Re: remove any unwanted devices from the kernel.

2008-06-06 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
Then what is the meaning of this comment in the kernel's memcpy? A few kbs don't matter, yet a dozen bytes do? /* * This is designed to be small, not fast. */ 2008/6/6, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jon wrote: I usually name the kernel to the machine hostname, but you can give it any

Re: remove any unwanted devices from the kernel.

2008-06-06 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
That comment comes from a time when memory cost ten bucks a byte. We don't necessarily keep all the comments up to date with the current market prices, though, figuring anybody reading kernel comments is moderately rational. Apparently not. Well, according to previous answers, the 25 years

Re: OpenBSD 4.3 running in VirtualBox? Anyone have it working properly?

2008-08-06 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
I tried to run a recent i386 4.4 beta on a KVM/QEMU virtual machine under Ubuntu and there are some problems with the emulated network. The driver constantly reports timeouts. re0: watchdog timeout As a side effect the connection is very slow. I assume that doesn't happen on the actual hardware

OpenBSD 4.3 running in VirtualBox? Anyone have it working properly?

2008-08-07 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
PROTECTED]: 2008/8/7 Jordi Beltran Creix [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried to run a recent i386 4.4 beta on a KVM/QEMU virtual machine under Ubuntu and there are some problems with the emulated network. The driver constantly reports timeouts. re0: watchdog timeout As a side effect the connection

The correct way to use bsd.rd

2008-09-27 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
I am using a virtual machine to try and follow -CURRENT.I have installed a snapshot, downloaded the cvs source, built it and run to see if it worked, up to there everything is okay. Reading the FAQ I found out that the official way to follow current more or less closely is to build a ramdisk

The correct way to use bsd.rd

2008-09-29 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
the one from the snapshots and see it is RAMDISK_CD. Do I need to build the RAMDISK_CD kernel instead of RAMDISK and it will work? Thank you 2008/9/28 Stijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jordi Beltran Creix wrote: I am using a virtual machine to try and follow -CURRENT.I have installed a snapshot

The correct way to use bsd.rd

2008-09-30 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
Taylor Jordi Beltran Creix wrote: I am NOT trying to boot my root partition using bsd.rd. Although I see that I can using the -a option. I was trying to get a bsd.rd image like the one from the CDs, with the Install Upgrade and Shell options. I followed the instructions from release(8) closely

Dell XPS M1330 Ethernet support?

2008-10-25 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
I recently acquired a Dell opensource laptop and am trying to install OpenBSD on it. But I am having a problem with the Ethernet. The device is detected as a Broadcom chipset and is managed by the bge driver. This is all from a i386 4.3 CD but I had the same problem with an old 4.4 snapshot. bge0

Re: Dell XPS M1330 Ethernet support?

2008-10-28 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
unresponsive setup item(say ftp to openbsd.org without a connection) without leaving the setup altogether? Thank you 2008/10/27 Kevin Cornies [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 09:20:14PM +0900, Jordi Beltran Creix wrote: I recently acquired a Dell opensource laptop and am trying to install

Re: bsd.mp hangs on boot

2008-11-16 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
Shouldn't you *disable* acpi? 2008/11/16 Daniel Bareiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! I am trying to boot a qemu virtual machine of OpenBSD 4.4 (previous to November release) with smp kernel on AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, but it

OpenBSD 4.4 amd64 bsd.mp can't detect 4GB memory

2008-12-18 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
Enabling bigmem=1: -real mem = 3734757376 (3561MB) -avail mem = 3624775680 (3456MB) +real mem = 4271632384 (4073MB) +avail mem = 4148350976 (3956MB) Also, from sys/arch/amd64/amd64/machdep.c: /* Tweakable by config(8) */ How? 2008/12/16 Toni Mueller openbsd-m...@oeko.net: Hello, On Mon,

Only one headphone jack working with Intel 82801

2009-01-06 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
I hadn't noticed this until now and I don't know if this is a known issue(sorry I didn't find anything in the lists) or something I am doing wrong. My laptop has a dual headphone jack but only the left jack is working in OpenBSD. The hardware is okay and everything else seems to be working. Thank

Re: Only one headphone jack working with Intel 82801

2009-01-06 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
Sorry, I always screw my reports. Now I see the mess. The only option I get is dac3. I don't know what the hell they are - I know nothing about sound hardware - but both work exactly the same in Linux with regular earphones, if there is some technical difference I am not aware of it. Next you will

Re: Only one headphone jack working with Intel 82801

2009-01-06 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
I'm not familiar with airplane headphones. from your description, it sounds like one is the left channel and one is the right channel. do the plugs look different? that is, is the ring in the same place on both? I would expect it to be in different places. The ones I have can be used in

UTF-8 on the file system?

2009-05-13 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
utf-8 is ignored as regular valid ASCII in most utilities. This is what makes utf-8 so nice. The main problem(1) is for utilities like for example ls and ed that use isprint to determine if they are allowed to print a character and print '?' or an octal escape sequence on nonprint chars. With a

Re: removing a pesky file

2009-05-14 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
rm `ls | grep E` would delete that file leaving others alone. Regards,

Re: removing a pesky file

2009-05-15 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
2009/5/15 Ryan Flannery ryan.flann...@gmail.com: tarski rm `ls | grep E` ~,u?} w=R1 T)U7r 5\4gm(_EW]W-sn^[[?1;2c: No such file or directory B B B B B B B B B Ec?J9 K%Mx/!...@s S,W7g?5 0,z: No such file or directory B B B B B B M}OWDt?Yw?rB~[*6t?0h|7aBz_ tarski True, I had

EM_MIPS==LOONGSON?

2010-06-18 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
Hi, I was reading ELF headers from different arches when I found that for Loongson binaries em_machine==EM_MIPS. However, elf(5) and elf_abi.h-sys/exec_elf.h describe EM_MIPS as /* MIPS R3000 Big-Endian only */, whereas I think Loongson processors are little endian(objdump says elf64-littlemips).

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-16 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
2010/3/16 Marc Espie es...@nerim.net: Of course, it makes it completely impossible to hack on KDE if you're in the C++ is crap, everything that matters should be written in C mentality. (in fact, KDE is probably the biggest example of readable C++ code I give to people. Doesn't hurt that it

47.html typo

2010-03-20 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
In 47.html, in Assorted Improvements, there is: # malloc(2) now has an S flag to turn on the options that help debugging and improve security. It links to malloc(3) correctly, though.

Re: UTF-8

2010-08-04 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
2010/8/4 Christopher Zimmermann madro...@zakweb.de: On 07/28/10 21:45, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: == xterm == What doesn't work: UTF-8 mode is incompatible with 8-bit control sequences. If that doesn't ring a bell for you, then you don't

Re: UTF-8

2010-08-04 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
2010/8/5 Matthew Dempsky matt...@dempsky.org: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Jordi Beltran Creix jbcreix.m...@gmail.com wrote: ls(1) needs to use wcwidth(3) instead of just assuming 1 for alignment and if I remember correctly it also mangles the strings using isprint(3) or hardcoded values

What happened to citrus?

2009-02-19 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
Hello, Why wasn't citrus i18n support merged in the end? Was it for technical reasons, lack of testing, licensing, NIHS or what? Thank you,

Re: Browsers was: Re: firefox starts two times

2009-03-24 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
2009/3/24 Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org: I only got feedback from one person about swfdec update/sndio backend addition. do you read that as no interest in said port? somewhat. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Sorry, I had