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    mesa-dri 23.1.8 and Radeon 570 and "failed to build shader variant"

    After a day, I have switched back to my newer, faster, much inferior Nvidia card. If I don't see similar problems elsewhere, I might submit a PR.
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    mesa-dri 23.1.8 and Radeon 570 and "failed to build shader variant"

    Noticed a fresh patch release of the mesa-dri port. The log mentions that the Haswell driver does not work, and has been removed. So I updated that port... with no noticeable change. But wait, I generally use Haswell CPU optimizations without trouble. So I removed that from make.conf, and...
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    mesa-dri 23.1.8 and Radeon 570 and "failed to build shader variant"

    All mesa ports installed have been rebuilt, including dependencies. But I don't have mesa-gallium-va or mesa-gallium-vdpau installed, and nothing required them.
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    mesa-dri 23.1.8 and Radeon 570 and "failed to build shader variant"

    Hello again, all. My desktop system is running 13-stable with a Radeon 570 card, and was working great. Today, I updated ports, including mesa-dri. Now, X starts and appears to work, but with a display so corrupted it is basically just colors and patterns. Like a modulus is way off. The mouse...
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    Solved New Xorg switch from devd to udev

    Thanks to everyone for posting this. Too bad that UPDATING didn't mention any of the required details, it's going to bite a lot of people. The only problem I had was that the default keymap was wrong. End and down arrow keys on my standard US keyboard were mapped to left-arrow or something...
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    Questions about backup with dump

    I'm not sure where you got that. dump is a file-level backup. It does not do the restore, that's a separate restore program. Which restores just fine to partitions smaller than the original, at least if they are big enough to hold the amount of data. Are we talking about the same program...
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    MGT Sentinel (John McAfee).

    Really vague. Besides which, read up on that guy.
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    ZFS vs HAMMER

    Except it's not allowed by the rules here. Thread closed.
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    Documentation: what sets amateurs & professionals apart...

    I hadn't seen this thread until today. Just a few comments: First, thanks for the compliments! I would like to get people to realize that documentation is not "after math". It should not be considered something you do after the program, or an optional extra. In the best cases, you write the...
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    Solved WIKI: WantedPorts

    Sorry, no idea. I stay away from wikis whenever possible.
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    Solved USB Drive Writing Problem

    NTFS is a proprietary, closed filesystem. NTFS-3G is a reverse-engineered filesystem driver that runs through FUSE in user mode. This is not a good combination for reliable data access.
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    Solved Reformatting a HDD that was used as a member of a RAID array

    My guess is that this was one of those horrible motherboard RAID devices. FreeBSD supports those, even when a different motherboard is used. If you don't destroy the RAID but just try to reuse the drives, the old metadata is still on them, and seen by FreeBSD. Use graid list to see the...
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    Farewell

    hald automounting hasn't worked in xfce for years. Maybe you're using autofs.
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    Dump Video BIOS at FreeBSD - how to do it?

    I wrote about doing that years ago for the Matrox boards. It's in the mailing list archives somewhere. Seems unlikely to be useful today, though.
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    Disk Image tools

    dd for copying binary images. Set bs= to 64k or more for performance. There is not much point to going larger than 1m or maybe 8m. gpart for dealing with partitioning. file for determining types of filesystems or other content. mdconfig for mounting binary image files. See the examples at the...
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    Solved Moving/merging configuration files?

    I think etcupdate might be able to do that. In a graphic environment, I like devel/diffuse for merging files.
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    What *is* "error 19" ?

    There is no allocation table on a partition, that's a filesystem-level feature. The label device, /dev/label/snert from the example above, is one block smaller than the partition. Anything that writes to /dev/label/snert is safe and will run out of blocks before overwriting the metadata. Just...
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    Solved perl regex

    In regular expressions, dot matches any character unless you escape it. So ^\d\.. I don't know what {1.2} is, maybe you meant {1,2}.
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    What *is* "error 19" ?

    This is a GEOM system. If there are volume/filesystem labels, it will show them in /dev. There are numerous versions of NTFS, maybe some put the volume name information elsewhere and the label system doesn't see it. Generic labels are assigned manually. Persistent ones are written to the...
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    What *is* "error 19" ?

    The glabel system automatically uses volume labels from a bunch of different filesystems, see the man page. The problem with using actual generic labels is that they create metadata at the end of the volume or device, and if you don't access that device through the label, that metadata can be...
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