I can't make iwi(4) driver work in 3.9

2006-05-06 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello dear OpenBSD friends. I have an Intel 2200 Wireless card on my laptop. It was working on OpenBSD 3.8. I have just installed a fresh OpenBSD 3.9. I also have installed the 3.0 firmware. # pkg_info iwi-firmware-3.0Firmware binary image for iwi driver # ls -l /etc/firmware/iwi*

Re: X11 Issue - Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 Graphics (Intel 915GM)

2006-04-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Intel 915GM/GMS Video rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured Hello, I have the same card and same dmesg line. I have Xorg working on my Compal laptop using vesa driver at 1024x768. Not too good but works ;-) If you need my xorg config file please let me know. Ramiro.

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-20 Thread Ramiro Aceves
. Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nice to see someone who says something constructive. Would you mind if you can point me to a HOWTO on how to do that. I will be pleased to help. I supose that I must compile gnumeric with debugging simbols first

Re: problem compiling ports, 3.8 stable

2006-03-19 Thread Ramiro Aceves
expat-1.95.6.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. Attempting to fetch /usr/ports/distfiles/expat-1.95.6.tar.gz from http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/. Size does not match for /usr/ports/distfiles/expat-1.95.6.tar.gz *** Error code 2

Re: Where to find 3.9 snapshots

2006-03-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello Theo and others. not find the X stuff there. Is it a matter of waiting more time until they appear or is that X will no longer be there (perhaps on ports?). Did you not hear us the first time? Look, if our project had a ton of money maybe we would be able to make snapshots while

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
On 3/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNUMERIC. The application crashes after introducing a number on a cell- right click-format cells Clearly something rather fundamental is broken. It is very likely an issue relating to the port. We have no reports of such a thing

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:34:08PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: cd /usr/ports/math/gnumeric make configure cd w-gnumeric-x.x.x/gnumeric-x.x.x vi Makefile Ouch. make DEBUG=-g install should do the job. Thank you very much! Ramiro.

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nice to see someone who says something constructive. Would you mind if you can point me to a HOWTO on how to do that. I will be pleased to help. I supose that I must compile gnumeric with debugging simbols first, as someone stated

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Most ports support setting CFLAGS. cd /usr/ports/foo/bar env 'CFLAGS=-g -O0' make install Don't be surprised if '-O0' makes the bug dissappear. Hello Andrew, Many thanks for the valuable information. I will start doing the debugging this week end. We are in this world to learn things,

Re: Where to find 3.9 snapshots

2006-03-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Danilo Piazzalunga wrote: Steve Shockley ha scritto: Danilo Piazzalunga wrote: Are snapshot not available anymore? Hello, I have been looking for 3.9 snapshots for i386 on OBSD mirrors and I can not find the X stuff there. Is it a matter of waiting more time until they appear or is that

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello, this is what I found about the gnome-panel issue on the bugs page: Number: 4473 Category: ports Synopsis: gnome-panel freeze and quits on OpenBSD 3.8 current i386 Confidential: yes Severity: serious Priority: medium Responsible:bugs State:

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
I differ a bit. If the port were removed, there'd be even less incentive to work to fix it in future. But, if testing shows it doesn't work, it should be marked as BROKEN for releases, yes. Now, wrt testing, it applies what others said: Everyone is asked to contribute, even if the

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello Helping is done with cash donations and diffs. Being an buttplug is not. I do not have enough money to make donations, I have contributed buying a CD set. I think it is insignificant and not too much but it is the only thing I can afford. I am not capable of sending any diffs. Not

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Ramiro Aceves
I have tested it in two very different machines and It fails as soon as you format a cell. no, my laptop runs -current. Oh great, it means that they have fixed it! It is not every possible combination of program and input, it is a failure that appears as soon as you format a cell.

OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello dear OpenBSD fans. After playing during some time with OpenBSD 3.8 and understanding how it works, I wanted to give it a more serious try on my laptop. I know OpenBSD is not intended for desktop use, but anyway, I wanted to use some applications. The results have been very disapointing.

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Wijnand Wiersma wrote: On 3/12/06, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNOME-PANEL. It crashes very often, so GNOME is not usable. I had the same problem on 3.8 too, I was hoping this was fixed in 3.9. I am sure it is not a hardware error, maybe the malloc changes have something to do

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello Joachim and others, Joachim Schipper wrote: Ports should work, actually, and OpenBSD should be suitable for desktop use. The flip side of the coin is that fancy GUIs are not too well loved amongst the developers, so support is typically less good than would be the case for, say, Fedora

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Greg Thomas wrote: On 3/12/06, Michael Erdely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnome is too bloated anyway... try out icewm. Much better. If we're getting into religious wars here WindowMaker works great for me. Greg Yes, WM also works fine here. But again, it is not a solution. GNOME

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Michael Erdely wrote: On 3/12/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/06, Michael Erdely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnome is too bloated anyway... try out icewm. Much better. If we're getting into religious wars here WindowMaker works great for me. Greg Wow! I'm not trying to

RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello. Just for curiosity, yesterday I was thinking about Linux emulation and redhat OpenBSD packages. I would like to know if it is planned to switch to some more free Linux distribution like Debian instead of Red Hat to be used as the base system for Linux emulation. Thanks in advance. Ramiro.

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello In what exact way is Debian more free than Redhat with respect to the portions OpenBSD takes for the emulation stuff? I am not an expert in this kind of issues, I just have some curiosity. You understand what I mean, RedHat 9 was the latest freely available RH version. RH 9 is becoming

iwlist scan equivalent command under OpenBSD

2006-02-16 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hi OpenBSD fans. I have been googling around and have not been able to solve this question. ?How can one discover what wireless networks are available under OpenBSD? I am used to the iwlist scan eth0 under Linux, and I hate to halt OpenBSD and boot Linux only to discover the networks, then come

Re: OpenBSD for a desktop environment ?

2006-02-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
On 2/15/06, Antonios Anastasiadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it runs via emulation, I was talking about a native port. I found where it was mentioned: http://cvs.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-pvalchev/ Interesting the malloc thing! Thank you very much for the information- Ramiro.

Re: OpenBSD for a desktop environment ?

2006-02-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
On 2/14/06, dreamwvr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:13:47PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: There was some discussion about this on the list some time ago. Apparently the Linux version works OK in compatability mode. I installed this version on my i386 OpenBSD machine

Re: OpenBSD for a desktop environment ?

2006-02-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
On 2/14/06, Bruno Carnazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'd like to know if someone tried to build a desktop environment on OpenBSD/i386. I think to rich desktop like Gnome or KDE. Is it hard ? What's your feedback ? Bruno. I think that the best thing you can do is to try and see

Re: OpenBSD for a desktop environment ?

2006-02-14 Thread Ramiro Aceves
There was some discussion about this on the list some time ago. Apparently the Linux version works OK in compatability mode. I installed this version on my i386 OpenBSD machine. I haven't used it -- other than to verify soffice fires up -- so I can't say how well it works. Yes, that was

Re: anoncvs prompts for password

2006-01-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
oh, forgot to say that I wish to track -current Thanks Ramiro On 1/15/06, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello OpenBSD friends. I have been googling around and I am not able to solve this problem. I am going to tell you the exact procedure for you to tell me whether I am doing

anoncvs prompts for password

2006-01-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello OpenBSD friends. I have been googling around and I am not able to solve this problem. I am going to tell you the exact procedure for you to tell me whether I am doing something wrong. My system was OpenBSD 3.8-stable. I cvs checkout'ed src, ports, XF4 and www from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs,

Re: anoncvs prompts for password

2006-01-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:40:23 -0800 Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh, forgot to say that I wish to track -current Thanks Ramiro On 1/15/06, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello OpenBSD friends. I have been googling around and I am not able

Re: anoncvs prompts for password

2006-01-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Two days later, I wanted to cvs up the souce from my OpenBSD box, and was stuck at the cvs prompt, when It asks me for a password: Script started on Sun Jan 15 11:20:34 2006 # cd /usr # export CVSROOT=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs # cvs up -Pd [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try

Re: anoncvs prompts for password

2006-01-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Wim Vandeputte wrote: Hi, yes, it's correct that I've removed both the anoncvs and openssh access to the machine as it needs to be upgraded. This will probably happen next time I get to Vienna, so around May. In the mean time I will remove the entry from the website to avoid confusion.

Re: anoncvs prompts for password

2006-01-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:52:37PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: I have investigated it further, and: When yesterday I tried another mirror, changing CVROOT env variable, I asumed that cvs up -Pd will pick the new mirror. But it picks instead the mirror

Re: anoncvs prompts for password

2006-01-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
When yesterday I tried another mirror, changing CVROOT env variable, I asumed that cvs up -Pd will pick the new mirror. But it picks instead the mirror that is on the /usr/src/CVS directory, so in order to use the new mirror, I needed to use the -d$CVROOT parameter. Alternatively you can

Updrading to stable branch --- rebuilding ports?

2006-01-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello dear OpenBSD friends. I have just upgraded my 3.8 release CD install trough CVS to the stable branch (OPENBSD_3_8)( src, ports and XF4). I have rebuilt my kernel, the userland and X Window. Everything runs fine and smoothly as expected. I also removed the installed packages and I am

Re: Posible bug in bktr(4) man pages

2005-12-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
yes, CARD_ is necessary. how to put that in the manpage in a nice format, well, I was hoping you had some input on that. simply prepending CARD_ to the names in the table will put some characters in the table beyond the 80 character limit (unless the table is shifted to the left a bit,

Re: Posible bug in bktr(4) man pages

2005-12-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
On 12/7/05, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:09:02AM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: yes, CARD_ is necessary. how to put that in the manpage in a nice format, well, I was hoping you had some input on that. simply prepending CARD_ to the names

Re: Posible bug in bktr(4) man pages

2005-12-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
i just fixed this. jmc Thanks you very much, I have just seen the change on the OpenBSD CVS WEB interface. Ramiro

Re: Posible bug in bktr(4) man pages

2005-12-06 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:53:00AM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello. yo! The system does not recognize my TV CARD tuner type out of the box, and xawtv does not work. As I did not know if it was possible to configure TV CARD with config(8), I tried to compile

Posible bug in bktr(4) man pages

2005-12-05 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello. I have found something that I think it could be a man page bug. I have installed OpenBSD 3.8/i386 release from official CDROM and I am very happy with it. I have installed most of the software I use under Linux (I am writting from Linux now cause I have not configured thunderbird yet).

Re: rapid response to ordering :-)

2005-11-06 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hmmm, I ordered mine over 2 weeks ago and still haven't seen them. Probably stuck somewhere with the good old USPS. Greg Me too, I preordered my CD set to OpenBSD/Europe (I live in Spain ) at the beginning of october and I am still waiting, :-( . Anyway, I asume they are busy sending

Re: OpenBSD's 10th birthday -- how about a present?

2005-10-23 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Mike Hernandez wrote: On 10/21/05, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi OpenBSD fans! My 3.8 CD preorder is sent also! I am waiting nervous for the 3.8 release! Nervous? You must mean anxious :) One of the main reasons I love OpenBSD is because there is so much less to be nervous

Re: OpenBSD's 10th birthday -- how about a present?

2005-10-21 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hi OpenBSD fans! My 3.8 CD preorder is sent also! I am waiting nervous for the 3.8 release! Thanks to all guys! Ramiro.

Re: complex.h under OpenBSD

2005-09-05 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello again, After several days of investigation, I was able to patch and make NEC (numerical Electromacnetigs Code) in plain C languaje under OpenBSD. The trick was making function definitions for those functions that are built-in in gcc compiler: #define complex _Complex double creal(complex

Re: Lifecycle question

2005-09-05 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: Currently, our Institute investigates alternative operating systems compared to Linux. Apart from technical issues we are also concerned about lifecycle management as well. We simply don't want to reinstall/upgrade an entire OS all half year, which is the main

Re: complex.h under OpenBSD

2005-09-03 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Bob Beck wrote: Do you know where can I get the complex.h file, or please can you point me in the right direction? I am puzzled now. What you posted is not a C program it is a C++ program. If you actually use the C++ compiler it works fine. You don't need to find the header file if

Re: complex.h under OpenBSD

2005-09-03 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:30:51AM +0200, Ramiro Aceves wrote: [...] Thank you very much to all for your responses. I seems that It is a good time to learn the C++ thing. Some time ago with no too much free time, I tried it with no luck. I found object

complex.h under OpenBSD

2005-09-02 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello dear OpenBSD fans. I am trying to compile a C program (Numerical Electromagnetics Code, NEC, for antenna modelling) that needs complex numbers. I compiled it with gcc on Linux with no special problems. It is an originaly fortran written program that nowadays is translated into C for

Re: complex.h under OpenBSD

2005-09-02 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello dear friends, I am sorry, I do not know how to program in C++, I was looking for something in plain C, not C++. I seems that as Otto stated, complex.h is a C99 thing and OpenBSD does not fully support C99. Anyway, I understand it better now. I will see whether I am able to modify the

Re: Complete disk disaster

2005-08-30 Thread Ramiro Aceves
I hope you are not storing any valuable data on a 10 year old hdd... Yes, of course. I have a ddefinitive answer now. After some days of use, the disk failed again. I changed the drive to another computer, and after compiling some ports, some disk read failures came again, causing segfaults.

Re: Complete disk disaster

2005-08-24 Thread Ramiro Aceves
First, thank you very much for your interesting responses. Yesterday in the evening I installed OpenBSD again on the same disk, just to be sure if I could reproduce the errors. Yes!, I did not have to wait for a long time. The errors appeared after some hours of use. I installed the ports tree

Re: Complete disk disaster

2005-08-24 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Edd Barrett wrote: Oh, thanks, but I tried to do it a month ago from my Linux box and this is an old disk that does not have the SMART thing. :-( At the price of storage media these days, you may aswell just buy another disk. Regards Edd Yes, disks are indeed very cheap. I had this

Re: Complete disk disaster

2005-08-24 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:37:46AM +0200, Ramiro Aceves wrote: First, thank you very much for your interesting responses. Yesterday in the evening I installed OpenBSD again on the same disk, just to be sure if I could reproduce the errors. Yes!, I did not have to wait

Re: Complete disk disaster

2005-08-23 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:34:34PM +0200, Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello Friends. I am new to OpenBSD (but not to Unixes), my experience with this OS is only a month. I was getting more an more confortable with the OS, and getting in love with it, but today I have

Re: Complete disk disaster

2005-08-23 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Josh Grosse wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:29:18AM +0200, Ramiro Aceves wrote: ... Do you know of any disk test or utility program that can stress the disk to work hard until it fails? Oh, thanks, but I tried to do it a month ago from my Linux box and this is an old disk that does

Re: Fwd: Complete disk disaster

2005-08-23 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Jernej Vodopivec wrote: forgot to cc: -- Forwarded message -- From: Jernej Vodopivec [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Aug 23, 2005 11:45 AM Subject: Re: Complete disk disaster To: Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8/23/05, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...Do you

Complete disk disaster

2005-08-22 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello Friends. I am new to OpenBSD (but not to Unixes), my experience with this OS is only a month. I was getting more an more confortable with the OS, and getting in love with it, but today I have experienced a very weird and strange thing. My OpenBSD testing system is installed on the second

eap(4) issues

2005-08-19 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello OpenBSD fans, I have problems with eap(4) driver. I have two CT5880 cards of different manufacturers placed in different computers. The problem arises only with one sound card. The computer with this card, works fine: eap0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 Ensoniq CT5880 rev 0x02: irq 5 ac97:

Re: eap driver audioctl issue

2005-08-16 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Lost Reality wrote: Hello I have the same issue with a SB Live 5.1. This message appears, but the setting is changed anyways... -- Andre Yes, although the audioctl command gives an error and the setting aparently changes, it does not really work. I thought it was an issue of eap driver

eap driver audioctl issue

2005-08-15 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello OpenBSD fans. I am newbie to OpenBSD but have certain Linux and FreeBSD experience. I am having trouble with my audio Ensoniq CT5880 card under OpenBSD. The problem occurs in two very different computers with same card but different manufacturer. This card works well with snd-es1371 ALSA

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
I understand that. It is beginning to look like I have had for at least 2 years a serious misconception about what using xdm permits OpenBSD to do in terms of running multiple users in windows mode. What I want to do is make it possible for multiple users simultaneously to login and run

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Dave Feustel wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 05:29, Ramiro Aceves wrote: I understand that. It is beginning to look like I have had for at least 2 years a serious misconception about what using xdm permits OpenBSD to do in terms of running multiple users in windows mode. What I want to do

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-12 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Dave Feustel wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 07:02, you wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 05:29, Ramiro Aceves wrote: I understand that. It is beginning to look like I have had for at least 2 years a serious misconception about what using xdm permits OpenBSD to do in terms