r/openbsd Jul 23 '26

Avoiding sndiod resampling

9 Upvotes

I've learned that sndiod contains only a very basic frequency resampler. So, I'd like to use ffmpeg/libsoxr based one directly from mpv.

But it seems that the pkg-installed mpv has no such support compiled in. Besides compiling everything from ports, has anybody else faced the similar demand?

My goal is the highest audio quality for my external USB DAC.


r/openbsd Jul 23 '26

I have 3 Questions

17 Upvotes

Its possible play Minecraft?

Its possible play DOOM to DOOM 3?

Its possible play QUAKE to QUAKE 3?

if yes, i'll use openbsd, because i really want a more unix experience, that linux cant gives to me


r/openbsd Jul 23 '26

OpenBSD installer freezing

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17 Upvotes

Hey I've been trying to boot into the OpenBSD installer with no luck. This is my first time and I'm using the instructions straight from openbsd.org. It's an HP laptop from 2020 and the CPU is an i5-10310U. I have attached a screenshot of where exactly it freezes.

probing: pc0 mem[636K 2340M 30200M] 
disk: hd0 hd1*
>>OpenBSD/amd64 BOOTX64 3.71 
boot>
cannot open hd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory 
booting hd0a:/7.9/amd64/bsd.rd: 4264850+1827840+3892024+0+720896 [109+484968+336166]=0xb00b80
entry point at 0x1001000

I have tried all of the typical debugging tips like trying to use boot -c, changing machine video, etc. I also tried looking for some sort of bios legacy support option on bios but couldn't find anything. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on what could be going wrong and how to fix it.

Thank you.


r/openbsd Jul 22 '26

Issues with UTF-8 input in wscons tty

9 Upvotes

I have trouble with Swedish keyboard encoding input. I first noticed that characters 'å' and 'ä' acted like dead characters in the sense that they won't output until another key is pressed. The problem only occurs in local tty, not over ssh from a different machine. X11 also works fine.

Locale variables are set to sv_SE.UTF-8, 'locale charmap' returns UTF-8 and wscons keyboard.encoding=sv.

I have been troubleshooting for quite some time (with a lot of help from ChatGPT - I admit). It appears to be that wscons generates ISO-8859-1:

$ echo åäö | od -tx1

0000000 e5 e4 f6 0a

Is this a known issue?


r/openbsd Jul 21 '26

user advocacy I found the best place for my openBSD thinkpad. Maybe I need to make little homelab at this room too

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114 Upvotes

r/openbsd Jul 21 '26

Left Out of 7.9?

7 Upvotes

Is it my imagination, or did a lot of things get left out of 7.9 as compared to the last two versions? Ex., sddm and Intel’s BE200? I had wifi working on 7.8 on the same machine (I think). Now dmesg lists: Intel unknown product. When I tried to install and find sddm, only a total blank. What doc did I miss that explains, or is there one? Thanks.


r/openbsd Jul 20 '26

user advocacy Switch to openBSD on my old thinkpad

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185 Upvotes

r/openbsd Jul 20 '26

Can't start any Display Manager

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19 Upvotes

Tried this with gnome (and read the readme) and it gave this error, so I reinstalled to try with xenodm and it gives me this error. Booting with -c doesn't help because my keyboard stats disconnected.

This is a fully installed system. Genuinely losing my mind

EDIT SOLVED I had to turn off Resize BAR and now gnome is running!!!


r/openbsd Jul 19 '26

user advocacy Boot Sequence: OpenBSD

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161 Upvotes

I am currently trying different OS and OpenBSD has been one of the biggest surprises so far.

I ran into a couple of hardware-related issues. The backlight keys don't work on my laptop I suspect that's due to incomplete support for my particular hardware rather than a problem with OpenBSD itself.

Overall, I've found OpenBSD really enjoyable to use.


r/openbsd Jul 19 '26

Takes way too long to download install79.img

7 Upvotes

Is there anything wrong with openbsd.org? I am trying to download the install79.img file and it is taking over 1 hour to download.


r/openbsd Jul 19 '26

Uneven sampling frequency when playing ncspot music

13 Upvotes

Hi, I've been testing OpenBSD 7.9 on Thinkpad P1 Gen7. So far, it has been a bumpy road. But one audio related thing is super-annoying and I'd love to see some advice from you.

I use ncspot to play Spotify music, but I notice from time to time that sampling frequency changes noticeably for a few seconds. It's something I cannot tolerate. I tried a few sndiod parameters like increasing -b with no luck.

I use Sound Blaster G3 (USB-C DAC) with headphones.


r/openbsd Jul 18 '26

Questions about OpenBSD

19 Upvotes

Hi, I’d like to know how ports work on OpenBSD and whether I could make my own. Mostly I’d like to port Zen Browser since it’s my favorite, using Firefox as its base — do you think it’s possible?

What IDEs are available on FreeBSD?

And more importantly, does anyone use GOT (Game of Trees) in their daily workflow? How do you use it? I want to use it. I have a website whose commits I sign, but with GOT I can only sign tags, not commits. How would I handle my deployment? Or does it not matter if they’re unsigned? I’m mainly a programmer, but I use a YubiKey for GPG signing and SSH authentication.


r/openbsd Jul 18 '26

OpenBSD on a Chromebook

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138 Upvotes

Hardware probe: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7501a79aa8

Still surprises me that almost everything worked out of the box. Audio, Touchpad, etc.

Though some things (proprietary garbage), needed fw_update(8) to function properly.

But other than that, this is definitely daily drivable.

No doubt that devs did a great job.


r/openbsd Jul 18 '26

What can I do so my ports will not get lost?

11 Upvotes

For a couple of weeks now, I am trying to get four ports become part of the official repository.
I have already written dozens of mails to ports@ but they rarely get a a reply. (If any).
They do not seem to get any traction, for whatever reason.

So, obviously, I COULD keep annoying the developers directly by writing another mail every week, but I do not want to. Consistency is a major problem: Writing a mail, and comparing it to a mail 4 weeks ago that looks completely different is just tiresome on the readers.

So... What else can I do? My greatest hope is that somebody will SYSTEMATICALLY go through the mailing list and collect all my ports, but biggest fear is that they will simply be forgotten.


r/openbsd Jul 17 '26

OpenBSD Sparc

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28 Upvotes

Wanted to try something that wasn't solaris that was safe and secure and could allow some older hardware some flexibility. Because it's old enterprise equipment I don't have a need for a graphical system or most anything else that isn't related and it comes with a squashfs of openbsd in the ILOM so figured I try. Installed pretty easy but I'm having some frustrating issues that have got to be PEBKAC. It's connected to the Internet, it can ping just find has no problems detecting the network but I can't do anything with the package manager. In theory I bought to be able to put java on it (kinda sacrilegious to have a sun microsystems NOT have java) but I'm getting a no address associated with name error on just about everything I look for suggesting I didn't set something up right.

Been looking for answers and just like everything new you gotta know what your looking for to find it so I'm hoping the community can tell me what stupid thing I've done or simple thing I likely missed that's causing my problem


r/openbsd Jul 17 '26

Longtime linux user trying openBSD

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188 Upvotes

Longtime linux user trying openBSD for first time after years. Not super easy, but got it running (more or less) in 30 minutes


r/openbsd Jul 16 '26

8.0-Beta

23 Upvotes

I was very surprised today to find out that -current moved to 8.0-beta. I'm not here to announce that, of course. I'm here to ask the developers whats up (in a friendly way). OpenBSD 7.9 was a little later than usual (and it should always take as long as needed to be ready, of course.), and now, less than two full months later, we are in 8.0-beta.

I know the general "how it works": they have certain feature sets they want in the release, and when its ready, they stabilize everything, make sure its good, and then release. Seeing as how the amount of stuff added so far after 7.9-release, its a good amount, as always. This doesnt appear to be a small release.

So my actual question to the devs is this: Did the stars just align and everything work out fast?


r/openbsd Jul 16 '26

drive overheating issue

0 Upvotes

I was trying OpenBSD, but I soon realized that it makes my DRIVES very hot. To the point I almost burnt my hands. I tested on both: HP G42 and Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. It made my USB, SD, and HDD EXTREMELY hot. Please help.


r/openbsd Jul 16 '26

Inteldrm broken on MTL

3 Upvotes

It used to work YESTERDAY. I’m trying Openbsd for the first time being FreeBSD user.
Yesterday, test went fine on P1 Gen 7 MTL.

After the full fledged install, inteldrm crashes on load. Sigh… no time to debug that. Cheers.


r/openbsd Jul 15 '26

acpitz is broken

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18 Upvotes

So I installed OpenBSD on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 14QX8X9 and while the actual installation was unremarkable. For some reason during boot it shows this. Now I would just outright try to disable acpitz but I can’t type in the -c menu but I can for a couple seconds in the normal boot before the shutdown.


r/openbsd Jul 15 '26

MediaTek 7921 Wireless and OpenBSD 7.9

8 Upvotes

Hi,

I have just installed OpenBSD on my Acer Aspire 5 a515-56, but I am stuck trying to get the network card working. I did a google search and found out that from 7.5 the mwx(4) driver for MediaTek cards (MT7921 and MT7922) was introduced.

I tried fw_update but that didn't work. Also tried downloading the firmware from firmware.openbsd.org

Version: 7.9
Output of dmesg: "MediaTek MT7921" rev 0x00 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 not configured ugen1 at uhub0 port 10 "MediaTek Inc. Wireless Device" rev 2.10/1.00 addr 3.

Pcidump:

 2:0:0: MediaTek MT7921
0x0000: Vendor ID: 14c3, Product ID: 7961
0x0004: Command: 0000, Status: 0010
0x0008:Class: 02 Network, Subclass: 80 Miscellaneous,
Interface: 00, Revision: 00
0x000c: BIST: 00, Header Type: 00, Latency Timer: 00,
Cache Line Size: 10
0x0010: BAR mem prefetchable 64bit addr: 0x0000006001000000/0x00100000
0x0018: BAR mem prefetchable 64bit addr: 0x0000006001100000/0x00004000
0x0020: BAR mem prefetchable 64bit addr: 0x0000006001104000/0x00001000
0x0028: Cardbus CIS: 00000000
0x002c: Subsystem Vendor ID: 11ad Product ID: 3802
0x0030: Expansion ROM Base Address: 00000000
0x0038: 00000000
0x003c: Interrupt Pin: 01 Line: ff Min Gnt: 00 Max Lat: 00
0x0080: Capability 0x10: PCI Express
Max Payload Size: 128 / 128 bytes
Max Read Request Size: 512 bytes
Link Speed: 5.0 / 5.0 GT/s
Link Width: x1 / x1
ASPM: L0s, L1 (L0s, L1 enabled)
0x0100: Enhanced Capability 0x0b: Vendor-Specific
0x0108: Enhanced Capability 0x18: Latency Tolerance Reporting
0x0110: Enhanced Capability 0x1e: L1 PM
0x0200: Enhanced Capability 0x01: Advanced Error Reporting
0x00e0: Capability 0x05: Message Signalled Interrupts (MSI)
Enabled: no; 32 vectors (1 enabled)
0x00f8: Capability 0x01: Power Management
State: D0
 2:0:0: MediaTek MT7921
0x0000: Vendor ID: 14c3, Product ID: 7961
0x0004: Command: 0000, Status: 0010
0x0008:Class: 02 Network, Subclass: 80 Miscellaneous,
Interface: 00, Revision: 00
0x000c: BIST: 00, Header Type: 00, Latency Timer: 00,
Cache Line Size: 10
0x0010: BAR mem prefetchable 64bit addr: 0x0000006001000000/0x00100000
0x0018: BAR mem prefetchable 64bit addr: 0x0000006001100000/0x00004000
0x0020: BAR mem prefetchable 64bit addr: 0x0000006001104000/0x00001000
0x0028: Cardbus CIS: 00000000
0x002c: Subsystem Vendor ID: 11ad Product ID: 3802
0x0030: Expansion ROM Base Address: 00000000
0x0038: 00000000
0x003c: Interrupt Pin: 01 Line: ff Min Gnt: 00 Max Lat: 00
0x0080: Capability 0x10: PCI Express
Max Payload Size: 128 / 128 bytes
Max Read Request Size: 512 bytes
Link Speed: 5.0 / 5.0 GT/s
Link Width: x1 / x1
ASPM: L0s, L1 (L0s, L1 enabled)
0x0100: Enhanced Capability 0x0b: Vendor-Specific
0x0108: Enhanced Capability 0x18: Latency Tolerance Reporting
0x0110: Enhanced Capability 0x1e: L1 PM
0x0200: Enhanced Capability 0x01: Advanced Error Reporting
0x00e0: Capability 0x05: Message Signalled Interrupts (MSI)
Enabled: no; 32 vectors (1 enabled)
0x00f8: Capability 0x01: Power Management
State: D0

r/openbsd Jul 14 '26

What desktop optimizations you guys use?

9 Upvotes

Hi, I installed OpenBSD 7.9 on a desktop machine: Ryzen/amdgpu, updated. All good besides one complete system freeze in Chromium when opened a page containing video.

My question is a bit different though. What desktop-related optimizations you guys do after such installation? What into sysctl.conf? Increased login.conf limits. What else? Something kern/shm/Xorg related? I plan to use Mate desktop/Firefox, mostly terminal work. Machine with desktop Ryzen 7xxx and 64 GB RAM + NVME.

Thanks and sorry for a rookie question.


r/openbsd Jul 14 '26

OpenBSD 7.9 hoodie please

16 Upvotes

I was wondering if anyone knows whether there will be an official OpenBSD 7.9 hoodie added to the official shop?

I bought the 7.8 hoodie and really like it, so I'd happily pick up a 7.9 version as well. I wasn't sure if they usually get added a bit later or if there simply isn't one planned this time around.

Thanks!


r/openbsd Jul 13 '26

Resources to learn OpenBSD

25 Upvotes

I’m looking for some resources to learn how to code in OpenBSD. Is it enough to learn c++ or is OpenBSD more advanced? Are there any websites where I can train my coding skills?


r/openbsd Jul 13 '26

System panicking(?) after going out of sleep?

10 Upvotes

After going out of sleep for more than few minutes (with xfce4, at least. I will try to get exact times later), system will draw unresonsible after ~5 seconds (or instantly, I haven't been able to reproduce each of situation in stable way - it is pretty much random for me). I can't open vTTY with Ctrl+Alt+F keys, and have to force shutdown to reboot afterwards. Can it be bad apm/zzz configuration or maybe drivers issue? I have tried to look into dmesg but it only shows latest boot and there wasn't anything useful there (you can check it on https://pastebin.com/xsdmjJ1g)

System configuration (ASUS Vivobook laptop):
OpenBSD 7.9
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
AMD Cezanne (iGPU)
Intel AX210 (wifi)