Also also, have you checked this board? https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops

Does letters work as expected ?

Only space triggers suspend ? If it was working correctly during the install is that some bad bits went after..

which bootloader is it?

rEFInd

oh thanks for letting me know.

yw fam

UEFI

how did you set it up? I am trying to set up a bootloader for all my os but i end up using all of them separated.

it's pretty simple if you have a linux

artix

paru -S refind

i may have to remove grub first

refind doesn't support brunch firmware that's why

does chrome os support apk files now ?

yep it does

great, then I will grab a chrome os copy

https://github.com/sebanc/brunch

works for pc too ?

it should

IDK it can be help you or not. you can setup nvidia driver up with: Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Card" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" Driver "nvidia" EndSection in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-driver.conf file i installed nvidia driver from repos. and i use Legacy boot, no UEFI.

so disabled it maybe or the security stuff of it

Better put on rc.conf, faster

You may have hit the nail on the head, but I'd installed FreeBSD as UEFI only. My boot drive is ZFS with GELI encryption, just to make things more complicated. If I'd had important data on there, I'd be in a bit of a mess I think, but as it's a fresh install, perhaps the more fool proof option will be legacy boot with UFS.

Thank you @Dark_Rail. I too had installed the Nvidia driver from ports, but on starting KDE, it had said the kernel module was missing. Perhaps UEFI is where it's going south.

You may have hit the nail on the head, but I'd installed FreeBSD as UEFI only. My boot drive is ZFS with GELI encryption, just to make things more complicated. If I'd had important data on there, I'd be in a bit of a mess I think, but as it's a fresh install, perhaps the more fool proof option will be legacy boot with UFS.

do netBSD or OpenBSD support UEFI?

hmm a fresh install may be good. But I use ZFS as well and it is working fine with UEFI

Cheers. I actually decided to reinstall with ZFS and UEFI after all, mainly for data protection in the event of power loss. I left the GELI encryption off this time and the Nvidia kernel module is now successfully loading from rc.conf. KDE5 is still building... .... and building.... .... aaaaaaand building.

Imo, there is no benefits of building kde from ports. Latest pkg is fast and fresh enough for most cases 😉

Imo, there is no benefits of building kde from ports. Latest pkg is fast and fresh enough for most cases 😉

Given the weight of KDE, I did wonder about installing from packages. I'd seen it mentioned in the forums if I recall, that one should either install all things from packages, or all things from ports, but not a mixture. Is there any truth to that? I've a long history with FreeBSD, but only ever in a comparatively light, headless server capacity, so I've just always built things from ports for maximum efficiency.

The problem is version mismatch ports-pkg, and when you have lots of dependencies that problem grow like a web 🙃

The problem is version mismatch ports-pkg, and when you have lots of dependencies that problem grow like a web 🙃

I appreciate you clarifying that. It sounds like you've had a bit of a run in with those issues @andifedge

In practice it look like pkg upgrade will reinstall pkges that assembled from ports and portupgrade will reinstall that installed by pkg install and so on ...

I was ok with my aging PC when it came to playing games... even running out of video memory editing videos, I was dealing with... but KDE's build time, that's testing me now 😅

Probably approaching 12 hours now?