NVIDIA driver work
Emiel Kollof is working on the NVIDIA binary video driver; so far it loads correctly, but doesn’t work in X11.
In Other BSDs for 2022/08/06
Some useful tips hidden in there this week. How to use two gpus (intel and nvidia) attached to two monitors on FreeBSD. Freshly installed NetBSD booting on a 80386 DX40 with 8MB of RAM. MB. OPNSense 22.7 released. (via) Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond. Valuable News – 2022/08/01. Ten Things To Do After …
In Other BSDs for 2020/03/14
Throwing all the links I can out there. March/April BUG meetings canceled for NYCBUG and SEMIBUG. FreeBSD Journal 2020/01-02. (PDF, via) FreeBSD Find Installed Hard Disk Size Information. (via) GhostBSD 20.02 Overview. (video, via) Introduction to Flua on FreeBSD. (via) FreeBSD Loader and Console Future. (via) OPNsense 20.1.2 released. FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying. TrueNAS …
In Other BSDs for 2019/09/21
Whee! Ori Bernstein will be giving the October talk at NYCBUG. EuroBSDCon 2019 is happening right now. It might be streamed, though I haven’t yet found a link for that. (via) BSD Pizza Night: 2019/09/26, 7–9PM, Portland, Oregon, USA. Pinebook Pro, coming soon. Good for ARM development, but not a normal workstation. (via) The return …
In Other BSDs for 2019/08/10
A reminder: if you have a BSD user group and I’m not posting about your meetings, please make sure I know about it. The OpenBSD Ada Library. (via) BSD Link Roundup 7.29. Project Trident 19.07-U1 now available. No, wait, 12-U1 now available. Valuable News – 2019/07/29. Nvidia optimus drivers for FreeBSD. (via) OpenBGPD 6.5p1 released. …
scfb support in DragonFly
If you’re booting DragonFly in UEFI mode, and you have unsupported video (i.e. NVIDIA), there’s the scfb driver for xorg. It doesn’t support NVIDIA chipsets either, but it gives more options than the generic vesa driver. It appears to be present in all the BSDs to some extent.
In Other BSDs for 2017/11/18
Whee! More p2k17 Hackathon: Anthony J. Bentley on firmware, games and securing pkg_add runs, Sebastian Reitenbach on Puppet, Landry Breuil on Mozilla things,Florian Obser on network stack progress, kernel relinking. Hyper V VLAN tag on pfSense? OpenBSD on G4 Cube. (via) FreeNAS ISCSI Luns & VMware; restricting lun visibility? FreeNAS vs. Server 2016 vs. unRaid? How’s …
Something for Apple dual-GPU users
Francois Tigeot has brought in the ‘apple_gmux’ driver. If you have a Macbook with both Intel and NVIDIA video hardware installed, this driver lets you switch to the Intel hardware, and I assume take advantage of DragonFly’s accelerated i915 driver.
In Other BSDs for 2016/01/09
I had so many tabs open of things to post that I lost some until the last minute. The FreeBSD Foundation is going to external sources to resolve community issues, as followup on recent conflict. (I agree with this plan) Upcoming meetings for NYCBUG (and other convention dates). Feb. 3rd is the next. NixOS on …
In Other BSDs for 2015/11/07
Not even checking source commits this week; there’s already plenty of news. Ken Westerback at u2k15. OpenBSD also is getting a hypervisor. Running BSDi BSD/OS on VirtualBox. Faces of FreeBSD 2015 – Michael Dexter OpenBSD vs. nVidia nosh: Linux/BSD init, with systemd compat. (via) MINIXCon, February 1st, 2016, in Amsterdam. (via) DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/02. LibreSSL …
In Other BSDs for 2015/10/03
There’s lots to read through this week – just for BSD! I’ll have even more tomorrow. FreeBSD cloud use cases? Nvidia and X. The September issue of BSD Magazine is out. Reporting bugs and the BSD community. (Net)BSD newbie, some questions DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/28. Faces of FreeBSD: Allan Jude. You may have already seen that face …
In Other BSDs for 2015/08/01
It’s an unexpectedly diverse list this week. The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn’t. The best explanation for the much-linked OpenSSH story last week: PAM is the problem. pfSense 2.2.4 is released. OPNsense 15.7.4 Released. A week of pkgsrc #11. The 2015Q2 FreeBSD status report is out. FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 Now Available. Introducing BSDHistory, and how it is …
In Other BSDs for 2015/07/04
Insert fireworks graphic here. OpenBSD from a veteran Linux user perspective. (via) Call for Testing: Valgrind on OpenBSD. 10.2-PRE-RELEASE and 11.0-CURRENT Images Available for Testing. (PC-BSD) BSDCan 2015 trip reports: Zbigniew Bodek and Vsevolod Stakhov. DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/29. DistroWatch Weekly talks about running FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi 2 computer. (via) BSD Magazine: “Web server security”. FreeNAS 10: …
In Other BSDs for 2015/04/25
It’s been a relatively calm week, for once. New Delhi has a BSD user group. (via) PC-BSD and 4K — Oh my! Is nvidia the best option for gaming on FreeBSD? EuroBSDCon 2015 has extended the time for paper submission, cause they have so much to work through. Hipster keyboard layout on NetBSD The pkgsrc-security GPG …
Video cards on DragonFly
In a thread about video cards on DragonFly, Francois Tigeot listed good ATI cards to try, and pointed out the VESA driver is probably your best bet right now with NVidia cards.
Lazy Reading for 2014/02/02
Lots of randomness this week. That’s great! Facial animation, then and now, and now. (via) accessmaincomputerfile.net. Some of these are real, or at least made with ‘real’ parts. (via) Writing more maintainable shell scripts. (again, Bash-specific.) Nancy Householder Hauge’s stories about working HR for Sun Microsystems relatively early in the life of the company: parts …
In Other BSDs for 2013/09/21
Finally, a quieter week. pfSense (which I use at work; performs great) has updated to 2.1, and now offers a ‘Gold‘ subscription program. FreeBSD has a new iSCSI target and initiator. (World rebuild needed and again) FreeBSD’s bxe(4) now supports the BCM57712 and BCM578XX. FreeBSD now can build LLDB, though you have to do it on purpose. …
Lazy Reading for 2013/01/13
It’s a very short week this week. I was on the road for work, so I didn’t see anywhere as much of the Internet as I may have liked. Count my dports writeup yesterday as part of this and it averages out to a good amount of reading. Favorite Linux Commands. Not all of them …
Lazy Reading for 2011/10/09
Getting close to 2.12 release… Steam and Team Fortress 2 running on a BSD – PC-BSD with an NVIDIA driver, in this case, but it may apply to other cards and other games. Using Wine is always so intricate, it seems. Remember how suddenly a large chunk of Internet traffic was suddenly routed through China, …
More multiply ‘mazing material
There’s been a lot of linkworthy things lately, which I will list here in an effort to catch up: Jeremy C. Reed kindly updated BIND in DragonFly to cover for the recent cross-vendor DNS issue. Michael Neumann removed the 3-decade-old bug in yacc recently found by an OpenBSD developer. Smallest possible actual file size on …