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<Nitpick> It was Apple II, yes? </Nitpick>

Chris I. Nailed it! Adding set console="eficom" during boot (ESC to add boot options and then "boot") booted it up as it should. Then adding the same option to the /boot/loader.conf file has everything working great again. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the input! I think what'll work best for me is setting up three thick jails - one for web, one for mail, and one as a playground. I’ll start with the playground to get the hang of things and go from there.

As one of the maintainer of NVIDIA GPU driver ports, xorg is preferred. This is simply because upstream (NVIDIA) doesn't (yet) announced supports for xlibre. As a person, neutral. But need to see whether or not xlibre provides continuous...

This is now committed into main branch of ports tree. No plan to merge into quarterly branch, 2026Q1, but next quarterly 2026Q2 would be created early April and it should have this, unless reverted with some reason before 2026Q2 branches from...

looks like a monitor with lots of fingerprint smudges and a cellphone camera flash spot. But FWIW, trying configuring your xorg to use simple vesa mode (low res). It's been supported in every GPU I've ever used. ie...what if you blackball all...

What version of FreeBSD are you using? If 14/15 : Delete all the stuff you put in loader.conf. The sound system is in kernel per default. You should just use kld_list entry in the rc.conf file and add snd_envy24ht. Note the ht, snd_envy24 is a...

Diablo II (notes) Runs no problem wine-devel (11.5) with nGlide Glide wrapper :D I play on patch 1.06b as that's the last OG version before Lord of Destruction expansion (I missed Flamespike The Crawler :p) Just beat Andariel on Nightmare...

In your case (graphics/drm-kmod and graphics/drm-66-kmod are installed), by graphics/drm-66-kmod. You can confirm it by pkg which -o /boot/modules/i915kms.ko and pkg info -l graphics/drm-66-kmod. Examples for me are as below. Note that...

Can anyone put the finger on what could be causing this problem? Processing entries: 100% FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository update completed. 240 packages processed. All repositories are up to date. pkg: Repository FreeBSD-ports cannot be opened...

I ran my OS/2 based Fidonet BBS on it in 1991 Actually I managed to install AIX on it at one point. https://www.ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/AIX_1-3_Installation.html I think I managed to run Solaris on it as well. It's going back a long time so...

Retroarch is a blast. Can even play some old arcade games like Golden Axe!

After adding -x to the top of /usr/local/sbin/vm, sudo vm start -f hass revealed: + bhyve -c 4 -m 8GB -AHPw -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd \ -A -U 9aae377a-6c06-11ed-a655-002590fa0f10 -u -s 0,hostbridge -s 31,lpc \ -s...

Welcome to the dark side...Python: the language I hate to love. LOL Virtually everything I do anymore is rapid-app-prototyped in python, then converted to c++ if need be, but usually the python app works well enough as-is...and python has...

I'd have to read more about the changes since I'm not well-versed. I did stumble across a blog post describing my issues (typing delays, lag in TTY, and screen refresh delays) on the same GPU hardware (Intel HD 520), though...

T-Aoki OK but what installed i915kms.ko? Was it installed with the other .ko's? If so, could I remove all those except for the i915kms.ko?

If you installed DRM/KMS stuff as Handbook states, you should have installed graphics/drm-kmod, which is the metaport to choose which graphics/drm-{510|61|66}-kmod (on current version) with regard to the underlying base FreeBSD version. It also...

Well that was fairly painless and it actually worked! I now pronounce you a GRUB expert ;)

Look up the chainloader in grub. It is pretty reliable. I don't have running examples with Windows left.

I thought I would have to boot windows to shrink the partition.

Look up the chainloader in grub. It is pretty reliable. I don't have running examples with Windows left.

Windows XP used a one sector boot loader partition and then started XP at sector 2. grub2 installs to sectors 1 and 2. So, installing Grub2 on a disk with XP wipes out the initial XP sector. What should work is to do the install and then use a...

I think I should start clearing out my old stuff but it will probably end up in land fill... Just wondering if anyone can give a new home to a couple of IBM PS/2 Model 80's ;)

Is this a Gen10-11? I picked up a HPE MicroServer Gen11 and it has trouble booting 15.0. It's a open issue related to iLO console/serial port that seems to affect some recent model HPE and Dell machines. It's already been patched in CURRENT. For...

I asked about snd_uaudio, not snd_driver. Your output in a previous post clearly shows that it is not loaded.

Actually Windows XP was originally installed on it, but installing Arch Linux messed everything up. I did manage to install Windows XP from an ISO a few days ago on another disk and it was a PITA. but I do like to have these things handy in...

The C version looks to be supported again: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/commit/7bb250739ef0067c62e4ffd533ec8cee2775995a

Everybody should have some USB device with a FreeBSD or Linux or both for such purposes. Then any random PC will do. But no USB sticks please.

We had problems with FreeBSD on a DL380 G5 or G6 at $JOB years ago. It turned out it needed a BIOS update. Also, are you using UEFI or CSM mode?

If your server doesn't have the latest BIOS - upgrade. Very often this fixes the issue.

If your server doesn't have the latest BIOS - upgrade. Very often this fixes the issue.

And I'm guessing kldload snd_uaudio doesn't help? The problem here is that the device reports as bInterfaceClass = 0x00ff &lt;Vendor specific&gt; instead of the correct class for usb audio. you will need a patch for snd_uaudio.

The C version looks to be supported again: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/commit/7bb250739ef0067c62e4ffd533ec8cee2775995a

Now I'm confused. I pulled my old Nvidia GT9600 so I could run some web stuff using the Intel i7 IvyBridge CPU which does what I want. I have both drm-kmod and drm-66-kmod installed. I don't recall installing them or when. My impression is I...

games/heretic has been available natively for ages. The original Prince of Persia is an MS-DOS game, so definitely DOSBox.

I wasn't getting errors, just unusable clones. Again, I'm looking for an offline hardware option - preferably like the Inateck indicated above where I can insert the source and destination drives, press go and have a bootable clone within a...

From the beginning I liked tcl mainly because of: a) Its simplicity and coherence, not bloated and easy to learn syntax. b) The way it separately denote variable names and variable values that allows to construct strings in an intuitive way...

That's one of the software cloners I've tried. Doesn't work. But thanks.

No expert here either. Figured since I was able to install on another pc, the stick was ok...but no I did not run the checksum. I'm lazy I don't have another server here handy to test. Will go to our data center and see what happens. Have lots...

Did you check if you aren't running out of disk space?

Hi gang! Editorial Fun fact: I've been using FreeBSD for quite a while now and to be perfectly honest with you lot I'm (still) quite passionate about the whole thing. Always have, always will be. At the time of writing my backup VPS server is...

Where did you get this 15.1-PRERELEASE?

First: not sure what you mean with PRERELEASE, but second: running a development build is prone to cause weird situations from time to time because... it's a developer version which contains plenty of debug code (and sometimes unpolished bugs...

What I've encountered with forced manual intervention on etcupdate was the switch of default login shell to be /bin/csh to /bin/sh, which require to edit 1st line of /etc/master.passwd that should've been modified locally to register root...

I agree, but in all fairness the focus of the forum is of course on FreeBSD. Still, now that it's fully clear that this thread specifically addresses Python I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be allowed to expand a little bit on the learning...

Internal help have sense when the interpreter not only run in UNIX like systems with man command. Also R has such an internal help system. It makes also sense because one interacts with the interpreter, not only program. tcl, although it is also...

Interestingly enough, I have switched to pkgs, and I use freebsd-update to install patches! Never been one for consistency in my old age. -:)

I built from source 14.1,14.2, and 14.3 and each time mounted source ro. I also never had a problem. Thanks for your comments, however. One further observation about rc.subr: There were no merge indicators in the resulting file after the the...

As on the mailing list :-) On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 6:48 AM Roger Olofsson wrote: > Hello, > Is there any chance of making the Roland Tri Capture working on FreeBSD 15? > It's a device that is _NOT_ USB compliant, ie it utilizes drivers to work...

That's incorrect. While it does give you some warnings about /usr/src 'being mounted readonly' it does not require it. And the reason I know as much is because I upgraded my (VPS) backup server earlier this week, and it gets ro access to the...