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Setting up Common Desktop Environment for modern use
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I have recently started using CDE and as someone that never used it back in the 90s I really enjoy the classic look of it. Here are some tips and tricks for setting up CDE that I have gathered from various sources online and from my own tinkering. If any non-FreeBSD users are reading this...
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on Sep 5
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ACPI sleep - Framework 13 Ryzen / FreeBSD 14.2
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Hi - I've just started running FreeBSD 14.2 on my Framework 13 Ryzen (AMD 7040-series CPU), set up by my usual setup scripts. Things are going great! The Intel WiFi board I purchased is working with the iwlwifi drivers (albeit slowly; but that was expected). Even the USB-C based Ethernet port...
on Tue, 10AM
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Well now... This is a four monitor set up, with the bottom-most monitor being a 15.6 portable monitor. I'm watching an episode of "Murder In Mind" (which, in this episode, features the wonderful Timothy West). Everything else is xterm (inside tmux), where I'm doing stuff...
on Mon, 1PM
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Solved - FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE, amdgpu and virtual terminals
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I performed the update from 14.1 to 14.2 today and on my desktop I can no longer see the virtual terminals - the monitors simply go into standby mode immediately after the kernel is executed and only wake up when the xorg graphical login manager starts. I also get into monitor standby when I...
on Dec 3
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Solved - Change storage driver during install
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I'm still fighting getting those Dell 730 and 630 servers to work with FreeBSD. I'm fighting with problems such as when starting a program like ssh, make or screen I get Illegal instructions (Core Dumped) mfid timeouts (controller) NMI errors (this happens on one server during install) I've...
on Nov 15
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Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 1st Gen No Sound
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Hello all, I am a total FreeBSD newbie so please be understanding. I discovered this post https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/focusrite-scarlett-solo-no-sound.73174/ which shows other folks got sound working on their FreeBSD systems for similar Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB audio interface. I am...
on Nov 12
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io_uring performance 40% better than kqueue and epoll !
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Io_uring: New Linux IO interface (I think it like IOCP) Linux 5.1 introduces a new high-performance interface called io_uring. It’s easy to use and hard to misuse user/application interface. Io_uring has an efficient buffered asynchronous I/O support, the ability to do I/O without even...
on Nov 5
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How do I delete a package from the system leaving the installed files in place
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Hi, I installed package "foo" and later starting using the upstream of "foo" to upgrade it rather than wait for ports to catch up. How can I remove the "foo" package without actually deleting the files (that have since been upgraded manually)? I want to do this lest I downgrade doing a ports...
on Nov 2
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Solved - Realtek RTL8125 on-board not discovered
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So...I want to install FreeBSD on my shop computer. I use a USB flash drive to install FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE and everything goes forward just fine.....except....that it doesn't find my on-board NIC, so I have no network. I realize that the Realtek NICs sometimes have difficulty with...
on Nov 2
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No routing for external eth dongle
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I use a thinkpad with wifi (wlan0) which works. Recently, I bough myself a usb-dongle (ue0). My standard ifconfig: em0: flags=8c02 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=4e504bb ether 48:2a:e3:5e:2a:9f media: Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier nd6 options=29 lo0: flags=1008049 metric...
on Oct 26
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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
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Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Wednesday affirmed the removal last week of about a dozen kernel maintainers associated with Russia. On October 18, Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman published a message to the Linux kernel mailing list showing that a handful of Linux developers in the...
on Oct 25
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Solved - Dangers of pkg autoremove?
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I have a FreeBSD 13.1p6 desktop machine, hostname defiant (if it matters, i7 with 32GB RAM), running a KDE desktop. I have been reading, and have seen more than one person state that doing a pkg autoremove is a good way to clean up crufty packages. In fact, I saw someone who said their process...
on Oct 22
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pkg autoremove removes wrong packages
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I've noticed something in pkg autoremove's behavior that could potentially be a bug or unwanted behavior. Yesterday I did pkg autoremove. These were the packages it then removed: docbook, docbook-sgml, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, iso8879, kf5-kdoctools, sdocbook-xml, xmlcatmgr, xmlcharent I've...
on Oct 21
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No sound in linux-chrome package
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Hi :) I'm trying to get DRM media (boooo :rude:) working in FreeBSD 14.1. I've installed the linux-chrome package and RL9 dependencies, and the relevant Widevine and CDM stuff. I can play DRM encumbered video in Chrome, but there's no sound, even in non-DRM media (e.g. on YouTube). Sound works...
on Oct 5
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USB mouse and audio interface detected but not working
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Hi! After upgrading from 13.1 to patch 13.1-p1 (from source, with etcupdate), my USB mouse and my USB audio interface just stoped working. They both have been working on this computer for at least 2 years before and I don't understand what is blocking them. They light up, they are detected at...
on Sep 29
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A guide for installing esp8266 for Arduino on FreeBSD
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Today I will tell you how to install ESP8266 with Arduino on FreeBSD. It works very well. Ok let's start the guide. You need to compile arduino18 from ports devel/arduino18 Keep the following patch files in /usr/ports/devel/arduino18/files directory and delete the other files...
on Sep 10
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How to get complete boot message
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Hello, I have issues with networking and NFS access So I want to read complete boot messages until login prompt, but in /var/log/messages I don't find complete content of it. During boot procedure I see following, referring to network card: re0: link state changed to DOWN and some lines later...
on Sep 8
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A recent Twitter discussion prompted me to consider fail2ban. I'd be using it on a FreeBSD host and would be using to parse the logs of services in various jails (Apache, Postfix, Dovecot). Have you already done this?
on Sep 8
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xrdp does not show the (Gnome) GUI :(
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I am trying to get FreeBSD14 running in a TrueNas Scale VM. That partly .... works now One of the issues I am facing is xrdp I use the xrdp-server to provide the GNOME-desktop to windows11 Remote Desktop Viewer. On communication level that works, however two problems: 1) the display on windows...
on Sep 3
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Apparently we have no idea what does and what doesn't work. Here's the script I made for testing 3d acceleration: https://gist.github.com/shkhln/99ed7076d981a8eee39801bb6634caed. The script downloads roughly 60 MiB of packages from the latest Ubuntu LTS consisting of Mesa, glxgears, vkcube and...
on Aug 26
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Strange networking behaviour in fetch vs curl
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I'm experiencing a really strange set of behaviours. This is a FreeBSD VM (FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE releng/14.1-n267679-10e31f0946d8 GENERIC amd64) that was installed manually in a Xen Hypervisor (XCP-NG 8.2.1). I installed from the DVD iso. It's entirely likely that something is wacky in this...
on Aug 13
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Solved - libreoffice "Application Error"
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FreeBSD-13 in VM, upgraded from FreeBSD-12.2 when starting libreoffice I see splash screen for a second and app crashes. running from terminal libreoffice generates a message: "Application Error" backtrace does not yeald any meaningful error. Libreoffice worked at first in FreeBSD-13. I wonder...
on Aug 6
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Libreoffice present libraries not found
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Dear Sirs: I'm running FreeBSD 14.1-STABLE-HBSD, installed libreoffice-24.2.5.2.pkg using pkg install When I run soffice appears the error: ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libuno_sal.so.3" not found, required by "oosplash" But the missing file it's present at: /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program...
on Aug 5
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here is the result of gpart show would it be possible to extend the da0s3 partition to 38GB ? Thanks
on Jul 23
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yt-dlp - ERROR: [Piracy] This website is no longer supported
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Just came across this error with the latest version of yt-dlp 2024.05.27 ERROR: [Piracy] This website is no longer supported since it has been determined to be primarily used for piracy. DO NOT open issues for it in all the years ive been using youtube-dl and yt-dlp thats the first time i...
on Jul 20
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Mails being sent with <br /> instead an actual new line
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I'm not sure if this is related to 14.1 or if something else changed (I couldn't find anything related to this on the 14.1 release notes) but around 14.1 was released (I'm not too sure, I don't pay too much attention to periodic emails) now my emails being sent via DMA look like this: This...
on Jul 15
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Hi all, I recently stumbled upon CoreDNS, a DNS server written in Go and licensed under Apache 2.0, which made it into dns/coredns on 2019/05. I had never looked beyond BIND before, but now I am, and I find the approach of CoreDNS plugins quite appealing. Is there anyone using this port, and...
on Jun 25
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Just received this e-mail in Nginx mailing list: Hello! As you probably know, F5 closed Moscow office in 2022, and I no longer work for F5 since then. Still, we’ve reached an agreement that I will maintain my role in nginx development as a volunteer. And for almost two years I was working on...
on Jun 23
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AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS (Radeon 780M) - Graphics now working!
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This was a very rocky road and maybe its just me, but I found next to no helpful information in getting the 780M graphics of the fairly new AMD 7940HS to work on FreeBSD. Here is a short list of the things I had to do to get this working: Upgrade to FreeBSD 15-CURRENT, it looks like the...
on Jun 9
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HOWTO: Speeding up poudriere build times
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Using ports-mgmt/poudriere with devel/ccache, tmpfs and parallel jobs can speed up your package build times. How much depends entirely on your hardware. Keep in mind there are quite a few pages out on the Internet about this so when I did my set up, I pulled from several. My aim for this HOWTO...
on May 29
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Solved - PAM broken in jails after update to 14.0-RELEASE
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I just upgraded my system from 13.2-RELEASE to 14.0-RELEASE after updating the ezjail basejail, I can no longer start any services in any jail, since the su command doesn't work due to a broken PAM (apparently?) the error I get is: su: pam_start: System error I tried moving /etc/pam.d to...
on May 22
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Vincent Milum's (darkain) open letter to the FreeBSD community
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I just read the letter. Personally, I'd argue that this is another one of those instances where somebody thinks that FreeBSD has to be the way they want it. If it's not for you it's not for you - that's fine. Move on to something else you like. … Exactly. There are so many of these, …...
on May 16
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FreeBSD works slow on Raspberry Pi
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Hi community I have tried to use FreeBSD 12.1 on my Pi3 and found out that it works two times slowly then Raspbian Linux for the same tasks. Here is the results below. p.s. I think it happens because the FreeBSD does not switch the CPU to "Turbo" mode and as a fact it works really slow...
on May 6
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drm and amdgpu hangs on renoir
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I get seconds up to minute long hangs nearly every time I switch tabs on firefox or start mpv or any other program that apparently uses graphics CPU goes up to 99% for Xorg and mpv or firefox etc. The longer the system is up the worse it gets. gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-renoir-20230625_2...
on Apr 27
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I am having trouble with 'pty' on a new jail. I upgraded the host to 13.2, and am trying to build a new 13.2 jail. For some reason, I get a error from pty_allocate(); in IO::Pty. Works on the host, works in the old jail-12.0, but does not work in the jail-13.2. I used cpan to install the...
on Apr 25
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Greetings, I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 13.1 on a raspberry pi but I'm dropped into a U-Boot> prompt. At the prompt, I enter boot and it then completes booting into FreeBSD 13.1. I prefer to boot into FreeBSD 13.1 without having to manually type in boot at the prompt. Is this configurable...
on Apr 16
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Solved - this is quite the conundrum on updating locatedb
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$> sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb >>> WARNING >>> Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames >>> on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk. ^Crmdir: /tmp/locate4A16PnO9VD/mklocateewCgMcaVTT: No such file or directory rmdir: /tmp/locate4A16PnO9VD: No such...
on Apr 7
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2024: The year of desktop FreeBSD?
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the basic UNIX security model that is VERY different from Windows or Apple. How do you define basic "UNIX security model" and why is it "VERY" different?
on Mar 28
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Solved - RTL8188CE /w rtwn(4): 802.11n mode?
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I rarely use my little notebook (or netbook?), still it starts to annoy me it's operating in 802.11g mode, mostly because this makes updates soooo slow :what: So, just dropping relevant info here, hoping someone knows a way to make it use 802.11n. /boot/loader.conf: # RTL8188CE + firmware...
on Mar 18
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In which order should one update/upgrading the FreeBSD components [freebsd (components, world and kernel), pkg, ports] to preserve the integrity of the system?
on Mar 17
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The Case for Rust (in the base system)
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The Case for Rust (in the base system) Note that this is about Rust in the base system for userland programs, not for the kernel (yet :)). https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2024-January/002823.html From: Alan Somers Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:51:25 UTC In a recent thread on...
on Mar 14
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We've updated two servers to FreeBSD 14 (from 13.2) and neither one is coming to the ldap party. ldapsearch works after a kinit. We know nslcd started on the command line will segfault after someone tries to log in. We've got lots of core files for kstart and nslcd. Both are segfautling at...
on Mar 6
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I recently posted alot of questions on reddit. And people became angry with my small questions. Now i post them on discord. And get valuable answers rather quickly. It's like reddit & discord attract another kind of public.
on Mar 3
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NVIDIA legacy drivers 390.⋯ and 470.⋯ with kernel module nvidia-modeset
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What's a legacy driver? | NVIDIA nvidia-modeset is applicable with x11/nvidia-driver-390 and x11/nvidia-driver-470 (not with 304.⋯ or 340.⋯). FreeBSD Display Driver – x64 | 390.154 | FreeBSD x64 | NVIDIA FreeBSD Display Driver – x64 | 470.161.03 | FreeBSD x64 | NVIDIA
on Mar 3
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Why do you use FreeBSD on desktop?
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You guys who use FreeBSD as a daily driver on desktops. Just curious, why you've picked FreeBSD instead of Linux, Mac...? IMHO, it would be great to have this kind of information up to date in 2023.
on Mar 2
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HEADS UP: FreeBSD is stopping all 32-bit Hardware support except ARMv7
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32-bit got culled in active development branch 15.0-CURRENT. Now we know what it means getting on the downhill tier-path. First comes Tier2 then Tier3 and then death. No more i386. So sad. Sadly there is no communication on such decisions and it is kept silently in the dark. Nothing that can...
on Feb 3
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FreeBSD on VisionFive2 board with RISC-V RV64GC StarFive JH7110 SoC
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Hello world :-) I just got my VisionFive2 board (powerful rPI like with RISC-V CPU)! :-) Here are the details: https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/VisionFive2 Onboard RV64GC ISA Quad-core 64-bit JH7110 SoC, operating frequency up to 1.5GHz, VisionFive 2 supports OpenCL 3.0, OpenGL ES 3.2, and...
on Jan 23
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Hello, If someone wants to learn FreeBSD in depth so that he\she knows how it works, can debug it, knows how it is structured (kernel, file system, etc.), then what book do you recommend? Thank you.
on Jan 23
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Solved - Is there a working DHCPv6 client for FreeBSD?
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It seems dhclient and dhcp6 are all broken at this point. dhcp6c couldn't fetch an IPv6 address from my OpenWrt router.
on Jan 22
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Samba functions but unable to use it as a MacOS Time Machine destination
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This has been driving me nuts and I hope someone here can help point me in the right direction. I've freshly installed 13.0-RELEASE on a server. I've installed Samba 4.13.7 and Avahi (packages samba413 and avahi, installed using pkg and not ports). My /usr/local/etc/smb4.conf file is as...
on Dec 30