Re: wm devices don't work under current amd64

2016-03-08 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: The 2924 is an old switch so it may behave funny. Yeah, the most common problem with these old Ciscos is that the autoconfiguration randomly fails -- sometimes after having worked well again and again for a long time. Those are the same switches

Re: bta2dpd - advanced audio distribution profile bluetooth daemon IMPROVED

2016-03-03 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Nathanial Sloss wrote: Call for testers of the next installment of bta2dpd. Yay! Nice one. I'll test it out this week. It looks fun. It allows you to stream music or pad(4) output to bluetooth stereo headphones or speakers using the advanced audio distribution profile

Re: How to make npf tables persist?

2016-07-27 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, t...@vispaul.me wrote: > That solves my immediate need but I still would be interested in knowing > how to save tables that have been altered through npfctl. When I've needed something like this in the past, I've usually just written an 'rc' script to save the rules before

Re: multipath fibre channel

2016-08-10 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, 6b...@6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote: > I want to configure multipath for a fibre channel storage. I need only the > availability, not the performance. As others have already said, you can't. However, ... RAID1 on the same LUN wouldn't work or make sense. However, to

Re: drmkms panic

2016-08-02 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote: > The problem is pretty obvious. netbsd kmem_alloc doesn't like allocating > zero-sized things, whereas linux kmalloc does. Please, forgive my ignorance, I'm just asking out of curiosity. However, if kmalloc() isn't available at all what happened during

Re: INSTALL kernel exceeds 5MB for zaurus

2017-02-08 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Rin Okuyama wrote: - drop FFS_EI and Apple UFS supports from fsck_ffs and newfs (13.4KB) I've tried to use Apple UFS file systems under NetBSD and had mixed results anyhow. At one point, I experienced some corruption, too (but it was probably because of something I did).

Re: bind -> unbound/nsd

2016-08-19 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > To slightly expand that. You don't need nsd if you just want to serve a > few local host names for a local network. You only need nsd if you want > to provide an authoritive DNS server. IMO that is a decently small use > case that it doesn't

Re: bind -> unbound/nsd

2016-08-18 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote: > The recent change of ISC/bind licensing from BSD to MPL for the next > release has provided us with an opportunity to re-evaluate the preferred > daemon status for NetBSD and DNS resolution. Wouldn't the license change result in some kind of status

Re: bind -> unbound/nsd

2016-08-18 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Greg Troxel wrote: > Is it about security track record? I'm not wanting to get into the discussion of fiat versus consensus decision making. However, I'd like to give my own personal answer on some of the questions you raise, as a heavy DNS user/sysadmin. Bind's security

Re: Booting BSD on a libreboot system - documentation needed

2016-09-30 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Leah Rowe wrote: > Libreboot is a free/opensource BIOS/UEFI implementation/replacement. > GNU/Linux is supported well, but people have recently started figuring > out how to boot BSD. Very cool. I for one will check it out. If I'm not mistaken, NetBSD's bootloader

Re: crash with latest audio changes

2016-12-16 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote: audio_get_port+0x7e is this line: return sc->hw_if->get_port(sc->hw_hdl, mc); I don't see how we can get there with sc->hw_if being NULL.. Add some printfs to see what's NULL... I've been staring at this in sys/dev/audio.c and trying

Re: evbarm builds failing

2016-12-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 29 Dec 2016, co...@sdf.org wrote: I've only seen INSTALL stuff being super-duper minimal thus far. the LOONGSON INSTALL kernel doesn't even have 'dmesg'. Hmm. Speaking of which, I need to get a hold of one of those AA-battery-using Loongson laptops like Stallman uses before the US

Re: How to run X11 on ATI Radeon 9000?

2017-08-02 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Adam Ciarci?ski wrote: vga0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: vendor 1002 product 4c66 (rev. 0x02) drm at vga0 not configured Did you take a look at the pcidevs file in the kernel to see if vendor 1002 product 4c66 was supported? If not, that'd be the first problem and the fix

Re: NetBSD with a gaming keyboard

2017-08-15 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Christian Baer wrote: I haven't actually seen the new one. It has tempted me for a while now, but all too often, remakes of movies I knew as a child, have not been too good. Just think of Star Wars Ep1. So, I was actually quoting the 1982 movie. There is no equal to Jar

Re: NetBSD with a gaming keyboard

2017-08-10 Thread Swift Griggs
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, Christian Baer wrote: Greetings, Programs! ;-) If you haven't seen the new Tron Legacy, I'd recommend it. It's awesome. I'm not sure which one you are quoting :-) I'm not sure exactly, why I didn't like the RAIDframe for doing this. If memory serves me, I believe that

Re: CVS commit: src

2017-08-09 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Brian Buhrow wrote: SCO was pretty much pure SVR3, so noting that COMPAT_IBCS2 implements SVR3 functionality is pretty much correct. Is anyone still using it? I used it back-in-the day. I'm probably running some of the oldest Unix variants and versions you'll run across.

Re: NetBSD with a gaming keyboard

2017-08-09 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Christian Baer wrote: ZFS seemed like the better (and easier) solution for me at the time. ZFS seems more simple to me, too. However, RAIDframe is stable and usable, too. I had hoped. My main problem currently is with my keyboard. For years I had an IBM Model-M, which

Re: ssh, HPN extension and TCP auto-tuning

2017-09-20 Thread Swift Griggs
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Havard Eidnes wrote: the OpenSSH in NetBSD has for quite a while had the "high- performance networking" patches applied. I wasn't aware of this. That's good to know. I've often wondered what patch sets we apply to NetBSD's SSH implementation. However, when you copy "in

I love Fortune && bsd-games

2017-11-20 Thread Swift Griggs
I love both Fortune and the bsd-games in /usr/games. I've got a lot of mileage from them over the years. I know they aren't "needed" and I know NetBSD is around for technical reasons, not simply to be "retro". However, I gotta say that I really would miss things like rot13 and hack. Some of