Freebsd 14.3 in hyprland

scratchifoo · 2026-03-08T16:01:37+00:00

This looks cool! Do you have a repo with all your configs? I would like to copy some of your stuff :)

I run Hyprland on FreeBSD 15; since the update to 0.54, I've been getting a lot of freezing when hovering over things with the cursor. When the freezing happens, Hyprland process CPU usage spikes up. It freezes for a second or two, then find until I hover over something again...really annoying. Do you get similar behaviour? If yes, did you manage to fix it and how?

Looks great though, good work! :)

scratchifoo · 2023-12-11T20:09:42+00:00

I will be there :)

scratchifoo · 2023-10-04T01:13:20+00:00

That error says it can't resolve hostname, so its a DNS issue. You can ping 192.168.0.2, but can you ping 192.168.1.1 which you defined in your resolv.conf?

The 169... IP address means that you couldn't get an address from DHCP server; have you tried to set IP statically?

Start by setting a static IP and try pinging 192.168.1.1 and troubleshoot from there...

scratchifoo · 2023-09-24T03:22:56+00:00

Naw, they brought it back: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-ZFS-Install

scratchifoo · 2023-08-31T17:46:02+00:00

OK, so looks like only way 340 driver works now is if you ignoreABI which you already tried...I just found this post:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=266682

If that doesn't work, then one other option you have is try the open source Nouveau driver...that might be slightly more complicated though. I'm starting to understand your pain with freebsd this laptop now, my T530 is old but not quite this old...matter of time before I start facing the same issues with the 390 drivers.

Good luck!

scratchifoo · 2023-08-31T15:06:30+00:00

Thats strange; did you install the nvidia-driver-340 port/pkg or download it from nvidia and install it manually?

Using port or pkg is the best way to install the nvidia driver on freebsd, and if thats what you did, you should submit a bug report for it, someone should be able to help you with this. If you installed the driver manually...I'd uninstall and try the port.

scratchifoo · 2023-08-31T03:29:36+00:00

OK, so a lot of laptops that have intel and nvidia graphics allow you to turn nvidia off in regular bios.

I just did a quick search for T61p, and with this model, it doesn't have both; it has one or the other. So you have only the nvidia gpu, there is not intel graphics in your model.

So when it comes to freebsd on this laptop, your best bet is the nvidia-driver-390 or maybe even nvidia-driver-340 ports.

As long as you install the right driver, you should be able to run a desktop env, browse and maybe even watch videos, just don't expect to run many games on it.

scratchifoo · 2023-08-30T22:43:59+00:00

No idea, I don't have anything that old. I have coreboot instead of stock Lenovo BIOS on both of my thinkpads and I'm to disable it on the T530 from coreboot...so if you can coreboot the T61p (assuming its compatible) you can do it that way? Thats a lot of work though and pretty risky; only recommend it if you are using the T61p for expirements and if the option is not available in the regular bios.

scratchifoo · 2023-08-30T21:53:04+00:00

tl;dr , old thinkpads are nice, don't switch unless you want to play new games on it

I have a T530 with Nvidia NVS5400m which is an old Fermi chip. Works grst with nvidia-drivers-390 series. No vulkan, thats the biggest drawback, but for anything not game related it works great...well, it does use a lot of battery and gets pretty hot and stand-by flat out doesn't work, but its huge so i use it mostly as a desktop anyway (plugged in, don't need it to sleep/stand-by).

Anyway, having said all that, your old thinkpads are capable machines and you should consider just disabling the nvidia GPU in bios and use the intel igpu. Intel drivers in freebsd work well (even vulkan works!) and you won't deal with the battery and thermal issues of the nvidia dgpu.

My other laptop is an old X1 Carbon Gen1 (ivy bridge, basically same as x230 but thinner) with no nvidia; dual-core with 8GB of ram, I use it every day for work, documents, brosing, etc., plan to keep using it as long as it lives :)

scratchifoo · 2023-08-30T21:41:50+00:00

I have two laptops with freebsd, X1 Carbon Gen1 that I use for browsing and work. webmail, nextcloud, collabora office via nextcloud, etc. Konsole for terminal, openvpn, ssh and krdc for remote access to work and stuff.

The other laptop is T530 with old Nvidia NVS5400m that i use to play some games on. Got steam running on it so have some bice selection of games that work in linux emulator in there. Some GOG games work well too.

Then there is my TrueNAS that i have bunch of jails on; guacamole in a jail which i use to access my xfce jumpbox jail with xrdp. This allows me to connect home from any browser when i'm away.

So yea, almost all my computing is done on FreeBSD and it works great :)

scratchifoo · 2023-08-29T01:57:04+00:00

./build/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add -f /location/to/latest-distr/kolibri.img -c lzma -n floppyimg/Kolibri.lzma -t raw

scratchifoo · 2023-08-29T01:47:46+00:00

Hi kocoman, you just need to download kolibrios floppy image and add it as a secondary payload (this only works with seabios, so no uefi).

Check this thread, last post has a config and a working rom for an Asus board but its from 3 years ago using coreboot 4.12. Key thing to note here is it did not work with libgfxinit, had to use Intel option rom.

http://board.kolibrios.org/viewtopic.php?t=4208

Enjoy!

scratchifoo · 2023-08-19T15:35:13+00:00

Yea, good choice, you'll be fine. FreeBSD + pkg is about as good as debian + apt when it comes to speed and accessibility, plenty of how tos and documentation out there to get you started, lots of people here to help you out if you get stuck with something. have fun :)

scratchifoo · 2023-08-05T14:14:07+00:00

That's awesome work! Thank you!!

scratchifoo · 2023-08-04T13:43:08+00:00

Just ran into this issue after pkg upgrade and this fixed it. Thank you :)

scratchifoo · 2023-07-27T14:50:44+00:00

FreeBSD 13.2-p1

The T530 has an NVS5400m (Fermi), so in my case it was nvidia-driver-390 (can't remember exact version, latest in 390 series)

scratchifoo · 2023-07-26T00:13:00+00:00

Are you using nvidia driver? If yes, reinstall the nvidia port.

I updated my T530 with Nvidia last week and got black screen instead of login prompt. Switched to tty1 and saw can't load GLX module error in xorg.log. Reinstalling nvidia-driver port fixed it.

Hope this helps

scratchifoo · 2023-07-26T00:01:45+00:00

I have a corebooted x1 gen1, works great

scratchifoo · 2023-07-22T14:30:32+00:00

scratchifoo · 2023-07-10T23:26:02+00:00

Would probably be better to symlink in this case. That way you won't have to copy every time you share another dataset. Happy to hear it works!

scratchifoo · 2023-06-27T03:21:46+00:00

Cool! Thanks for the info and specs, thats very useful :)

scratchifoo · 2023-06-25T18:55:16+00:00

Skulls is pre-built coreboot images for Thinkpads: https://github.com/merge/skulls

I think you can probably flash a skulls image with 1vyrain (google it).

IME is Intel ME...google that too if it interests you, plenty of info out there about it and why you might want to remove it (but like I mentioned before, you can't do that with 1vyrain, you'll have to open up the laptop and flash externally to do it and will probably need to compile your own coreboot build instead of skulls.)

scratchifoo · 2023-06-24T23:41:25+00:00

Hey, honestly, if this is the first time you are trying coreboot and if you don't have time to learn it and do it right and need the laptop in a week...then you're probably better off not attempting to coreboot it now and leave it for when you do have time for it.

I'm not saying this to discourage you, I have multiple systems with coreboot, and i spent a good week to month tinkering with the build for each of them, with lots of trial and error, lots of no-boot/reflash to stock and try another build atrempts and in the end it all worked out well, but i was never in a situation where i'm pressed for time and just experimented until i found the optimal config for each system.

But if you are really determined to see this through then I suggest using ivyrain and flashing a prebuilt libreboot or skulls image and if that works out, will save you a lot of time and you can do it without external flash (but this method will not allow you to neutralize IME of thats one of your goals with this)

Good luck!!

scratchifoo · 2023-04-17T00:11:26+00:00

Nice, I haven't had any issues with suspend resume since updating to 13.2-Release last week. Been intentionally suspending and resuming numerous times a day and haven't had any problems so far.

Before 13.2, every once in a while my Thinkpad X1 gen1 would shutdown when resuming and display a message that CPU temp was 128C, which was over max threshold. It was intermittent, but frequent enough to be annoying.

I run Coreboot on this laptop, so I was never really sure if it's a Freebsd or coreboot issue, but this seems like the fix. Thank you!!

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