Re: DisplayLink drivers and functionality

2016-01-19 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, SAITOH Masanobu wrote: I've added some devices include your device now. Could you try with the latest -current? Yes, indeed. I'll try in the next few days and report back. I just have to move this little monitor home to where I have a -current machine. I'll let you know

DisplayLink drivers and functionality

2016-01-15 Thread Swift Griggs
I have a a little 8" MIMO USB DisplayLink monitor. I want to use it as a 2nd screen attached to my NetBSD workstation I use for work. It'd be useful to keep my log viewer running there. I see some code in the kernel and some mention of devices in usbdevs, too. However, when I plugged it in,

Firsts & facts about NetBSD - wrapup

2016-01-13 Thread Swift Griggs
Here's everything from all the folks who gave me ideas or tidbits. Thank you folks! * First with a USB stack * First with TCP Auto tuning (Linux's autotune is based on NetBSD's strategy, Windows Vista also came later and used the same technique) * First with Free ports to Alpha, HPPA, and

Re: Firsts & facts about NetBSD - wrapup

2016-01-13 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: * Among the first free operating systems to use CVS shortly after it's debut. Also the last. :-/ Hehe, true. I still dig CVS though. I tried switching to Mercurial and SVN before and after a few merge nightmares I went back to CVS. I think it's a

Re: Firsts in NetBSD

2016-01-07 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, David Young wrote: First with an 802.11 stack, net80211, by Atsushi Onoe. First with the extensible 802.11 radio-information header, radiotap. [...] All of these and the others from other folks are GREAT! I'll create a collated list and re-post it here in a few days so

NetBSD 7.0 amd64 boot failure on KVM

2015-12-31 Thread Swift Griggs
I tried to fire up a 64bit version of netbsd on KVM (using the latest Proxmox build 4.1-1). The KVM version is QEMU emulator version 2.4.1 pve-qemu-kvm_2.4-17. I'm also using the Linux kernel module for kvm (kvm_intel). Here's what happens when the system boots (last 5 lines that matter

Re: Reduce CPU usage of PulseAudio on NetBSD

2015-12-23 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: The simplest way to reduce >90% CPU usage to <1% on a NetBSD host is the following set of two commands (assuming running daemon): I have another method. mv /usr/pkg/bin/pulseaudio /usr/pkg/bin/disabled.turd.pulseaudio (I don't pkg_delete it due to

Re: Beating a dead horse

2015-11-25 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: The don't have sectors as much as flash pages, and the page size varies from device to device. I'm curious about something, probably due to ignorance of the full dynamics of the vfs(9) layer. Why is it that folks don't choose file system block

Re: Beating a dead horse

2015-11-25 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Greg Troxel wrote: So there are two issues: alignment and filesystem block/frag size, and both have to be ok. Ahh, a key point to be certain. So that's ok, but alignment is messier. It sure seems that way! :-) We're seeing smaller disks with 4K sectors or larger

Re: Beating a dead horse

2015-11-25 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: While LVM may have been designed by committee, I am pretty sure it was originally an SGI committee, & seems pretty good to me as well. As a guy who still supports ancient Unix platforms every day, I'll tell you that IRIX categorically rocks

Re: Beating a dead horse

2015-11-24 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Felix Deichmann wrote: You can probably save a lot of time, tries and headache by doing a fresh installation of your server with correct alignment and block sizes... Is there a procedure online somewhere for verifying that you have properly aligned your file system on a

Re: How does one switch between acpiout?

2015-11-17 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, John Klos wrote: man xrandr. Also read this: http://divby0.blogspot.com/2008/12/switching-monitors-with-xrandr.html That's for X and doesn't handle anything which has to do with the console output. Ah, sorry about that. I didn't pay close enough attention. I assume you

Re: How does one switch between acpiout?

2015-11-12 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, John Klos wrote: [...] output, instead of acpiout1, which is the laptop's LCD screen. How do I switch between those outputs? man xrandr. Also read this: http://divby0.blogspot.com/2008/12/switching-monitors-with-xrandr.html -Swift

Re: trusted certs in AWS image

2015-11-12 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Jan Schaumann wrote: After spinning up an AWS NetBSD 6.1.5 instance (ami-bc2c94d4), I find that does not have a trusted CA bundle. I've seen this issue with other tools that want a cert bundle like 'wget' and 'aria2c' as well as 'youtube-dl'. I would speculate that the

Re: Does pkgin have "resume download" feature?

2015-11-05 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Jonathan Perkin wrote: What backend does pkgin use? libfetch. I often have problems with pkgin downloads. For some odd reason, in the middle of my downloads it often just hangs (--stalled--). It's usually when it's right in the middle of a file. I have to ctrl-c, then

Re: NetBSD on Dedibox SC Gen2

2015-11-02 Thread Swift Griggs
On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Nils Ratusznik wrote: I can clearly live with it, since the KVM is only used for installations and for first tasks. However, I experienced freezes on these two machines : there is no answer to a ping or ssh, and I get no display from the console (but I suppose this is

Re: nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport updates for adobe-flash-plugin

2015-10-30 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, J. Lewis Muir wrote: More like it's a real shame that the people that write the browsers can't write secure code. Well good point. That too. It's all a matter of perspective, I suppose. Related to this, it's a real shame that the Web specs are so complicated that

Re: Please recommend office package on NetBSD

2015-10-30 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Andreas Kusalananda K?h?ri wrote: Why would you open up a big clunky *editor* to read a document? I wouldn't. :-) Get back to them and tell them to send you a PDF version of the thing instead. The option to export to PDF is right there, in the menu. It's a lot

Re: Please recommend office package on NetBSD

2015-10-30 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Mayuresh wrote: Minimal == antiword (converts word docs to text) Tried. Cute one, but seems to say "is not a Word Document." for just too many files. It only works on doc (Word 97 or before, I think) files not the newer DOCX files (which are really zip files full of MS

Re: nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport updates for adobe-flash-plugin

2015-10-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Roy Bixler wrote: I wonder if it's possible to build a recent Firefox using some other audio backend. It seems worthwhile, since pulseaudio is a real CPU hog and it might also eliminate the need for dbus/avahi. Indeed. Pulseaudio is unbelievable. It's got a relatively

Lenovo M83 Tiny works nicely with 7.0

2015-10-09 Thread Swift Griggs
If anyone is looking for a small form-factor machine that works with NetBSD 7.x extremely well, check out the Lenovo M83 Tiny. I recently got one and I figured I'd have to host everything out of VMware in order to run NetBSD on it. However, I figured I'd give it a shot and started with

Re: Xvnc startup problem

2015-10-07 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 7 Oct 2015, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: Getting interface configuration (4): Device not configured It's probably trying to fiddle with a bit of hardware that isn't actually there. That message "Device not configured" is probably coming from perror() out of libc somewhere. It's the same

Re: Gigabyte GX-BXBT-1900

2015-10-02 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Sridhar Ayengar wrote: Yes. Also, I could write the OS to the hard drive and then boot off that. That still won't get me to a working user workstation, however. Have you tried things like disabling/enabling various ACPI features in your BIOS/EFI, enabling AHCI, disabling

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