====== duckinator ====== * Name: Ellen Dash * Email: * Website: https://smallest.dog * Mastodon: [[https://vulpine.club/@pup|@pup@vulpine.club]] * GitHub: [[https://github.com/duckinator|@duckinator]] * AKA: duckie, puppy I do a lot of work with Python, Rust, and C. You may know me from my work at [[https://rubycentral.org|Ruby Central]], helping maintain %%RubyGems%% and Bundler. ---- ===== Notes ===== * [[https://klarasystems.com/articles/automation-and-hacking-your-freebsd-cli/]] — Info about some CLI tools integrating with libxo for JSON, XML, etc output. * [[https://github.com/Juniper/libxo]] ===== RX 6600 support ===== It looks like support for the AMD RX 6600 GPU will be in [[https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/|FreeBSD 14.0]], and may also be added to a 13.x release at some point. The [[https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/|FreeBSD-CURRENT mailing list]] may also be relevant, since (as I understand it) -CURRENT is currently for development of 14.0. ===== Containers ===== [[https://smallest.dog/resources/containers-on-freebsd/|This information is now on my website.]] ===== Discord ===== Unreliable, buggy, WIP. sudo pkg install linux-c7-nss linux-c7-atk linux-c7-at-spi2-atk linux-c7-cups-libs linux-c7-libdrm linux-c7-gtk3 linux-c7-alsa-lib linux-c7-ca-certificates Use this script: #!/compat/linux/bin/sh mkdir -p ~/software cd ~/software if [ ! -d Discord ]; then curl -L 'https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz' | tar xzf - fi cd Discord #PA_SOCK_PATH=$(sockstat | awk -v me=$(whoami) -F'[ \t]+' '$1 == me && $2 == "pulseaudio" && $6 ~ /native/ { print $6; exit 0 }') #export PULSE_SERVER=unix:${PA_SOCK_PATH} /usr/bin/env ./Discord --no-sandbox --no-zygote --in-process-gpu --v=0 "$@" ===== Building Latest Version Of Odamex ===== mkdir build && cd build && LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -lexecinfo -lcompat" cmake .. && make ===== Problems Encountered/Things To Document Fixes For ===== These are some of the notable problems I encountered while settling into using %%FreeBSD%% as my main OS for the first time in over a decade. ==== Audio ==== !!! This has been made a lot more complicated and harder to debug by the fact that apparently %%PulseAudio%% got installed anyway and I don't know how or why, and it starts with Firefox for some reason even though Firefox used to work without it. Initially, I had lots of general audio glitchiness. Intermittent static/buzzing noises. Using virtual_oss allowed me to record desktop audio (with OBS, recordmydesktop, etc). The solution appears to be using an 8ms buffer for virtual_oss and avoiding %%PulseAudio%%. (Any time I install %%PulseAudio%%, I have trouble keeping it from starting and taking over audio for the whole system -- which is a problem, given how poorly it performs on my system.) NOTE: I am having trouble with intermittent audio glitchiness again. Apparently it wasn't a solution so much as an improvement. ==== OBS Studio ==== * Tries to drag in %%PulseAudio%% by default. * %%PulseAudio%% has terrible performance on my system, so I'd rather not have it. * The OBS binary package pulls in %%PulseAudio%% unconditionally. * Making sure %%PulseAudio%% was not installed, then building OBS from ports with %%PulseAudio%% disabled works. * You can't use OSS with the "Desktop Audio" feature. Use the ''%%sndio input client%%'' source instead. * Install mesa-gallium-va and go into Settings -> Advanced or something like that and enable ffmpeg encoding to get hardware acceleration. * Should probably also install mesa-gallium-vdpau although idk what it affects. ==== Blender is slow ==== Blender is slow, by default. As [[https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/slow-blender-on-thinkpad-x1-yoga-gen2-any-help.78352/|someone else on the forums discovered]], ''%%vblank_mode=0 blender%%'' or ''%%LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 blender%%'' does the trick. Even if I continue to need one of those kludges, I'd at least like to know what the cause is. ==== Disc Drives ==== I added a blu-ray drive to my computer, and ran into the following problems: * I can't play, let alone rip, a blu-ray disc. * Ripping a *CD* (using ''%%abcde%%'') takes upwards of half an hour:idea: for some reason. On my girlfriend's computer, it takes roughly 5 minutes per CD. We swapped disc drives for unrelated reasons, and it still took half an hour on my system and about 5 minutes on her system. (TODO: Try seeing if it's reproducible on other OSes on my system.) ===== Ports/Packages That Are Missing Or Outdated ===== These ports either don't exist, or are outdated enough that it caused me problems: * [[https://github.com/Xfennec/progress|progress]] — no port/package. * [[https://discord.com/|Discord]] — proper port/package is missing, but usable via web browser. * [[https://odamex.net/|Odamex]] — latest version as of 2023-01-18 is 10.3.0. [[https://www.freshports.org/games/odamex/|version in ports]] is 0.7.0, which is multiple years old. These ports were previously nonexistent or outdated, but are now both existent up-to-date enough that it doesn't cause me issues: * [[https://www.signal.org/|Signal]] — now available as ''%%signal-desktop%%'' * [[https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install|ruby-install]] — now up-to-date ---- {{tag>Homepage}}