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@rl_dane One disadvantage is the sleep — while my laptop perfectly sleeps and wake-ups even with #FreeBSD 11 — after switching from proprietary BIOS to #Libreboot this became unreliable.

Looks like there is a some bug in Libreboot causes CPU overheating after wake-up and then FreeBSD shuts down via #ACPI

I thought about disabling ACPI thermal guards before sleep. But it is VERY dangerous and I don't think that I'll find spare parts for my laptop in Russia now, for decent price :dragngrimace:

My Thinkpad collection keeps growing and I really need to think about what to do with them all 😂

Thinkpad x60
Thinkpad x220
Thinkpad x230
Thinkpad T420 (With Libreboot)
Thinkpad T430s (My wives daily driver)
Thinkpad T480 (My second most used one)
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen4 (With HaikuOS)
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6
Thinkpad T14s Gen4 AMD (My daily driver)

I really need to stop buying those (beautiful) machines.

All of them are running flavors of Linux, except eh X1Gen4, which is curreltly running on HaikuOS and the T420, which is running FreeBSD.

okay I am getting a bit overwhelmed with the libreboot flashing equipment guides. I am just looking for a (SPI) flasher/programmer, for making a general backup of chips and doing a recovery flash in case my BIOS is bricked or whatever - oh and I could fix the Thunderbold chip bug on my T480 for good without installing Windows...

Any recommendations/extra guides on what hardware I should get?

I hope this is the correct page: libreboot.org/docs/install/spi

Libreboot – Read/write 25XX NOR flash via SPI protocolLibreboot – Read/write 25XX NOR flash via SPI protocolLibreboot – Read/write 25XX NOR flash via SPI protocol

Almost successfully updated FreeBSD 14.1->14.2 on my Thinkpad X220.

I've had some problems — there was no graphical bestie logo during the boot and I can't switch to text consoles via Ctrl+Alt+F1-6 from GUI

As I found, graphics mode was removed from the loader (freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/rel) :dragngrimace: — that's why I lost any video output (libreboot.org/docs/bsd/#freebs) on boot

At least, I found a partial solution here: forums.freebsd.org/threads/fre — but text consoles still don't work

FreeBSD - The Power to Serve - Server - Desktop - Embedded
The FreeBSD ProjectFreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Release NotesFreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.
Hello dear fediverse, I seek out your wisdom, especially in the foss community. I have a VERY particular problem that I decided to come to you all with!

I have a dell xps laptop that will reset the BIOS whenever it dies from battery going to 0%
got the laptop for cheap, it is quite old, I essentially saved it from being ewaste, so I would like to take care of it as best as I can, so "get a new laptop" is not going to fix my problems
Dell got this LOVELY feature where it will "raid" the disks automatically when the bios is reset. Truly lovely feature. The BIOS will also gracefully reset the settings of the laptop and lose my boot partition so I have to manually enter it (I have gotten really good at EFI due to this, but I digress). My two things would be:

1) remove the RAID chip from the mobo to avoid it from trying to do that again, not sure if that would break it completely or how viable that is. I can turn it off in BIOS, sure, but it will go BACK to the setting no matter how I save, truly a feature of "I will fix the computer for you!!!"

2) install libreboot

I am very aware that both options can brick the laptop in question, so please, if anyone has a similar issue and know a better fix or have experience, send help :bunsad:

Ask for any info and I will let you know in the thread in regards to the laptop

Some hashtags so I hopefully reach the right people:
#linux #opensource #dell #hardwareissues #libreboot #xps13
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@neustradamus Thank you for the post. I have already seen the libreboot.org link you posted. The problem is it is terribly written due to how it does not sequentially flow. If this content was written using sequential steps it will help a beginner like me. Please let me know if you know of any video or easy to follow written material that sequentially explains how to inject vendor files into a Libreboot ROM file for a Dell 3050 SFF PC. Thank you for your time. #libreboot

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@gwennelsonuk @riku @mkukri The Pico (or any RP2040 device) is also reprogrammable. Don't want a SPI flasher? Here are a few other things it can also do:

* Emulate the CD drive on a playstation.

* Be used as a TTL-based UART dongle

* Anything else you cna think of. Want to program a door alarm for your office?

Yet I still see idiots like the YouTuber you linked, with millions of followers, telling everyone to use CH341a. I get blamed on #libreboot when someone fries their chip with it.

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@evgandr Thnx for the steps. I wish the 3050 Libreboot.org online material was sequentially in steps and not links. Ideally, it would be great if a YouTuber like LinusTech created a video on how to Libreboot a Dell 3050 using the internal flashing approach and not external approach. Until then I need to spend many more hours reading the badly written 3050 Libreboot.org instructional material to understand how to perform this task in the correct sequence using the correct commands. #libreboot