Can OpenBSD access BBC Iplayer?

2014-09-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
to download BBC programmes but is it possible to get a browser to access Iplayer? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: Can OpenBSD access BBC Iplayer?

2014-09-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Sep 2014, Fred Crowson wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 08:57:34AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Greetings, list! I'm a long-standing user of Linux (currently ArchLinux) who is just trying out OpenBSD and so far is much impressed. I'm using a Thinkpad T42. The main

Re: Can OpenBSD access BBC Iplayer?

2014-09-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Sep 2014, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-09-02, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: As a workaround I can use get_iplayer to download BBC programmes but is You can also use it to stream them live. Or some ISPs have live multicast streams that VLC can play. it possible

Re: Can OpenBSD access BBC Iplayer?

2014-09-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Sep 2014, David Coppa wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 02 Sep 2014, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-09-02, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: As a workaround I can use get_iplayer to download BBC programmes

Re: Can OpenBSD access BBC Iplayer?

2014-09-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Sep 2014, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 03 Sep 2014, David Coppa wrote: Thanks. I'm not using -current at the moment (I'm too new to OpenBSD) so I'd better wait until the next release. Could you kindly tell me which command line you use for live streaming? I've found several versions

Remember to update /etc/machine-id

2014-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
Whenever I upgrade to a new snapshot I receive these messages: Remember to update /var/db/dbus/machine-id Remember to update /etc/machine-id I don't know how to do this and I couldn't find much about machine-id on the net and the OBSD faq doesn't mention it. There is a discussion

Re: Remember to update /etc/machine-id

2014-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Dec 2014, Josh Grosse wrote: On 2014-12-10 09:02, Anthony Campbell wrote: Whenever I upgrade to a new snapshot I receive these messages: Remember to update /var/db/dbus/machine-id Remember to update /etc/machine-id I don't know how to do this and I couldn't find much about

latest snapshot gives errors for libfreetype.so.23.0

2014-12-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
I upgraded to the amd64 snapshot today (30 December) and since then lots of programs in X (gvim, firefox, libreoffice) give a warning for /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.so.23.0: size mismatch, relink your program. The affected programs run with incorrect fonts. Is it just a matter of waiting a few

[SOLVED]: latest snapshot gives errors for libfreetype.so.23.0

2014-12-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Dec 2014, Anthony Campbell wrote: I upgraded to the amd64 snapshot today (30 December) and since then lots of programs in X (gvim, firefox, libreoffice) give a warning for /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.so.23.0: size mismatch, relink your program. The affected programs run with incorrect

Re: Maintaining your system with snapshots

2015-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
). Another place I've found useful is http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=8865 See particularly the contribution of iggimi in this link, which I've found extremely helpful. Anthony -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: seamonkey error

2015-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
/libgobject-2.0.so.4200.0 (glib2-2.42.2p0): minor is too small |library gthread-2.0.4200.1 not found -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: seamonkey error

2015-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application. Maintainer: Landry Breuil lan...@openbsd.org WWW: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ As I said previously, the same error occurs with both i386 and amd64. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: jwm ; speedy window manager

2015-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
trying other tiling WMs such as i3, xmonad, and dwm (which would be my second choice). I hadn't realised that spectrwm is written by OpenBSD devs but that is very interesting and probably explains a lot.. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: seamonkey error

2015-04-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Apr 2015, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-04-03, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.uk wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear. I didn't mean that I used a linux method; I used the proven methods for upgrading -current and packages - twice with different snapshots. I've just done it a third

Re: Thinkpad spyware

2015-08-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
for this reason and also for the build quality and keyboard, I've bought up several Thinkpad T60s on Ebay. According to the pointing stick article on Google, Thinkpads have better technology in this respect owing to having patented their method. I don't know if that is true. -- Anthony Campbell

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

2015-12-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
; > http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html > > Bryan As a UK resident, buying the CDs (which I don't need) would require me to pay VAT and delivery, neither of which (obviously) would benefit Theo. I therefore prefer to make a donation to the project. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Laptop not waking from suspend on opening lid

2016-05-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 May 2016, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 04:08:28PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > This is on a Thinkpad Z61m running amd64. Suspend on lid closure has > > worked without problems for many months with numerous snapshots. After > > upgrading on 30 April

Re: Laptop not waking from suspend on opening lid

2016-05-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 May 2016, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 May 2016, Mike Larkin wrote: > > On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 04:08:28PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > This is on a Thinkpad Z61m running amd64. Suspend on lid closure has > > > worked without problems for many months wit

Laptop not waking from suspend on opening lid

2016-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse1 at ums0 mux 0 ugen1 at uhub3 port 2 "STMicroelectronics Biometric Coprocessor" rev 1.00/0.01 addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus3 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus4 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd0a (4f429020a838b902.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b WARNING: / was not properly unmounted radeondrm0: 1680x1050 wsdisplay0 at radeondrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Laptop not waking from suspend on opening lid

2016-05-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 May 2016, Mike Larkin wrote: > > This is probably the same problem that kettenis fixed in a recent post. > > I'd try applying that diff first. > > -ml After an upgrade to a new snapshot on 3 May things have now reverted to normal and waking occurs correctly. AC --

Boot message: RSDT entry 4 is corrupt

2017-01-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 irq 1 irq 12 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 it0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: IT8718F rev 4, EC port 0xa10 vmm at mainbus0 not configured uhidev0 at uhub3 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "BTC USB Keyboard" rev 1.10/1.80 addr 2 uhidev0: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev0: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 uhidev1 at uhub3 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "BTC USB Keyboard" rev 1.10/1.80 addr 2 uhidev1: iclass 3/0, 2 report ids uhid0 at uhidev1 reportid 1: input=2, output=0, feature=0 uhid1 at uhidev1 reportid 2: input=1, output=0, feature=0 uhidev2 at uhub4 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse" rev 1.10/1.10 addr 2 uhidev2: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev2: 3 buttons, Z dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd0a (eb4c008e57d75491.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: WARNING: symbol(icudt58_dat) size mismatch, relink your program

2017-04-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
ing anything wrong to trigger it. Known problem but we > > > haven't figured out the cause of this yet. > > Alright. Do you know if you have any leads? Might take a look this week > I also get the same when starting libreoffice. Yes, and also firefox 5.30. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

bsd.rd problem: wd0 is not a valid root disk

2017-08-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
In the last 10 days several attempts to upgrade -current have failed owing to an error with bsd.rd. I get as far as choosing the keyboard; then I'm asked to mount the root system and am offered wd0. But when I accept that it says "wd0 is not a valid root disk". I then have to reboot. (The boot

Firefox and Seamonkey total lockup on -current(i386)

2017-06-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
d0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 aps0 at isa0 port 0x1600/31 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 ugen0 at uhub4 port 2 "STMicroelectronics Biometric Coprocessor" rev 1.00/0.01 addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd0a (0516bd5b83eaa867.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: blank screen

2017-06-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
a > > negative impact on my system. > > For about a week, snapshots have contained a prototype of the new > inteldrm codebase. Thereby allowing people to report issues. > > But saying "messing" really isn't helping. A detailed bug report > helps. 1 line

Re: Can I use OpenBSD as a desktop system?

2017-06-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
of the tiling alternatives. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Community-driven OpenBSD tutorials wiki?

2018-01-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
age I was having trouble with and found them very helpful. A. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Segmentation fault / firefox (core dumped)

2018-01-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
# pkg_add gstreamer1-plugins-libav-1.10.4.tgz > The above is only an example. Your OpenBSD system may have > different versions. > > The Otter-Browser will now play videos > > It will play videos on YouTube but not on BBC iPlayer. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: procmail and new grammar in smtpd.conf

2018-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
gt; delivery programs such as fetchmail and procmail." > > Using it since my departure from procmail, no problems seen. > > Marcus It doesn't seem to work with mutt. Mutt complains that /var/mail/ is not a mailbox, apparently because the mail bodies produced by fdm don't start with a "From" line. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: default terminal autoload disable afater xenodm login

2018-12-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
/usr/local/bin/spectrwm > > > > After login I have one xterm with black background, and the second one > > (xconsole) I want to disable. It loads by default once login is accepted. > > > > Please advice to do that > > Thanks for posting this - been bugging me for weeks. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
s than with either Debian Sid or Arch Linux, both of which I'd used extensively before coming to OBSD. On the few occasions when problems I couldn't solve easily have arisen I've found answers thanks to kind people here, on daemonforums, or occasionally from the maintainer of a package. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Firefox bug: 66.0.3 disables all extensions

2019-05-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
in about.config to "false". Presumably it will be fixed soon upstream. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Firefox bug: 66.0.3 disables all extensions

2019-05-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 May 2019, Stefan Pietsch wrote: > On 04.05.19 20:01, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After upgrading Firefox today to 66.0.3 in -current, all my add-ons > > were inactivated. A quick search showed that this is a widespread > > problem, apparently due to a bug in

Re: Firefox bug: 66.0.3 disables all extensions

2019-05-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 May 2019, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 07:01:55PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After upgrading Firefox today to 66.0.3 in -current, all my add-ons > > were inactivated. A quick search showed that this is a widespread > > pr

Re: 6.6/packages/i386/SHA256.sig to be verified with 'openbsd-65-pkg.pub'?

2019-11-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
I did a fresh install on a Thinkpad i386 a couple of weeks ago and was very grateful to have it, so I hope it doesn't disappear any time soon. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
lexibility and I've used it for so long that it's become pretty intuitive to me. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
a medical acupuncture textbook with illustrations, references, marginal images and notes. It worked well. I've described my settings here for anyone interested: https://www.acampbell.uk/linux/writingabookonlyx.html -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: CUPS sudden refuses to print after previously working fine

2020-03-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Feb 2020, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:28:52AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have a networked Brother-HL5350DN printer which has worked fine > > with CUPS for over a year. Two days ago it suddenly refused to > > print on my deskt

Re: CUPS sudden refuses to print after previously working fine - SOLVED

2020-03-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Mar 2020, Vincenzo Nicosia wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 10:50:53AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > > > Well, I finally "solved" the problem by the simple expedient of just > > deleting the printer in Cups and re

Re: CUPS sudden refuses to print after previously working fine - SOLVED

2020-03-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Mar 2020, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 28 Feb 2020, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:28:52AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I have a networked Brother-HL5350DN printer which has worked fine > > > with CUPS for over a year. Two d

CUPS sudden refuses to print after previously working fine

2020-02-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
DB44A\" I'm mystified. Whenever I've set up the printer in CUPS previously it has always worked. The only clue I found was on Arch Linux where they talk about needing to set up avahi jn such cases, but I don't know if that is relevant here. Any ideas gratefully received. Anthony -- Anthon

Re: CUPS sudden refuses to print after previously working fine

2020-02-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Feb 2020, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:28:52AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have a networked Brother-HL5350DN printer which has worked fine > > with CUPS for over a year. Two days ago it suddenly refused to > > print on my deskt

Re: Can't select files to upload in a browsers

2020-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
ts Firefox. > > For me this doesn't work as described for Firefox in -current (no access to /tmp or ~/Downloads), even with all the config files for pledge and unveil copied to /etc/firefox. It does work in Chromium. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Can't select files to upload in a browsers

2020-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
to know about its existence. Ctrl-o now opens ~/Downloads again and allowss me to see all the files it contains. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: heads up: amd64 snap

2020-03-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
failure and spent the next three days bringing up an older Acer n460 which the Dell had replaced. I don't have the facility at present to put the disk in another machine so it looks like I'm stuck. Anthony -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: heads up: amd64 snap

2020-03-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Mar 2020, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 03:56:53PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 07 Mar 2020, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > > will do as you suggest. > > > > > > Thanks > > >

Re: heads up: amd64 snap

2020-03-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Mar 2020, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 09 Mar 2020, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 03:56:53PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > On 07 Mar 2020, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > &

Chromium not starting on Thinkpad R40E with 6.8

2020-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
reported by CPUID; using exception 16 ugen0 at uhub4 port 2 "STMicroelectronics Biometric Coprocessor" rev 1.00/0.01 addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd0a (6a0d8a82d326b2cb.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b inteldrm0: 1024x768, 32bpp wsdisplay0 at inteldrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) -- Anthony Campbellhttps://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Chromium not starting on Thinkpad R40E with 6.8

2020-10-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2020, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-10-28, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I upgraded to the i386 version of 6.8-Release on three different > > Thinkpads R40E. On all of them, chromium fails to start, saying "Unable > > to allocate memory". > > H

Re: Chromium not starting on Thinkpad R40E with 6.8

2020-10-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2020, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-10-28, Ashton Fagg wrote: > > Anthony Campbell writes: > > > >> I upgraded to the i386 version of 6.8-Release on three different > >> Thinkpads R40E. On all of them, chromium fails to start, saying "Unable

libexpat.so.14.0 missing in latest -current

2021-05-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
. -- Anthony Campbellhttps://www.acampbell.uk

Re: libexpat.so.14.0 missing in latest -current

2021-05-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 May 2021, Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > * Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After upgrading to -current today I found that xenodm would not run > > because of a missing /usr/lib/libexpat.so.14.0_ Various other things > > didn['t work either, including vim. >

Flatbed scanner stopped wording - permissions problem?

2021-03-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
put=0, feature=0 ugen0 at uhub4 port 1 "EPSON EPSON Scanner" rev 1.00/1.10 addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd0a (276ba6d3d8095f2a.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b inteldrm0: 1920x1080, 32bpp wsdisplay0 at inteldrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) ugen0 detached Anthony -- Anthony Campbellhttps://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Flatbed scanner stopped wording - permissions problem?

2021-03-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Mar 2021, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2021-03-07, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > Hello misc@: > > > > > > My Epson Perfection 1650 has worked on -current for many months but in > > the last 3 days attempts to scan with xsane say: "Failed t