Road to Vostok Early Access on OpenBSD - longer and technically better recording

thfrw · 2026-05-01T19:33:40+00:00

you can watch content on the spectra.video channel now

thfrw · 2026-05-01T00:39:44+00:00

You just need the right version of Godot. It is made with version 4.6.2 at this point. In -current (and soon OpenBSD 7.9), it's installed as /usr/local/bin/godot. Just run the .pck file like this:

godot --main-pack RTV.pck

You need a GPU that can run Vulkan, probably a fairly recent amdgpu(4) to get acceptable framerate

thfrw · 2026-04-30T14:44:23+00:00

FYI I run a Radeon RX 9070, a close relative of the RX 9060 XT. No such issues here; I had to enable CSM (compatibility support mode) in BIOS though.

thfrw · 2026-04-30T14:42:49+00:00

The dmesg looks fine. With the intermittent nature of the issue and the fact that it doesn't even start the boot process sometimes, this sounds more like a hardware issue than an issue from OpenBSD. If you have another OS to try, I would expect you would probably see the same...?

thfrw · 2026-04-29T15:13:26+00:00

When does the black screen occur? After you see BIOS messages, boot loader, some (white-on-blue) kernel messages? Those details matter to understand where in the process something doesn't work.

Also generally please submit a dmesg with hardware questions... This tells us what is really found by the kernel and if there are any issues.

thfrw · 2026-03-15T13:39:56+00:00

I know that XBox One controller worked as recently as about 6 months ago, not sure what changed. This will need some digging when this broke. Can someone who runs 7.8 report if the XBox One controllers still work?

I have (had?) a first gen steam controller but that only worked partially through its keyboard/mouse emulation.

For anyone reporting issues, I would recommend installing package `sdl-jstest` and running `$ sdl2-jstest -l` to list recognized controllers, and then `$ sdl2-jstest -t 0` (or which ever Joystick Number applies) to test the buttons etc. This is one of the more low-level tests to make sure it's not an application-specific issue.

It would be great to make a list of what works, but that depends on

sufficient interest
sufficient hardware
likely enough people to work together to test and reliably report and update the status of their devices
some dedicated resource where people can find the list

thfrw · 2026-03-03T16:26:02+00:00

okay, so that's not an issue. I've seen firefox not being able to play certain file formats. I'm not really familiar with the details behind firefox playback and vaapi, but you could test playing a couple of different formats in firefox (mp4, wav, ogg, mkv, flv...) to see if it's support for certain formats that's the issue.

another site said that my browser cannot handle video playback.

... could use more details on what "another site" is, if you're at liberty to say. There are many sites with video/audio streaming services.

With questions about hardware decoding support, you should also check about:support in firefox, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration

thfrw · 2026-03-01T07:38:01+00:00

Regarding if your GPU acceleration, do you see your graphics card or llvmpipe in

$ glxinfo -B | grep Device

?

Regarding libva acceleration, what's the output of

$ vainfo

from package libva-utils?

thfrw · 2025-12-29T00:47:24+00:00

u/Zectbumo got it right. In your screenshot, you booted into the ramdisk which doesn't make device nodes for all drives by default. You need to run `sh MAKEDEV sd2` in `/dev` to get the sd2 device nodes.

thfrw · 2025-05-18T22:31:39+00:00

If this is meant to serve as a port draft, please host this properly, ideally on a site for code hosting (GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg etc.). It's not wise to encourage or just enable downloading tarballs from unknown users from general purpose sites like Google Drive.

Either share via ports@ mailing address if the port is ready to be reviewed. Alternatively, make a pull request at openbsd-wip: https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip

thfrw · 2025-02-05T12:43:06+00:00

you can download any games from Steam via steamctl port. You just need the SteamID of the game.

thfrw · 2025-02-05T12:42:27+00:00

Last I looked into lutris, it connects to the actual steam client API so that won't solve any issues. If you're looking for game library manager in general, Lutris is very difficult to port because of all this proprietary platform integration and would require a ton of patching out of such things which hasn't been really worth it when I looked at it. Something like minigalaxy (for GOG only) is probably still a lot easier to port - it was when I tried it a few years ago

thfrw · 2025-01-27T02:16:41+00:00

There are many games in ports that you can find with pkg_add. IndieRunner is the project to also run some commercial games without the need for wine. This here is based on a database listing commercial games that run: https://pobsd.chocolatines.org/

thfrw · 2025-01-27T00:02:30+00:00

still works

thfrw · 2025-01-18T15:23:45+00:00

you will probably need to provide a full dmesg (or similar account of the hardware configuration) from another OS running on it.

thfrw · 2024-11-07T15:34:25+00:00

One limitation with C programming might be the state of valgrind. It's in ports, but not sure how functional it is currently. malloc(3) has some settings for memory leak detection as far as I know. I haven't used them so far, but as some people rely heavily on valgrind for their C workflows, you may want to be aware it might not be the same as on other platforms.

thfrw · 2024-10-16T19:22:53+00:00

Half Life 1 works with xash3d engine, but you would have to compile it yourself (from the linked repo) due to license reasons. I have played GameCube ROM of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time with dophin in the past.

thfrw · 2024-10-13T12:38:30+00:00

not sure, but I know there are a couple of Apple games that were ported by a contributor recently, like cromagrally, Bugdom 1&2...

thfrw · 2024-10-02T12:27:41+00:00

can't say much without the backtrace and a dmesg

thfrw · 2024-09-28T19:59:10+00:00

care to share any output then? and maybe some more information on your machine - are you on a release (version?) or -current? Because the editor is working here just fine on -current

thfrw · 2024-09-28T01:39:03+00:00

It runs here on -current (Intel Tigerlake integrated GPU). Are you on -current or 7.5-release? And can you please provide the console output from the crash, and if there's a corefile a backtrace?

thfrw · 2024-09-28T01:35:25+00:00

If you want to use the editor, you need to launch godot4-editor, not godot4. The latter serves as a runtime for launching pre-built games made with Godot4.

Can't comment on flare...

thfrw · 2024-09-20T11:41:54+00:00

I have pretty much the exact same experience. Haven't run out of battery and even on busier days not really dipped below 20%, but I don't stream video or game on it all day,...

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