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After going back and forth on using my frame.work as a daily driver, I've recently managed to get 8:50 hours of battery life with 80% charge. Since this felt like quite the accomplishment, I wanted to share how I managed to pull this off: after reading on the unfortunate power draw of USB-A...

Hello Everybody! I am trying to get sound through USB to work but am encountering some problems. My environment: - Version: 13.1-RELEASE-p2 - Device: Lenovo Thinkpad T460 - Bluetooth Adapter: Integrated in Intel Wireless 6280 - Headphones: Anker Soundcore P3 This is how I am trying to set...

For anyone, who's thinking about buying - I'm documenting my experiences/pains... UEFI boot+install works out of the box w/ 13.1 X11 does not work, unless switching to vesa framebuffer (I'll post later, how I got it running), don't bother installing kmod, because it appears we're SOL with Alder...

In April last year, I began using low-end flash (USB thumb drives) as L2ARC for a notebook with 16 GB memory. Very pleasing. Yesterday, I got an older notebook with 4 GB memory. An opportunity to tell whether a similar approach will be worthwhile. Early observations, with the cache device...

For some reason I'm trying to get FreeBSD installed on a notebook (weird, I know) and I'm having trouble getting sleep mode working right. If you run acpiconf -s 3 (or even quit X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) while X is running, the screen does this, and if you run it from the command line...

Hi y'all! First post here so thanks a lot for caring enough to read. I chose PCBSD because I wanted to start using FreeBSD for my personal computer ASAP and did not have the time to set everything up myself. On my Samsung NP550P7C I'm running: FreeBSD zeno 10.1-RELEASE-p26 FreeBSD...