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Subject: Re: Dell XPS 8940 SATA and NVMe disk controller not recognized
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 17:05:59 -0500
From: Karl Dunn
To: Barney Wolff
On 4/3/2021 2:37 PM, Barney Wolff wrote:
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 02:25:30PM -0500, Karl Dunn wrote:
I have new
I have new Dell XPS 8940 that came with Windows 10 Home installed. I have
created two partitions for FreeBSD, one on its NMVe 256GB SSD, and one on
its WD 1TB HD.
For now, I have 12.2-RELEASE-p4 GENERIC on a USB memstick, so I can do
some limited testing.
FreeBSD 12.2 does not recognize the
h on trying:
kldload /boot/modules/i915kms
I'm not too worried about that, because the base i915kms and drm/drm2 should
work for such an old chip, according to the message that appeared when I
installed drm-next-kmod (and deinstalled when it made no improvement).
Please let me know what t
bably not a new discovery to most. I have been using FreeBSD
for a long time (about 15 years), but I still regard myself as a newbie.
Lesson learned. Leave root umask set to 022. (Maybe ports should be
written to not depend on root's umask?)
Karl Dunn
kd...@acm.org
On Sun, 4 Aug 2013,
with about 20 clients.
The T105 is hardly loaded at all; the T110 is replacing it for two
reasons: T105 is six years old and has had two major failures recently
(PS quit, and a drive wore out); needed more HD space. So bought a new
machine.
I do run 8.2-release amd64 on my laptop - a Dell
.conf, containing the single line:
mps_load="YES"
The system boots, and seems to be OK.
The 9.1-Release kernel does not contain the mps module, so the above
installs it, and the probe finds it as it should.
I hope this helps.
Karl Dunn
kd...@acm.org
For reference, this message wa
2. No noticeable trouble. The same host also runs Samba
3.3.13 for the LAN users, DHCP, and internal mail. FW is NATing ipfw.
I have been retired since 2002 January, and do this for fun.
FreeBSD has made it so. Thanks, very much indeed, everyone.