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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...

I guess I can just repeat what has been true for the last ~25 years: "f*ck microsoft, don't use their crap"?

Nah. That would require having USB 10GBit interface for the laptop, and VNC works better anyway The problem is, 2000x1000 window in 32-bit color should completely redraw in 10-15 FPS range. I will inspect the negotiated ciphers next time but...

Oh, great. Apparently using kitty for everyday work is not in the cards: $ tmux -L ollamasrv1a new-session -A -s ollamasrv1a /bin/bash missing or unsuitable terminal: xterm-kitty Kitty also seems a bit copy'n'paste challenged, at least on macOS.

VScode is not an AI-power editor as such. It just allows you to use AI.

If you don't want a co-author by AI tag, why use an AI-powered editor? I wonder if some users were quietly withholding AI use?

Alain De Vos, for me at least with GP108 [GeForce GT 1030], although I haven't used it much, Wayland has worked fine for me for awhile. I remember at one point it didn't, I asked on these forums, and at the time, it wasn't working for you, but...

OnePlus 6 (Qualcomm SDM845) has an interesting bootloader; default it's expected-locked to OnePlus firmware, can be officially OEM Unlocked (bootloader I think resets key to cause data wipe like most Androids), and Renegade Project allows generic...

Sorry This isn't exactly on topic, but it's close enough. We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History, and Almost Nobody Has Noticed

Saw an interesting post about the taskbar clock freezing on KDE: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/i-missed-my-train-and-its-fedoras-fault/190233 Not sure what's going on with that specifically, but 2nd post implies it's easier to notice or...

Not sure what openSUSE is using, but I wonder how KMSCON interacts with drm_kms_helper.fbdev_emulation=0; been using that for a bit for faster boots :cool: (TTY switching seemingly doesn't work but haven't needed that yet with GNOME 48+; Xfce/X11...

Cedric62, sorry I wasn't very clear. I use packages almost entirely. However, as I've mentioned, somewhere on this forum there are explanations as to why Nvidia packages sometimes don't work, usually because they will be out of sync--I forget...

Oh great. Linux now starts messing with their VT mechanism. You know, the one that had nothing wrong with it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-KMSCON-Experience I wonder whether this new toy is compatible with Claude Code, homebrew and pip.

iBook G4 makes a cool retro gaming laptop :cool: (it connects to my Wifi 6 router surprisingly; TenFourFox/32-bit old Firefox loaded some stuff with quick tests) Not too sure about FreeBSD's support on that laptop though for graphics (couldn't...

I use x11 apps on plenty headless FreeBSD machines that have no X11 server of their own. Examples: xbiff, ledbiff (uses keyboard LEDs to indicate you have mail), xload, xterm. And of course the already mentioned remote Chrome or FIrefox to...

I use x11 apps on plenty headless FreeBSD machines that have no X11 server of their own. Examples: xbiff, ledbiff (uses keyboard LEDs to indicate you have mail), xload, xterm. And of course the already mentioned remote Chrome or FIrefox to...

I had a X230; it's fun if you have to access the other side of the mobo :p (pics; I think heatsink requires the mobo completely out but BIOS chips are just under keyboard)

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