Re: setresuid not available in OpenBSD's perl

2008-08-18 Thread Alexander Farber
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Philip Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question doesn't really have anything to do with OpenBSD. Thanks, but I think it has to do with OpenBSD, because the question is about implementation at this platform. I'll try using following for now: drop_root()

Re: setresuid not available in OpenBSD's perl

2008-08-18 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Philip Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question doesn't really have anything to do with OpenBSD. Thanks, but I think it has to do with OpenBSD, because the question is about

VistaPE PXE booting from a OpenBSD tftp

2008-08-18 Thread sebastian . rother
Hello everybody, I currently try to set up a WinPE 2.0 solution (VistaPE) to replace the old BartPE solution I currently do use. Even after using some HowTos I somehow failed to manage to get the VistaPE booting from a OpenBSD Server. The BCD claims that it can't find \Boot\ so I tried to find

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Edd Barrett
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:16:51PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:22:33PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV so we can watch DVD's etc in the living room. Not a bad idea,

Re: VistaPE PXE booting from a OpenBSD tftp

2008-08-18 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I currently try to set up a WinPE 2.0 solution (VistaPE) to replace the old BartPE solution I currently do use. Even after using some HowTos I somehow failed to manage to get the VistaPE booting from a OpenBSD Server. The BCD claims that it can't find

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Fred Crowson
Edd Barrett wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:16:51PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:22:33PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV so we can watch DVD's etc in the living room. Not a

Re: VistaPE PXE booting from a OpenBSD tftp

2008-08-18 Thread sebastian . rother
figure out how it works for pxebooting openbsd, then try your hand at vista. reduce to the simplest case and then build up. asking people to do your homework for you makes you look lazy. It seams my english lacks some importent parts to explain the issue int he right way. I appologize but you

Blf.h Vnconfig

2008-08-18 Thread Dave Sorg
Looking at the source code for vnconfig and blf.h, I see the following lines of code: /* Schneier specifies a maximum key length of 56 bytes. * This ensures that every key bit affects every cipher * bit. However, the subkeys can hold up to 72 bytes. * Warning: For normal blowfish encryption

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, Edd Barrett wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:16:51PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:22:33PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV so we can watch DVD's etc in the living room.

Re: SCSI_DELAY setting ...

2008-08-18 Thread Marco Peereboom
I went through the ahd code looking for a clue and the only thing that would make a difference is if the chip/bus hasn't settled yet. If I read the code right the only way that can happen is when it hits a SCSI reset on channel A. This really shouldn't happen so that makes your hardware suspect.

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Zoran Kolic
Howdy! Eons ego I recall using klone language to make appropriate ModeLine for Xfree conf file. Also, some scripts live inside si- milarly named directory to help that process. lso, take a look at this faqs: http://www.at.openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html#XF86 Hope this helps.

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Siegbert Marschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try some of the modelines there and need to make sure the tv is in rgb mode and the sync-line ist connected and put's out the right singal. http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~pfeffer/tvout/index.html OK i

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Antti Harri
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: The card is a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 rev 0xa3 I'm not 100% sure but I don't think that will work without the blobby nvidia driver. Which of course isn't available on OpenBSD. Try switching to a recent ATI card, tv-out should work on it. At least my

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Diana Eichert
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: SNIP This card does have a tv out of some form. Its the type of cable which usually goes into the yellow socket next to the red and white audio ones (yah, i dont know a thing about this stuff). composite video out

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Edd Barrett
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: The card is a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 rev 0xa3 I'm not 100% sure but I don't think that will work without the blobby nvidia driver. Which of course isn't available on OpenBSD. Ah

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Edd Barrett
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Fred Crowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The online XFree modeline generator [1] can generate interlace modelines - are they any different to the one's you've tried? HTH Fred [1] http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl Unbelieveably the manual for

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Antti Harri
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: Ah wonderful. Does this apply for the vga port too, sing the VGA to scart adaptor? If I plug the box into a LCD monitor i see [EMAIL PROTECTED] just fine, its just a very small screen, not ideal for films. Sorry I don't know about that. Ill see what I

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Edd Barrett
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those ATI cards seem to be pretty cheap even as new but if I were you I would try to lend and test one before buying. Good plan, Ill ask around my friends see if anyone has one. Any idea what model would be good for this?

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: The card is a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 rev 0xa3 I'm not 100% sure but I don't think that will work without the blobby nvidia driver. Which of course isn't available on OpenBSD.

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:19:17AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:16:51PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:22:33PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Antti Harri
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those ATI cards seem to be pretty cheap even as new but if I were you I would try to lend and test one before buying. Good plan, Ill ask around my friends see if anyone has one. Any

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Edd Barrett
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Siegbert Marschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: modeline pal_768x576 14.75 768 784 864 944 576 582 588 625 -hsync -vsync interlace # H 15625 [Hz], V 50 [Hz] modeline pal_720x576 13.875 720 744 808 888 576 582 588 625 -hsync -vsync interlace # H 15625 [Hz], V 50

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Edd Barrett
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe this helps? http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html (II) NV(0): Not using mode 736x575i (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) NV(0): Not using mode 736x575i (no mode of this name) or maybe even

[landisk] more than one hard drive in Plextor

2008-08-18 Thread Diana Eichert
not strictly an OpenBSD question. Do the landisk boards support master and slave IDE? I was thinking about shoehorning a CF drive in the empty space on a Plextor for main O/S boot drive. Then configure the HD as slave drive. Anyone done this? diana

Re: Need some guidance booting OpenBSD on an ALIX device

2008-08-18 Thread Jan Stary
On Jan 12 19:15:46, Markus Hennecke wrote: If I remember correctly the alix bios use a baudrate different from 9600 baud. Are you by chance connecting to the board with another baud rate? If this is the case just restart the session with 9600 baud and you should be able to boot the system.

named starting slowly

2008-08-18 Thread Jan Stary
This is -current as of a few weeks back, running on ALIX2C3. Works smoothly as my home router/fw/dns, but when booting gets to starting named, there is a strange slowdown: Aug 18 19:48:40 gw /bsd: OpenBSD 4.4-beta (GENERIC) #1004: Thu Jul 31 00:42:16 MDT 2008 Aug 18 19:48:42 gw /bsd: [EMAIL

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 8/17/08, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV so we can watch DVD's etc in the living room. Not a bad idea, but I don't know how. So far, nobody has suggested the very easy solution of buying a

Re: Physical IFs, CARP, and arp overwrite warnings

2008-08-18 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:42 PM, David Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently theorizing that this is because I have two distinct interfaces (carp1, em1) both with IPs on the same subnet, and arp keeps wanting to update it's table because both NICs are on the same subnet. Can

carp host talks to itself only?

2008-08-18 Thread Need Coffee
This is a dumb question. I apologize in advance. If I have 5 machines configured for carp IP balancing as 10.0.0.1 and from one of those machines I try to connect to 10.0.0.1 I would assume the machine would talk to itself only based on the routing table. But I have seen hints that lead me to

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try switching to a recent ATI card, tv-out should work on it. At least my friend told me he had it working on his x1550 and open source drivers. How about something like this:

Re: TV out for Xorg/OpenBSD?

2008-08-18 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Ted Unangst wrote: On 8/17/08, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have this BSD box with some films on, and someone had the idea of hookiing it up to the TV so we can watch DVD's etc in the living room. Not a bad idea, but I don't know how. So far, nobody has suggested the

Re: Physical IFs, CARP, and arp overwrite warnings

2008-08-18 Thread David Harrison
2008/8/19 Aaron Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:42 PM, David Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently theorizing that this is because I have two distinct interfaces (carp1, em1) both with IPs on the same subnet, and arp keeps wanting to update it's table because