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We - a group of people involved with the FreeBSD community - would like to propose the formation of a new working group dedicated to improving the functionality and usage of FreeBSD on desktop and laptop environments. Objective The primary goal of this working group is to enhance the user...

I have been setting up freebsd the past few days and can't find a fix for my keyboard issue. My laptop keyboad and trackpad work when typing in the hard drive password and the boot menu. Once in the terminal both stop working, but a usb keyboard does work. dmesg recognizes them. Was wondering if...

I'm trying to compile my own FreeBSD kernel for my HP Pavilion g4 (2012) laptop. I have tried everything, including recompiling the GENERIC kernel to see if there was anything wrong in my configuration file. It turns out that, after I booted with the Verbose option enabled, I got the error...

The machine paniced, and produced a kernel dump: root@kg-starone:~ # cat /var/crash/info.1 Dump header from device: /dev/nda0p2 Architecture: amd64 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 2360213504 Blocksize: 512 Compression: none Dumptime: 2024-01-09 20:16:38 +0100 Hostname...

Upgraded to 14 last year with no issues, but recent pkg upgrades breaks brightness buttons on ASUS UX461(F). kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2 i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin: could not load firmware image, error 2 Keyboard backlight buttons are working but: ACPI Error...

I recently got myself a Star Labs StarBook. This is the AMD version. From dmesg VT(efifb): resolution 800x600 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800U with Radeon Graphics (1896.50-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="AuthenticAMD" Id=0xa50f00 Family=0x19 Model=0x50 Stepping=0...

I want to buy myself a FreeBSD-friendly laptop, so I'm looking for recommendations. Times are hard and unfortunately I can't justify anything particularly expensive, so it would probably have to be a slightly older model. Possibly used/refurbished? That's fine, I don't mind. Some of the...

With an external display connected: closing the lid does not lock lock the screen. Is there a workaround? Essentially: for locking to succeed.

I just upgraded to 14.0-RC4 from 13.2-p4 to test out on my daily driver laptop and I was able to fix all the other minor issues except I can't figure out how to just click the middle mouse button and move the Lenovo nipple (aka the less fun name: TrackPoint) up or down to scroll. I used to be...

After successfully installing FreeBSD 14-rc4 on ThinkPad X270 with XFCE whenever I close the laptop lid and then open it later The screen is blank from screensaver even if its disabled then I press any key and login from lock screen to find a new Display Dialog literally as it treats my laptop...

Hello, I’m trying to get GPU on dell laptop to work. Laptop details: I installed; pkg install drm-kmod I also added on rc.conf: kld_list=“amdgpu” Nothing works after reboot, same heavily pixelated display. Also “startx” doesn’t work either showing error about screen not found. View...

Hello, I'm attempting to run an X server on my laptop running FreeBSD 13.2, but I encounter a blank VT with a cursor in the top left corner when starting it. The system appears to be completely unresponsive when I do this. Power button, CTRL+ALT+F1, etc. don't do anything. I've installed the...

Hi Everyone I'm a member of Powerpc notebook Group We have aim to produce Notebook that uses Power ISA CPU The notebok can run Free/Net/OpenBSD using U-Boot You can visit our Website Open Hardware PowerPC notebook We are Innovating and would like to have volunteers for this project Any...

They haven't opened orders for my country (Norway) yet, but I'm already a bit exited about the Framework Laptop 16. They main attraction for me (in addition to being user customizable) is that I can get it with an AMD cpu. For some reason I prefer AMD CPUs. See also Introducing the Framework...

Hello Everybody! I am trying to get sound through USB to work but am encountering some problems. My environment: - Version: 13.1-RELEASE-p2 - Device: Lenovo Thinkpad T460 - Bluetooth Adapter: Integrated in Intel Wireless 6280 - Headphones: Anker Soundcore P3 This is how I am trying to set...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get wifi to work in an old Macbook. I followed the instructions in this thread: BCM4322 - WIFI Card - Freebsd 11.2 not working. In short, I compiled a new kernel with the BWN_GPL_PHY and BWN_DEBUG options enabled, installed firmware from net/bwn-firmware-kmod, and...

How do I control my screen brightness on my laptop installed with FreeBSD 13.1 and KDE5? I did a "pkg info" and "plasma5-powerdevel-5.24.5" is indeed already installed along with the standard KDE5. And, "dbus" is already enabled. I could not find any screen brightness controls in the Settings...

Hello FreeBSD community. Finally! ) I'm sorry for my English, I have not much practice. First of all, what I have: laptop with RTX2060, i7, nvme, uefi. What I know in linux: debian -> slackware -> arch. We scared by videos on YouTube about FreeBSD. They say there are many really simple...

I have a fresh install of 13.0-Release on a ThinkPad T460. Suspend and resume works as expected from X or Terminal environments using acpiconf -s 3. The default install should have no lid-close action as far as I know, however when I - without setting hw.acpi.lid_switch-state - close my lid, the...

So I get this is a really open-ended question, but what's the best high-end laptop for FreeBSD? AMD preferred for obvious reasons.