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  1. K

    /bin/sleep 3 in /etc/rc.suspend prevents ThinkPad W520 from suspending on lid close

    Hi everyone, I've recently installed version 14.1 on my ThinkPad W520 and noticed an odd issue with the suspend function when closing the lid. Specifically, the laptop doesn't enter suspend mode when the lid is closed, but it immediately suspends once the lid is opened. After a quick...
  2. mro

    Solved Boot Menu Logo Size

    Some are never satisfied. Now as I have Chuck smiling at me during boot https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/boot-menu-logos.81216/post-668631, I'd prefer it crisp. I suspect it gets blur from scaling. How can I find out the desired size (other than try and err or taking a photo and counting...
  3. gimonchik

    the sound doesn't work on my thinkpad x390

    I installed the drivers as described in the instructions, but the sound does not work, although /dev/dsp is there. my rc.conf: hostname="gimonchik" wlans_iwm0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" powerd_enable="YES" moused_nondefault_enable="NO" # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to...
  4. A

    Disable Touchpad middle button on ThinkPad T480s

    I spent a few days trying to find the instructions to disable my middle touchpad button on a Thinkpad T480s laptop. The middle button is enable as "paste" command and you trip over the paste command instead of "Left click" more often than you think. Hope this is helpful for others, below is the...
  5. mro

    Solved Noise from jack plug

    When I connect an earbud-mic headset to my ThinkPad x250 via the jack plug, I hear a lot of noise. I vaguely remember that someone here in the forum talked about suh acse and output being connected to input, but I can't find the post anymore. I had other pressing issues at the time, but now...
  6. dnb

    Thinkpad T440p: my microphone is noisy in video conferencing software (Teams but not only)

    I've been using Teams successfully for the past 3 years only in FreeBSD 13 via the Сhromium browser (I install packages from repositories). And sound/video/sharing works great on all machines (mostly workstations) except my Thinkpad T440p laptop. Problem: When I talk via T440p (Sennheiser chat...
  7. mro

    Solved Anybody using Jitsi/BBB for video conferences?

    I have issues with chromium+audio, am eager to avoid pulseaudio. How do you?
  8. hellfire103

    iwn0 keeps going down

    I am currently running FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE on a ThinkPad T400. I will often be using my device, when the WiFi will suddenly shut off. i3status reports that it's "down" and wifimgr is blank. I've tried restarting all and any network-related daemons, to no avail, and wifimgr doesn't seem to be...
  9. Q

    Is accelerated graphics possible with i915kms on FreeBSD 13 and 14 [32-bit]?

    I just installed FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE i386 some days ago on a ThinkPad x201i with i3 (M 330) cpu [integrated graphics]. I did the following as Handbook suggested: - doas pkg install xorg drm-kmod - added kld_list="i915kms" on /etc/rc.conf (also tried absolute path) - ran startx from tty as...
  10. dr3mro

    Brightness 100% when connect or disconnect charger

    Hello, I have installed freeBSD 14rc4 on Lenovo Thinkpad x270 and xfce desktop and when I 1) connect the charger 2) disconnect the charger 3) resume from suspend The LCD brightness is 100% which is really disturbing specially when I am in dark room hw.acpi.video.lcd0.economy: 20...
  11. dr3mro

    Xfce Resume from sleep show Display Dialog every time

    After successfully installing FreeBSD 14-rc4 on ThinkPad X270 with XFCE whenever I close the laptop lid and then open it later The screen is blank from screensaver even if its disabled then I press any key and login from lock screen to find a new Display Dialog literally as it treats my laptop...
  12. dr3mro

    USB Wireless Mouse Issues.

    I have a Mi wireless usb mouse and it works just fine on both windows and Linux but in FreeBSD 14.0Rc3 XFCE desktop I have one issue that is when I click to drag Item it loses the grep and it behaves as if I have moved the cursor without dragging the icon or the window that I am trying to move...
  13. S

    Excessive heat on Lenovo Thinkpad E450 even with CPU @ 100% idle

    Hello everyone, I am new to FreeBSD and this is my first post. I filed 271938 to technically follow through the issue mentioned in the title. But posting here for visibility, suggestions, ideas and experience. My Lenovo Thinkpad E450 generates excessive heat even without any CPU usage (~100%...
  14. 3

    Cloning FreeBSD SSD from Thinkpad to Thinkstation

    I've been really happy with FreeBSD on my thinkpad carbon x1 7th gen, after working through a few hiccups of getting it installed and consistently updated properly. I'm interested in moving to a desktop set up instead soon though and am looking into a thinkstation. For simplicity, if we assume...
  15. J

    Thinkpad x1 yoga g3 - screen brightness and Fn keys

    I have just installed 13.1-RELEASE on a thinkpad x1 yoga g3 - I have setup X (i dont have it starting automatically), power saving (using intel speed shift), suspend on closing the lid, resume works reliably too. So far so good. FreeBSD has come a LONG way for use on Laptops since the last time...
  16. dr3mro

    Tweaking Power Consumption

    I have Thinkpad x250 with freeBSD 13.1 RC4 with most of tweaks I could find online and in man pages enabled but I cannot get my power consuption below 5.5W even with all those tweaks and I am using BSPWM for comparison MS windows 10 uses 7 watt with all bloat running and UBUNTU 22.04 GNOME 42...
  17. dr3mro

    Solved resume from suspend on thinkpad x250.

    EDIT : After upgrading to RC2 after resume X server crashes I have tried both port and pkg drm kmod both the same issue If I did zzz the x server can be launched again or after reload i915kms but if don't do that will never restore the GUI the below problem is not considered now as I lose all...
  18. Y

    Solved 1st time installing, is there a non-free version?

    Hei all. i´m a Debian Sid user since 1997 and i´ll give FreeBSD a try and would like to install it on a another partition on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th gen. As i know from Debian is it not it possible to use the normal Debian network.iso for the installation because of the wifi chip in this...
  19. T

    Lid Close Action Issue on ThinkPad

    I have a fresh install of 13.0-Release on a ThinkPad T460. Suspend and resume works as expected from X or Terminal environments using acpiconf -s 3. The default install should have no lid-close action as far as I know, however when I - without setting hw.acpi.lid_switch-state - close my lid, the...
  20. J

    ThinkPad T430s weird issues

    Hello, Recently I've switched from Slackware to FreeBSD-13.0 on my T430s. I'm very happy with how does the system run etc. but some things just seem to not work that well: Laptop goes to sleep after opening a lid. To suspend the laptop I have to close and then open the lid, only after then it...
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