In a desktop widget I see a BSDCtl("hw.acpi.battery.level.life") But I cannot find a command-line utility called BSDCtl on my system

"desktop widget"? that BSDCtl seems more like a function call, why do you expect a command-line utility?

because AI told me. i think it lied to me

do you perhaps use sfwbar? github.com/LBCrion/sfwbar/blob/main/modules/bsdctl.c

Title: sfwbar/modules/bsdctl.c at main · LBCrion/sfwbar · GitHub

yes. i am trying out swfbar using labwc wayland

the battery indicator is not working properly. would it help to compile swfbar from ports? I have already installed it using pkg

packages are just build from ports, so if there is no bugfix in ports that isn't yet build into a package I wouldn't expect it to help

maybe bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276609

Title: 276609 – x11/sfwbar: add python as runtime dependency

okay. thanks. maybe i will just stick to using waybar

Hi all! Is this the right place to ask for some technical help with raspberry pi4 compute module and PCIe devices?

dstolfa: pkg also suffers the same problem. i have to use pkg -4

is there a way of forcing freebsd-update to use ipv4 in a dual-stack environment?

i thought there might be a sysctl for it

ip6addrctl_policy="ipv4" it's rc.conf

TMM_, it is, if it involves FreeBSD. If it doesn't, you're better off checking support resources for the OS running on it.

Or the OS you'd like to run on it.

It's running FreeBSD! 😄 Or rather, attempting to

also dontasktoask.com

Title: Don't ask to ask, just ask

So, I have a RPI CM4 hooked up to their I/O reference board. After some shenangians I managed to get FreeBSD booting. (Had to put the dts files from Raspberry pi on it, and rebuild u-boot, and set devmatch_enable="NO" in rc.conf. Now everything seems to work: That is I can login to the machine, and get a shell and whatnot. But when I plug in a PCIe to PCI bridge into the PCIe slot the system crashes as soon as it enumerates the pcib1 bus.

I have tried this with Linux and that appears to work, so the hardware is capable of this

nimaje, VimDiesel, sorry about that. I'm kinda new to FreeBSD and I wasn't sure if this was the right channel. Didn't want to off topic or something. :) sorry.

TMM_: welcome and also folks here will kindly let you know if you're being off-topic, so no worries there. Also VimDiesel is a bot ;)

The more you know ♬

I've mostly used Linux so far, going back to about 2000. This is kind of my first foray into playing with FreeBSD, I'd like to explore CAM's trgt mode on this setup

TMM_: hmm, did you write this bug report? bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277605

Title: 277605 – FreeBSD 14-Release crashes on the RPI CM4 with PCIE to PCI bridge

you might want to pop into #freebsd-dev and see if anyone will better help you out there too

kenrap: I did. I figured I'd ask here, maybe it's just a known thing that I just didn't know about.

okay, I can ask there too if you think that's appropriate!

Well I think your situation is more advanced and developer-oriented

okay, thank you, I've asked in -dev as well

Sure, good luck!

Nothing with computers is ever easy is it? :P

Hurling them through the nearest window is actually pretty easy. Other than that...

other than chipset and microcode bugs on the hardware side, it really comes down to the bugs and support of the OS. And modern OSes are quite monstrous in code size, so... :P

I just want to run a 2001 PCI SCSI card on a 2024 SoC for an architecture that didn't exist back then on a bus that the SCSI controller wasn't meant for

Sounds like something that should just work, right? 😄

what is a reasonable IDE for debugging c code other than emacs and visualstudio code editor?

blah another wonderful feature of building rust... Might cause nut to fail thinking the UPS is is a bad state and shutdown.

dmr104: I use eclipse cdt, it works pretty well

i write code with no bugs

having trouble getting FreeBSD to recognize that my T495's iGPU does indeed have hardware decoders for H.264 and VP9. vdpauinfo only reports that MPEG2 video and MPEG4 Part 2 are supported

oh, I didn't realize that mesa comes with VAAPI drivers for AMD, I thought I had to use the VDPAU wrapper. with radeonsi_drv_video.so, I get it reporting H.264 and HEVC decoding, but no VP9 :/

Firefox also doesn't seem to default to VAAPI being enabled on AMD. flipping that toggle and now FF reports H.264 acceleration in about:support, but doesn't report HEVC support, and VP9 is still unsupported as well

ugh, google doesn't seem to understand what searching for FreeBSD means, because it gives a bunch of results regarding Linux

found this one (fixed) FreeBSD bug report where someone shares vainfo output on the exact same iGPU I've got, and they have VP9 support, so I dunno what's up

Didn't you know tm512? FreeBSD is just a Linux distro.

Google isn't really useful anymore for getting information. I've been trying to lookup information regarding batteries and manually charging them

most of the websites the google results are bullcrap. One of the paragraphs of a site started with "As an AI language model, I"

i immediately left the site after reading that and clicked on a new site to be greeted with this: batteryskills.com/ezoimgfmt/i0.wp.c…gfmt=rs:795x544/rscb1/ng:webp/ngcb1