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hi, i'm using a qmk keyboard with a custom config that allows me to control the cursor via ESC+{h,j,k,l}. this works fine on linux, openbsd and netbsd, but it does not work on freebsd

i'm new to freebsd, so apologies if i'm missing an obvious solution

how could i make this work on freebsd?

like 6 mo ago i was talking in here with some ppl about zfs and native encryption. ppl said there were probs with it and sure enough lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-July/000195.html

good to see the issues getting worked out atleast

demido: hello

parai: is this on the text console? x11? wayland? when logged in to a freebsd machine over ssh?

this is on a wayland session running sway

the cursor control is done via custom firmware flashed onto the keyboard

just tested on x11, issue happens there as well

parai: under x11 i support xev ought to be useful to see what events the keyboard actually generates?

|cos|: weirdly enough, cursor control works now

and i don't know what happened

i'll switch to x11 now and tell you

it's both KeyPress events and MotionNotify events

The touchpad on my thinkpad p53 dont seem to work, I am on 14.3-RELEASE, I did a test with -CURRENT but it doesnt work. the little ponter/joystick and buttons work but not the touchpad, nor the buttons. it works on gentoo and openbsd with no problems. I am no programmer but have been running bsd and gentoo since about 2001-2002 so I would love to help test things :)

And yes, I have tried every thing I have found googling, most fixes are old and does nothing.

Hello, I install yggdrasil with pkg and I don't know to do for use it

have you tried running 'man yggdrasil'?

ZedHedTed: No ,nothing with man but I have with yggdrasil -h

when trying to mount an EXT4 fs on 11.3 (created on this system with mkfs.ext4) the mount fails with "mount of da0p1 denied due to unsupported optional features: 64bit". What does this mean?

file -s /dev/da0p1

2025Q3 just been merged into pkg repo

well not "just" but yeah you get the point

CrtxReavr: you seem familiar, where do I know you from?

EFnet? Other channels?

My commedy YouTube channel.

(I made that last one up.)

CrtxReavr, the result of "file -s /dev/da0p1" is:

dev/da0p1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=b9a577b3-8544-4a58-9526-241ab91cd3ff (extents) (64bit) (large files) (huge files)

For make a server with nginx (http) is better to use a jail?

It depends on your use case. If you want to restrict the HTTP server from doing certain things, yes, you can enjail it.

I applied a patch to a port with many dependencies and the patch also modifies some of those dependencies. How can I recompile the port and dependencies without make clean? I don't want to recompile the whole dependency tree and instead just the changes.

AmyMalik: I want to selfhosting a static webesite

dwho, that will work equally well with or without putting the web server in a jail, other than that you have to ensure that the web server can read and write files in the webroot, and that it can bind port 80

oh, as an aside: I assume you speak other languages better than English; what are they?

AmyMalik: I'm French

ah, right

AmyMalik: I speak few English

AmyMalik: For security consideration, a jail is better , not?

dwho, in the worst case, it is no worse than running the web server on the host directly.

AmyMalik: ok thank you very much

I made a nfs server with freebsd and automount my second HD with /etc/fstab but for use with a nfs client I make chmod 0777 /nfs (/nfs is the mountpoint of my second HD) but I'm not satisfied but it work

treefrob, this is going to be really tedious if you're not more reactive than that.

Hello. I’m experiencing the issue described here: forums.freebsd.org/threads/issues-w…o-rule-and-whitelisting-logic.98525 . Does anyone know what might be causing this problem?

CrtxReavr, sorry. I guess the messages entry is pretty clear -- This FreeBSD version does not support 64-bit EXT4 filesystems :(

treefrob: you try fuse rather than freebsd's base one