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It's NVidia that should fix it, but they won't as it's been EoL for quite some time. That GeForce 6500 series card mentioned in the PR is now 20 years old. Nvidia stopped supporting it more than a decade ago. Someone on this forum once said...

340 version still works on a recent xserver version, the 390 version certainly does (I'm using it), the 304 version however has been broken for quite some time. It broke after a certain xserver update, and hasn't worked since. Should probably...

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Edit: useless post - sorry for the noise.

That's not entirely true. FreeBSD tries to adhere to the UNIX philosophy. And, FreeBSD tries to maintain the BSD directory structure. The various Linux distros are all over the map WRT O/S structure. That was my complaint with the Linux distros...

Best time is time wasted.

Best time is time wasted.

Recently, I was approached to work on some software for a Linux system. I also want to run some software that doesn't run on FreeBSD. I wanted to run i3wm on Linux but it's X11 only. The software I want to use is Wayland only. So I could use Sway...

That's not entirely true. FreeBSD tries to adhere to the UNIX philosophy. And, FreeBSD tries to maintain the BSD directory structure. The various Linux distros are all over the map WRT O/S structure. That was my complaint with the Linux distros...

OK, I have checked the WiFi today, and the network is WPA-Enterprise protected. The error was in the hostapd.conf wpa = WPA-RADIUS instead of correcting wpa=2. The FreeBSD Handbook has correct information. My next quiz is "Why can't the FreeBSD...

I used gemrb instead of wine. It is pretty spot on, minus multi-player.

I used gemrb instead of wine. It is pretty spot on, minus multi-player.

For example, how is it possible to set the DISTRIBUTIONS list dynamically, so I can use a single installer ISO to bootstrap several kinds of machines? Just a plain shell script and a callback function that would be invoked to provide the needed...

That was only way that I could start Wayland in VBox, script from the link you proposed doesn't work because kwin_wayland_drm can't open drm device /dev/dri/card0 - which doesn't exist in VBox guest. I have no intention to pollute nor screw my on...

The OP installed Windows once; to reinstall it, he simply needs to repeat the procedure. This seems to me to be a troll rather than a genuine support request.

You will need to ask this on a Windows forum. We don't do Windows here. (For that matter, we don't do pfSense either, refer to the forum rules).

"Hello Dr Heisenburg. Your cab is here, I think"

Is the AI fakery before or after the Foundation forced Rust into 15.x base?

Okay, just did some small test in VBox FreeBSD VM - sddm is commented out anyway - login is into vt, added seatd, sudo service seatd onestart, commented out in ~/.xinitrc my startplasma-x11 line, added exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11...

Just a guess (I'm not using Wayland, only X), but can you guys try to comment out sddm and start plasma from vt with dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland (or with wthatewer is a proper way to start startplasma-wayland) and the see if ^C works...

CTRL-C crashes KATE. SDDM works to login to wayland. Plasma 6.4.5. I am able to block and unblock power management. I'm on latest for 14.3 so whatever KF6 and QT6 versions are latest is what I have installed. I didn't really do anything special...

On ESP /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI is the default, please see uefi. /EFI/freebsd/loader.efi is used only, and only if explicitly set by an EFI env managed by efibootmgr , with something like efibootmgr -a -c -l /boot/efi/EFI/freebsd/loader.efi, which...

Yes, it would copy the entire /boot directory, including loader.conf, which is properly configured on the original VM (boot_mute=, splash=...). Not necessarily. loader.efi works just as well as bootx64.efi. Although the automatic created ESP...

Directory structure also seems such a superficial thing to me that can be bikeshedded to infinity, but, in the end, barely matters. And a number of aspects here are just an accident of history as much as anything else. To be honest I'm not really...

Source tree was set to the main branch, which results in 16.0-CURRENT. The main branch (aka -CURRENT) is an unsupported, development branch. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/topics-about-unsupported-freebsd-versions.40469/ NVidia stopped...

OK, here's a tip: Use tip, that will solve your parking problems! 😏

absolutely:) OK, the tips for me depend on my position. my environment. how confident I am in a situation. I'm always try to adapt. In general, more tips, less spitting. I agree when people solely depend on tipping. I don't agree when they have a...

You mean you don't have the driver name or the audio not working as you want ? Because I have this:

That's not entirely true. FreeBSD tries to adhere to the UNIX philosophy. And, FreeBSD tries to maintain the BSD directory structure. The various Linux distros are all over the map WRT O/S structure. That was my complaint with the Linux distros...

That's not entirely true. FreeBSD tries to adhere to the UNIX philosophy. And, FreeBSD tries to maintain the BSD directory structure. The various Linux distros are all over the map WRT O/S structure. That was my complaint with the Linux distros...

Wouldn't that copy over whole /boot dir as well, with loader.conf not properly configured for the new setup? Besides, OP needs for UEFI boot on ESP /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi not /efi/freebsd/loader.efi My idea was to install new VM with UEFI boot...

IMO OpenBSD, with its security-only focus, is pretty much niche. A switch to another niche O/S in QubeOS shouldn't be surprising. As a baseline I don't think FreeBSD is any less secure than OpenBSD. OpenBSD achieves this by limiting default...

You don't need to take zfs-snapshots before vm "clone", the utility does this automatically. clone name[@snapshot] new-name Create a clone of the virtual machine name, as long as it is currently powered off. The...

Well that makes it a bit simpler. Thanks for highlighting it. In the past I think I started creating the snapshot first because vm destroy creates one of its own if you don't specify it and then leaves it behind if you destroy the cloned client...

Is that really so different from FreeBSD? Linux offers userland compatibility ("we don't break userland") and guarantees nothing when it comes to kernel interfaces. This seems like a reasonable trade-off, because if you start guaranteeing kernel...

Common misconception. 5G is a mobile telephone standard, Wifi 5 is 802.11ac and has nothing to do with cellular 5G. 5G also has nothing to do with the 5 GHz wireless bands 802.11ac can use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G...

These are the easiest options I can think of. Option 1: Keep the original VM, add an additional disk to the VM, create a EFI ESP on that disk. Add the additional disk on port 0 at the VMs storage device controller, and the original disk on port...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZt1xKtPbUQ&list=RDuZt1xKtPbUQ&start_radio=1

Agreed. libvirt is unnecessary and annoying when looking for docs on correct Qemu usage. One approach I would suggest if the docs are crap is to temporarily use libvirt to output the native qemu command evocation for future. Something like: $...

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Thanks, I should've made it clear that I've read bsdinstall's manual page on scripting. But, for instance, there's this example in the manpage: export nonInteractive="YES" which led me to want to see all other options and their intended use, in a...

So, it's Legacy BIOS / MBR / UFS. In that case, I would start over - please see again #17 and please do answer

Please read an article from Dan Langille, its old but can be useful: https://dan.langille.org/2020/04/29/warning-failed-precmd-routine-for-mysql/

No, for now. As SirDice noted in comment #3, current official pkgs in FreeBSD-ports repo are built against 14.2, and FreeBSD-kmod repo doesn't have nvidia stuff as of current strict limitations for builders used for FreeBSD-kmod repo. What I'm...

You don't need to take zfs-snapshots before vm "clone", the utility does this automatically. clone name[@snapshot] new-name Create a clone of the virtual machine name, as long as it is currently powered off. The...

The latest packages behave the same as quarterly.

I never used before TPM in VirtualBox, just enabled it to check (TPM Version 2.0) and FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p3 boots without any problems (UEFI Boot, ZFS, vt cons) VirtualBox 7.2.2, Win11 Pro 24H2 host. P.S. Edit: Oh, sorry, I only now realized...