Re: Buying new laptop, looking for feedback

2018-05-15 Thread Thomas Frohwein
Hi, The specs on my Dell Latitude E5570 should similar to what you're looking at with the T470s. I'm very happy with running OpenBSD on it. The only limitations that I've noticed are: - I can't adjust screen brightness in OpenBSD. - The dedicated AMD R7 M370 doesn't work, but things run fine

Re: Different sound sources interfere with each other

2018-06-16 Thread Thomas Frohwein
> > The first problem is: when I listen to music (cmus) and browse in the > > internet (Firefox) cmus sometimes stops playing for a second. > > This happens when I click a link on a page or receive some notification > > from the web page (which may play some short sound) > > I am having the

Re: node: Cannot allocate memory

2018-06-06 Thread Thomas Frohwein
I can't reproduce this on -current amd64, neither with a snapshot from last week, nor after updating today. thfr@e5570:~$ node -v v8.11.1 thfr@e5570:~$ node > console.log('test log'); test log undefined > .exit thfr@e5570:~$ > node -v > bash: /usr/local/bin/node: Cannot allocate memory I run

Re: Poor browser performance in OpenBSD

2018-06-20 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:36:37AM +0300, wrote: > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > [17.555] (--) checkDevMem: using aperture driver /dev/xf86 > [17.603] (--) Using wscons driver on /dev/ttyC4 > [17.639] > X.Org X Server 1.19.6 When I tried different settings with Intel

Re: New laptop recommendations

2018-06-20 Thread Thomas Frohwein
No AMD laptop recommendations in this day and age? Also buying used or refurbished laptops on eBay is a security risk from the outset - ask yourself how well you would be at spotting if someone had tampered e.g. with the webcam or the firmware? With new hardware, you have at least a reasonable

Re: firefox crashes when password field is focused

2018-06-20 Thread Thomas Frohwein
> Whenever I click on a password field on a website firefox crashes. > This is on current w/ newest firefox and is reproducible on every > password field on every site I tried (although usernames work fine) > and is reproducible with all combinations of settings including > default. It has

Re: ddb(4) and usb keyboards

2018-10-14 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 12:53:53AM -0500, Colton Lewis wrote: [...] > I wish to use the kernel debugger, but triggering it from the system > console causes the computer to stop responding to all keyboard input > and my only way out is a hard reset. I have tried every USB hub on my > system with

Re: Determining if a package is installed (regardless of version)

2019-03-27 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 07:27:15AM +, Adam Steen wrote: [...] > I should have been more specific, my use case completes the check in two steps > > 1. find out whats installed, builds a list of packages > 2. install whats not installed. [...] If you want to build a list of installed packages

Re: [PATCH] Remove "Multibooting" in FAQ

2019-04-06 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 09:10:59PM +0300, Leonid Bobrov wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 05:45:42PM +, tfrohw...@fastmail.com wrote: [...] > > Sure, what did you have to do in order to dualboot Windows and OpenBSD? > > I'm not experienced with dualbooting at all because I never need/must to

Re: Shadow artifacts and color distortions when using compton(1). Perhaps after recent Xenocara update?

2019-02-10 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 11:16:03PM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > Hi, > After upgrading to todays snapshot (February 10th) I experience some rather > ugly shadow artifacts and color distortions when using compton(1) under > cwm(1). > It may perhaps best be described by linking to an issue

Re: Malloc config became global sysctl in 6.5

2019-04-27 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 02:07:44AM +0700, Igor Podlesny wrote: [...] > Looks like decision made aren't subjects of discussing(?) Well, why > the hell you have those mail lists then(?) :) Igor: The actual purpose of misc@ is for us to learn that you are among the people to ignore. Everyone else:

Re: Activating second crypted (or other raid) device

2019-05-05 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 08:57:55PM +0300, cho...@jtan.com wrote: [...] > Currently after every upgrade I patch /etc/rc to run /etc/rc.blockdev > (containing bioctl -cC -p /etc/sd0.key -l sd0a softraid0) before the > additional filesystems are checked or mounted. The order of sdX may change if

Re: Good Quality Microphone for Podcasts compatible with OpenBSD

2019-08-15 Thread Thomas Frohwein
I've been doing screencasts to Twitch from OpenBSD that improved significantly with the Samson Meteor Mic, a USB Mic. No compatibility issues there, and I'm very pleased with the quality.

Re: OpenBSD and solid state disks

2019-11-02 Thread Thomas Frohwein
[...] > My question is whether OpenBSD addresses the special characteristics > of solid state drives, especially those having to do with longevity > and reliability. I can't find anything written on this. Linux has > certain means for addressing this issue, such as fstrim as well as > various

Re: Game controller / gamepad recommendation

2020-01-22 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, at 12:29 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in a search for a game controller / gamepad for OpenBSD and > found an old article on OpenBSD Journal[0] regarding (support for) > an Xbox 360 one. SDL2 got some tweaks since [1] that allow using the Xbox 360 (wired) gamepad

Re: ThinkPad T14 AMD

2020-08-23 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 12:41:21AM +, s...@skolma.com wrote: [...] > I require Citrix and ms teams so unfortunately I’m running Linux on it . I don't know about MS Teams, but I also use Citrix for work and do that with Citrix Workspace chromium plugin:

Re: USB Camera

2020-09-17 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 03:46:25PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Can people please recommend an USB camera > that is known to work well with OpenBSD? I have a Logitech C310 USB webcam that works well for my purposes. It's 720p. Note I haven't used the mic, as I have a separate USB mic. > Are they

Re: gpt/uefi

2020-09-18 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 03:15:21AM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > Hi folks! > > I would like to install on my notebook 3 operating systems: OpenBSD, > Linux and Windows 10. > > Do you know any tutorial on how the create the partitions using GPT > before i install any of the 3 OSes ? I would like

Re: Mounting encrypted drive on boot

2020-06-03 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 12:27:00AM +0100, Chris Narkiewicz wrote: [...] > My setup consist of OpenBSD 6.7 with full drive encryption using > softraid, configured as described in FAQ: > > /dev/sd0a - encrypted volume > /dev/sd1 - decrypted > > I have additional need to mount an encrypted /var

Re: Chromium with WebAssembly flavor?

2021-01-30 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 09:44:26PM -0600, Charlie Burnett wrote: > Hi, > I wasn't sure if this was worthy of ports or not, so I wanted to throw this > out here first. I don't like Zoom, and I understand WebAssembly has some > inherent issues in it, but I imagine a good number of people don't have

Re: kitty termcap entry

2021-06-26 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:00:54AM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2021-06-20, Björn Gohla wrote: > > > > hi all, > > > > i have the following problem with the kitty terminal emulator: > > > > > > 15:43:39 bgohla@titanic ~ $ doas pkg_add hello > > doas (bgo...@titanic.my.domain)

Re: FVWM terminal emulator transparency issue in -current

2021-02-15 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:03:55PM -0600, Luke Small wrote: > I'm running fvwm window manager and I just switched to -current. Roxterm is > totally messed up, won't do transparent background and I tried > xfce4-terminal and it says it won't do transparent backgrounds because > compositing is

Re: New desktop CPU/chipset recommendation

2021-09-20 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 02:56:31PM -0400, Andre Smagin wrote: > Good day. > > I am looking for a hardware advice. > I don't upgrade my desktop very often - last one was about ten > years ago (AMD FX-8350 CPU), which I recently made my home server > running -current, no issues. Now I am looking

Re: New desktop CPU/chipset recommendation

2022-02-13 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 19:16:55 -0500 Andre Smagin wrote: > Replying to my own thread from months ago. Took some time to get > this done, buying one part per paycheck, but I have a new desktop now. > Ryzen 9 5950x on x570 chipset motherboard, should last ten years at > least. Everything "just works"

Re: X11 crashing

2023-10-05 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 06:23:36AM +, Maria Morisot wrote: > I installed the patch for X11 (October 3rd), then rebooted, > now X is crashing every time I log in on xenodm, > sometimes I get a blue screen with debug messages, > other times I get a square on my screen with a black background, >

Re: Webcam support on Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen3 (Intel)

2023-10-07 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 07:08:21AM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 08:51:36AM +, Comte wrote: > > The webcam seems well detected but no image is displayed... > > What happens if you run /usr/X11R6/bin/video instead of using ffmpeg? > > > # dmesg | grep "uvideo" >

Re: Auto layout for disk partitions - a new user's perspective

2022-04-18 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 01:36:18PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote: [...] > > 2) Should there be a /usr/local/pobj partition created with correct mount > > options? (I appreciate building ports is an "advanced" thing to do - but it > > feels weird having to mess with partition layout after a

Re: Making MS teams work on openbsd

2023-01-18 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:19:25PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote: > Greetings friends :) > > In short MS teams works via chrome on openbsd7.2 for me except for the > camera. I was on an MS Teams meeting a few weeks ago with camera working. The main issue from my experience was the web client auto

Re: Command At Startup

2023-04-01 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 04:28:20PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 11:26:31AM +0200, Computer Planet wrote: > > Hi Guys, OpenBSD 7.2 > > I have no way to get a stupid autorun script to load. Can anyone tell me > > where to put this script? > > In /etc/rc.local it

Re: Can't login after upgrading to 7.3

2023-04-11 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 05:12:34PM -0600, Nathan Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > > I ran sysupgrade on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon running 7.2 and am unable to login > afterwards. I’m unable to log in as my normal user in either the WM (LeftWM) > or the terminal, I immediately get kicked back to login. I’m

Re: tmux server recent snapshot amd64 100% CPU freeze

2023-07-17 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 12:54:05PM +, Jacqueline Jolicoeur wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I would mention I seem to be able to reproduce a tmux lock up > where the tmux server component runs at 100% CPU. I am unable to attach > to it at that point. > > The command I run in order to reproduce

Re: ksh bug or just normal behaviour?

2023-08-02 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 12:14:51PM +, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > > > Am Mi., 02.Aug..2023 um 13:45:26 schrieb Peter N. M. Hansteen: > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 11:35:39AM +, Ioan Samarul wrote: > > > Can you please tell me if this is a bug or it is considered normal? > > > > > > $ set -A

Re: My /usr cleaning campaign..

2023-08-13 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 06:40:54PM +0200, Daniele B. wrote: > > Thanks Stuart, as usual. > > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > I still do not understand why I have gtk-doc presents on disk but I > > > keep it for myself, not like the mistake on the signature, I mean.. > > > then we go to disturb

Re: No packages found for 7.5 snapshot on arm64

2024-03-09 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:27:36PM +0500, ofthecentury wrote: > I had a similar problem this week, for amd64. > The 'packages/amd64' folder on the OpenBSD > mirrors for 7.5 snapshot is also empty. So I > just manually set PKG_PATH to 7.4 packages > folder for the time being. This will likely

Re: Sudden reboot every 5-10 minutes on latest snapshot

2024-05-25 Thread Thomas Frohwein
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 12:06:39PM +, Ali Farzanrad wrote: > Ali Farzanrad wrote: > > Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 09:04:29PM +, Ali Farzanrad wrote: > > > > Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 04:30:52PM +, Ali Farzanrad wrote: