any starlite 5 users?

yuanti

yuanti

i really hate laptop keyboards so ive been trying to find a tablet thats supported by freebsd.
the starlite looks promising? has anyone tried running freebsd on it?

edited: link: https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

support for foldable laptops like the thinkpad x1 fold or the asus zenbook fold (more screen real estate) would be amazing of course but I assume those have a bunch of proprietary hardware thats impossible to write drivers for.

cheers!
 
There was another thread discussing a starlite device; not sure if it was this one:
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Thread 'Detachable keyboard / touchpad USB 1018:1006 Star Labs StarLite'

The keyboard works fine with FreeBSD 14.2, but so far for me the touchpad does not. There's a hardware switch on the F10 key that enables / disables the touchpad on Linux.

(This is a tablet type computer built mainly with a Linux audience in mind.)

hw-probe output is here: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=86df31742e

Can anyone suggest a way to make the touchpad work under FreeBSD?
 
tyvm! i also mailed support and they said that while they dont support it officially they have "a decent number of BSD users with Lite's running issue free :)"
 
installation worked, currently stuck on getting the alder lake intel graphics to work. i did pkg install drm-515-kmod and added kld_list="i915kms" to /etc/rc.conf but it does not seem to be loading that module? or maybe its the wrong one? no high-res console and didnt see anything in dmesg (though not sure what to grep for).
tried drm-kmod first, that results in a blank screen once its loaded during boot.
any help appreciated!
 
yuanti said:
i did pkg install drm-515-kmod and added kld_list="i915kms" to /etc/rc.conf but it does not seem to be loading that module? or maybe its the wrong one? no high-res console and didnt see anything in dmesg (though not sure what to grep for).
tried drm-kmod first, that results in a blank screen once its loaded during boot.
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What you describe are typical symptoms of FreeBSD kernel graphics kernel module version incompatibility.

Kernel modules must match the running kernels. When a new FreeBSD branch is release (14.2 on Dec. 3 2024) the previous branch (14.1) is still supported for a period of 3 months (until March 31 2025).

You have installed the i915kms driver from package, but packages are still build for 14.1. If your systems branch is 14.2, the installed graphics driver is not compatible with the 14.2 kernel.

You need to build the graphics driver from ports (graphics/drm-kmod), graphics/drm-515-kmod, graphics/drm-61-kmod).

Or, if you want to use pre-compiled packages, create a new repository configuration, add 14.2 kernel module repository configuration (quarterly or latest),

Reference: CFT: repository for kernel modules
 
T-Daemon said:
What you describe are typical symptoms of FreeBSD kernel graphics kernel module version incompatibility.

Kernel modules must match the running kernels. When a new FreeBSD branch is release (14.2 on Dec. 3 2024) the previous branch (14.1) is still supported for a period of 3 months (until March 31 2025).

You have installed the i915kms driver from package, but packages are still build for 14.1. If your systems branch is 14.2, the installed graphics driver is not compatible with the 14.2 kernel.

You need to build the graphics driver from ports (graphics/drm-kmod), graphics/drm-515-kmod, graphics/drm-61-kmod).

Or, if you want to use pre-compiled packages, create a new repository configuration, add 14.2 kernel module repository configuration (quarterly or latest),

Reference: CFT: repository for kernel modules
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ty so much will try in a bit!
 
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