Questions tagged [freebsd]
FreeBSD is a free Unix-based operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX.
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Creating a text file from man page including pagination
I want to create a text file of a man page that includes pagination. This will allow later to send to a legacy line/matrix printer. This implies that the command header and footer will be repeated in ...
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How to set FreeBSD colors over ssh to mimic Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS
I have used Ubuntu for quite a while (about 2 years), and I'm quite familiar with the appearance of its terminal. Recently, I've become disillusioned with Ubuntu for a variety of reasons; I have set ...
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FreeBSD on ThinkPad E590 fans loud and missing drivers for Cannon Point-LP Serial IO UART & MEI controllers
I'm trying to run FreeBSD on a ThinkPad E590 (daily driver currently running Void Linux). After installing FreeBSD some devices appear to be missing drivers/firmware and the laptop fans run loudly ...
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Do I need to define an absolute path to be able to compile the DRM / Panfrost subtree code of JSM on the RockPro64 / Khadas Edge-V / RK3399?
I'm trying to compile the drm-subtree of JSM because I want to enable the panfrost driver on the RockPro64 / KHADAS EDGE-V / RK3399. The code is here: https://github.com/jsm222/drm-subtree He improved ...
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FreeBSD guest not reporting RAM usage in virt-manager with QEMU/KVM
I got two FreeBSD VMs (Latest production version, 14.3) working with my setup of Linux VMs separated by each service, all the Linux VMs report the RAM usage correctly but for some reason the FreeBSD ...
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Getting Tuxedo laptop fans to work on BSD
This question pertains to Tuxedo laptops (and possibly Clevo, Uniwill, or Tongfang laptops, which Tuxedo systems appear to be based on). Tuxedo provides official support for Windows and Linux, but I'm ...
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ISC Bind9 with DNS over TLS (DOT) fails when strict tls auth is enabled
working I installed and setup Bind9 official package to test DNS forward zones based on source IP/subnets which unbound doesn't support I properly set NAT forwards, changed listening ports on Bind9 ...
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How do I get FreeBSD multiboot to work with zfs
I have one hard drive that I want to split into two separate FreeBSD OS installs and I'm running into a wall trying to figure out how to get it working. I followed Installing FreeBSD Root on ZFS using ...
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Libclang not found running poudriere
I’ve got a program that I wrote in Rust, to help me keep track of finances, as well as read/write the data that comes from an iOS app that I made to do the same thing, and I’m running into an issue. ...
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Need option to prevent SSHFS from changing server's file modification date on download(!)
SSHFS changes modification date (not access date) of server files on download(!). Is there an option/setting to prevent that? The problems this causes include: after the next download, you can't sort ...
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How to configure FreeBSD as WPA Enterpise access point?
I have a FreeBSD machine with an Atheros WiFi card and I want to use it as WPA Enterprise access point. I set up a RADIUS server on the FreeBSD machine and configure interface wlan0 and hostapd.conf, ...
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DTrace cannot reference the external kernel variable `ticks` on FreeBSD
I've come across the following DTrace one-liner on https://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace/One-Liners: # Summarize TCP life span in seconds: dtrace -n 'fbt::tcp_close:entry { @["TCP life span (...
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Panfrost kernel driver on FreeBSD for rk3566?
We are two FreeBSD lovers and a stubborn system administrators. We are trying to project a phone based on FreeBSD for several months. Emanuel Vadot and Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen have enabled the ...
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CUDA initialization: Unexpected error from cudaGetDeviceCount() error while trying to install Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD + nvidia driver 570.144
I'm trying to install Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD 14.2 + nvidia driver 570.144,following this tutorial : https://github.com/verm/freebsd-stable-diffusion There Verm used nvidia driver 525 and FreeBSD ...
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I get various errors when I try to connect the LYLYGO T-Keyboard to my FreeBSD system using different BT dongles
I would like to connect the LYLYGO T-Keyboard to my FreeBSD system (14.2) using a BT dongle. To be honest I tried two different kind of dongle,these ones : a) ugen1.6: <Broadcom Corp BCM20702A0> ...