mrphyber
with /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0 things
mrphyber
because acpi_video implementation of my laptop is broken
mrphyber
so the acpi linux system ignores it
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
I read somewhere that newer screens don't use acpi_video. Maybe someone here can detail on that more. In my case I was able to modify amdgpu brightness by changing the sysctl value, that points to sys.class.backlight.amdgpu_bl0.bl_device.brightness
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
If in your case, sysctl reports nothing on brightness, it can be a driver problem(?) since Linux detects it I don't think the device itself has any problem
mrphyber
mrphyber
If in your case, sysctl reports nothing on brightness, it can be a driver problem(?) since Linux detects it I don't think the device itself has any problem
i'm using drm-fbsd12.0-kmod on freebsd12.1-release
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i'm using drm-fbsd12.0-kmod on freebsd12.1-release
Oh, maybe that can be the answer to the sysct call. I'm using drm-devel-kmod in freebsd-13-current
mrphyber
maybe i need to go to freebsd-current and drm-devel-kmod
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
maybe i need to go to freebsd-current and drm-devel-kmod
If you don't mind with things crashing eventually and manual system updates via compile, then it's fine, and it helps to improve new hardware checking. Some stuff is unstable/buggy tho
mrphyber
i'll have to think about it
mrphyber
i'm trying freebsd current on another disk, if the brightness works i may upgrade to it
mrphyber
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
what things are unstable?
I had trouble when the X.org was updated at the first time, having a freeze window manager each time I launched startx. Libraries like mesa or clover needed custom builds with patches. The dev team works great and luckily things get updated and patches are live and time savers in those situations. In my case unstable things are mostly graphics related. Display, input, sound, net, etc... worked out of the box.
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
I have to agree on that. It all depends in the chosen hardware
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
Right
mrphyber
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
Which laptop it is? Just curious
mrphyber
it is an acer with amd ryzen 2500u
mrphyber
everything works flawlessly except for hardware brightness
mrphyber
that's because acer messed up the acpi implementation on this laptop
mrphyber
lmao
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
While you investigate about it, you can "patch" brightness using xrandr. Pass your active screen along with
$ xrandr --output <screen> --brightness <value>
brightness goes from 0.0 to 1.0 in xrandr. It's not a "good" method since it's not really changing the screen brightness so laptop's battery life may keep dying too fast, but your eyes would be more pleased to look at the screen.
mrphyber
While you investigate about it, you can "patch" brightness using xrandr. Pass your active screen along with
$ xrandr --output <screen> --brightness <value>
brightness goes from 0.0 to 1.0 in xrandr. It's not a "good" method since it's not really changing the screen brightness so laptop's battery life may keep dying too fast, but your eyes would be more pleased to look at the screen.
yep i already did that and indeed battery life could be better
mrphyber
well i thought about it, i thought about buying a used x220, any experiences with it?
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
FreeBSD 12.1 all working inside a x220 here
mrphyber
hardware brightness and suspend/resume?
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
Brightness included
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
Oh, I'd never tried suspend/resume tasks
mrphyber
i see
mrphyber
i would really love to see a patch for my current laptop, but i could think about buying a used thinkpad
mrphyber
(i did not choose this laptop, it was a present)
mrphyber
i didn't know about this
kub-kun
I recommend watching this viedo
https://youtu.be/0gNSYB052yA
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@mrphyber https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Thinkpad_X220 just in case
mrphyber
thx
mrphyber
i tried now openbsd for curiosity and hardware brightness works
mrphyber
wth
mrphyber
but on openbsd the wifi card does not work, that's really sad
mrphyber
i'm investigating this and the acpi_video implementation of openbsd sees the right thing in the acpi implementation while freebsd's does not
mrphyber
that's funny
Makaba
I recommend watching this viedo
https://youtu.be/0gNSYB052yA
the problem is that zoom is the only one that works properly
mrphyber
the problem is that zoom is the only one that works properly
in my university we are using microfrost teams and strangely it's working
mrphyber
after more investigation, openbsd uses acpivout to modify brightness on my laptop, and freebsd does not have such implementation, so the problem is on freebsd's acpi_video
kub-kun
hi
Алик Сережевич
i)(🐀pek
👻 Installed onto USB HDD, can work now again
dapit
Anonymous
would I get all packages that I get in Linux** on bsd? I've never used bsd before
Anonymous
no
Arminio
nice
Anonymous
idk if the bsd community's smol :/
Anonymous
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Well... FreeBSD is a lot about compiling
g
maybe i should try kitty
g
ive never tried it
g
personally i use whatever terminal i remember the name of first
g
either konsole, xfce4-terminal, alacritty, etc
mrphyber
I personally use urxvt and I'm happy with it
dapit
Real men use wine + notepad.exe
g
good thing im not a man and im not real
g
im not a girl either
g
im non-binary
g
but im more girl than i am boy
Carl
Sexadecimal
kub-kun
hi
dapit
I have 16gb ssd and 320gb spinning hdd.... What's the ideal partitions
dapit
I guess / to ssd and swap + /var to the hdd?
dapit
Or / to ssd and /home to hdd?
Anonymous
160gb ssd or 16
dapit
16gb
Anonymous
ohh...i prefer ssd+swap+var n hdd+home
dapit
Swap to ssd? No man...
dapit
It's going to be swapfile on the hdd
kub-kun
and evrything else on hhd