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

2024-05-25 Thread nia
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:19:35PM +0200, Martin Neitzel wrote: > EDID provides both a coarse display size (height & width in cm) as > part of the "EDID Basic display parameters" and mm-exact sizes > along with every "EDID Detailed Timing Descriptor" (which also > specify the size in pixels). So

Re: intel videocard performance degraded severely after 9.4 update

2024-05-09 Thread nia
What are the permissions on /dev/dri/*? Does your user have the ability to write to the devices?

Re: pkg_add and pkgin install taking extremely long

2024-03-26 Thread nia
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 05:40:44PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > A simple `pkg_add pkgin` runs for over a quarter hour, and pkgin install > call took another half an hour, until it recognized a wrong parameter: echo 'ip6addrctl=YES' >> /etc/rc.conf echo

Re: NetBSD vs. smartphones?

2024-03-21 Thread nia
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 09:11:22AM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > Without divulging information that might make my (or others) phone open to > compromise, has anyone else dealt with a situation like this? Unfortunately I've determined that syncthing is the easiest way to get files on and off a

Re: pkgconf freetype and flags

2023-11-27 Thread nia
On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 08:52:28PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > Riccardo Mottola writes: > > > who sets what pkgconf returns for the packages? Is it upstream or does > > it come from NetBSD? > > For packages: > generally, upstream, and pkgsrc tries to fix it if it is not right. It > is often

Re: Libreoffice: Error about /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.7

2023-08-26 Thread nia
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 09:29:13PM -0400, Bruce Nagel wrote: > Any ideas on where to look for solutions to the corrupted pkgin database > (or pointers on good directions to just properly remove all of pkgsrc and > cleanly start over)? rm -rf /var/db/pkg rm -rf /var/db/pkgin cp -R /usr/pkg/etc

syncthing: too many open files?

2023-08-26 Thread nia
Has anyone ran into syncthing spamming the following in its log when faced with a large directory (1402 files, 173 subdirectories, ~22.8 GiB)? Listen (BEP/tcp): Accepting connection: accept tcp [::]:22000: accept4: too many open files It's unable to sync anything. kern.maxfiles is 32000,

Re: detecting keyboard events (using wskbd?)

2023-08-10 Thread nia
On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 08:09:10PM +, pouya+lists.net...@nohup.io wrote: > Hi mighty netbsd-users, > > For a personal project, I'm trying to find the right way to detect > and act on raw (or raw-ish) keyboard events on a NetBSD system not > running X11. > > After spending more hours than I'd

Re: Libreoffice: Error about /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.7

2023-08-09 Thread nia
On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 08:51:52AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > At this point I think you have having a pkgin problem which I am not > super good at diagnosing. I think, that you can remove the contents of > /var/db/pkgin and it will regenerate. The idea of "keep" packages is > actually stored in

Re: seeking desktop hardware recommendation

2023-08-08 Thread nia
On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 10:00:52AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > In general, my impression is that Intel built-in graphics and Radeons > should just work, except they won't be really accelerated. Any advice > about which is likely to have that arrive sooner? They will be accelerated. For NetBSD

Re: NetBSD on older Macbook Pro: Wi-Fi and trackpad

2022-12-22 Thread nia
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 11:39:16AM +, Benny Siegert wrote: > 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

Re: Support for Intel HM470 chipset, Intel Integrated UHD 605 graphics?

2022-11-30 Thread nia
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 08:02:42PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > I am thinking of buying a laptop with above mentioned chipset and > graphics processor. Detailed spec[1]. > > Wonder if these are supported in NetBSD 9.3, if not are they likely to be > in NetBSD 10. > > -- > Mayuresh > > [1] >

Re: the vine package in pkgin is wine64?

2022-11-14 Thread nia
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 10:41:15PM +, r0ller wrote: > Running 32 bit win stuff does not work with that. I'm running 32-bit only WINE programs in a 32-bit NetBSD chroot (using sandboxctl). It works okay: https://washbear.neocities.org/wine-sandbox.html

Re: unable to set time very far in the future

2022-10-17 Thread nia
On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 10:28:41PM +, RVP wrote: > > and how we ended up picking this particular value? > > > > Punting to nia@... I'm 99% positive it was trial and error.

Re: Does any common mortals here (not programmers or sysads) use NetBSD as their daily productivity driver?

2022-10-10 Thread nia
I think you are making a pretty big mistake by assuming we all weren't "common mortals" once. Nobody is born writing device drivers. But NetBSD is an excellent place to get into that, the BSDs have a long heritage in education. By considering NetBSD in the first place you're already opening

Re: xterm and desktop-file-utils dependency

2022-08-06 Thread nia
I don't agree that glib2 is heavy, it's about the same size as xlib. This is the kind of problem where if you're building your own packages, it's easy to make the modification yourself if you care enough. There isn't much reason to reduce the usefulness of packages by default.

Re: how to turn off devices that monitor sensors

2022-06-12 Thread nia
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 06:10:43PM +0900, Henry wrote: > How can I stop devices such as acpibat0, acpitz0 or coretemp0 that > monitor environmental sensors? > > TIA > > Henry userconf disable?

Re: Problem installing libreoffice 7.2.4.1

2022-05-24 Thread nia
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 07:45:43AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Riza Dindir writes: > > > I have installed what is on the repository. I am now using libreoffice-6. > > > > But it is strange how I ended up installing libreoffice-7.2.4.1. I do > > not recall, but I did install it using pkgin, I

Re: rdp access netbsd 9.2

2022-05-12 Thread nia
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:27:47AM -0700, George Georgalis wrote: > There is freerdp2 in pkgsrc, however it does not include any example > rc.d or implementation guidance. The NetBSD Guide, X Window system > chapter http://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-x.html discusses setting > up an X server,

Re: Aw: Re: Re: hpcarm & HP Jornada 720: packages?

2022-04-18 Thread nia
[HTML stripped out by hand] On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 09:46:07PM +0200, Nino on NetBSD 5.0.1 wrote: > Can I safely assume that these should be OK if I downgrade to NetBSD 8? > > http://iso.ee.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/8.0/All/ There's no need to downgrade, it should be possible

Re: Serious Audio Recording Problems

2022-04-12 Thread nia
On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:55:26AM +0300, chris greek wrote: > I have problems with recording audio on netbsd > > Can't record desktop monitor audio > > Microphone sound is breaking continously and excessively when i'm > using obs-studio > > Also the same happens with ffmpeg scripts i made to

Re: how to install a Fortran compiler on NetBSD?

2022-04-01 Thread nia
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:12:18PM -0400, Adam Russell wrote: > There doesn't seem to be a fortran compiler available in pkgsrc? I saw > some mentions of gfortran but that must be out of date information as I > cannot find it. I understand, of course, that gfortran is part of the > gcc suite but

Re: Arcticfox

2022-02-08 Thread nia
On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 10:19:26PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > > nia wrote: > > greetz, > > > > I just packaged up arcticfox in pkgsrc and it seems to run well on > > NetBSD (enough to watch youtube). It's a fork of Firefox with tons > &g

Arcticfox

2022-02-06 Thread nia
, I'd love to hear from you. cheers, nia

Re: Root On ZFS with Encryption

2022-01-09 Thread nia
On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 08:52:18PM +, Xianwen Chen () wrote: > > > Dear all, > > Happy new year! > > I wonder if the workaround described in [0] could be further extended to the > root ZFS fully encrypted? Has someone tried to do it? > > Yours sincerely, > > Xianwen > > [0]

Re: NetBSD alsa and its oss plugin

2021-11-23 Thread nia
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 11:55:28AM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote: > Unfortunately... > > The kernel patch is against -current sources? It didn't apply to -9, > and I made the changes by hand. The alsa-plugin-oss patch didn't apply > either, and left me completely befuddled (patches to patch file...),

Re: NetBSD alsa and its oss plugin

2021-11-22 Thread nia
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:00:13PM +, nia wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:02:36PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote: > > As a data point, an attempt to record 10 seconds through alsa will hang > > indefinitely, and leave an empty file stub: > > It is repeatedly using SNDC

Re: NetBSD alsa and its oss plugin

2021-11-22 Thread nia
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:02:36PM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote: > As a data point, an attempt to record 10 seconds through alsa will hang > indefinitely, and leave an empty file stub: It is repeatedly using SNDCTL_DSP_GETIPTR, which is a wrapper around AUDIO_GETIOFFS, which is unimplemented in

NPF and Nintendo Switch multiplayer

2021-11-21 Thread nia
Hello, since there was a thread earlier in the year about IPF and the Nintendo Switch, I thought I'd add my anecdote for future readers to (hopefully) go through less pain. Background: The Nintendo Switch hates firewalls and does not use IPv6. It also uses peer-to-peer multiplayer and is not

Re: X crashing

2021-09-11 Thread nia
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 06:46:51PM +, Riza Dindir wrote: > crash -M /var/crash/netbsd.3.core.gz > > crash: no valid dump header > > crash: can not read osrelease: > > When I run crash -N /var/crash/netbsd.4.gz it returns > > crash: kvm_nlist: bad namelist > > No other information. I do

Radio reception / GNU Radio / SDRs

2021-08-27 Thread nia
Hello, I'm wondering if anyone here is doing radio things on NetBSD and has any recommendations of which hardware and software to use what your set up looks like, in particular if there's any guides. We're instaying at a camp in some remote area and have access to lots of hardware but nobody here

Re: mpv and estd and --vo=xv

2021-07-15 Thread nia
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 07:05:33AM +, RVP wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2021, nia wrote: > > > Are you mixing native and pkgsrc xorg? :) > > > > Nope. Not a modular in sight... > > -RVP Well, Mesa is part of native Xorg, (/usr/X11R7/lib/libGL.so.3), etc. You ca

Re: mpv and estd and --vo=xv

2021-07-15 Thread nia
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 06:05:46AM +, RVP wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, RVP wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, nia wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 09:38:51PM +, RVP wrote: > > > > 2. Create symlinks missing on 9.99.8x (only if using binary

Re: mpv and estd and --vo=xv

2021-07-14 Thread nia
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 09:38:51PM +, RVP wrote: > 2. Create symlinks missing on 9.99.8x (only if using binary packages): > >(cd /usr/lib; ln -s libstdc++.so.9 libstdc++.so.7; > cd /usr/X11R7/lib; ln -s libglapi.so.1 libglapi.so.0) FYI, likely this will break things in mysterious

Re: cgd + zfs

2021-07-13 Thread nia
If anecdotal evidence is helpful, I'm using ZFS with CGD (ZFS on GPT on CGD on GPT...) without problems and I know at least one other developer is doing the same.

Re: pkgin does not install anything after upgrade to 9.2

2021-07-08 Thread nia
On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 04:14:08PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 02:36:17PM +0200, r0ller wrote: > > is quite noticeable when starting firefox. However, after changing > > repositories.conf to point to amd64/9.2/All and upgrading all packages, > > nothing seems to have

Re: uaudio audiocfg: write: Resource temporarily unavailable (Re: NetBSD hdaudio @ HDMI)

2021-07-08 Thread nia
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 03:10:30PM +0200, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Off the top of my head, my NUC7 only has USB 3.0 ports. Maybe that's the > problem and I'll try it again with another PC that also has USB 2.0. > Otherwise, I'm at my wit's end here. If you want to use uaudio over a USB 3 bus

Re: NetBSD hdaudio @ HDMI

2021-07-08 Thread nia
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 02:51:37PM +0200, Matthias Petermann wrote: > As far as my specific problem is concerned, I have to admit that I was far > too naive. I should have looked at the PCI vendor and product IDs in the > hdaudio driver - the selection of supported Intel chips is very limited and

Re: procfs difference between NetBSD and Linux

2021-06-21 Thread nia
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:30:46AM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 11:24, nia wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 08:19:53PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 23:05, Mark Davies wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: procfs difference between NetBSD and Linux

2021-06-21 Thread nia
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 08:19:53PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 23:05, Mark Davies wrote: > > > > > > On 2/06/21 8:32 am, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > > I force-downgraded samba 4.14.4 to 4.13.9 (itself released recently, > > > 11th of May). It works as expected. > > > The

Re: GeForce GTX 680

2021-06-18 Thread nia
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 09:03:39AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I just recieved a GTX 680. I saw *680 in the nouveau(4) page. > Aparrently that does not also apply to GTX 680. Is anything > known about support for the nVidia GTX 680? Just plug it in and try. Only way to be sure.

Re: web-camera

2021-06-13 Thread nia
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 07:11:47AM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I built ffplay4 from the current pkgsrc tree. It compiled completely, but > I get an error when I execute the command > > ffplay4 /dev/video0 OK, what error...?

Re: web-camera

2021-06-13 Thread nia
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:27:06AM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 at 22:06, nia wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 04:12:32PM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > I dont have a camera in my screen (like a laptop would). I have a LogiTech > > >

Re: web-camera

2021-06-12 Thread nia
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 04:12:32PM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I dont have a camera in my screen (like a laptop would). I have a LogiTech > web-cam hooked to my flat-screen, and plugged into a USB port. > Would this make a difference? > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 4:09 PM nia wrote:

Re: web-camera

2021-06-12 Thread nia
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:07:26AM +, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I installed Cheese. It does not work on my system. > Any other options for web-cameras? I use ffplay (playing)/ffmpeg (recording).

Experiences with CHFS/ChewieFS

2021-06-09 Thread nia
CHFS/ChewieFS was one of the things I learned existed early as a NetBSD user, but it occurs to me I've never seen any hardware that has the sort of raw flash device it requires. Until very recently when someone noticed while testing with some virtual flash storage with rump, `mount -t` didn't

Re: Recording a current audio-event

2021-05-19 Thread nia
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:00:39PM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote: > Interesting thought occurred to me: > > If I am listening to something on the Web, is it possible to > catch the sound, and send it to an MP3 file or directly to CD/DVD? You can rip most streams from the web with youtube-dl.

9.0 binary packages updated to 2021Q1 branch

2021-04-23 Thread nia
Binary packages for all NetBSD 9 architectures have now been switched to the 2021Q1 branch of pkgsrc. If you run pkgin upgrade you will get a full new set of packages, assuming you don't have a specific branch in your repository path. While AArch64 builds were finished and switched on the first

Re: Using a USB MIDI controller as input for LMMS

2021-03-25 Thread nia
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:51:50AM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hi Nia, > > Am 25.03.21 um 10:38 schrieb nia: > > Are you sure it isn't /dev/rmidi1? > > The last line in your dmesg output indicates it has attaches as midi1. > > You are right: > > ``` >

Re: Using a USB MIDI controller as input for LMMS

2021-03-25 Thread nia
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:29:07AM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > Hello all, > > today a hobby question :-) As the subject already reveals, I want to make > music with NetBSD. > > LMMS is quite comfortable for me and now only the USB MIDI controller would > have to work. It also almost seems

Re: Output on audio jack

2021-03-21 Thread nia
On modern NetBSD audioctl is rarely useful, audiocfg and mixerctl are the far more useful and relevant for diagnostics. I should update the guide to de-emphasize it...

Re: ACPI display brightness on Lenovo Thinkpad T430s

2021-03-11 Thread nia
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:23:50AM +0100, Fekete Zoltn wrote: > Hi There, > > Please give me advice how to proceed in the topic below. I want to have the > display brightness working. > > I have traced the route of the brightness buttonpress (up or down) in the > acpi subsystem in the kernel on

Re: Running VLC

2021-03-06 Thread nia
On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 10:29:43AM -0500, Todd Gruhn wrote: > Thanks for the idea -- I will try that then. > I used pkgsrc to download and compile from source... It shouldn't matter how you installed VLC. What errors are you getting? Are the only when you try to play optical media?

Re: NetBSD + npf for main Internet-facing firewall?

2021-02-25 Thread nia
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:03:24PM +, U'll Be King Of The Stars wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm considering running NetBSD on Supermicro A1SRi-2758F server for my > Internet-facing firewall and main switch. I love this server for home > servers because it's so quiet, and has many other suitable

Re: Custom pet projects compiling for NetBSD n00bs

2021-01-08 Thread nia
On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 08:48:42AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > Another piece of the puzzle is pkg-config, implemented in pkgsrc as > pkgconf, which allows querying the needed flags. > > $ pkg-config --cflags libpng > -I/usr/pkg/include/libpng16 > $ pkg-config --libs libpng >

Re: radeon card on 9.1

2020-12-11 Thread nia
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 09:03:04AM +1300, Mark Davies wrote: > Hi, >I have a box with intel integrated graphics (Intel HD Graphics 630) > and an ATI Radeon HD 4550 card. Under 8.x the X server would find and > use the Radeon card without needing any explicit configuration. > > Under 9.1

Re: Mini-PC for NetBSD

2020-12-08 Thread nia
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 04:23:44PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > I answer myself, because apparently DRM is the hurdle to take. In the > release announcement for NetBSD 9.0 it was stated that this is at the level > of Linux 4.4. In the announcement of NetBSD 9.1 it is not mentioned, so it >

Re: Bump - Non-functional xfreerdp2 on 8.1 STABLE - missing POSIX timer_create?

2020-11-17 Thread nia
I read the actual code that uses POSIX timers, it hasn't changed at all in the various release candidates. If you want to simulate building with POSIX timer support disabled, you can do the following: BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM+= rm:-DWITH_POSIX_TIMER The FreeBSD-related PR you linked to enables

Re: Bump - Non-functional xfreerdp2 on 8.1 STABLE - missing POSIX timer_create?

2020-11-17 Thread nia
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:22:24AM +0100, Bodie wrote: > Works fine on FreeBSD and Linux obviously, on OpenBSD they keep back on > RC version of freerdp2 as they do not have that timer_create() interface, > but > it works there too with same command The code in 2.0.0-rc1 is the same, though?

Re: 32bit wine on amd64

2020-11-17 Thread nia
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 02:24:01PM -0500, nottobay wrote: > Has anyone got ay functional solutions for running 32 bit wine on amd64 > that actually does opengl unlike trying to run it from a sandbox? My understanding is that 32-bit Direct Rendering Manager compat was never finished in the kernel,

Re: ctwm craches in NetBSD 9.1 if move cursor from up to down to apps pictogram on intel driver

2020-10-24 Thread nia
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 08:22:54AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 06:01:36 +0500 > Dmitrii Postolov wrote: > > > In NetBSD 9.1 and ctwm: if move mouse cursor to Applications and move > > it from left to right to pictogram then all OK, but if move cursor > > from up to down to

9.0/9.1 packages symlink for amd64/aarch64/i386 updated to 2020Q3

2020-10-22 Thread nia
hi, if you run pkgin upgrade and were using the standard set of 9.0 packages, you will now be on 2020Q3 thanks, and sorry for the delay

Re: "xv" video with intel graphics?

2020-09-27 Thread nia
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 09:54:30AM -0500, John D. Baker wrote: > PR? Please. As a temporary workaround, LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1.

Re: "xv" video with intel graphics?

2020-09-27 Thread nia
unfortunately, upstream mpv is extremely hostile to NetBSD. actually, if you asked some users of Linux and other BSDs, upstream mpv is extremely hostile to everything. i recommend sdl video outputs. if this and opengl don't work something needs fixing system wide, falling back to x11 is

Re: qemu accel options on NetBSD 8 VPS [Was Re: Building Linux packages on NetBSD]

2020-06-23 Thread nia
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 04:41:05PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > What are the qemu accel options on NetBSD 8.0? (I guess nvmm is only in > 9.0?) Just xen.

Re: Recommended web browser?

2020-06-20 Thread nia
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:39:27PM -0700, Salil Wadnerkar wrote: > SeaMonkey works fine. > If you are on NetBSD current, you can use newer (based on Rust) versions of > Firefox. Huh? Recent firefox is fine on 9.0, on amd64 and aarch64. armv7 does not have enough address space to build a rust

Re: Xorg from Base or pkgsrc - recommendations?

2020-01-06 Thread nia
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 07:10:54PM +, m...@netbsd.org wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:46:58PM +0000, nia wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 04:20:42PM +, m...@netbsd.org wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 09:58:29PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > > &g

Re: Xorg from Base or pkgsrc - recommendations?

2020-01-06 Thread nia
On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 04:20:42PM +, m...@netbsd.org wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 09:58:29PM +0100, Matthias Petermann wrote: > > The pkgsrc version led to segmentation faults on my Thinkpad X220 with Intel > > graphics, while the version from NetBSD worked without any problems. > > I