Re: ATB.com

2024-05-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Austin, I feel your pain. The world things Chrome, or at least Blink, is the only Browser. It is the new IE!!! Austin Hook wrote: In the past 6 months is has gotten more and more difficult to sign-on to with Firefox and OpenBSD, as they have tried to make their sites more and more bullet

Re: >10W idle power usage on framework laptop 12th gen 13inch

2024-04-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Nathaniel, Nathaniel Griswold wrote: I meant to clarify: I have had the battery for over a year and I’m not sure why the cycles reset to 5. I am puzzled by it. is it an genuine (really in strict sense of the term) brand battery or a compatible replacement (even if they call it

Re: Default Revival of a ten years old computer : how would you do it?

2023-11-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, h...@mailo.com wrote: i have tested "recent" openbsd releases, since 2022, and almost all of them are a bit slow with xfce/firefox etc. i was wondering, for laptops range of 2013/16 years old, what would you recommmend them for a common web browsing using openbsd? I like to run BSD and

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Thomas Vetere wrote: Yep, Claudio is correct. I have an old 600e and this is an official statement from IBM support page long ago: *"The ThinkPad 600E is ACPI ready. ACPI is not installed, but the system hardware supports ACPI. While ACPI shows a great deal of promise for the future,

Re: Lightweight Web browser

2023-02-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Rodrigo Readi wrote: Can someone recommend a lightweight Browser that support javascript? "Lightweight" is a hard term here.. .there are several options. But if you need heavy usage - gmail, youtube and similar, at the end you need a gecko, blink or webkit engine and so there things

Re: Lightweight Web browser

2023-02-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Bodie wrote: Light and JavaScript do not go well together in web of this era. Plus we have now variation of 90's, but instead everything made for IE there is everything made for Chrome I second that, especially JavaScript which is used to build whole apps, like webmails. GitHub is

OpenBSD 6.9 and disappearing mouse

2021-07-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I have a Toshiba laptop with double internal pointing device (pointer stick and touchpad) to which I attach via USB a classic Logitech M100 mouse, wired. The mouse is working on other computers and if I enable legacy mode, I can even use it in the BIOS to click around, so I am sure "it

Re: Machine age and OpenBSD - Thinkpad R51e

2021-06-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Thomas Vetere wrote: > I was looking to get a laptop to run OpenBSD. The one I am looking at in > particular is the Thinkpad R51e (2005). I like this particular model > because it does not come with any extra hardware that OpenBSD does not > support in the first place (bluetooth, camera,

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan! sorry for the even longer delay - but dayjob was demanding, working even on sunday. However, if you can read this message, it means that I am connected through the internal ipw card to WEP WiFi at the first attempt. Wonderful. Great work, Stefan, Both patches together applied,

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan, Stefan Sperling wrote: That means there is another bug. I will try to find it. Could you show what 'netstat -W ipw0' looks like after an unsuccesful attempt of connecting to a WEP access point? ipw0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 lladdr 00:0c:f1:1f:b2:a0 index 1 priority 4

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stefan Sperling wrote: tecra$ netstat -W ipw0 ieee80211 on ipw0: 10 input management packets discarded This one looks bad. I think it means the net80211 stack ends up ignoring the AP's assoc response frame. I believe your situation is that the firmware is in associated state,

gold linker on OpenBSD

2021-03-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, is the gold linker available for OpenBSD i386? maybe as a package and I am not finding it? I have issues linking with the standard and bfd linkers, a suggestion was to use gold, which helps on e.g. FreeBSD. Riccardo

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-03-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan, sorry for the delayed response, but dayjob took over and for that I unfortunately cannot use an old OpenBSD laptop with no wireless :) Also I had to use another system to conveniently do the tests you asked me. Stefan Sperling wrote: With WEP, if the key is wrong, the interface

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-16 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan, Stefan Sperling wrote: Sounds like a wrong key, or the wrong type of crypto. Are you the AP is using WEP? Perhaps you need 'wpakey' instead of 'nwkey'? If the key is wrong or the crypto is wrong, would the interface still be active and connected? I am sure the AP is using WEP:

issues linking on OpenBSD i386 (has non-ABS relocation R_386_GOTOFF against symbol)

2021-02-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I was doing some compilations on OpenBSD 6.8 i386 using gcc 8.4 available from pkg. When compiling gnustep-gui current GIT (tests before release), I get this error: ld: error: NSPrintOperation.m:(.debug_info+0x2FE631): has non-ABS relocation R_386_GOTOFF against symbol

Re: Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stuart and others,, Stuart Henderson wrote: I installed the firmware with fw_update. I try to bring the interface up, I can set the nwid, but it never connects. What do you type to bring the interface up? If you are using /etc/hostname.ipw0 and "sh /etc/netstart ipw0", what are the

Intel wifi ipw showing up but not working

2021-02-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello I just installed OpenBSD 6.8 on a Toshiba Tecra S1. It is a fresh install, so i can't say if it worked on previous OpenBSD versions (I have seen something in the mailing list about that). the BIOS has no special options regarding the wireless card. The laptop has this network card:

Re: ULTRASPARC vs ARMv7 (Sun Netra T1 vs Orange PI ONE) from ONLY a security point of view

2020-05-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Глеб Рахмановский wrote: >   > Dear Gurus, > Please let me know, are there any advantages of UltraSparc IIe over Cortex A7 > AllWinner H3 for a secure communication host ignoring a factor of power > efficiency, size and loud noise? > IMHO the only feature OpenBSD can benefit from

Re: Cross platform apps.

2020-04-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Go/Golang can cross compile non graphical programs for many systems including > OpenBSD from Windows etc. > > This means that web apps can be almost as cross platform. Of course the > browser > isn't so easily built/bundled cross platform with many app creation >

Re: S3 Virge support on IBM T23 for 6.6

2020-04-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Ciao Paolo, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > */usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.la > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.so > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.la > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3virge_drv.so/usr/X11R6/man/man4/s3.4 >

Re: Switchable graphics intel/ati - Fatal error during GPU init

2020-04-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! Hemno Sapients wrote: >> If I try to run X11, it does not even attempt radeon and simply runs on >> intel i965. >> >> Am I missing some firmware? "fw_update" did not download me anything new. >> Or... some other "trick" ? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Riccardo >> > I don't think OpenBSD's build of

Switchable graphics intel/ati - Fatal error during GPU init

2020-04-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! My HP laptop has switchable graphics. When I first installed OpenBSD some releases ago, I had to disable in BIOS or it would freeze as soon as X started and showed a pointer. Now, I thought, let's try again.: so many things improved! Now, even during boot when I reach console, in dmesg I

Re: X start failure - OpenGL Version

2020-04-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Marcus, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > Hello Riccardo, > > startx(1) had it's setuid bit removed. I think in the timeframe you are > upgrading over. The canonical advice is to use xenodm(1). > > Marcus > exactly, that was it... the error message wasn't that helpful. xenodm works.. but since I

X start failure - OpenGL Version

2020-04-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, lockdown times gave me finally times to update my workstation/home server to 6.6 too, after my successful laptop upgrades. I was a moment scared when fw_update told me to reboot due to microcode update :-P But it went fine. I followed 6.5 -> 6.6 upgrade. All packages are upgraded too

Re: 6.5 crashing on an old Thinkpad 600X

2019-10-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I have a 600X! It is a super-vintage machine with a wonderful keyboard. Gwen Nelson wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to fix up an old Thinkpad, a 600X model with a Pentium III and 64mb RAM, I get some errors in the AML code: https://imgur.com/gallery/IRrpgmk Unfortunately I can't obtain a

Re: 6.5 crashing on an old Thinkpad 600X

2019-10-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stuart Henderson wrote: First I'd try a snapshot, if that doesn't help then I'd try "boot -c" and "disable acpitz". If you can get it booting, the acpi tables generated in the report by running sendbug as root might help track it down. I also have a 600X with that issue. I totally

compiling one's own GCC - configuration considerations

2019-06-21 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, ports prrovide two gcc's 4.9 and 8. I have a program which compiles fine with up to gcc 7, also the system clang is too "new". On OpenBSD 6.4 I could use the system clang. Now, a solution would be to install gcc 6.5 or 7.4, a compiler which I know works fine on NetBSD and Linux for

assembler issue - no such instruction

2019-06-21 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, I am trying to compile ArcticFox on OpenBSD 6.5. On 6.4 I had no issues,it compiled and worked! I am using gcc 4.9 from ports and it dies with:  2:16.64 host_pathsub.o  2:16.85 /tmp//cctgHRHn.s: Assembler messages:  2:16.85 /tmp//cctgHRHn.s:36: Error: no such instruction: `vmovaps

Re: reinstalling boot blocks

2019-06-21 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I want to reinstall safely boot blocks as the installer does, how can I do it? best from the CD-ROM let me summarize the situation: - I had 6.4 not booting correctly (partition boot size issue) - I upgraded 6.5, and all works, boots fine - actually it did

reinstalling boot blocks

2019-06-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I want to reinstall safely boot blocks as the installer does, how can I do it? best from the CD-ROM let me summarize the situation: - I had 6.4 not booting correctly (partition boot size issue) - I upgraded 6.5, and all works, boots fine - actually it did not work, certain things make the

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Jordan, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: If you're going down that path, you should see if you can get TenFourFox to compile. TenFourFox does have a jit and supports altivec. http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox I do know, having contributed to

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Henry, Henry Bonath wrote: Here's my build info for 6.5 PowerPC: pkg list: autoconf--%2.13 dbus-glib-- g++--%4.9 gcc--%4.9 gmake-- python--%2.7 py-pip-- yasm-- unzip-- zip-- And my .mozconfig: # This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public # License, v. 2.0. If a

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Jordan, On 5/25/19 8:13 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Riccardo [1] : Official Repo: https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox [2] : My current working fork, which gets regularly pulled into main: https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox If you're going down that path, you should see if

Re: Modern browser for OpenBSD powerpc

2019-05-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 5/23/19 8:19 AM, John Gould wrote: Can someone suggest a modern graphical browser for OpenBSD PowerPC? I'm trying to run several G5's and g4 mini's on 6.5 as desktop machines. The basic install works really well but there doesn't seem to be an up to date graphically browser. It's thanks

Re: increase user memory limits (staff group)

2019-02-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Solene! Solene Rapenne wrote: The names in login.conf are classes, this is not related to groups. You can find in which class your user by looking at the 5th field of your username in /etc/master.passwd. You can use the following command: $ doas awk -F':' '/^YOUR_USER/ { print $5 }'

increase user memory limits (staff group)

2019-02-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, I need to compile certain big softare and want to do this as user, I am hitting memory limits, e.g: ../../js/src/libjs_static.a: could not read symbols: Memory exhausted I read in various post and man pages, but am a little confused. First thing, I added my user to the "staff"

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2019-02-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Joel Sing wrote: The specific "heap full" issue that can be triggered by using a single large partition is not likely to be at fault here - if you cannot boot the ramdisk (bsd.rd/installer) for 6.3 or 6.4 from a USB key, then something else is presumably up (unless you're actually trying to

Re: Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Nick, Nick Holland wrote: So far, with one or two exceptions, everyone complaining about this has a One Big Partition disk layout. A bad idea, not suggested, and I don't think you will get much sympathy. yes of course (TM).. I won't get much sympathy, but it is the best set-up for a

Boot reboot issue after upgrade to 6.4 on amd64

2018-11-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, I have a strange and blocking issue after upgrade to 6.4 on my x86-64 laptop, which was running 6.3 just fine. I got the bsd.rd kernel, booted it and installed, quick, easy no issue. Now, if I reboot, the kernel will reboot just after having written the first line of numbers on the

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stuart Longland wrote: The IBM Thinkpads… sure, they worked well. The Lenovo ones? Looking at the ones around the office, they've been a bit hit-and-miss, on both Linux and their out-of-the-box Windows installs. that is true... the latest IBM heritage you can get is the T43, although

Re: screenshot with maim: Invalid number of channels provided to image.

2018-06-20 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Rudolf Sykora wrote: Failed to detect a compositor, OpenGL hardware-accelleration disabled... and fix the typo? Riccardo

Re: WEP broken

2018-06-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stuart, On 04/06/2018 22:35, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-06-04, Riccardo Mottola wrote: just an update, it took me a while. I had issues with the sources on certain mirrors. Can you provide more details please? If there are anoncvs mirrors with bad source code that needs fixing

Re: WEP broken

2018-06-04 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stefan Stefan Sperling wrote: I don't think it is worth the effort for us. You are literally the only person I know of who has requested an official backport of this fix. WEP was already broken in OpenBSD 6.2 which was released in October 2017. In all this time, nobody complained. So it

Re: 6.3 - dhclient not working on wireless

2018-05-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stefan Sperling wrote: The keyword 'nwkey' indicates you are using WEP. Is that correct? Yes! A commit of mine accidentally broke WEP support back in August 2017. This was eventually fixed in -current 2 weeks ago. Nobody noticed that WEP was broken for 8 months... I did notice that

frequent SeaMonkey crashes

2018-05-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, after 6.3 upgade (with associated packages) I experience very frequent crashes of the SeaMonkey browser. I checked RAM consumption and it crashes even if it is not very hight, around 400MB, for example. I tried starting it from a terminal and see this message after a crash: seamonkey:

6.3 - dhclient not working on wireless

2018-05-05 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I upgraded to 6.3 and I cannot connect to a certain WiFi network anymore, or, better, ifconfig says it is connected and the LED says it is too, but then dhclient fails to get a lease from it. I can connect to the same network through wired ethernet and dhclient correctly gets an address

strange hang of ThinkPad with 6.2, pms0 issue

2018-03-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, I am running 6.2 on x86 on an old ThinkPad. 6.1 was rock-solid and never had issues, I was able to complete the install of 6.2 only recently, because I had issues with network and all network cards (PCMCIA) I had at hand. No wireless card would work properly and only one of two wired

Re: the Alpha lives...

2018-03-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Paul, On 2018-03-18 15:55:34 +0100 Paul de Weerd wrote: I recently started to resurrect my old Alpha (Digital PWS 600au). It was spewing a garbled mess on serial console, so I had to find a PCI video card to install in it first. Then a PS/2 keyboard. Then it turned

Re: Lenovo T60p touchpad not working (6.2-stable/amd64)

2018-02-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Jonathan, it took me some time to verify, so sorry for the long answer. I updated my T60 to OpenBSD 6.2 and both the Touchpad as the Track Pointer work fine without tricks of suspend/resume. bios0 at mainbus0: date 04/01/10, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd6b0, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe0010 (68

Re: drm (i915): add missing firmware

2018-01-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 2018-01-02 14:04:20 +0100 Luca Franchini wrote: I have downloaded skl_dmc_ver1.bin from Intel site. Is there a chance to have it loaded? Better power saving? I'm very happy with OpenBSD 6.2 hw support in this laptop (Thinkpad T460p) What does running

Re: 18-year-old laptop "Compaq Armada 1750" still works fine ...

2017-12-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Jens, On 2017-12-03 19:24:48 +0100 Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: OpenBSD 6.2 (GENERIC) #1: Fri Dec 1 12:00:30 CET 2017 r...@syspatch-62-i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Celeron ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 256KB L2 cache) 366 MHz

Re: Image viewer alternative to eog

2017-11-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi there, On 25/11/2017 20:51, x9p wrote: Is there a good/safe and light image viewer? Was used to eog, but it has too many "vfprintf %s NULL" in messages. gimp is too big and good for play with images, In need of smth fast. I use LaternaMagica for that, small, single-window with list and

Re: Thinkpad R40 varia

2017-09-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Florian Ermisch wrote: Swapping the general battery clears the 'CMOS' memory. I surmise that >there is no seperate CMOS battery: I consider this a design flaw. > Have you checked for a separate CMOS battery - which is probably long dead? there is one, usually wrapped in a yellow

Re: Etnernal & infernal browser woes

2017-04-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 28/04/2017 14:18, Jyri Hovila [iki.fi] wrote: which is properly coded, very stable and secure, but (when it comes to a "normal" user or even an experienced sysadmin) utterly useless when it comes to doing the stuff everyone does these days -- browsing the net. Yes, I know many of you

Re: Opinion about Rust and Go

2017-03-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 03/29/17 11:42, Janne Johansson wrote: As a non-obsd dev but fan of running non-mainstream platforms, things like this feels like a guarantee that those languages don't really hit off on anything that isn't arm64 or amd64 (or i386): and for that reason firefox will become less

Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation

2016-11-16 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: Can this be? Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation this is "misc" but still OpenBSD misc. Riccardo

Re: seamonkey package x86

2016-10-31 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stuart, On 07/10/2016 19:54, Stuart Henderson wrote: > It doesn't build, it requires 64-bit atomic operations and the usual way > to request these on those i386 CPUs which support it (-march=i686) didn't > work when I tried it. I have successfully built seamonkey on FreeBSD and on Gentoo

seamonkey package x86

2016-10-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, has the seamonkey package been removed or has it special issues? I see it available on amd64 but not on x86... although seamonkey-enimgmail is present. I'd like to avoid building it myself if it is known to fail and also it is oen fo the "big" packages to build on a laptop. Thank you,

Re: hw.sensors.acpibat0.raw0 - does it change state?

2016-09-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, tomr wrote: Am I right in thinking that pulling the power cable cannot be directly detected by sensorsd, because a 'state change' does not occur? A la... hw.sensors.acpibat0.raw0=1 (battery discharging), OK vs: hw.sensors.acpibat0.raw0=2 (battery charging), OK acpiac0.indicator0 ?

Re: image view and manipulation

2016-07-04 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, jsg wrote: Can some of you recommend what packages or package you use to manipulate, view, resive .png or .img (other) imaeges for website content. command-line or GUI? For GUI, I use LaternaMagica and PRICE. I use LaternaMagica for mssive exports and resizing. A limitation

Re:

2016-05-16 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Don't feed the troll. 1 9 wrote: What editor? vim or emacs? what is the reason? start by putting a subject in your mails, having a proper name, greeting and sign-off. Riccardo

Re: non-wintel hardware choices

2016-05-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Bryan Everly wrote: Unfortunately PA-RISC doesn't have X support at the console. You can run X on it and have the Windows render on a SPARC, MIPS or Intel platform though. sorry, didn't know that. I always did run my HP hardware headless... so I never noticed. I always liked the CPU

Re: non-wintel hardware choices

2016-05-05 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Gregory Edigarov wrote: if I want to build a non-wintel system with commodity running OpenBSD without problems, what are my options? preferably something non-apple also, which i will be able to connect display, mouse, and keyboard, and hopefully run X, etc. since we don't have Raspberry

Re: After resuming from sleep, HP laptop kb unusable

2016-04-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi All, Theo Buehler wrote: This problem should be fixed for this machine in -current. See this thread on tech@: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech=146035659601245=2 and this commit: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs=146061765314970=2 I tried latest snapshot kernel and keyboard works after

After resuming from sleep, HP laptop kb unusable

2016-04-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I can suspend my laptop by closing the lid, hitting the powerbutton the computer comes up again, however it looks frozen, I cannot type anything (or I may type 1 or two chars before it locks up). It happens both under console as with X11 Actually, it is not frozen. I noticed that with a

Re: xbacklight / screen brightness

2016-04-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Ted, On 04/07/16 16:22, Ted Unangst wrote: Most drivers maintain soft state that should mirror the hardware state. Except when it doesn't. Sometimes the driver has a bug, sometimes the hardware lies, sometimes something else goes wrong. The many layers of abstraction and acpi don't help

xbacklight / screen brightness

2016-04-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I noticed that on an HP 4530 laptop (using the intel video card, the extra video card which wasn't properly initialized and used in OpenBSD is directly disabled in the bios) comes up both in console and in X with a pretty dim screen brightness. "xbacklight" tells me however "100". if I

Re: GUI Designer

2016-02-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I do use ProjectCenter for GNUstep and then code everything in Objective-C. I correct, I use Gorm, which is the GUI designer. ProjectCenter is the corresponding project builder, which I do use too, but only for simple projects since it is less refined than Gorm

Re: GUI Designer

2016-02-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Daniel Boyd wrote: What do youguys use for a simple GUI with a visualdesigner? I do use ProjectCenter for GNUstep and then code everything in Objective-C. Riccardo

Re: VAX - are we dropping support in 5.9?

2016-01-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Armish, socppc, and sparc are also on their death beds. I'm not divulging deep secrets here; you can just check the dates on ftp and see that no recent snapshots have been built. I have two sparcstations and it is since 5.7 that building packages has been

Re: text-mode gui

2015-12-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, this thread has gone a long way. Ted Unangst wrote: improvements to the installer are welcome. suggestions that the installer could use javascript to write cookies are not an improvement. I actually like the OpenBSD installer quite a bit! it is easy on the machine, works and I have no

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Nick Holland wrote: ><* peers over at the case of narrow SCSI drives sitting on the spare >parts shelf and wonder if they'll still spin up; they probably will *> and before tossing them, let developers know -- 4, 6 and 9G narrow scsi drives are few and far between, and needed to keep

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Mihai Popescu wrote: What are the minimum requirements for a decent SPARC machine? I mean by that a machine who is able to run OpenBSD as a desktop. I am currently use a Pentium 4 3.2GHz with 2 GB DDR and it barely meets my needs. Tell me please the CPU or the machine name, I will search

Re: Dual Booting OpenBSD vs Windows7

2015-06-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Mohammad BadieZadegan wrote: I want to dual booting OpenBSD with Windows7 and read many more pages about customizing windows*bcdedit* tools to booting dual OS like *http://cromwell-intl.com/linux/multiboot-windows-openbsd/ http://cromwell-intl.com/linux/multiboot-windows-openbsd/* *BUT*,

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: Sorry, I don't know. I got mine while debugging the vesa bits of a boot loader. Try increasing X log verbosity. Or possibly guess it from the output of memconfig list, it's likely to be the only variable-length entry large around 256GB-512GB, with ending

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: Acceleration is not needed on modern machines to get fast 2D display. The CPU speed and memory bandwidth are largely sufficient to make desktop very responsive and watch full-screen movies. Probably what you observe is that the video memory is setup in a

Re: hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Mike, Mike Small wrote: Just to be sure nv doesn't support exa with this card did you try being explicit about it? I have an NVIDIA_NVS_3100M and thought for the longest time I was in the boat of needing nouveau or changes to nv but the following xorg.conf got me past the slowness (in 5.6):

hp laptop: acpi - power adapter problem

2015-06-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, on my HP laptop (dmesg below) I notice that both with acpi and with apm, it is always reported that the power adapter is connected, even if it is not. The power level of the battery seems reasonable. With power cord attached: hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=56.00 degC (zone temperature)

hp laptop with nvidia - slow X11

2015-06-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, for the same laptop for which I just posted a full dmesg about the battery problem, which reports this video card: vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS rev 0xa1 I get a super-slow X11. Dragging an xterm may take half a second, up to the point where X11 looses track of the

git crashes on clone

2015-05-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I'm on OpenBSD, 3.7, x86 git-1.9.3 GIT - Tree History Storage Tool git installed from prebuilt packages, everything (should be) at lastest 3.7 release If I try to clone a repository from github, e.g.: git clone https://github.com/Voluntarynet/Bitmarkets.git The operation

Re: git crashes on clone

2015-05-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Theo Buehler wrote: Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:04:58PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I'm on OpenBSD, 3.7, x86 I'm a bit confused: That would be 5.7, I suppose. (You wrote 3.7 twice in your mail, so I'm not sure). sorry, that was a typing lapsus, i am on 5.7: 5.7 GENERIC.MP#767

Re: git crashes on clone

2015-05-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote: How do you manage PKG_PATH? just export it in .profile and be more careful when updating? PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname -m`/ right, fine, I remember it was suggested in the FAQ too. I just adapted it to use my nearest

Re: em0 interface hangs in 5.7

2015-05-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Bryan Linton wrote: This was already patched in -current http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvsm=143146204227681w=2 It was mentioned that this only affects certain em(4) chips. Namely the 82573, ICH8, and 82542. If you have one of these chips, you*will* experience this issue if you

radeon relocation errors

2015-05-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, while checking the dmesg for the em0 chipset, I noticed these errors in dmesg: error: [drm:pid26127:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -12! error: [drm:pid26127:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR* Failed to parse relocation -12! This T60 has an ATI radeon card: radeondrm0 at

Re: Phone suggestion.

2015-05-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Gareth Nelson wrote: Why on earth would you say blackberry for security? Get an android device with an unlocked bootloader, encrypt the storage I don't trust Google, but not that I trust other companies more. I know they selll your data to the government without resistance. Choose the

Re: em0 interface hangs in 5.7

2015-05-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Christian, Christian Schulte wrote: after upgrading my T60 from 5.6-stable to 5.7-stable, I am experiencing the same issue described above. Should this be filed using sendbug ? I am currently reverting to the athn0 interface which is working fine. The em0 interface hangs after some minutes

Re: Unable to do putty/SSH into fresh openBSD 5.6-install

2015-04-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Jon S wrote: Updated PuTTY from 0,63 to 0,64, but no improvement. in my case i was a key exchange not being enabled by default anymore, however a putty update (don't have the version at hand, but it was latest on the official website) fixed it. Else you can play with kex in your

Re: ssh help with X11Forwarding

2015-04-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Hrishikesh Murukkathampoondi wrote: I have restarted sshd (pkill -HUP sshd) and when I start ssh from the client using ssh -X I get DISPLAY is not set when trying to launch an xterm. setenv DISPLAY localhost:10 or export DISPLAY=localhost:10 that sometimes helps. Riccardo

Re: problem with key exchange

2015-04-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stuart Henderson wrote: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/www/faq/current.html?rev=1.521content-type=text/html#20140603 ssh permits a wider range of ciphers/kex/MACs than sshd does by default. I was under the false impression that ssh could somehow query the server for

problem with key exchange

2015-04-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I want to connect to my OpenBSD box from my iPhone. When I connect to it with zaTelnet I get key exchange... Server must support diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 I run query on localhost this way: $ ssh -Q kex localhost diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 diffie-hellman-group14-sha1

post mortem analysis

2015-04-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I have my old SparcStation running headless, during compilation it hangs. I don't have a serial console connected, nor video. I see that it stops responding to ssh and the power led which usually pulsates remains either in on or off fixed. Besides from trying to reproduce the bug with a

Re: Secure PDF viewer

2015-04-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Eric Furman wrote: I sometimes have to deal with PDF files (ugh) and all I need is the ability to view and print them, nothing fancy. With security in mind I would like to get opinions on the best one to use. Thanks. I use GSPdf, which just calls ghostscript, you could ghostscript itself.

Re: post mortem analysis

2015-04-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Todd C. Miller wrote: Since you don't have a console you might want to add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf if you don't already have them: ddb.panic=0 # 0=Do not drop into ddb on a kernel panic ddb.log=1 # 1=Log ddb output in kernel message

problems building boost on sparc

2015-03-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, continuing, time permitting, to build subversion on SPARC. Ruby and Python build and installed! I now have a problem with boost: ... configure: creating ./config.status config.status: executing default commands Adjustments to boost configuration have been written to user.hpp. Copy this

Re: Sunfire v120 question

2015-03-21 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Brian McCafferty wrote: Just a serial cable, then you can use tip(1). The connections and other info are in the V120 user guide which you can download from Oracle. Get a usb-serial adapter if you don't have a serial port on the machine you're trying to connect to it. well not just a

Re: problem building ruby on SPARC

2015-03-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Jeremy, Jeremy Evans wrote: This indicates your ports tree is out of sync with the packages on your machine. If you don't want to fix that, you can set the PKG_CREATE_NO_CHECKS=Yes environment variable to work around this problem. that was it. The box is slow and between the several build

problem building ruby on SPARC

2015-03-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, after a long pause, I was able to start work again with building subversion and its dependencies on SPARC. I build bash in debug mode (python build was crashing). Python built with success, whether the debug-version doesn't crash or the new port does not need bash anymore I don't know.

Re: HP900/803/D220 working just as needed.

2015-03-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Francois Pussault wrote: [ using 409176 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2014 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 5.6 (GENERIC)

Re: FSF Security Alert re: Lenovo and Superfish adware

2015-02-21 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Otto Moerbeek wrote: Regards While interesting in general, how is this relevant to OpenBSD? A reason more to be glad running BSD on my ThinkPad(s). That stuff gets wiped away and I feel (and really am in this case) more secure. Riccardo

Re: battery 100% full

2015-02-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Jan Stary wrote: Perhaps this is intended; does it mean that once the battery gets to a capacity of 1Wh, then having it charged to 1Wh will be a full battery? Would it be better if apm -l said the battery is (14.75 / 48.84) full now? Exctly that. At each cycle, every battery, but

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