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This is a weird one. I have a 6th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, where brightness adjustments via Fn keys and sysctl *used to work* but have now *stopped working*, and I'm unable to figure out why. When I first set up the system, a month or so ago, one of the first things I checked was that I could...

I have this Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge laptop now. As everything is soldered in, it is more of an overgrown phone, but anyway. For fun I tried booting a recent FreeBSD snapshot on it, the snapshot was FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20250227-8a85584785e3-275712-memstick.img.xz which I put on a...

I have a Dell Inspiron. I would like, console-only, to control volume up/down/mute with the special keys on my laptop; a solution that works is mixer(1) and I would like, console-only, to brightness up/down of the screen with the special keys on my laptop; a solution that works is...

Dear community, This is a friendly reminder about our upcoming Laptop and Desktop Workgroup (LDWG) call is scheduled for Monday, January 20, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UTC. Whether you participated in our first meeting or are joining us for the first time, we warmly welcome your presence and...

Hi! I'm currently trying to install FreeBSD 14.1 on a Thinkpad T14 Gen3 (Intel) with the interactive bsdinstall TUI but have some questions regarding the partitioning step. My plan is to run FreeBSD alongside Windows 11 on a single SSD using the BIOS to switch between installed EFI...

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...