Still running #OpenBSD on the old Dell Optiplex 3080 tower and finding little quirks / differences from what I'm used to using #FreeBSD on my #ThinkPad. But overall I have not yet been put off and persist when something doesn't work like I thought it should. Just learnt that I needed to install colorls -G and alias it to ls so I could get color output in the terminal when typing ls. But I then found that in the normal tty before I started X11 that I even though that alias was present it did not give me color output. After digging through the www I found a suggestion to put the following line in my .profile :

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export TERM=wsvt25<br></br>

  

Rebooted to be sure and voila I get a color listing in both the tty and a #kitty terminal under #X11 .
I'm sure that I'll learn heaps more as I plod along but it is good. #RunBSD

OK just ordered 32Gb DDR4 ram and an NVME 1Tb M2 2880 drive to upgrade my freebie Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower. It's the i5-10500 version so it'll make a nice #BSD desktop for me and save me using the #ThinkPad all the time. #RunBSD

Other than @[email protected] #Shotman are there any other #CLI #Wayland screenshot utilities that will take a screenshot of just the active output and not both? I know you can do this with grim on sway by supplying it with the currently focused output but I want to know about other screenshot CLI clients that actually get that info themselves without requiring the WM to have IPC and so on.

So it's my 6 month anniversary of switching to #FreeBSD for my #HomeLab and my #ThinkPad and I'm really surprised because I haven't even thought about going back to #Linux . Not even to see if the grass is greener on the otherside. #RunBSD

An update on #Mozilla terms of use after their initial change. #Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

So to fix my amdgpu issue ( blank screen instead of tty ) after updating #FreeBSD on my #ThinkPad P14s to 14.2-RELEASE I did the following:

Changed from quarterly to latest

Grabbed the FreeBSD source for 14.2-RELEASE

doas git clone -o freebsd -b releng/14.2 https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git /usr/src

Then installed the ports git repo

doas git clone https://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git /usr/ports

As I'm running an AMD Renoir GPU I need the following to be built against the new kernel.

So change into the source directory.

cd /usr/ports/graphics/drm-61-kmod/

Then install the port and cleanup after.

doas make install clean

Then simply do a reboot and as long as you still have the amdgpu module loading in your /etc/rc.conf then all should be good.

Others might tell you differently and they possibly are right as I'm still kind of a newbie to FreeBSD. Feel free to correct me and i'll amend as applicable.
#RunBSD

Updated my #ThinkPad AMD P14s from a working #FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE to 14.2-RELEASE and I had and have issues.
First the boot loader complained it was too old and I discovered from the forums this could be fixed by typing the following.

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doas cp /boot/loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi<br></br>doas cp /boot/loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/boot/bootx64.efi<br></br>

  

A swift reboot resolved that issue.
The ongoing issue I have is it boots and I see the messages fly by then the screen goes black.
But I noticed that I can login even though I see no text anymore.
Looking at dmesg it seems it might be something to do with my AMD GPU which worked on 14.1-RELEASE. I can still login though which I have set to start up #RiverWM and graphics are fine.
It's just my terminals / tty that are blank.
Here's a section of dmesg that looks suspect if anyone has any ideas as this all worked before ???

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[drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.<br></br>drmn0: <drmn> on vgapci0<b
  

Stumbled up this blog by Pat Maddox where by they successfully install #FreeBSD onto their #ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 AMD laptop. So it does give me hope that I'll be OK with my P14s AMD.
#RunBSD

https://patmaddox.com/doc/trunk/www/lenovo-t14-gen2-amd-a-fine-laptop-for-freebsd.md

So I've successfully migrated from #Mastodon to my #Snac instance without issue. That's one less thing to procrastinate about, which just leaves possibly migrating to #FreeBSD on my #ThinkPad P14s #AMD .
What to do ? Hoping folks will chime in here with some pro's or con's of migrating to the other side. As I'm nearly convinced that I'm not going to miss much. Yes I'll have limited WiFi speeds for now until the fantastic work on the ax200 drivers and others ramps up. Also I'd have to replace my Focusrite Scarlet 6i6 as FreeBSD doesn't support it. But that's not a show stopper as I'll just purchase a 2x2 with midi compatible audio interface.
Boosts appreciated and thank you ❤️
#RunBSD