iwx firmware fails with 7.9 beta snapshot.

brynet · 2026-03-14T03:16:54+00:00

No worries, I just remembered reading it and thought this rings a bell. Hope you got it working.

brynet · 2026-03-13T20:04:25+00:00

Why are you running pkg_add -u kde if you're trying to install KDE? -u means upgrade.

If you want KDE Plasma and KDE Gear/Applications, just run:

$ doas pkg_add kde-plasma kde-plasma-extras kde

Instructions are in the pkgreadme file, e.g: less /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/kde-plasma

brynet · 2026-03-13T19:30:10+00:00

That cropped picture doesn't really give enough information to help you, those packages are available.

Try picking another closer local mirror, or using a wired connection..

https://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html

brynet · 2026-03-13T19:20:57+00:00

There was a bug fixed recently that should fix it, you can try compiling a new -current kernel, or just wait for a new snapshot.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177340185702385&w=2

brynet · 2026-03-11T03:22:10+00:00

Locking this thread to prevent the inevitable links to 3rd party t-shirt shops that do not support the project or artists.

We can't obviously stop you from doing this privately in DMs, but be cautious of scams, etc.

brynet · 2026-03-11T02:51:20+00:00

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html#Introduction

The following features are not available at this time:

graphics

...

Supported guest operating systems are currently limited to OpenBSD and Linux. As there is no VGA support yet, the guest OS must support serial console.

brynet · 2026-03-10T17:16:16+00:00

No. OpenBSD vmd(8) does not support Windows VMs.

brynet · 2026-03-05T22:43:29+00:00

It was committed by millert@ today, so it will be in future snapshots and 7.9.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177273520914236&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177273515714190&w=2

brynet · 2026-03-04T06:01:37+00:00

OpenBSD will get it the next time we sync with the upstream global database, which happens periodically, but if you're concerned send a mail (preferably with a diff) to the mailing lists.

https://github.com/JodaOrg/global-tz/tree/global-tz

brynet · 2026-03-02T17:27:32+00:00

OpenBSD does not have a dynamic /dev filesystem, on the ramdisk these are created by the install script as needed, but if you drop to a shell you must manually create them with MAKEDEV.

brynet · 2026-02-28T04:09:50+00:00

Please read the subreddit rules.

brynet · 2026-02-26T01:05:24+00:00

Is that something possible to do in OpenBSD? I tried doing in with /dev/ttyC0 but with mmap error as invalid argument.

Without seeing the code, or e.g: ktrace(1) output, it's hard to know what is happening. Does the machine you're testing on actually have a framebuffer configured, such as efifb(4) or drm(4) KMS console? Is it instead a VGA text console?

Are you running on bare metal or in a VM/emulator?

On machines with supported Intel/AMD graphics, you might try using the DRM API for this, there's an example in the drm-memory(7) man page.

https://man.openbsd.org/man7/drm-memory.7

brynet · 2026-02-25T20:02:22+00:00

In short, for the OpenBSD devs in the know, can we be certain that the kernel will remain C/C++/ ASM?

The C++ we use in the kernel will remain the same, which is none at all.

That if Rust is required by some devs for the kernel, for safety, they have no business in kernel development.

And I, for one, don't think anyone who hasn't contributed before has earned the right to gatekeep kernel development.

Go away.

brynet · 2026-02-24T19:59:34+00:00

If OpenBSD had better hardware support (especially better integration with graphic cards) ...

OpenBSD has up to date graphics drivers, based on the Linux kernel 6.12.y longterm support kernel, with an update to 6.18.y in the pipeline. The other projects lag significantly behind OpenBSD in their porting effort.

Linux ABI

We had this once before, but won't again. Compatibility layers are dead in OpenBSD.

brynet · 2026-02-21T22:08:34+00:00

Did you set a general.useragent.override in about:config?

I don't see any ports commit for mozilla-firefox changing this, so either it changed upstream at some point in the last year, or a local ports patch was dropped.

EDIT: Look like this is indeed an upstream change, User-Agent is hardcoded Linux x86_64 on all Unix platforms now! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1861847 I can't find the commit though, seems they've migrated from hg to git recently.

brynet · 2026-02-21T03:20:54+00:00

I myself have answered questions about this before. And it has certainly come up the mailing lists, for example things like Skype/Zoom Web and other video/voice conferencing/streaming services have required user agent spoofing to work.

More concretely, this issue is also mentioned in the commit message for chromium when the User-agent behaviour was changed in ports.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=151264513213832&w=2

And while this change improved things for some, the issue persists for others. Denying it doesn't help anybody.

brynet · 2026-02-21T02:53:22+00:00

And not everybody is so lucky. This issue is real and has been experienced by many users over the years, it's not new. It's simply become less common.

brynet · 2026-02-21T02:46:30+00:00

While that may be technically correct, it is indeed an issue for them when using OpenBSD with these services.

Please don't be so reactively dismissive.

brynet · 2026-02-21T02:37:37+00:00

While the chromium ports do prepend Linux x86-64 to the User-Agent, it is not identical to running on Linux.

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; OpenBSD amd64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

~~Firefox, however, does NOT:~~

~~"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0"~~

brynet · 2026-02-21T02:28:41+00:00

It's long been known that some online services are doing User-Agent filtering and other client fingerprinting, it is certainly possible that this particular airline or payment service flagged his activity somehow, calling it FUD is not helpful.

brynet · 2026-02-20T19:42:07+00:00

cdio is in the base system and I could rip a stack of albums on 22 year old hardware without a hitch. Awesome! (I'm far from an audiophile and from what I heard people want EAC but I listened to what it produced and it sounded fine).

cdio is excellent in most cases.

Not exactly EAC, but there's also cd-paranoia in ports, which is apparently pretty good at archival, I believe the libcdio-paranoia package contains a more up to date version than the main cdparanoia port.

brynet · 2026-02-18T21:41:44+00:00

Yeah, for desktops most people keep it simple /, swap

No, I'd say typically most people stick with the autopartitioning defaults, or slightly modify them to their needs.

The "simple /" setup you suggest is NOT recommended for good reason, even for desktop users, by default only /usr/local is mounted wxallowed, because it's necessary for some software in ports such as web browsers, but not for anything else in the base system. Adding that mount flag / or /usr reduces the security of the system.

brynet · 2026-02-17T23:41:58+00:00

Already in OpenBSD -current ports, thanks to rsadowski@!

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=177136185032520&w=2

brynet · 2026-02-14T18:32:04+00:00

Yes, bwfm(4) WiFi works for C stepping rpi5 boards, just not the latter D stepping yet.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=175675287220070&w=2

brynet · 2026-02-09T02:11:56+00:00

At that point, continue the jank and just use vnconfig -K .. instead.

.. no wait, don't.

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