an adsl line. I want all the devices with openbsd, > included the adsl modem. So the embedded system must have one or more > ethernet nic and a modem. >

Re: Paris..

2015-11-14 Thread mark hellewell
On 14 November 2015 at 23:10, Richard Thornton < secularsolutions...@gmail.com> wrote: > France is screwed and perhaps Europe, translation, WWIII, unless they get > their Muslim problem under control ASAP. Glad I don't live there. Let's not > forget Mr. Roy who went back home to Bangladesh for an

Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-13 Thread mark . hellewell
Arrived in Australia, along with t–shirts. Saved me some washing before work tomorrow :) > On 8 Oct 2015, at 01:51, M Wheeler <6f84c...@refn.co.uk> wrote: > > CD's arrived today UK. Thanks again.

Re: multiple headphone sockets and sndiod on Lenovo M83/Tiny-in-One 23

2015-09-21 Thread mark hellewell
On 20 September 2015 at 17:36, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > hi, > > Support for USB controllers and hubs is still incomplete. Basically > in the following cases isochronous transfers (used by audio devices) > don't work. > > - ehci controllers with hubs between a usb-1.1 device and the > controlle

Re: multiple headphone sockets and sndiod on Lenovo M83/Tiny-in-One 23

2015-09-19 Thread mark hellewell
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 at 18:37 Remco wrote: > You've got 3 separate audio devices, azalia0, azalia1 and uaudio0. > azalia0: probably HDMI audio which isn't supported yet AFAICT > azalia1: on-board audio detected as audio0, sndiod normally attaches to > this > device so all audio played on

multiple headphone sockets and sndiod on Lenovo M83/Tiny-in-One 23

2015-09-18 Thread mark hellewell
Hi, I have a Lenovo M83 dropped into a Tiny-in-One 23 and would like to find out how to get headphone audio working through the socket on the side of the Tiny-in-One screen. Headphone sensing and output works by default when I plug headphones in to the socket built directly into the M83, but when

Re: Problems Booting from CD2 of 5.7

2015-05-14 Thread mark hellewell
On Sun, 10 May 2015 at 01:36 Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > It is possible that some bad cd's slipped trough, please contact the shop, > > -Otto > I’m having the same issue. I’ve emailed them. Mark

OpenBSD 5.7-release bug in sticker

2015-05-12 Thread mark hellewell
Cod Calloway sticker is saying “You get wise, you use gf” ;)

Re: I need an advice how to debug livelock

2015-05-04 Thread mark hellewell
On 4 May 2015 at 17:19, wrote: > I red your email. The only information I found was when I made a BIOS reset > - then I got 3-4 silo overflows in dmesg per day which where much better. > Also every overflow was from 1 to 3 which didn't break NMEA sentence like > before. > Then I start tunning so

Re: I need an advice how to debug livelock

2015-05-03 Thread mark hellewell
Hi, Today I reported a similar observation to misc. Did you find out any more information? Some more info below. On 1 March 2015 at 09:23, Atanas Vladimirov wrote: > I have NMEA sensor (Garmin GPS 18x Lvc) which is used for time source for > OpenNTPD Mine's a Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout,

silo overflows from nmea line discipline on 5.7

2015-05-03 Thread mark hellewell
Hello! Upgraded a soekris to 5.7-stable (built by flashrd) over the weekend and since then I'm seeing the following in the logs: May 3 22:43:59 router /bsd: com4: 6 silo overflows, 0 ibuf overflows May 3 22:47:09 router /bsd: com4: 1 silo overflow, 0 ibuf overflows May 3 22:53:42 r

Re: OpenBSD 5.7 Released

2015-04-30 Thread mark hellewell
On Fri, 1 May 2015 at 09:39 Ralph Siegler wrote: > On Fri, 01 May 2015 00:06:46 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > May 1, 2015. > > > > We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.7. > > This is our 37th release on CD-ROM > > strange, this time round the pre-ordered (hours after

`make` problem applying 5.6 errata

2014-11-02 Thread mark hellewell
Hi, I've just upgraded a couple of 5.5 servers to 5.6 and apart from the issues I'm about to describe everything went smoothly (thanks!) As the final step of my upgrade procedure (following upgrade56.html, using install kernel as usual) it was time to fetch -stable source, which I did with:

Intel EG20T GPIO support

2014-10-04 Thread mark hellewell
Hello, I'd quite like to hook up some LEDs for various hw.sensor states on my Soekris 6501 running 5.5-stable. Any chance I've simply missed an obvious way to get this working? dmesg below Cheers! Mark OpenBSD 5.5-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu Oct 2 01:40:08 EST 2014 r...@bia.home:/usr/src/

Re: Atheros AR9380 Panic

2014-09-26 Thread mark hellewell
On 26 September 2014 05:28, Marc Suttle wrote: > Mark, > > What card do you plan on using? A Ubiquiti SR71-E, with AR9280 chipset. I should reiterate that I'm not yet in possession of the card, but am hopeful that it will do the job :)

Re: Atheros AR9380 Panic

2014-09-21 Thread mark hellewell
On 21 September 2014 19:49, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Hunt down an older athn card that works. This is what I ended up doing. I've ordered an older Ubiquiti card which I'll hopefully have more luck with. > Send the one you've got to a developer who's interested in fixing > support for it. I'm m

Re: athn panic on 5.5-stable

2014-08-30 Thread mark hellewell
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 08:28:09AM +, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Beware, the ar9003 parts of athn are somewhat broken and unfinished. Ah, I see. Damn, I really thought I had a chance with this card ;) > That said, can you try this? > > Index: ar9003.c > ==

Re: athn panic on 5.5-stable

2014-08-29 Thread mark hellewell
One more reply to myself, sorry: output of `pcidump`: 7:0:0: Atheros AR9300 0x: Vendor ID: 168c Product ID: 0030 0x0004: Command: 0107 Status: 0010 0x0008: Class: 02 Subclass: 80 Interface: 00 Revision: 01 0x000c: BIST: 00 Header Type: 00 Latency Timer: 00 Cach

Re: athn panic on 5.5-stable

2014-08-29 Thread mark hellewell
and of course I forgot my dmesg, so here it is: OpenBSD 5.5-stable (GENERIC) #1: Fri Aug 22 01:27:55 EST 2014 r...@bia.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 1.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.01 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MT

athn panic on 5.5-stable

2014-08-29 Thread mark hellewell
Hello, I have a Soekris net6501-50 with an Atheros AR9380 (model AR5BXB112) wireless card attached to a Mini PCI Express slot. When attempting to `ifconfig athn0 scan`, or otherwise interact with the interface, I trigger a panic. I’ve tried both with and without the athn firmware installed via `

Re: 4.8 sensorsd blind spot, failure to trigger command on any state changes after initialisation

2010-11-14 Thread mark hellewell
On 14 November 2010 20:06, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > indicator is not a smart sensor  doesn't have a state like OK  so > it's never monitored automatically; i think you'd have to specify low > and high values for it or something like that. > > You can also use a shell script for watthour3

Re: 4.8 sensorsd blind spot, failure to trigger command on any state changes after initialisation

2010-11-13 Thread mark hellewell
On 14 November 2010 13:03, mark hellewell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm configuring sensorsd to conditionally shutdown -- based on Wh of charge > left in laptop battery and whether or not the computer is plugged in -- and > it seems that sensorsd might have a bit of a blind s

4.8 sensorsd blind spot, failure to trigger command on any state changes after initialisation

2010-11-13 Thread mark hellewell
Hi, I'm configuring sensorsd to conditionally shutdown -- based on Wh of charge left in laptop battery and whether or not the computer is plugged in -- and it seems that sensorsd might have a bit of a blind spot when it comes my available sensors. After reporting the initial states, no more state

Re: 4.8 & acpi on Acer AOA110 (Aspire One)

2010-11-08 Thread mark hellewell
On 9 November 2010 14:39, Nick Holland wrote: > > > I can almost hear the knuckles being cracked in readiness to type a > severe > > castigation for not reading one or other relevant man page. Sorry if > that's > > the case. I have actually tried to work this out for myself :) > > naw, not enti

4.8 & acpi on Acer AOA110 (Aspire One)

2010-11-08 Thread mark hellewell
Hello, I installed 4.8 on this 'netbook' as soon as my CD set arrived -- thought I'd give it a go what with the new ACPI work that's been done -- and, aside from an AR5424-based ath wireless adapter that doesn't want to connect to any network available to me, everything else seems to be working we

OT: Australia may allow punitive damages for security vulns

2010-06-21 Thread mark hellewell
http://www.news.com.au/technology/no-anti-virus-software-no-internet-connecti on/story-e6frfro0-1225882656490 "Companies who release IT products with security vulnerabilities should be open to claims for compensation by consumers", apparently. Illegal to run without antivirus ... disconnection of

Re: How to correctly run a short SMART self test and retrieve results

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Hellewell
On 16/11/2009, at 3:13 AM, Marco Peereboom wrote: > # scsi -f /dev/rsd0c -c "03 00 00 00 fc 00 00" -i 0xfc - | hexdump -C > 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |p...| > 0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 || > * > 00f0

Re: How to correctly run a short SMART self test and retrieve results

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Hellewell
On 16/11/2009, at 3:36 AM, Denise H. G. wrote: > On 2009/11/15 at 13:29, Mark Hellewell wrote: >> >> Hello, >> Please can anybody tell me how to correctly run a SMART offline test >> using >> atactl? I read through the atactl man page but am not sure how to go &

Re: How to correctly run a short SMART self test and retrieve results

2009-11-14 Thread mark hellewell
2009/11/15 Mark Hellewell : > Hello, > > Please can anybody tell me how to correctly run a SMART offline test using atactl? I read through the atactl man page but am not sure how to go about actually executing the self test and gathering the results. After having turned on SMART suppo

How to correctly run a short SMART self test and retrieve results

2009-11-14 Thread Mark Hellewell
Hello, Please can anybody tell me how to correctly run a SMART offline test using atactl? I read through the atactl man page but am not sure how to go about actually executing the self test and gathering the results. After having turned on SMART support for my device using atactl /dev/sd0c