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    Solved How to use dd correctly ?

    1 MB is a VERY reasonable block size. The limit is 2048M which is 2G. % dd < /dev/zero > /dev/null bs=2047m status=progress 44444312059904 bytes (444 GB, 414 GiB) transferred 59.219s, 7503 MB/s 208+0 records in 208+0 records out dd < /dev/zero > /dev/null bs=2048m status=progress dd: stdin...
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    Solved How to use dd correctly ?

    Possibly a 'physical switch' in SD card adapter that prevents writing?
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    Valuable News – 2024/04/22

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    Lenovo X220, GhostBSD and internal SD-Card reader

    I just tested GhostBSD 24.01.1 on my ThinkPad X220. After I insert SD card into slow I see this in dmesg(8). mmc0: on sdhci_pci0 mmcsd0: 16GB at mmc0 50.0MHz/4bit/65535-block This is the listing from my lsblk(8) command. [root@livecd ~]# ./lsblk -d DEVICE SIZE MODEL ada0 149G INTEL...
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    How to transfer data between Linux and FreeBSD?

    Create ZFS pool there that will be compatible with both Linux and FreeBSD versions (assuming you have ZFS on that Linux system): - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/zfs-compatibility/ You can also use XFS - FreeBSD can read/wrote XFS with sysutils/fusefs-lkl port.
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    TrueNAS CORE versus TrueNAS SCALE

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    Solved Mouse not working in Xorg (Hyper-V)

    I found something like that - but I do not know if it will help here: https://wiki.debian.org/TabletAndTouchScreen
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    bhyve Problem with mouse pointer inside bhyve vm

    Try these in /boot/loader.conf file: hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 usbhid_load=YES
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    Solved Mouse not working in Xorg (Hyper-V)

    Recently I found out that its also needed inside FreeBSD Bhyve VMs for the more accurate XHCI based tablet/mouse. Direct Bhyve option for that is: -s 30,xhci,tablet ... or just add xhci_mouse="yes" for vm-bhyve config for the same effect. Details here: View...
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    Solved Mouse not working in Xorg (Hyper-V)

    Try these in /boot/loader.conf file: hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 usbhid_load=YES
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    Valuable News – 2024/04/15

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    How can l map a command to prtsc-key ?

    I use Openbox - and Openbox allows to configure 'some' shortcuts for executing anything - but its very limited. For example - its not possible to assign something to JUST [Print Screen] button. There ALWAYS needs to be a modifier in front of it - so [Shift]+[Print Screen] will work or...
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    How can l map a command to prtsc-key ?

    I use x11/xbindkeys for that. I use [Print Screen] to do screenshot of entire screen and [Shift]+[Print Screen] to do the same with a delay. % cat ~/.xbindkeysrc | grep -C 2 Print "~/scripts/shot.sh" Print "~/scripts/shot-delay.sh" Shift + Print You just need to have xbindkeysrc running...
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    Valuable News – 2024/04/08

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    FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge

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    Valuable News – 2024/04/01

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    Valuable News – 2024/03/25

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    Solved panel for Openbox

    I have always some issues with Conky - moved to Dzen2 and could not be happier. Check these for details: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/freebsd-desktop-part-5-key-components-status-bar/ - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/07/05/freebsd-desktop-part-13-configuration-dzen2/
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    Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions

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    UFS UFS to ZFS

    After you backup all your data, /etc and /usr/local/etc (and other configs) you can use REROOT to do that on the fly. Details are here: https://people.freebsd.org/~lidl/blog/re-root.html The idea is to create RAMDISK that will hold your system (4-12 GB of RAM) - copy file there - create new...
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