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• Post #2234922

  Well, github can get fucked. Patched bhyve, didn't work. No surprise because either github is telling me bollocks, or more likely, I don't understand what it's doing. It says it's comparing FreeBSD 14.4 with Corvin 14.2, but it can't be, because it says a unified diff of /usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/firmware is adding the file entirely, and well, it already exists in both 14.4 and 14.2 and if I use the actual diff utility it says there are : zero fucking differences. It...

• Post #2234921

  Tonight in FreeBSD hacking, restored to saved 14.4 image, updated it to latest patchlevel, enabled DHCP on a bridge, now saving it as an image again. It does not help that syncdhcp isn't included in man page documentation (well, at least 'man -k' isn't returning anything), although it is in the FreeBSD handbook. If dhcp is used instead of syncdhcp for a bridge in rc.conf there isn't enough time to initialise things properly and it fails. Joy.

• Post #2234920

  On a related note, I figured out the reason why quieting the fans on my home server doesn't work on bootup is the same lack of waits. If I add a sleep 2 in-between each ipmi call it works just fine.

• Post #2234918

  OK. That's NetHack easily compiling in tty mode for FreeBSD with a hints file. Only installing under /home for now, not bothering with shared directories. First get it compiling with all the windowing systems, then look at installing into the proper place.

• Post #2080505

  Installing Mint in a bhyve VM, because my Nvidia GPU is rather old and I only need to prove the principle of it working, not have very up to date games operational. A VNC virtual screen of 1024x768 appears insufficient to run the update manager. Poor planning, lads.. The first time Mint ran it did display its logo on the Quadro K4000, but the key is if it can switch seamlessly between a Linux and Windows VM and back and still have GPU passthrough work without needing the host to reboot.. This...

• Post #2080504

  'oh, we don't recommend you run a new kernel with that old card, run an older release and upgrade keeping the LTS kernel' Dudes, Linux looks more and more like Windows every fucking day. Sadly FreeBSD really isn't there to run everything I want as is, so I'm going to have to run Linux or Windows in a VM until it catches up for stuff like games.

• Post #2080503

  Yeahh.. that's a no. Mint 22.1, official Nvidia driver, boot up, hangs with a cursor flashing five times. Doesn't change if I reboot the host. Joy. Fine. Image server again. Revert to 14.whatever, apply Corvin patches, retry.

• Post #2080502

  Bit more Path of the Righteous. The camera really is a big problem, how on earth was it released in this state? I know it's not necessarily an easy problem to solve, but even so. Party management is way more irritating than Baldur's Gate too, although you can set members to 'hold' to tell them not to move. Killed a water elemental by getting my fastest character to run around and snipe from a distance. 150XP for all that hassle with no loot drop..

• Post #2080501

  Shifted myself and compared FreeBSD 14.4 source with the CorvinK patches which has 97 modified files from the standard source. However, manually look at what the patches do and well, it's 2 files. One to set the NVIDIA vendor ID, and one to modify the PCI passthrough file, which basically can be reduced to one file :O. It is code specific to Nvidia though, so forget fiddling with Intel without some modifications. Basically all it appears to change is usr.sbin/bhyve/pci_passthru.c and set...

• Post #2080500

  Graaaaghh.. Mullvad's DNS interception on its VPN is staying up for basically zero time at all. It's been fine for months and now is just not working - it's only a forwarder config with unbound at my end. I wish Mullvad didn't intercept DNS traffic at all, there's not an easy way around this if I want to continue using Wireguard.

• Post #2080499

  Nethack 5.0 is out! https://nethack.org/index.html It has a tutorial :O Got it working on FreeBSD. May revisit it in a couple of days to do a proper hints file and get it working in X11 and GTK. Can't be bothered right now, just hacking it sufficiently to work in tty. Turned SYSCF off for now. Also hacked out redefinitions of memcpy and memcmp to the deprecated bcopy/bcmp (why?!) in lines 336/337 of unixconf.h It seems to want to stick itself in /usr/games which isn't appropriate eve...

• Post #2080498

  Anyway I've just died scoring 0 points on the tutorial level, so that's a great start

• Post #2080497

  Investigated the VPN issue further - it's a duff server at Mullvad again. Switched to another one and everything magically swung into action. This is irritating as the actual tunnel was fine other than the DNS interception, so doing automatic failover will require more effort.

• Post #2080496

  Finished book for book club, and played a little more Nethack. Not sure I want to actually finish a game as a Ranger, so after a while I Started Taking Risks. Some of them worked out. The one that caused rocks to fall did not and trapped me. It revealed I'd managed to pick up a cursed luckstone too when I quit :O. I was really missing being able to dig with a pickaxe, and as I was playing as a gnome, also unable to find one as dwarves with pickaxes don't spawn so much!

• Post #1650544

  Have a horrid cold at the moment, so not doing much. I have been watching both the Artemis II mission, and a load of For All Mankind. Interestingly this makes me staggeringly less eager to ever leave the Earth. Personally I also don't care much about manned missions - I'd prefer lots of interesting probes; landing on a comet was amazing!

• Post #1650543

  Feeling a tad more human, if not 100%. Upgraded FreeBSD on my bleeding edge box to 15.0p5, will try passthrough, & if that fails go back to 14.4 and apply Corvin patches. Got an SSD to store Clonezilla images so should be able to easily swap between configs.

• Post #1650542

  Also playing a bit more of The Witcher. Especially after getting into Vizima, the level of jank is approaching acceptable levels. I still think the combat system sucks, but it looks and sounds good, and has a decent atmosphere. I don't think the game does many favours with its initial learning curve though, & there are multiple occasions when you're mobbed on entry to a location, and other occasions where you'd not allowed to escape because.. reasons.

• Post #1650541

  I also wonder, looking at the Witcher Bestiary, if the difference between a Drowner and the Drowned Dead is more apparent in Polish. In English, like many others I presume, I picked a Drowned Dead quest thinking it referred to Drowners, but no, it does not!