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G'day all, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 14.2, and I'm using one of the old video cards: Nvidia GeForce 210. I cannot use the new Nvidia drivers; if I use the new Nvidia driver, I receive an error message prompting me to install the legacy driver: x11/nvidia-driver-340. Thus, following the...

NVIDIA_SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver in freebsd. How to solve it?

I'm attempting to upgrade from www/redmine42-4.2.5 to www/redmine51-5.1.3_2 on FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64 and I've used the redmine plugin DMSF which relies on xapian, specifically xapian-ruby (1.4.22). I can poudriere build and then install databases/ruby32-xapian-1.4.26 just fine...

Hey! Let me give you a little background. I'm a Linux user. Not a very good Linux user. I prefer to point and click. I prefer to not deal with things and have my OS "just work". That doesn't mean I don't get dirty with lower level stuff, it's just that I'm not really experienced. However I've...

Wanting to give FreeBSD a try, I downloaded the installer and burned it to USB after verifying the sha256 checksum, booted the installer, entered my hostname, selected all sets to be installed, partitioned the disks, either before or after partitioning the disks it asked me to configure my wifi...

So in the last maybe 24 hours I've had quite the show with freebsd. I've maybe installed freebsd on my laptop about 8 times now in the last day. The first 3 times were me trying to figure out why a wayland window manager Hyprland caused a whole kernel panic everytime it was ran, but thats beside...

Hello all! Quite excited to make the switch to FreeBSD, however the installer refuses to even start. I have tried every image & iso for installation. I currently I am trying a 14.0 release memstick img written via the win32diskimager. I have a zephry rog g14 2021. The installer works fine up...

I am using a DELL Optiplex 3050. When I flash a FreeBSD `.iso` file to a USB drive and turn on the computer and then press F12, the USB drive does not show up in the boot menu. All other devices (CD reader & hard drive) show up though. Does anyone know how to make my USB drive show up? It shows...

Machine: 1. motherboard: asus tuf gaming z490-plus(wifi) 2. cpu: i7-10700K 3. ram: 32gb ddr4 4. no dedicated GPU What I've tried? I've put on my pendrive (sandisk) with installed Ventoy, these files: - FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso - FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img -...

FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE Name : amavisd-new Version : 2.12.2,1 Attempting to install amavisd-new via pkg fails with unresolved dependency for lha. # pkg install amavisd-new Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to...

Hi All, I am trying to install FreeBSD on a disk where I have already installed Linux in. I used Gparted to create another partition in the disk and formatted it in NTFS file format. But when trying to install FreeBSD, the whole disk is shown instead of the partitions. Hence, I have to wipe to...

I could not install FreeBSD 13 from usb drive but got the following message on terminal; "LILO error Duplicate Version ID". I installed freebsd many times but never used usb drive or usb install before. I idd'ed the image as you instructed and set boot option from bios but it halts for a couple...

Hi everyone, apologies if this is trivial, but I guess I have exhausted my knowledge and capabilities. I managed to install FreeBSD in a virtualbox under Kubuntu 20.04 with KDE so I thought I could just try and use FreeBSD on the PC directly. But as you can imagine, I want to have the real...

hi i am trying to install Certified Asterisk 16 - LTS but i have a crypt_r error ld: error: undefined symbol: crypt_r >>> referenced by crypt.c:124 >>> crypt.o:(ast_crypt) >>> referenced by crypt.c:139 >>> crypt.o:(ast_crypt_validate) >>> referenced by...

I dd the FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img to a usb stick and then tried to boot. It got stuck after I selected option 1 multi user from freebsd boot screen. it shows loading kernel ... and hangs. what's the problem? the laptop in question is a Dell core 2 Duo with Bios and no UFI...

I'm installing FreeBSD 12.1 in a laptop, and when the installation prompts to configure the network (IPv4/IPv6), no adapter appears. I entered another tty (Alt+F4) and run ifconfig, where only lo0 device shows up. Any idea on how to make it recognize the WiFi card?

Hello SMEs, I have learned from a Pluralsight course on how to PXE install Linux Distributions, e.g. CentOS7.2. And I succeeded following the guideline of the course, i.e. by setting up a DHCP, TFTP server, and FTP server, then configure the pxelinux.0 file as needed. The process is pretty neat...

I am repurposing a 10Zig Linux thin client terminal that has a dual core 64-bit intel atom with AES-NI, but I cannot install any version of FreeBSD beyond 11.1-RELEASE . I have tried every version in memstick form, 10.3, 10.4, 11.0, 11.1 which all install successfully and the installed system...

Hello, I'm running on a fresh install of FreeBSD 12, with FAMP installed and the general 1st 10 things you do to a fresh install, as well as the latest gnome desktop. Until now, everything has gone quite smoothly. Now I'm installed Openoffice 4, and the first command line string I give it, and...