Re: i386 - 10.0 gecko browsers

According to the latest bulk build data (https://releng.netbsd.org/bulktracker/build/724/www/), Firefox 123 failed to build, Firefox 115 also failed to build but Firefox 102 was OK. So in principle, there should be a firefox102 package. The firefox115 and firefox error is the same:

Re: OAUTH TOTP

Am 29.04.24 um 19:04 schrieb Patrick Welche: Apparently I need to "purchase an inexpensive OATH TOTP compatible token device." $ wtf oath wtf: I don't know what `oath' means! That's because it's OAuth, not oath :) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749 $ wtf totp TOTP: time-based one

Re: nice program to make sound

mpg123, or its successor (?) mpg321. There is also mp3blaster if you are looking for a TUI with playlists. -- Benny > Am 23.04.2024 um 19:02 schrieb Todd Gruhn : > > I did: > > vlc file:///file.mp3 --play-and-exit > > I works -- but I dont want the GUI on the screen. > > Is there another

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM Liam Proven wrote: > NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades > later > > Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types > > https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/ > > Comments and

Re: unattended install

You can use Anita (https://github.com/gson1703/anita) for this. I use this in https://github.com/google/netbsd-gce for creating VM images for Google Cloud Platform. -- Benny On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 3:26 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > > Hello folks, > > is there any way of

Re: NetBSD 10 and framebuffer consoles setup vs 9.3 (font, multiple...)

> does it have consequences to change constty to ttyE0? loosing "console" > status? In practice, no, unless you change to serial console in the bootloader. I do that on all my systems. -- Benny

Re: pkg_add and pkgin install taking extremely long

Am 25.03.24 um 17:40 schrieb Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult: I'm currently in process of setting up an CI build process for Xorg on NetBSD (inside Qemu), but encountering really long delays in package installations. A simple `pkg_add pkgin` runs for over a quarter hour, and pkgin install call

Re: How can one add a comment to a wiki page?

>> Any help? > > Well, I'll just avoid the wiki in the future, this experience has shown > me that it is not reliable. As I said in other thread, no documentation > is better that wrong documentation. No need to be so bitter! IIRC, account creation on the web is disabled because of spam. As

Re: PKGSRC-Changes

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 4:37 PM Justin Parrott wrote: > > I am interested in the details of pkgsrc changes, sir. > > I disagree with listing every commit. > > Generally I disagree with automated Email. Again, then you should not subscribe to this mailing list. You could look at CHANGES-2024

Re: NetBSD vs. smartphones?

Not if the toaster also runs NetBSD. On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > Make the smartphone "smarter". > But NetBSD on it. > > Will the phone be smarter than a toaster ? > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 2:38 PM Justin Parrott > wrote: > > > > FTP+BlueTooth > > > > On Thu, Mar 21,

Re: Raspberry Pi Zero W almost useless

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 11:06 AM Ramiro Aceves wrote: > I see that WIFI bwfm driver works the same as bad as in 10.0_RC1. I > have read that WIFI drivers are not very stable but I do not know > whether what I am experiencing is normal or not. I never had any luck with bwfm Wi-Fi on NetBSD,

Re: How to render Groff / troff output directly on the terminal

> I am experimenting with groff and troff on NetBSD. I am able to > generate a postscript file and view it with the following commands > > groff -ms -Tps test.ms > test.ps > gs test.ps > > Is there a way to render groff / troff's output directly to the > terminal similar to the way man

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 3:52 AM wrote: > p.s. NetBSD does have ZFS, but I haven't tried it, and I seem to recall > some discussion of stability issues. I have been using it for a few years, never had any stability issues. However, root on ZFS remains a bit challenging IIRC. I put ZFS on /usr

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

The correct size is "not on its own partition". Why not have /var along with / on the same filesystem? -- Benny On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 3:31 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > My /var is currently 32MB ... > > I keep getting errors when I reboot system. > > Correct size for a personal system is what??

Re: How to add to an existing PR?

The trick is to post to gnats-bugs@ (IIRC) with a subject line like Re: pkg/54321 This will turn into a PR update and be sent to all subscribers of the PR. -- Benny On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 2:27 PM wrote: > > I may be dumb, but I don't find anywhere a way to _add_ to a PR... > > Do one have

Re: NetBSD 9.3 amd64 Intel Nuc 8i7BEH xorg problem

> Yes, that's the correct procedure, but, I've never tried an update like > that using `sysupgrade'--I generally do a fresh install from scratch. I have used this procedure recently (with 10_BETA), and it worked flawlessly. > And, unless you're fine with compiling your applications from source,

Re: NetBSD-archive 503 Backend Unavailable

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 7:16 PM Bradley Benson wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed that https://archive.netbsd.org/ has been basically > broken for days now? I can browse many of the directories but most of the > file and a large portion of the directories all come back with an "Error 503 >

Re: would anybody use binary packages for NetBSD/i386 10?

I would like to create NetBSD 10 based CI images for Go in the near future. Having binary packages for i386 makes this immensely easier. -- Benny > Am 13.08.2023 um 14:32 schrieb Greg Troxel : > > In contemplating bulk builds and resources, I wonder if there are still > people who: > > are

Re: Talking to an external CD

> port 3 addr 7: high speed, self powered, config 1, Mass Storage > Device(0xa120), USB2.0 External(0x1c6b), rev 1.60(0x0160), serial > 00101016404027C00 Part of the line, the actual device name, is missing. Most likely, you also have something like cd0 at You should be able to mount it

Re: Which ARM SBC would work well with NetBSD?

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 8:53 AM Mayuresh wrote: > > I am in need of an SBC - like the raspberry pi. Ethernet, analog speaker > output and 2/3 USB ports (2.0 will do) is the requirement. RAM 1G should > suffice. HDMI output only for configuration and setup. Wifi not required. > > I am using one

Re: firefox resource hog

On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 12:16 PM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I too notice things are slower on NetBSD with Firefox and ArcticFox seems to > do better, so the hint that "threads" and "processes" might be an issue is a > hint. I think this has something to do with the relative slowness of

Re: NetBSD basics.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 7:32 PM wrote: > * In Linux, systemd is contentious. NetBSD appears to have init but > not systemd. What's the situation in NetBSD? The situation is very simple, in that there is no systemd. However, this occasionally means trouble when porting some software from Linux

NetBSD on older Macbook Pro: Wi-Fi and trackpad

Hi! Has anyone tried out NetBSD on an Intel Macbook Pro? I installed 9.3 on an external SSD on a 2012 model. It's running fairly well, just with two issues: 1. The integrated Wi-Fi is not recognized at all. Should there be a driver for it? I tried the first 10_BETA build but there was no

Re: NetBSD and old nvidia laptop card / crash and unusable X11

Hi Riccardo, On Thu, 8 Dec 2022, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I have a fine and nice laptop which unfortunately has an older nvidia card. I updated to 9.3, but the same issue persist as older versions. is it any better if you try booting a NetBSD-current snapshot? -- Benny

Running a service on a console in the foreground

Hi! Is it possible to have some program running in the foreground on one of the VTs on startup, instead of getty? I would like it to start up on boot and use the console for input and output. How do you set up such a thing, or is this simply not supported? -- Benny

Re: btrsf

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 1:55 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > IS BTRFS in pkgsrc? Where? It's a Linux thing. On NetBSD, there is ZFS, which does the same thing except it doesn't lose your data :) -- Benny

Re: Low power server ideas

> https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/making_rockpro64_a_netbsd_server > > Using a 128gig internal MMC would be plenty for OS and some local > storage then I would add some other disks, possibly SSD. The RockPro would also be my recommendation. Solid and very low power. -- Benny

Re: Need with NetBSD-9.99.98

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 7:10 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > I get barfs about .X* and .xadr*. . Could you paste the exact error messages please? > But CTAM worts -- why? What? -- Benny

Call for Proposals: EuroBSDCon 2022

Hi all, apologies if you are getting this message more than once. EuroBSDCon 2022 CfP is now open, the conference is planned to be in person. Please consider submitting a talk proposal if you have something NetBSD-related to speak about. The EuroBSDcon program committee is inviting

Re: BorgBackup manpages

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 8:22 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > I just upgraded BorgBackup to 1.1.17. When I finished I executed "man > -a borg". I > got an error. I foung a mess of manpages of the form borg*.1 . > I checked /usr/pkg/man/man1 -- found no pages with the name borg*.1 . > Were they installed?

solved (was: Re: UEFI dual-boot with Windows)

On Thu, 30 Dec 2021, Pedro Pinho wrote: Not adding anything here but, this is something users ask everynow and then on different forums. It would be awesome if the wiki contained a guide on how to set-up a dualboot, Windows/NetBSD and Linux/NetBSD. Including seting up rEFInd would be the

UEFI dual-boot with Windows

Hi! I re-installed Windows 10 on my machine, and it insisted on UEFI boot, which killed my previous dual-booting setup with GRUB and legacy boot. NetBSD is on the second NVMe drive, while the first one is all Windows. After installing Windows, I manually installed rEFInd into the EFI

Re: sysctl and screen brightness

It depends on what the exact machine is. Try looking through the output of "sysctl hw" or "sysctl machdep" for options with "brightness", "backlight", or similar in their names. -- Benny On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 4:12 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > Unfortunately,no... > The graphics card is nVidia. >

Re: Firefox (other GTK3 apps?) sends PDF to PostScript printer

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021, John D. Baker wrote: The result of "Print to LPR", however, spewed PDF to my printer, not the PostScript it speaks (it is a Real Printer(tm) which lives on my LAN). I also have a Real Printer(TM) but it accepts Postscript *and* PDF, so I haven't even noticed this

Re: Regular NetBSD packaging and pkgin

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 2:46 AM Mark Carroll wrote: > Does anybody have an idea what I messed up on the > latter? I first noticed when "pkg_admin audit" was telling me less than > I expected on that system. It sounds like pkgin and your pkg_* tools disagree on what the correct PKG_DBDIR is.

Re: Custom CD mixes

> Am 09.07.2021 um 21:45 schrieb Todd Gruhn : > > If I wanna pull the music off CDs and make a custom album, is there a package > that would allow me to choose the songs, and play order? Rhythmbox is a good software for organizing your music collection and creating playlists. If you want

Re: getting pkgsrc-wip with CVS

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: Is it possible to get pkgsrc-wip using cvs ? No. You have to use git. -- Benny

Re: New kernel config

On Mon, 24 May 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: Here is part of the dmesg from a new kernel config. How do I shut off or remove all these "... at acpi0 not configured" messages? Is there a specific driver/probe I need to comment out? You can disable acpi0, but then you have no ACPI (i.e. power

Re: NetBSD on bhyve on TrueNAS Core

> > userconf disable xhci* Thanks, that did the trick! I submitted a dmesg at https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view=6024 :) > I mean, for the installation you will have to quickly go to the vnc > window, interrupt the boot to command line and enter 'boot -c'; then There is a trick for

Re: NetBSD on bhyve on TrueNAS Core

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 6:30 PM Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > My -current (still 9.99.79) runs under TrueNAS just fine, with UEFI > and VNC, as you say. That sounds good. What settings do you use? In particular, the web UI gives me Windows, Linux and FreeBSD as the choice of host OS. I chose FreeBSD

NetBSD on bhyve on TrueNAS Core

Hi! Has anyone had any success with running a NetBSD VM in bhyve under TrueNAS? I tried booting the install CD-ROM (both 9 and current, amd64) with UEFI and VNC. In each case, I see the bootloader, then the graphical console and the kernel starts booting. Then about 5 seconds later, VNC simply

Re: MWM and cut-and-paste

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 2:09 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > I recall doing cut-and-paste with MWM/NetBSD many years ago. > Is it poss to cut-and-paste long commands instead of retyping them? mwm is a window manager. Where do you want to copy and paste commands? If this is about a Motif-based terminal

Re: AWS EC2 AMIs

I believe Jeff Rizzo maintains (or used to maintain) them. Side note: I maintain https://github.com/google/netbsd-gce for Google Compute Engine. Unfortunately, we do not have official machine images available on GCE. That requires some sort of "blessed" status for a Cloud project. FreeBSD has it,

Re: GPIO programs for Raspberry Pi in Python and C

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 3:19 PM Rocky Hotas wrote: > As an alternative, are there some C libraries available for NetBSD, to > manage the GPIO pins? NetBSD uses the gpio(4) device to talk to the GPIO pins: http://man.netbsd.org/gpio.4 So your program opens /dev/gpio and uses ioctl to do things.

Re: Any package to populate image from raw data?

You can build something with the Go image package quite easily. Create an image in memory and fill it with raw values, then write to an image format of your choice. If you prefer C++, OpenCV can do this too. Mayuresh schrieb am Do. 31. Dez. 2020 um 17:54: > I recently wrote a pyusb based driver

Re: Mini-PC for NetBSD

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:23 PM Matthias Petermann wrote: > today a small hardware question. I would like to buy a Mini-PC, on which > NetBSD should be used as primary desktop operating system. I thought > about an Intel NUC. Such a device from the lower end of the performance > scale with

Re: Large size console font possible?

On Sun, 8 Nov 2020, Michael Huff wrote: On a laptop with an intel card. During boot the font resizes into something really tiny and barely readable -which gives me intense eyestrain really quickly, and makes console troubleshooting a problem. The console font is determined by the fonts

Re: Filesystem checks with noauto

The last two numbers in the line are the order in which to run fsck and backups. So if you replace "1 2" with "0 0", it will do what you want. Benny Dima Veselov schrieb am Di., 27. Okt. 2020, 18:37: > Greetings, > > I have a Gluster volume on NetBSD box. It has long > description in fstab > >

Re: Missing files for browsers in -current

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 8:37 AM Clay Daniels wrote: > I've been trying to get a browser working in -current. I tried Firefox the > other day but it did not work the other day. Tonight I loaded the new > snapshot of NetBSD 9.66.70 and I thouht I would try Tor instead. I get the > same message:

Re: How to "turn on" fonts in X?

If you are talking about bitmap fonts (the kind that you can select in xfontsel), they should be part of base X11. For TrueType fonts, look in the "fonts" category in pkgsrc. You probably need Bitstream Vera and msttcorefont. Bob Bernstein schrieb am Fr., 17. Juli 2020, 20:29: > On Fri, 17 Jul

Re: pkg_admin usage

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:43 AM Bob Bernstein wrote: > > The man page for pkg_admin contains this line: > > set variable=value pkg ... > > Do the three final "..." indicate that if it is desired to set > that variable to that value for more than one package, then can > be named in a

Re: cvs better than git?

Please read the archives of the tech-repository list. This has been discussed to death. mayur...@kathe.in schrieb am Mi., 17. Juni 2020, 10:40: > i am not an expert at version control systems to understand this by myself. > would like to understand why 'cvs' is preferred over "git" under

Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/" still aborts, but...

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:28 AM Greg A. Woods wrote: > The suggestion earlier on this list (netbsd-users) was to do exactly: > > hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/ > > a) That doesn't actually work at the moment (and hasn't, ever?). > > b) Even when you work around the problem, it's

Is the PR sender form on www.netbsd.org broken?

This is the second time that I tried to submit a PR via the web form, fill out all the fields and get "Bad Data You need to specify at least your electronic mail address, your name, a synopsis of the of the problem and choose an appropriate selection for category, severity, priority and class.

Re: Where do I get the source tree tarball from?

I recommend Mercurial: hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/ On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 2:50 PM mayur...@kathe.in wrote: > > On Thursday, June 11, 2020 05:34 PM IST, xpetrl wrote: > > > > > > > On 6/11/20 1:27 PM, mayur...@kathe.in wrote: > > > i wish to try-out martin huseman's response to my

Re: Update /usr/pkgsrc

That, or just rebuilding all packages from source: pkg_admin set rebuild=YES \* pkg_rolling-replace -v On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 10:31 AM Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 05:13, Jay Patel wrote: > > > > Check this out : > >

Re: Controlling pkg_rolling-replace

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:49 AM Bob Bernstein wrote: > 1. www/ikiwiki > > and > > 2. Any perl package on which it depends. (There are many.) If you want full control over what pkg_rr does, manually mark the packages to rebuild with "pkg_admin set rebuild=YES $pkgname". For instance, you can run

Re: NetBeans Unexpected error: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:45 PM Greg Troxel wrote: > Given the Ubuntu package is > called java-cet, I would guess that it does something to configure the > jre. John, could you provide more information on the Ubuntu package? I was unable to find a trace of this package on packages.ubuntu.com.

Re: Resetting X windows

This sounds like your window manager crashed, or is not running. If you can get into an xterm, try running mwm, or whatever window manager you are using. On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:16 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > I tried to set pointer colors under LessTif. > > I used "xsetroot" ; now I cant access

Re: Pkgtools setup

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:02 PM Todd Gruhn wrote: > How much has pkgtools changed since 2010? A lot. > Are any vars set in /etc/profile? > > I have mk.conf copied to the /etc dir. Look, if I were you, and I have weird inexplicable performance issues, I would start with an empty /etc/mk.conf

Re: Using pkgsrc; execution speed

This is definitely not normal. Can you tell a bit more about what OS version on what hardware? On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 9:31 AM Todd Gruhn wrote: > > I finally got the pkg tools system to work. > > When I compiled bootstrap, it took 4hrs -- so I killed it and restarted it > when I went to > bed.

Re: green lines hell

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:36 PM Andrei M. wrote: > In all recent major versions of NetBSD/amd64, incl. NetBSD 9.0 error > notifications from the kernel are forwarded in green colour to the > first vt. In my case it mostly concerns notifications about hardware > probing going on or when a

Re: Epson M200 printer

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:44 AM Dmitrii Postolov wrote: > It is possible to port epson-inkjet-printer-escpr to pkgsrc from FreeBSD or > OpenBSD? I just ported this driver and added it to pkgsrc-wip as wip/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr. Please build it from source and report back if it works! --

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

Is root-on-zfs supported at all? I do not need a ZFS-capable bootloader, I can load the kernel from a different partition via GRUB, but can the zpool be at the root? On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:54 PM Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > FYI I switched all my nvmm virtual machines to use zvols under >

Re: amd64 SBCs on which NetBSD would run ?

If you really want to go with amd64, I'd suggest an Intel NUC. It's what I have been using for the last few years. They are small, fast but not very cheap. NetBSD-current supports mine really well, except for its Thunderbolt port.

Re: upgrade - what will happen?

> However I've a question regarding pkgsrc. There are several own-backed pkgsrc > packages (build is performed always on the backup machine, and pkgin is used > to update the online server) installed. What do you mean by own-backed? Using builtin libraries? When you upgrade, the old library

Re: Alternative DVCS to git: hg?

Please do not turn this thread into a discussion about the merits of various VCSes for use in NetBSD. These discussions should take place on the tech-repository list. Thank you. On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:26 PM Sad Clouds wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:26 PM Greg Troxel wrote: > > > > Sad

Re: problems upgrading go112 (and go111) on NetBSD-8.99.32/amd64

Try rebuilding lang/go14 perhaps? You could also try editing lang/go112/Makefile and setting GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP to /usr/pkg/go111. On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 11:26 PM Greg A. Woods wrote: > > So, the following has been happening (and for go111), but I don't > understand the errors, nor have I any

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:04 PM Stephen Borrill wrote: > How is X support with a NetBSD dom0 nowadays? X works fine but Dom0 is limited to a single core. -- Benny

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

Another option would be to run Ubuntu as a Xen Dom0 and run NetBSD in a DomU, which is well-supported. Myself, I use the lazy solution, which is a NetBSD VM on Google Compute Engine that I spin up when needed. On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:33 AM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > as in a previous email, i

Re: change console font size to larger 80x24

You need to compile a Kernel and set an option to include a larger font. I use option FONT_SPLEEN16x32 schrieb am So., 7. Apr. 2019, 00:05: > Using evbarm on pinebook (NetBSD current as of yesterday). > > The font size is too small. > > I enabled additional virtual consoles in /etc/ttys > >

Re: netbsd development on a raspberry pi

the wrote: > > > From bsieg...@gmail.com Tue Apr 2 09:30:51 2019 > > From: Benny Siegert > > Subject: Re: netbsd development on a raspberry pi > > To: Mayuresh Kathe > > Cc: NetBSD Users > > > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:55 AM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: >

Re: netbsd development on a raspberry pi

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:55 AM Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > the question that i don't have an answer to is whether it is possible > to do development on an 'rpi' running netbsd? development would not > be restricted to just userland, but would also spill over into > kernel zone too. Sure! NetBSD

Re: SOLVED? Re: My first look at nouveau in xorg

Glad to hear it's working for you :) Bob Bernstein schrieb am Di. 19. März 2019 um 20:55: > Amazingly, I typed '/usr/pkg/bin/startx' and lo and behold had in > front of me the age-old X default of twm with the little clock and > three impossibly small xterms! > > And sure enough, I could tweak

Re: build error in /usr/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/modular-xorg

Did you set X11_TYPE=modular in your mk.conf? On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 7:13 AM Bob Bernstein wrote: > > I cd'd into the subdir noted above and entered "bmake." Here is the > bad news from pkgsrc: > > --snip--- > Package dependency requirement 'randrproto >= 1.6.0' could not be > satisfied. >

Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

Correct. But does that matter? IIRC, only the Xen Dom0 kernel is multiboot-compliant, and even then, it is a multiboot _module_ to be loaded after the Xen kernel. But I could be wrong. On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:58 AM pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > > knetbsd /netbsd root=/dev/wd0e > > Hello

Re: MULTIBOOT fails w/ GRUB2 and SYS/EXTLINUX

I think that GRUB2 has a special module and command to load NetBSD kernels: knetbsd /netbsd root=/dev/wd0e On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:37 AM pierre-philipp braun wrote: > > Yolo again > > this message closely relates to my two previous ones -- on bootstrapping > netbsd from an ext2fs manually

Re: Panic: no console device

I assume the CD drive is internal. Look upwards in the green text to see if you can find a line that says "cd0 at XYZ". If you don't, try finding you SATA controller and the hard drive (wd0 probably). If you have an external CD drive, try using that instead. Just writing the CD image on a USB

Re: pkgsrc lang/go111 error

There is something wrong with your go14 package. Try deleting that and installing it from source. In general, it sounds like your binary package repository is for the wrong architecture. Can you share your pkgin config and "uname -a" output? Benny Jay Patel schrieb am Do. 21. Feb. 2019 um

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

My hot take on this: Don't roll your own build system. No matter how easy and portable you think you made it, it is not going to be working for part of your users (think Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc., with a number of architectures each), and it is not going to be trivial to understand for packagers.

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - Embedded FreeBSD on a five-core RISC-V processor using LLVM

Don't forget that there are two NetBSD talks this yeat at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/netbsd_update/ (by me, 13:00) and https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kleak/ (Thomas Barabosch, 13:25) On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:24 PM Dinesh Thirumurthy wrote: > > Hi, > > This talk >

Re: Can not Download NetBSD 8.0 i386 USB Install Image

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 8:20 AM JingYuan Chen wrote: > I want to download NetBSD 8.0 i386 Install Image. But the source file > can not be read. Is there something wrong with it? Could you provide more details please? Which download URL did you use? Which file could not be read? What is the error

Re: How to setup Realtek 8139 10/100BaseTX cardbus?

> rtk0 at cardbus1 function 0: Realtek 8139 10/100BaseTX "dhcpcd rtk0" should get you an address. You can create a config for it with echo dhcp > /etc/ifconfig.rtk0 See https://man-k.org/man/NetBSD-current/5/ifconfig.if?r=2=ifconfig. -- Benny

Re: Lenovo t480 install

Yes, please try a daily build of NetBSD-current. Intel DRM support in particular has made lots of progress. On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 5:09 AM Michael Jensen wrote: > > > I can't seem to get Intel DRM driver to work, or the wmi (hot keys). > I can live without the SD-card reader, but I need the

Re: netbsd-8 build distribution error

It looks like your report only has stdout, not stderr. Can you get a combined log? Am So., 21. Okt. 2018, 19:36 hat Gua Chung Lim geschrieben: > Hi all, > > > I'm on netbsd-8 branch tag. > Normally I cvs everyday and build whenever there are updates. > Today I end up with build errors. > > %

Re: i915

On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 9:02 AM wrote: > If you are using netbsd-current, it will probably have support, but xorg > needs some workarounds for now: > - Build pkgsrc xorg deleting old packages, setting X11_TYPE=modular, > build meta-pkg/modular-xorg and start /usr/pkg/bin/startx. > - Get

Re: Package binaries for NetBSD 7.2

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 7:37 PM Greg Troxel wrote: > > I can't answer to any specific plans on this front... It's > > conceivable that the bulk builds will switch to 7.2 at some > > point. > > It's unfortunate that this happened; generally the plan for release > branches is not to have ABI

Why is TERM=vt100 on the console?

Hi, this is something which has baffled me for a while. On an amd64 system at least, when you log in on a text console, $TERM is set to vt100. This gives a barely functional terminal with notably no support for colors. The wsvt25 terminal type corresponds much better to, well, the wsvt driver, so

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:17 PM Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > > Nothing to continue in my eyes; you can always have more and > iterate over the code of course. No drag'n drop, of course. But > copy, that is enough for me. It used to use GNU autoconf; > i have patches and last i compiled it (a few

Re: cvs broken pipe

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 12:09 PM wrote: > Your PC close the connexion (FIN flag at 20:35:14.633195). > > Generaly, multiple lines with same ack and sequence may indicate packet loss. > It may also indicate a busy line or busy hosts on one end. Could it be that you need to lower MTU on the

Re: reading older disks

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:36 PM Mike Pumford wrote: > Not really its been a pretty universal experience of very old systems > for me that they don't like being stressed or powered off. :( In particular: In hard drives that run continuously for months or years, the centrifugal forces gradually

Re: port-arm/53537: typo in src/sys/arch/arm/sunxi/sunxi_thermal.c

> I realize that I've maybe made a mistake by assigning a category > matching a non-existing (ever? http://www.netbsd.org/ports/history.html) > port to this PR. Would it make sense to offer just existing ports as > port categories in PR submission form? No, port-arm is a legitimate category. It

Re: lang/swi-prolog-lite : lighter still

Would you be willing to submit a patch and send a PR? On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 10:05 AM Kathe wrote: > can the swi-prolog-lite package be made even more lighter? > i saw http://pkgsrc.se/lang/swi-prolog-lite and wondered > if it's dependence on bash, gmp and readline can be

Re: unbootable 7.1.2 amd64

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:15 PM Kathe wrote: > boot device: > root device: Look further up, if the kernel finds the device you booted from (USB stick, hard drive?). > is there anything that can be done to have 7.1.2 installed and run > smoothly? or is it that i had better wait

Re: Native sound system

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:28 AM Sid wrote: > OSS version 4 from http://developer.opensound.com/ is supposed to allow multiple sound applications to play simultaneously, and it has improvements over previous and forked versions. For the most part, it has a BSD license. NetBSD has

Re: Backup application recommendations

15:36: > On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 11:13:06 +0000 > Benny Siegert <bsieg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I like Borgbackup. It has remote repositories, encryption, > > deduplication (solving the issue with interrupted backups), > > checksumming but no GUI, I thin

Re: Backup application recommendations

I like Borgbackup. It has remote repositories, encryption, deduplication (solving the issue with interrupted backups), checksumming but no GUI, I think. -- Benny Sad Clouds schrieb am So. 1. Apr. 2018 um 11:51: > Hello, could anyone recommend a backup application

Re: DHCP client: dhclient vs dhcpcd ?

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:18 PM, KIRIHARA Masaharu wrote: > NetBSD has two DHCP clients; dhclient(8) and dhcpcd(8). > What's the difference? > Which is better to use? I agree that this is confusing. dhclient is the older tool, while dhcpcd has been created by a NetBSD

Re: Netbsd-7/i386 won't boot on new motherboard/CPU

> The kernel boots just past the first acpi message and then just sits > there "forever" (minutes is all I've waited). Try disabling ACPI. There is probably an option in the bootloader menu to do that.

Re: [pkgsrc] ICU needs configure CFLAGS='-03'

> But for my information, libssp is linked (or not) with gcc but what is > it supposed to provide? Stack Smashing Protection. It is a security feature.

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