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I have made a change to add drm-66-kmod instead of drm-kmode but still get maxsize error. I did have this working before, God knows how....

From the 50s to the 90s DIY was a big growth industry (at least in the UK) and a huge number of hardware supermarkets sprang up to supply the market. Then the government brought in certification requirements on building work, and with that the...

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I type xorg freebsd into firefox (I use start page rather than google) and the Handbook chapter was the first thing that came up. Second thing seems to be this thread. :)

Are you aware that tkinter is tk with the whole tcl inside python? Why python with the whole tcl inside if you can do the same with tcl? And I do not think installing is a problem, more interesting would be a short introduction to python, or...

I had. forgotten that this stoppage also occurred on the first machine and I had simply gone on anyway.

For NFS or other networked filesystems you're probably better off with autofs/automount.

Then you need besides graphics/drm-66-kmod to identify (using kldstat) which firmware the gpu needs and install only that firmware. There are those listed below: % cd /usr/ports/graphics/gpu-firmware-intel-kmod % make flavors-package-names...

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I only have i915kms and drm.

Don't install graphics/drm-kmod, install graphics/drm-66-kmod.

Thanks, I'll try installing hdparm.

I have done this on the X61, although I tested it with linux using hdparm to test performance, it definitely worked. And I remember also dmesg reports the 3 Gb/s interface when the drive is initialised, although that's not really a test. It's...

For NFS or other networked filesystems you're probably better off with autofs/automount.

To avoid such a failure in the future, specify for filesystems not vital to boot the root system with the fstab mount option "failok". If a filesystem marked as "failok" cannot be mounted, it will not make the system drop into single-user mode...

Don't install graphics/drm-kmod, install graphics/drm-66-kmod.

A further update: I restarted the make and it completed with: -------------------------------------------------------------- >>> World build completed on Thu Apr 23 11:55:21 EDT 2026 >>> World built in 711 seconds, ncpu: 12, make -j4...

I saw this on the r/freebsd. Nice write up! BTW, I've recently found some trouble with epairs not applying checksums, but advertising they do so packets are dropped when they're received on the physical network by other machines and those...

With version 15's new VLAN aware bridges, we only need one bridge at the host level and one epair per jail to handle networking for every jail's needs. Prior to version 15, when I was trying to build a vnet jailed gateway with a handful of VLANs...

If you don't want all the gpu firmware installed, check in kldstat which one is loaded, delete all the others. On a system that does not yet have any GPU firmware installed, now that the required firmware has been identified, proceed to install...

My internal GPU's codename is Renoir, so I install the package firmware made for my exact model graphics/gpu-firmware-amd-kmod-renoir (@renoir flavor). graphics/drm-kmod pulls in graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod and this meta-port pulls in all the GPU...

Legacy BIOS boots (CSM, or really old systems) use vt too (it has a 'vbefb' backend). Ever since they made the switch I've never seen it "automatically" fallback to sc, this was always a deliberate switch (setting kern.vty=sc). I deliberately...

Please show us: cat /dev/sndstat as root: sysctl dev.hdac.0.pindump=1. Look for the pindump in dmesg.

I started the install on a second machine, but it failed on 'make -j4 buildworld'. A few details: I have a separate machine which holds the source and exports the src via NFS. On the machine holding the src, I cloned the src with git and...

fahrenheit, balanga, you may not even need any firmware at all, depending on your CPU/GPU's age. Up to 3rd gen they were not programmable.

I'm just a baby beastie, but jails are so easy to set up and provide a significant security layer - the cost-benefit analysis says use jails. Why would you want an internet connected program to have access to everything on your server if things...

Whether you need them or not is a matter of personal circumstances. I've personally had decent luck with both Podman containers and actual FreeBSD jails. I haven't personally found either to be particularly hard to set up on the whole. I've...

Don't confuse snapshots with backups. Both are very recommendable to do, that's right. But they are not the same. If snapshots are stored on the same pool (physical drive) they provide quick and easy restorage when something was messed up (#1...

no, but I highly recommend it. The more packages you install the higher the likelihood something breaks with an update. So, my advice: every application in a secure, contained environment. So when you update a certain software stack and it...

Big newb chiming in to say that jails are the way to go. I've been using them to get all my homelab services up, sticking with a "one service gets one jail" approach. Only for the super tightly integrated LDAP+Kerberos setup did I opt for a...

Mail setups are commonly put into jails. Depends on how you read the mail I suppose. On the other hand you have to consider the increased risk from increased complexity. And you'd have multiple OSes to keep up-to-date.

I use a “1 application = 1 jail” approach. Meaning that something like Nextcloud goes into a single jail, database and all. And I use mount points to ensure that my data stays if I need to rebuild the jail.

Biggest, and most important, benefit, compartmentalization.

I know that a long time. Interesting would be to change the size of those menus. These keyboard shortcuts are the same as the small/medium/large sizes of the right button menu. I can't read it on 1920x1080, unfortunately, and it doesn't change...

In case it's relevant, here are the other updates from yesterday. The host was rebooted at Tue Apr 21 17:39 - shortly after those pkg updates. Interesting: the first Nagios alert was: [04-21-2026 17:51:52] HOST ALERT: ha;DOWN;HARD;10;CRITICAL -...

I see recent updates: Apr 21 17:29:03 r730-01 pkg[74249]: grub2-bhyve upgraded: 0.40_11 -> 0.40_12 Apr 21 17:29:14 r730-01 pkg[74249]: vm-bhyve upgraded: 1.7.0_1 -> 1.7.3 Let's try reverting some of those. Nope... running with this has the...

Mail setups are commonly put into jails. Depends on how you read the mail I suppose. On the other hand you have to consider the increased risk from increased complexity. And you'd have multiple OSes to keep up-to-date.

I've managed to get this vm running via vm start -f hass on FreeBSD 15 with vm-bhyve-1.7.3 Recently, I was moving /usr/local/vm to a new ZFS dataset. This problem occurred there, so I went back to the original dataset and tried it there. Both...

Then this is something that needs investigating. I was using Chromium but also have Firefox installed. So I tried it with Firefox and had no issues searching for xorg.

Biggest, and most important, benefit, compartmentalization.

I am usingnet/dante inside a jail on FreeBSD 13.5. I am seeing the following errors in the log: Jan 16 08:44:21 (1768571061.307113) sockd[79475]: info: pass(1): tcp/accept [: 192.168.1.195.49933 192.168.0.210.1080 Jan 16 08:44:21...

Thanks, good advice. On my nightly email, I received a notice to upgrade one of my k-mods (the re 2.5 gig driver). After investigating, and looking at /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, I was able to do that. Moreover,, in reading a bunch of posts to this...

Yesterday I found out that I can zoom in xterms with shift-alt-(numpad) + For the past 50 years I only knew how to zoom out with ctrl-shift-(numpad) -. X.org: "🤌"

Did you write to the pool yet? zdb has soe options to roll back transactions on import.

Biggest, and most important, benefit, compartmentalization.

It's 5 commands or so to get a graphical screen with xterm. Install xinit, create ~/.xinitrc as basic startup script and type startx to run it without anything that calls itself desktop. (They always find themselves important) The script may not...

I am creating a French-speaking wiki on BSD UNIX in general and more specifically FreeBSD You can find my Wiki at this address: Wiki Ordunix.net And for the BSD part: BSD For the history of BSD: History of BSD And finally, regarding FreeBSD...

Which is exactly the order freebsd-update would use. It creates the BE (of the current kernel+userland) then applies the patch (kernel, userland, or both). If things go south, you boot that BE and you'll be back to the state before the patch was...

I typed xorg into the search and the first thing it brings up is "Chapter 5. The X Window System" but this is a year old thread that doesn't need to be necro posted.

This sounds like your ZFS metadata is corrupted, in a rather bad way. Obviously, this should have never had happened. There might be other explanations, but I can't think of any sensible ones right now. You can get very bizarre effects if file...