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I never X tunneled; servers didn't have X, and I figure remote computers to either have a physical K/M/monitor to do GUI stuff on directly, or need Sunshine/high-end 3D streaming tech for serious low-latency/high-quality/framerates.

Not to mention the excellent keyboard.

We have FreshPorts (thanks!) where one can check to see if ones favorite software is ported to FreeBSD. Some examples: security/vaultwarden, textproc/obsidian, multimedia/navidrome, www/nextcloud,

I believe it's wrong direction "driven by marketting persons". Back to X11 or restarting as saner alternative would be needed. I'll change my mind if Wayland implements and sanely documents "human readable/writable" configs common within almost...

Issue #1 - the temperature control doesn't work Issue #2 - it should be possible to report / read the fan speed Issue #3 - the fan doesn't stop when modules are unloaded

I didn't realise you could kldload these modules. I guess it's obvious if I think about it but... Can you 'kld unload' unload them as well? Which FreeBSD version are you talking about?

I'd start with 515 (afaik lowest available); I think it did the boot modeset/resolution switch faster than 61. I have UHD 630; iirc 515 didn't support GuC loading with Intel (pre-Skylake doesn't have GuC/HuC) but 61+ does. 66 and latest (before...

I'd start with 515 (afaik lowest available); I think it did the boot modeset/resolution switch faster than 61. I have UHD 630; iirc 515 didn't support GuC loading with Intel (pre-Skylake doesn't have GuC/HuC) but 61+ does. 66 and latest (before...

You sure about that? Maybe some new kid in town wants to make a name for himself and there is a new square wheel, more square than the previous ones, next year or next month. I, personally, don't trust them. YMMV.

Red Hat =/= The World. It's going to be a long time before Xwayland isn't even considered unnecessary. Might as well use what works and improve on it - than reimplementing the wheel incorrectly. I was hoping this would happen. A brave soul...

The world clearly went Microsoft Windows and will remain there. Wayland (and even X11) are irrelevant. As has been proven by FreeBSD, it doesn't matter where the world is, good software will survive. X11 and its ecosystem will be around long...

I have a quick question about the use of the renice command on FreeBSD when working with multi-threaded applications. I've looked through the man pages and the web, but couldn't really find an answer anywhere. On Linux, renicing a process will...

What are you guys talking about? Modern gear can be fixed with specialized tools. There are Chinese small shops producing 2018-era motherboards using chips lifted from decommissioned boards.

I know you're all waiting with baited breath to hear what happened. I blew all the dust out and I'm glad I did. It really wasn't too bad but the power supply was the dustiest in the box and really needed it. All said, it fixed nothing. The good...

Why? Wayland is clearly where the world is going, no matter our personal opinions on X. Moving over will be a project, but it will be a project once and then they should be set for another 20-30 years. If they can lean on GTK to do most of the...

Cedric62 I have that same card. I use latest for pkgs. As I mentioned above, I have almost always been able to fix Nvidia issues by, first updating my ports tree, then using portmaster to build nvidia-drm-kmod. (Though I do have to use the...

Can you give me precise instructions to get it built? I'm pretty much a novice at all this stuff and make plenty of mistakes when if there is scope for misinterpreting anything. Do I need to install 15.1 stable? and where do I get it from?

fun, fact, i once installed win3.11 for workgroup. And running a browser going to facebook. Ter response from the facebook site was "serious?"

Oh yes, been there done that, moved the metric tons of paperwork... And then you get management from the automotive area trying to build airplanes like they did before. Ideas like having the wire harness for a complete bloody plane made "just in...

Don't advertise mergemaster, it is dead.

T-Aoki having been in that area for a decade, these HMI "silver box"es also run 64 bit CPUs now. At least they did when I wrote code for them. But you have to take into account the penny pinching of bean counters. So you get a system with some 64...

I must make a note of this. It will save a lot of messing around.

No trouble at all. Simply install (or create package: make package) the drm graphics driver from ports, e.g. graphics/drm-66-kmod. It has only two build dependencies, with ports-mgmt/pkg already installed, the other devel/ccache. Waiting for...

Sure, boot single user mode, fsck if needed, mount / as rw (mount -u / for ufs), remove any packages as needed. Start network (service netif start && service routing start) if you want to install packages. And yes, drm packages are a mess right...

No trouble at all. Simply install (or create package: make package) the drm graphics driver from ports, e.g. graphics/drm-66-kmod. It has only two build dependencies, with ports-mgmt/pkg already installed, the other devel/ccache. Waiting for...

Thanks for taking the trouble to respond. At this point in time, it looks like a bit of a lotttery as far as getting this working. I think I had better wait until 15.1 is actually released before trying again.

See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mfsbsd-with-high-res.101208/post-758115

I can't say for sure, didn't use freebsd-update for many years. Perhaps expose /var/db/freebsd-update/ of the downloaded updates to the offline systems in some way. I do this with 3rd party packages, the same can applied to FreeBSD-pkgbase...

With a view to making some sense of all this, I have just installed 15.1 prerelease on a new partition and installed drm-66-kmod, This resulted in the screen going blank followed by a reboot. drm-515-kmod did the same. No pkg called drm-kmod...

The current default for 15.0 is drm-66-kmod (for 6.6 LTS), for 15.1, assuming the rest of may looks good the default may be updated to 612 (for 6.12 LTS, no package yet). I would say, go with 66. For that vintage of hardware you don't need any of...

Well, i think that's the issue with Security updates. Sometimes you go months, other time hours. It all depends on what's reported when and when they get fixed. I always read them and see if there are workarounds or if they apply to me...

Try 10 Gbit/s Ethernet. But with most machines you should also switch to a faster cipher for ssh. Watch in top(1) whether your bottleneck is ssh CPU time.

You can do that with verimg(8) available here: - https://github.com/vermaden/verimg

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/

What are you guys talking about? Modern gear can be fixed with specialized tools. There are Chinese small shops producing 2018-era motherboards using chips lifted from decommissioned boards.

I cannot get complex applications to tunnel fast. On a 1 Gbit LAN, accessing Kdevelop on work laptop from home computer. The UI is always laggy.

I use remote X11 for things like Chrome regularly. Not to randomly browse the web, but for example to authorize Claude Code. Works just fine. Bitmaps are fine for X11 forwarding. What isn't find is GLX and anything usng SDL for bitmaps, such as...

There isn't that much in the way of daemons running from the base system. Most are ports/packages. You have to recognize by hand when some have to be restarted. This is, BTW, a big advantage over most Linuxens. You cannot restart PID 1. In...

It might be worth mentioning that doing pkg upgrade without a y (for yes) flag, will also show what packages will be upgraded. Then, you don't have to bother with the dry run, you'll see that what packages will be upgraded and you're asked if you...

Comparing the release dates of the distfiles of 15.1-PRERELEASE and FreeBSD:15.amd64 packages, it may hit and miss. You have to use the "latest" (FreeBSD-ports) package repository [1] (which is default on STABLE). At the time of this post...

It might be worth mentioning that doing pkg upgrade without a y (for yes) flag, will also show what packages will be upgraded. Then, you don't have to bother with the dry run, you'll see that what packages will be upgraded and you're asked if you...

One way--not necessarily the best, but for my circumstances useful--is to put the bhyve VM on the same subnet. I use bhyve-vm, and create a public switch. Then, when I create a new VM, it is on the same subnet as the host machine, so I can just...

Sounds like extreme swap usage by lack of memory. Those muscles are only a matter of time. It still builds on the 1st amd64 hardware. It takes really long but a hang has a different cause.

Symptom of bad quality software. Whoever wrote the software (that requires special terminals) didn't think about requirements, usability, integration. They wanted to quickly solve their own problem (installing software on a Mac, using an AI to...

I observe an increasing tendency of TUI/terminal software that needs special "advanced" terminal emulators. Homebrew on macOS is an example. If I am on FreeBSD in an xterm and ssh into one of my Macs, I can't directly run homebrew commands to...

There seem to be so many versions of drm-kmod around and I have no idea which one if for what. Which pkg should I install under 15.1-PRERELEASE for use with a system using an Intel GM965/GL960 - (very old) chip?

My systems don't have the muscle to build FreeBSD from source. I tried a couple of times and the system just hanged after many hours and I couldn't figure out what was going, This is all too much for my little brain to handle... If I install...

They pop up from time to time: posters who want their threads or posts removed because they're done with a subject or the forums in general. There have been bitter disputes about the "ownership of posts". The content below was culled from...

When building from source no part even makes a suggestion about rebooting. On releases I usually run auto-updates using freebsd-update from crontab. I reboot when I know there was a security bug in the kernel, which I learn from the mailing list...

The cheapest can of air locally was $9 a can!! I'm not paying that. I have an air compressor for car tires. I looked for the extra parts I bought for that years ago and found the attachment so I don't need the canned stuff. I'll blow it out...