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drm-kmod-20220907_2 not supported for this configuration / NVIDIA : Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module
I need to conduct some tests on top of the FreeBSD 13.1.
So,I've installed it on one of my disks. I've installed xfce4 and KDE,Xorg and from the ports (after having upgraded them).
I've installed the ...
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How to use the L4 Microkernel with a FreeBSD userland
I'm trying to understand how to use the L4 Microkernel with a FreeBSD userland. I've asked the same to a L4 developer,but he told me that he does not know FreeBSD,so I'm here to ask the same question. ...
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What is the name of fortuna's kernel process in FreeBSD?
Historically yarrow algorithm had a kernel process with the name of yarrow. But after replacing it with Fortuna, the kernel process disappears.
What is the name of the new kernel process of Fortuna's ...
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How to replace kernel module in FreeBSD?
I am trying to get an LSI 9300 SAS HBA working in FreeBSD 11.2. I'm currently running driver 18:
# dmesg | grep mpr
mpr0: <Avago Technologies (LSI) SAS3008> port 0xa000-0xa0ff mem 0xfb300000-...
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Failing to load kernel module
So, I have just started going through Designing BSD Rootkits and I seem to have ran into a problem right away.
hello.c:
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/module.h>
#include <sys/...
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How differently from Linux kernel does a typical Unix kernel (System V, Free BSD, ...) implement processes and threads?
In my previous post, about the Linux kernel,
the structure task_struct represents threads i.e. light weight processes, but not processes.
processes are not represented by any structure, but by ...
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ACL inheritance recalculation on FreeBSD - when does it happen and can I force inheritance recalculation rather than set explicit ACLs?
If I'm using NFSv4 ACLs on FreeBSD, and I change the ACLs on a directory in a way that affects the inherited ACLs of its child files+dirs (and potentially might cascade and affect the children/...
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CPU Context Info required
I am running FreeBSD Kernel Version 8.2 on single core ARM. To debug the behavior of some user/application programs running on my system, I need a software that can tell/log information about the ...
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using IPsec behind NAT in freebsd 7.3
I have a FreeBSD 7.3 server and I configured IPsec on it but now I need to put my server behind a NAT. I know in order to using NAT I should add IPsec_NAT_T to my kernel but the problem is IPsec_NAT_T ...
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Cannot install package: kernel missing Linux support
I'm trying to install Dwarf Fortress on my MacBook Air running FreeBSD 11.0 via pkg install linux-dwarffortress. Here is some background information:
root@machine0:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD machine0 11.0-...
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How does failing hardware cause a kernel page fault (fatal trap 12)?
I've experienced a few kernel page fault (fatal trap 12) on my FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE server. They occur anywhere from milliseconds of uptime to days of uptime. The current process is always different (...
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How to enable Unix file system support on Linux kernel? [duplicate]
After switching from Debian stable to Debian testing i have a problem to mount my FreeBSD root partition on my system:
How to mount ufs file system under Debian testing?
I find out what filesystems ...
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Can't mount fdescfs to /dev/fd
Hello I can't mount fdesc,here is the output
root@nshost2:~ # mount -t fdescfs fdesc /dev/fd
mount: fdesc: Operation not supported by device
And here is the output of dmesg
root@nshost2:~ # dmesg | ...
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FreeBSD: How can I install kernel sources for 10.2-STABLE version?
Lots of articles and posts on internet tell how to install the kernel sources for FreeBSD x-RELEASE versions, but none of them for X-STABLE.
For example, my FreeBSD version is 10.2-STABLE.
How can ...
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How does FreeBSD allocate memory?
I am aware that this is simplified/generalized explanation, but top(1) utility divides memory in FreeBSD into six pools- Active, Inactive, Wired, Cache, Buffers and Free. Example from top(1) output:
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