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I've been looking at FreeBSD on this machine on and off for a bit now, fortunately someone shared some good help in the freebsd-desktop mailing list a while ago. Seems like there's more activity here though. As of right now, this is about as...

vermaden wrote a really good article on freebsd on the W520, here :- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/freebsd-13-1-on-thinkpad-w520/

Maybe they all had the same MTBF and were manufactured at the same time.

I agree with this, i.e. also start supporting nouveau and nvk, it would mean a more consistent support starting with g80 cards (point at which modesetting works fine). NVK is also progressing nicely. The performance is not on par with the...

Then you haven't been paying attention: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/could-not-retrieve-mirror-list-with-pkg-2-8-4-and-custom-repository.103677/

[no affiliation, I just spotted this] https://www.5bsd.org/ Webpage is a little pretty and light on technical detail. Better info is on Linkedin in the author's posts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kory-heard/ The source code is forked from...

Not convinced of that. Look up the core figures and public crtitics. I might be superstitious but it has the smell of a digital ID / age veficitation platform trying to become lawful "OS provider" next year with a special security infrastructure...

I got me the "Complete Edition" (~twenty years ago.) 3 & 4 are trivial to get them running on VirtualBox. (While I prefer to play 3 over 4.) Alas for 3 the DVD must be in drive; tried with some dd made iso image, but I guess the copy protection...

I think we need to get better information from the OP for what they are actually trying to do.

Yeah, that's not the change, but it does explain why leaving the line out is equivalent to "none", which is the particular question I had. It confirms there are defaults. I don't know what has changed in 2.8.4 but something has. Now I need to...

And the answer is here: static struct pkg_repo * pkg_repo_new(const char *name, const char *url, const char *type) { struct pkg_repo *r; r = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct pkg_repo)); r->dfd = -1; r->ops = pkg_repo_find_type(type)...

if (mirror_type != NULL) { if (STRIEQ(mirror_type, "srv")) r->mirror_type = SRV; else if (STRIEQ(mirror_type, "http")) r->mirror_type = HTTP; else r->mirror_type = NOMIRROR; } In...

The current version is 2.8.4 and that is where the behaviour has changed since 2.8.1, so what the code was in 2.7.5 is not relevant. It is the code in 2.8.4 we need to see. I'm struggling to find where I can download or see that.

The wireless LinuxKPI shim works because we have the source code to the Linux iwlwifi driver. Shims don't unfortunately work with blobs. Otherwise I would agree this is the way forward. In light of this, I'd recommend give up and go full in with...

Look at the rcorder of the scripts; rcorder /etc/rc.d/*. You'll notice /etc/rc.d/cron is somewhere at the bottom, way later than mountcritlocal, FILESYSTEMS, NETWORKING, mountcritremote, automountd and mountlate.

I was just surprise to see such an error given that I am not aware of any process which uses sound.

I'm running 15.1 on my W520 and am very pleased with it although have just attached my fourth PSU, so I don't know if they are known to be flakey. If has been my daily driver for over a year. It's nice having a big screen. The sound is a bit...

also U can cuse bmon trafshow3 iftop slurm

It can't be nested like a VM or jail? I see no need to be a system-wide configuration. The FreeBSD kernel must go because something doesn't work on GENERIC? What are they hiding?

Since I'm fully up-to-date it's too late to answer that question. Interesting. The line doesn't seem to be needed at all. Perhaps it defaults to "none". However, I'm upgrading jails with pkg -j jailname upgrade and it seems each jail has its own...

~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/custom.conf custom: { url: "http://192.168.n.n/15amd64-local-kjpservers", mirror_type: "none", enabled: yes, } # pkg repos FreeBSD-ports: { url ...

Certainly harmless. If it bothers you you can turn off the soundchip in the BIOS.

You don't need to reboot (or restart anything) for these settings to apply.

I tried applying the mirror_type fix to my custom repo in my custom.conf file but even after rebooting am still seeing the same error. Is there somewhere else I need to change this?

More than video stuff, I'm thinking of what I'd term professional software because it's used by what are commonly called professionals, that is, doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, and the like. For example, dentists have all sorts of...

That's what I also see, as the biggest problem. All the rest can be fully automated with scripts. My idea so far was - if someone wants to create a FreeBSD based turn-key distribution, do such things by yourself (the maintainer) once manually as...

Look at the rcorder of the scripts; rcorder /etc/rc.d/*. You'll notice /etc/rc.d/cron is somewhere at the bottom, way later than mountcritlocal, FILESYSTEMS, NETWORKING, mountcritremote, automountd and mountlate.

I just checked and I have about 30 packages that require dbus.

what? I think you have a basic misunderstanding of what ports and packages are. -> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/ regarding dbus: as SirDice pointed out, sysrc doesn't 'recognize' anything - it just checks for valid rc syntax...

The msg comes from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M73 which I use as a headless file server. I don't use audio on it, I can't imagine how such a msg got triggered, root@M73:~ # pciconf -lv | grep Audio -B2 hdac0@pci0:0:3:0: class=0x040300 rev=0x06...

The chip runs at 500F so, yes, it's hot. But all those stats are apparently good for them and meaningless for subscribers.

the answer is in the same style as the question :) https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/multimedia/index.html#automatically-switching-headphones

Is this the audio from a video card, or the onboard sound chip? I suspect the video card, which one? And what driver are you using for it?

Except the fact that dbus_enable="YES" causes dbus-daemon from devel/dbus to start at boot. Plenty of applications depend on it. It's not "marked" as incorrect, it's perfectly valid shell syntax and doesn't cause an error or do something...

When cron runs at startup would a network drive identified in fstab be already mounted in normal circumstances?

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Respect and salute to you for your dedication to make FreeBSD run on phone. ZioMario. I see you have. another threads that successful run A7z and detect the GPU. do you manage to run any WM on it successful ? how hard for you to port the gpu...

This is exactly what I'm building right now. With FreeBSD as os. Stubborn as I'm I will complete this project sooner or later. Now I'm working on the power management feature :

Win98Se was not bad. You still could go to "dos".

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Quit signal? It's a wired ACPI shutdown signal. The last thing that happens. If your mainboard has this wire connected, the PSU receives it and shuts down immediately. To ATX standby, unfortunately, but it looks like shutdown.

You have to include something in kern_shutdown (?) that's executed before the actual ACPI shutdown call. Not sure what's all still available at that point. All storage is gone so you have to do something with the information in memory.

Running something when the machine goes down is not reliably possible, because the different programs have init(8) do different things with the stop part of rc scripts,, if anything. Why would you want to set a flag to 0 at shutdown only to set...

I also have a custom /etc/rc to start other things before user-level. But I don't agree with it. A ready-to-use base system should have a central configuration for this. It's not a special thing or so. Even the most limited users might require...

I've been looking at FreeBSD on this machine on and off for a bit now, fortunately someone shared some good help in the freebsd-desktop mailing list a while ago. Seems like there's more activity here though. As of right now, this is about as...

does it also work on Udemy, while on Chromium it detects widevine but video wont play so not sure if this is the current solution to current level of DRM implementation for those sites

microphone doesnt playback sound, are you checking if it is recording your sound?

My solution with bash is to enable autologin (etc/ttys al setting)) and run things that should be executed after startup in ~/.bash_profile if the curremt terminal device is /dev/ttyv0, and it isn't done before, so no /tmp flag file exists. It's...

Is there a recommended way of running a process at boot up, ie such as setting a flag. I'd like the flag to be reset at shutdown,