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OpenBSD as a desktop
Hi all,
It's been two weeks now that I successfully moved my home little mail/sftp server on OpenBSD. I'm more than happy with it and I would like trying to use it as a desktop, but I have a few problem that I could not solve. I should mention that I tried xfce4 only because this is what I've been using with linux for years, but I'm more than open to test other solutions should they solve my problems. - Video My laptop (lenovo R61i) has a nvidia card, unfortunately ! Moving windows is quite slow, resizing them litterally takes seconds. 'Xorg -configure' gave me this : Code:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "dri2" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "record" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "wsmouse" Option "Device" "/dev/wsmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz", ### <percent>: "<f>%" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>] #Option "Rotate" # [<str>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>] #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>] #Option "CrtcNumber" # <i> #Option "FPScale" # [<bool>] #Option "FPTweak" # <i> #Option "DualHead" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card0" Driver "nv" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz", ### <percent>: "<f>%" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>] #Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>] Identifier "Card1" Driver "vesa" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Card1" Monitor "Monitor1" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Did I miss something or I can't expect more with this video card? -Mounting I could mount fat32 USB keys but not ext3/ext4 : Code:
# dmesg|tail vscsi0 at root scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd0a (3e61c9a25d3c4b5e.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b umass0 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "SKYMEDI USB Drive" rev 2.00/2.00 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus3 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd0 at scsibus3 targ 1 lun 0: <SKYMEDI, USB Drive, > SCSI2 0/direct removable sd0: 3824MB, 512 bytes/sector, 7831552 sectors # disklabel sd0 type: SCSI disk: SCSI disk label: USB Drive duid: 0000000000000000 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 487 total sectors: 7831552 boundstart: 0 boundend: 7831552 drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] c: 7831552 0 unused i: 7829504 2048 ext2fs # /sbin/mount_ext2fs /dev/rsd0i /home/me/Desktop/moutingFolder mount_ext2fs: /dev/rsd0i on /home/me/Desktop/moutingFolder: Block device required -Cryptography I have a LUKS encrypted hard drive, but from what I understand the source code is for linux only, so compiling it on openbsd won't work as far as I understand... Well, that's about it, comments/advices appreciated ! |
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re: Mounting ext3fs/ext4fs
You cannot mount ext4fs. Usually you can mount ext3fs as ext2fs because ext3fs is ext2fs with some features like journalling tagged on. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3fs This should do it: # mount -o ro /dev/sd0i /mnt If it does not please post what fdisk reports: # fdisk sd0
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Thx for your answers.
@rocket357 If I buy an ATI card (not the lastest/most expensive ones) can I expect to run smoothly HD videos? Or to have some sort of graphical acceleration on the desktop? @J65nko This worked well with ext3. What does 'ro' mean? I couldn't find it in the man page of mount or mount_ext2fs. Also, is there a specific reason there isn't automouting? |
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Michael Lucas' 2nd edition of AO gives much the same info you, J65nko, except that he instructs one to use the mount_ext2fs utility to mount ext3fs. The man page for mount_ext2fs does not state explicitly to use the utility for mounting ext3fs -- if I missed it, forgive me -- but rather leaves the subject of ext3fs undisclosed, for further research. btw, ro = readonly
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$ dmesg | grep ATI
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 3450" rev 0x00 Works relatively well, not the fastest acceleration (far from it), but better than software rendering. Just don't xrandr a monitor sideways...that seems to make it painfully slow and borderline unstable. # with monitor sideways... $ glxgears IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 0 11 2160 frames in 5.0 seconds = 431.991 FPS 2191 frames in 5.0 seconds = 438.047 FPS # monitor normal... $ glxgears IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 0 11 3645 frames in 5.0 seconds = 728.989 FPS 3644 frames in 5.0 seconds = 728.665 FPS Like I said, not even close to the best, but better than software rendering...
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For the meaning of -o ro see the mount(8) man page
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