Tag: freebsd
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How to prevent driver from attaching to hardware in FreeBSD
Add something along the lines hint.hdac.0.disabled=1 to the /boot/loader.conf hdac being hardware you want to prevent driver from attaching to, 0 being its unit.
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How to make Compiz play nice with Nvidia
After you update your OS and you forgot about this little quirk edit /usr/local/bin/compiz-manager and change line sayingINDIRECT=”no”toINDIRECT=”yes” UPDATE (2014-11-15):Apparently this also depends on nvidia driver, so I am trying to keep the list of those I know work correctly, and those I know don’t work correctly. Working: 331.67, 331.113Not working: 340.46, 343.22 (works most…
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Keeping FreeBSD ports secure and up to date
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IPsec based VPN using FreeBSD
Since I wasn’t really able to find information how to set this up on one place here is short recipe. Prerequisites: After this some introduction to entire problem comes handy. Most important thing to understand here is how IPsec actually works within operating system – you can get some help here from setkey (8) with…
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How to create pdfs from man pages
man -t page_name | ps2pdf – page_name.pdf Sometimes this pdf actually looses some formatting (I don’t have any idea why), so it might make more sense to create plain ps fileman -t page_name > page_name.ps Note: You might want to change page size in /usr/share/groff_font/devps/DESC (by default it is set to letter there)
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How to make tsclient use freerdp instead of rdesktop in freebsd
First of all why anyone would do that? Because rdesktop doesn’t support newer encryption schemes supported by remote desktop while freerdp does. When connecting to new server xfreerdp will ask you whether you trust offered public key (similar to ssh), so it is good idea to run it from console that time, also if it…