Hey guys, how do you think, will this toy support FreeBSD? https://promotion.chuwi.com/Chuwi-CoreBookXe/index.php/en

Hey guys, how do you think, will this toy support FreeBSD? https://promotion.chuwi.com/Chuwi-CoreBookXe/index.php/en

Good question 😅

A little waiting for new drm-kmod will be necessary i think 🙃

Under the current support model, each major version’s stable branch is explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point release is only supported for three months after the next point release.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup

As Andrey mentioned, the stable branch allows you to do that

You will have years while installing minor updates 😉

AFAIK STABLE is more stable than RELEASE.

A RELEASE is a fixed point on this STABLE branch which was sufficiently tested and really confirmed to work at this point at the time of a RELEASE. From the link you posted. Nvm, lemme tell you Netflix uses the CURRENT branch on their stuff, and they seem not having problems at all

If you check the link from Andrey about supported releases in FreeBSD, you'll see that STABLE/12 is going to be supported up to June 30, 2024

https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html 24.4.2.using FreeBSD-STABLE FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and with the general assumption that they have first gone into FreeBSD-CURRENT for testing. This is still a development branch, however, and this means that at any given time, the sources for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be suitable for any particular purpose. It is simply another engineering development track, not a resource for end-users. In a nutshell. Go with a RELEASE version for production environment and stay on GENERIC kernel. You'll have to update from time to time but it's secure and stable

They're usually split nowadays (at least the configs I've seen and I use) Which part are you looking for? Touchpad? GPU?

You can run (as root): Xorg -configure That will create an initial xorg.conf which you can find in /root: You can test that config with: X -config /root/xorg.conf IIRC, check the web or the man pages 😇😉

You can also edit that file to check it's correct

You can run (as root): Xorg -configure That will create an initial xorg.conf which you can find in /root: You can test that config with: X -config /root/xorg.conf IIRC, check the web or the man pages 😇😉

dont use xorg to create conf, remove it. just add your conf inside /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

dont use xorg to create conf, remove it. just add your conf inside /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

Yeah, more information is in the FreeBSD's forum.

dont use xorg to create conf, remove it. just add your conf inside /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

I didn't say you have to, I said "You can" ...😉

How to proceed after KDE-minimal "pkg install X11/plasma5-plasma"

All I get is a black blank screen with cursor.

No taskbar. No being able to start terminator after installing it through CLI.

I came here after researching through the net, forums, many Linux forms for some hint. Am I missing something ?

BTW I am installing it on virtual box. SDDM works fine. Which might mean my graphics drivers are installed fine, I might be wrong though.

Have u enabled as well on rc.conf ?

Yes.

I followed the handbook properly.

Only change was instead of installing the whole suit.

I followed the handbook properly.

I believe you mate :)

I did only the following three Xorg X11/plasma5-plasma X11/kf5-frameworks

I believe you mate :)

😆👍.

Yes , please guide me on this.

Yes , please guide me on this.

Well and you have also added on fstab Etc? One thing you can try is maybe loading kde on xinitrc Exec startkde

SDDM works fine on startup.

Will it not automatically call KDE upon dbus and hald additions on rc.

Rc.conf *

I beleive exec startkde is for linux.

Handbook advises exec ck-launch-session startplasma-x11

I am told the minimal kde plasma install does give a blank screen. My question is like how do I proceed after this.

I beleive exec startkde is for linux.

No I use this also for Xfce

I don't wanna use darkmate.

😅

Issue solved guys. I simply had to choose desktop session at the bottom of the screen to not use plasma(Wayland), by choosing the other two remaining. The setting is put default to login with this one. So maybe next time please keep that in mind.

😅

Thanks for your help @andifedge 😊👍

Thanks for your help @andifedge 😊👍

Your welcome 🙏🏼

anyone used to have this issue? thinkpad X230

What a mess was made with upgrade 12 - 13 😔

what happened?

Strange idea to "hide" nonroot zpool during update

That made me really panicked 😱

Strange idea to "hide" nonroot zpool during update

what do you mean?

I mean that on first reboot system will see only root zpool

If have links/nullfs to nonroot zpool, expect for troubles.

on my upgrade I forgot that generic kernel doesn't include geom_eli, and as such on first boot the system was unable to find the pool, real panic

to anyone who could encounter this: on loader, escape to prompt, enable-module geom_eli and boot

(or geom_eli_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf if you manage to remember)

wait, during installation loader.conf was replaced?

wait, during installation loader.conf was replaced?

no I use a custom kernel with geom_eli builtin, so there's no need to tell loader to load eli

Oh i see, transition from custom to generic can give some surprises, that must be expected 😉

Hello I've updated from 12.2 to 13.0 and everything it's ok , uname and freebsd-version lined up , than I've used bsdinstall to build a jail but at the end the jail was sticked to 12.2 , what's wrong in the host side? thank you in advance

Hi guys! Can I install "??" special characters?

gpart destroy - F da0 to delete the old label, gpart create -s mbr da0 to create a new mbr label (use gpt if you wish to), then gpart add -t msdosfs da0 to create a new partition (da0s1)

to use ntfs you need ntfs from ports (it uses fuse)

gpart destroy - F da0 to delete the old label, gpart create -s mbr da0 to create a new mbr label (use gpt if you wish to), then gpart add -t msdosfs da0 to create a new partition (da0s1)

i'm not sure about msdosfs though, i can't check right now

what I meant was that I'm not sure about the label msdosfs to use with -t on gpart add

Hi guys! Can I install "??" special characters?

Did you set your locale in /etc/login.conf?

to create a new msdosfs you have to use newfs_msdosfs iirc

Hi guys! Can I install "??" special characters?

check login.conf, you are using ASCII when you should use utf-8

mmm, I have :charset=UTF-8:\ :lang=C.UTF-8:

I was reading here https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/base-head-etc-login-conf-change-the-default-locale-to-c-utf-8.77775/

it seems the same

Is there an it_IT locale?

Is there an it_IT locale?

Meanwhile I was upgrading to 13.0 , now I'm rebooting. And it's here from some minutes 😑

Is there an it_IT locale?

I'll check it. Btw those missing characters of those directories are î (French) and ó (Spanish)

Ok. Booted.

Is there an it_IT locale?

I haven't

mmm, I have :charset=UTF-8:\ :lang=C.UTF-8:

Check this message.

wtf is this? (anyway I've a thinkpad t450 with and ssd and I live on the 1st floor so I can trust in some way...but the problem remain the same...freebsd-update upgrade the /usr/freebsd-inst bundles??)

Check this message.

I'm not at my computer anymore, but later I'll check it. Thank you

I'm not at my computer anymore, but later I'll check it. Thank you

worked for me.

i test it now.