Re: Gah... How usable is www/firefox on NetBSD?

2018-05-02 Thread Roy Bixler
browser.tabs.remote.autostart=false and might wantto > change .2 too. > > And it is in about:config. I tried this setting and, at first, it didn't seem to help. Then I removed my old profile, started a new one and re-applied the setting. So far, so good. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.n

Re: Gah... How usable is www/firefox on NetBSD?

2018-05-01 Thread Roy Bixler
mes it takes many restarts. Sometimes it gets stuck and I have to forcefully kill it before I try again. It might also be worth trying some combination of "Restore this tab" or Control-N (open new window) or Control-T (open new tab). I also rarely have the problem with Firefox 59 with NetBSD

Re: dhcpcd and multiple IPv6 gateways on one interface

2017-09-12 Thread Roy Bixler
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 09:48:01AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> wrote: > > Update: something changed on the network and I'm not getting the > > syslog spam anymore. The only evidence of the change I have is an >

Re: dhcpcd and multiple IPv6 gateways on one interface

2017-09-12 Thread Roy Bixler
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 04:42:37PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > On a NetBSD 7.1 system, after a network upgrade by the administrator > (not me), I see frequent messages in /var/log/messages like this: > > dhcpcd[]: ab0: changing default route via fe80::xxx::: > dh

dhcpcd and multiple IPv6 gateways on one interface

2017-09-11 Thread Roy Bixler
. Can NetBSD do the same thing? Except for the log spam, the NetBSD system works fine with this router setup and IPv6. I can just ignore the log spam, but is there a better approach? -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is thi

Re: Binary package missing

2016-08-17 Thread Roy Bixler
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:56:19AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:40:46AM +, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > installing osabi-NetBSD-7.0... > > The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 > > pkg_install warnings: 0, errors: 1 > > --- >

Re: Prevent firefox from making noise

2016-04-21 Thread Roy Bixler
, resource-intensive /dev/null for sound. As long as your other apps. don't use Pulse, then it'd give the desired effect. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman

Re: Prevent firefox from making noise

2016-04-20 Thread Roy Bixler
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > If nothing else, it may be worth experimenting with the variables > under "about:config". I tried a quick search on it and the articles all say that firefox doesn't have a built-in way to disable audio (surprising,

Re: Qemu + tiny core linux = poor man's chromium on NetBSD

2016-03-01 Thread Roy Bixler
that someone has put a more modern version of Chromium in pkgsrc-wip. Those might be worth a try. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman

Re: nVidia vs NetBSD v7 resolving issue.

2016-02-26 Thread Roy Bixler
rent version for vesa? No, but you can try that and see if you have any better results. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman

Re: nVidia vs NetBSD v7 resolving issue.

2016-02-25 Thread Roy Bixler
r me in Linux, but not in NetBSD. I wonder what happens if you try nouveau on Linux with your system. It could be that your nVidia card is too new to be supported by nouveau or the X nv server. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition

Re: nVidia vs NetBSD v7 resolving issue.

2016-02-25 Thread Roy Bixler
ARs don't seem to be where the code expects them. If you hesitate to make the leap to -current, you could try booting with a Linux LiveCD like Knoppix and see if the Nouveau framebuffer works there. It did for me, which led me to try the experiment with -current. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@ny

Re: Some success with laptop sleep (ACPI S3)

2016-02-08 Thread Roy Bixler
the power button) and no wireless driver. Since power management doesn't work well, it's no surprise that it doesn't suspend at all. It starts well enough and syncs the disk, but the screen then goes dark and the system remains fully on. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The funda

Re: (tutorial) How to use PulseAudio on NetBSD

2015-11-19 Thread Roy Bixler
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 01:19:44PM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Roy Bixler wrote: > >I dislike pulseaudio for both architectural and performance reasons, so I > >adopted the option outlined in the above pkgsrc-bugs link and it did allow > >me to pla

Re: nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport updates for adobe-flash-plugin

2015-10-29 Thread Roy Bixler
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:59:13PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:42:11AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > > I had the same problem and found that starting up dbus and avahidaemon > > solved it. With older versions of Firefox, this wasn't necessary. > > I'd

Re: nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport updates for adobe-flash-plugin

2015-10-29 Thread Roy Bixler
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Onno van der Linden wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:12:27PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:59:13PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 09:42:11AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > > &g

Re: nspluginwrapper and libflashsupport updates for adobe-flash-plugin

2015-10-26 Thread Roy Bixler
e is needed to get sound > work again? I had the same problem and found that starting up dbus and avahidaemon solved it. With older versions of Firefox, this wasn't necessary. I'd be interested to see if there are other solutions to this, since I'd rather not run dbus/avahi. -- Roy Bixler <

Re: bootsplash for netbsd?

2014-09-25 Thread Roy Bixler
a blog posting that might be useful though: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/index.front?-tags=vesa -- Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. -- Richard P. Feynman

Re: servers unavailable?

2014-09-19 Thread Roy Bixler
. For example, the French mirror at ftp.fr.netbsd.org seems to have fairly recent builds on it. -- Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. -- Richard P. Feynman

Re: Recent video-related commits: summary wanted

2014-08-18 Thread Roy Bixler
or, for the cards it does support, it may not support all of the features of those cards. I also found that suspend/resume worked better with the NVidia driver than with the Nouveau driver. -- Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole

Re: email management under netbsd : any simple strategies?

2014-06-17 Thread Roy Bixler
around with something like msmtp or ssmtp (available as packages) and mutt can be configured to call those instead. -- Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. -- Richard P. Feynman

Re: timeout on siside0

2014-05-27 Thread Roy Bixler
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:06:43PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: On 22 May 2014 18:25, Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net wrote: atapci0: SiS 962/963 WDMA2 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xff00-0xff0f at device 2.5 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel at channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA

Re: timeout on siside0

2014-05-27 Thread Roy Bixler
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 01:25:41PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:06:43PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: On 22 May 2014 18:25, Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net wrote: atapci0: SiS 962/963 WDMA2 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xff00-0xff0f at device 2.5

Re: timeout on siside0

2014-05-22 Thread Roy Bixler
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:22:38PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:10:03PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: On 21 May 2014 12:25, Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:11:14PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: I came back to NetBSD with the 6.x series

Re: timeout on siside0

2014-05-22 Thread Roy Bixler
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 04:44:23PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: On 22 May 2014 12:49, Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net wrote: Since I have the system installed, at least now I can give a precise dmesg output. I'll include it below. As you will see, this system has a primary and secondary IDE

Re: timeout on siside0

2014-05-21 Thread Roy Bixler
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:11:14PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: Hi: I am new to this list but not to NetBSD. I tried NetBSD long ago when it was at v. 1.6. I have come back to it in part because I have some old hardware and prefer a lighter OS and in part because I do not like the recent

Re: timeout on siside0

2014-05-21 Thread Roy Bixler
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:10:03PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: On 21 May 2014 12:25, Roy Bixler rcbix...@nyx.net wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:11:14PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: Hi: I am new to this list but not to NetBSD. I tried NetBSD long ago when it was at v. 1.6. I have

timeout on siside0

2014-05-19 Thread Roy Bixler
installations, in case those are helpful. (The FreeBSD boot messages in particular seem to be detailed.) If there are more NetBSD boot messages I should write down, then I could do that too. Does anyone have ideas on steps I could take to get the installer to boot or to debug this problem? -- Roy Bixler