Re: NetBSD 10 RFE (ramdisk-cgdroot.fs in boot.cfg)

2024-04-30 Thread adr
migrate in case of need. Writing some scripts to access that data remotely will be easy. Don't waste time and resources encrypting sensible data that will be recreated, use ram disks for that. adr

Re: need your advice before new Raspberry Pi purchase

2024-04-20 Thread adr
st been able to comment to the wiki are ignored. Now you have a new user that wants to learn and have the little trouble to "read" before even purchasing a new machine, the kind of user you want around here, absolutely confused. Good job. adr

Re: Install Failure RPi 4

2024-04-18 Thread adr
Of course I'm assuming that you meant dd if=arm64.img ... dd if=armv7.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1m conv=sync

Re: Install Failure RPi 4

2024-04-18 Thread adr
options that the sd card is first. Change the cpu frequency if you want, but I don't recommend to set it more than 2GHz. You can use serial console for the hole process, _don't_trust_the_wiki_. Use the common gpios 14(txd) and 15(rxd) and any ground. Regards, adr

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread adr
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Taylor R Campbell wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:53:27 + From: Taylor R Campbell To: adr Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org, Liam Proven Subject: Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg Hi adr, Liam provided valuable feedback in both reviews, and

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread adr
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: This all was uncalled for, and is not welcome in this community. If you think that encouraging someone that wrote this: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/netbsd_93/ is ok, then I'm not interested in your opinion more that I'm in the opinio

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread adr
ur ignorance, something incredibly common in the linux world. So, no, I can't give you a feedback of your last "piece". And if anyone reading this thinks that I'm an asshole, read the points I made and follow that link. I've contained myself. Really. Who edit theregister by the way? So unprofessional. adr

Re: Use a wallpaper

2024-04-17 Thread adr
that and put something like feh --bg-fill /path/to/wallpaper.jpg in your .xinitrc|.xsession. Regards. adr

Re: How can one add a comment to a wiki page?

2024-03-24 Thread adr
No need to be so bitter! Oh, that wasn't my intention, but I stand by my words. The only way a wiki can be of any use is if spotted errors can be corrected _quickly_. If not, it hasn't any vaule. 1. I saw wrong info in the rpi wiki. 2. I posted in the arm list. 3. No response. 4. I can't commen

Re: How can one add a comment to a wiki page?

2024-03-24 Thread adr
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, adr wrote: Just what the subject says. When I hit "Comment" it opens a login page, but I can't find any information about creating an account. Any help? Well, I'll just avoid the wiki in the future, this experience has shown me that it is not reliable

How can one add a comment to a wiki page?

2024-03-19 Thread adr
Just what the subject says. When I hit "Comment" it opens a login page, but I can't find any information about creating an account. Any help? adr

Re: NetBSD Localization

2024-02-25 Thread adr
stems. Remember to configure a suitable font for mlterm. I haven't tryed that though, ask for advise in the list. adr

Re: Bug in the guide, npf exaple of gatewayapp

2024-02-22 Thread adr
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024, David H. Gutteridge wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2024, at 11:37:49 + (UTC), adr wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, adr wrote: Hi, in the example 24.8, $localnet is set to 192.168.0.1/24, the host identifier should be 0. Should I send a bug report, or could someone quickly make

Re: Bug in the guide, npf exaple of gatewayapp

2024-02-18 Thread adr
On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, adr wrote: Hi, in the example 24.8, $localnet is set to 192.168.0.1/24, the host identifier should be 0. Should I send a bug report, or could someone quickly make this no-brainer fix? Just to be clear, this is not bikeshedding. Apart of been incorrect by using a host

Re: Bug in the guide, npf exaple of gateway

2024-02-04 Thread adr
On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: AFAIK, /24 means “don’t look at the last octet”, so it shouldn’t matter. No, this is a host address (interface) in CIDR notation. You want a network address there. It matters. adr

Bug in the guide, npf exaple of gateway

2024-02-04 Thread adr
Hi, in the example 24.8, $localnet is set to 192.168.0.1/24, the host identifier should be 0. Should I send a bug report, or could someone quickly make this no-brainer fix? adr

llvmpipe broken on arm64 (10.0_RC2)

2024-01-08 Thread adr
SDL_FRAMEBUFFER_ACCELERATION=0 But that could bring other issues, for example: https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/14530 Yes, I discovered this trying to play this Christmas Monkey Island 2. Anyone knows the state of this in current? It seems there is more interest on arm64 nowdays around here. adr.

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-06 Thread adr
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, adr wrote: hmm... by the nature of xorg and looking at the code of ctwm this looks unachievable. It would be easy to add an option like MapToFocus so all new mapped windows get focus (and grab the pointer). That's the behaviour already when ClickToFocus is set and the w

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-06 Thread adr
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, adr wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, Rhialto wrote: ctwm is also in pkgsrc and that version is newer. If you change some code and make it nicely optional (personally I think it is far too dangerous if new windows take the focus away from wherever it is: what if you're i

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-06 Thread adr
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, David Brownlee wrote: $ cd /usr/xsrc/external/mit/ctwm $ make USETOOLS=no make: no target to make. Apologies - I should have clarified - its src/external/mit/ctwm, not xsrc/external/mit/ctwm builds for me, with a clean tree :) Yes, thanks David, it worked like a charm.

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-06 Thread adr
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, Rhialto wrote: ctwm is also in pkgsrc and that version is newer. If you change some code and make it nicely optional (personally I think it is far too dangerous if new windows take the focus away from wherever it is: what if you're in the middle of typing a password?) it could

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-06 Thread adr
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, Martin Husemann wrote: Why is ctwm duplicated in src and xsrc? It is not. There are only makefiles for it in src, while the source is in xsrc ;-) Ah, that makes sense, I just responded surprised, I didn't take a look.

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-06 Thread adr
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, David Brownlee wrote: $ cd /usr/xsrc/external/mit/ctwm $ make USETOOLS=no make: no target to make. Apologies - I should have clarified - its src/external/mit/ctwm, not xsrc/external/mit/ctwm builds for me, with a clean tree :) ??? Why is ctwm duplicated in src and xsrc?

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-05 Thread adr
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023, Martin Husemann wrote: The official way to compile only this (but it assumes everything in xsrc has been build before!) I was afraid to read something like this... cd src/external/mit/ctwm ${TOOLDIR}/bin/nbmake-${arch} -j 16 obj dependall install This is u

Re: Prob watching DVDs

2023-06-05 Thread adr
;physically" to listen to music and play dvds back in the 90's. I've been using this software for decades, I'm glad that it has gotten some new attention and modest developtment. adr

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-05 Thread adr
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023, David Brownlee wrote: Try: cd external/mit/ctwm make USETOOLS=no On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 18:36, adr wrote: Any advice to build _only_ /usr/xsrc/external/mit/ctwm? adr There is no makefile there, but I tried in case bsdmake imports the necessary files: $ cd /usr/xsrc

Re: ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-05 Thread adr
Any advice to build _only_ /usr/xsrc/external/mit/ctwm? adr

ctwm focus on new window?

2023-06-04 Thread adr
Hi, has someone hacked ctwm to give focus to newly created windows, like AutoFocusToTransients but for all windows? adr

Re: HUION tablet

2023-05-20 Thread adr
On Fri, 19 May 2023, adr wrote: Note how the button 1 is activated when the pressure exceeds the threshold. But applications (azpainter, drawing) don't detect the pressure... I'll take a look at the driver an how applications use the xinput2 extension. So close... adr Azpainter was

Re: HUION tablet

2023-05-19 Thread adr
On Fri, 19 May 2023, adr wrote: The parameters reported are correct, and the movements on the tablet correspond to the screen, but when I touch the tablet with the stylus the behaviour is odd (I can't really describe it, when using azpainter if I move the stylus fast the lines are dotted, b

Re: HUION tablet

2023-05-18 Thread adr
tted, but in the wm the behaivour doesn't correspond exactly as a repeated click). I'll experiment with the options of the driver. If other people give some feedback with other devices, in base or pkgsrc xorg, it will be great, I could discard if it is the server-driver or device-driver compatibility, etc. Note that I'm using the code of xenocara, simply ./configure and make inside xenocara/driver/xf86-input-usbtablet and then copying src/.libs/usbtablet_drv.so to /usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/, I haven't changed anything. adr

Re: HUION tablet

2023-05-18 Thread adr
ind of tablets (huion, yiynova, turcom, etc)? Regards, adr I've been looking at how hidev -> ums-> wsmouse -> X11 work and I'm aware now of the situation. The ideal solution to me would be to add support to digitizers to ums and wsmouse so the stylus buttons, pressure &c c

Re: Problem seeing a cursor

2023-05-18 Thread adr
you are talking about xterm, cursor blinking could help you. Use "xterm -bc" or set the cursorBlink resource. For cursor color use -cr or cursorColor resource. There are some fancy termials out there, search the web. adr

HUION tablet

2023-05-13 Thread adr
g these kind of tablets (huion, yiynova, turcom, etc)? Regards, adr

Re: Running a service on a console in the foreground

2022-11-20 Thread adr
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022, Benny Siegert wrote: Hi! Is it possible to have some program running in the foreground on one of the VTs on startup, instead of getty? I would like it to start up on boot and use the console for input and output. How do you set up such a thing, or is this simply not suppo

Re: Splitting *.mp3

2022-10-17 Thread adr
the parts you want to extract? adr

mtpaint: small but useful painting and image editor program in pkgsr-wip

2022-10-15 Thread adr
imple than gimp, but useful. Maybe it finds its way up to the main pkgsrc repository. Regards, adr

Re: Search engine for mail-index?

2022-10-15 Thread adr
a search, the search is done on an archive of the mailing list, not in a humongous database created by web crawlers and who knows what nowdays, so the results are pretty good. I prefer marc, give it a try. adr.

Re: ksh and brace expansion

2020-01-28 Thread adr
| I didn't expect brace expansion disable by default. It isn't.You must have POSIXLY_CORRECT set if it was. And in that case, if you're asking for a POSIX environment, it is reasonable, I believe, that that is what you're given. Since brace expansion is incompatible (currently) with POSI

Re: ksh and brace expansion

2020-01-28 Thread adr
can be on by default, although not recommended: [...] (The shell can also be compiled so that it is in POSIX mode by default, however this is usually not desirable) [...] I deserve a knock on the head for passing the man page too fast. adr.

ksh and brace expansion

2020-01-28 Thread adr
umed that alternation is available. In my opinion, let sh be a posix shell, let ksh be a korn shell. I don't really like those fancy features, but people get confused when they expect some common behaivour that has beeen altered and the documentation doesn't reflect it. Just an advise. Regards, adr.

Typo in vitut.txt

2019-06-17 Thread adr
an unnamed buffer. [...] "...you shoud use a _named_ buffer." Please if you are not interested in this type of feedback, let me know. adr.

xnedit and parole in wip

2019-06-03 Thread adr
with video scaling. Regards, adr.