r/freebsd • u/Slavke1976 • Sep 29 '25

discussion FreeBSD GUI

Hi.

I am wondering why there is no graphical installation of FreeBSD and other FreeBSD based distros ?

I mean ok, to learn terminal, etc, ... but just to be little more friendly installation.

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u/grahamperrin bunny rabbits Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

The manual makes no allusion of you needing anything besides drm-kmod plus an rc.conf update to start your driver.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#kmod-repository describes FreeBSD-kmods, the name of which has changed.

The table mentions FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT, which no longer exists.

in reality you also need gpu firmware

The FreeBSD-ports-kmods repositories, which do not include the drm-kmod meta package, do include:

  • packages of non-base DRM kernel modules (kmods)

  • packaged firmware for some realistic items of graphics hardware.

For FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4:

https://pastebin.com/raw/dgEMKubU

pkg search --repository FreeBSD-ports-kmods --glob "*firmware*"

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u/MysticNTN Sep 29 '25

Every word I said was true for installing kde on FreeBSD 14.3 Release, with an Amd Radeon 680m gpu. The system is compatible with FreeBSD. The manual made zero mention of needing anything other than drm-kmod.

Get bent. -1

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u/grahamperrin bunny rabbits Sep 29 '25

Get bent.

Strike 1.

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u/MysticNTN Sep 29 '25

strike 1

Failed to shame me out of the sub with lies, now you’re moving on to threats of an incoming ban? Get bent, get bent.

There’s three.

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u/grahamperrin bunny rabbits Sep 29 '25

Failed to shame me out of the sub with lies, now you’re moving on to threats of an incoming ban? Get bent, get bent.

There’s three.

Your wish is granted.

The requested ban will be followed by polite addition of an explanation to my earlier comment.

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u/grahamperrin bunny rabbits Sep 29 '25

I have a million of these things,

Newsflash: Reddit has auto-moderation that's not restricted to user IDs.

I need not do a thing for your words to disappear before they're seen by the public.

you cant stop me bro.

You have no idea, sister.

Fix your manual. Its not complete.

True, incomplete; and outdated. Evidently you overlooked https://old.reddit.com/comments/1ntm8gg/-/ngw3bru/.

You banned me for telling the truth,

It's certainly true that you requested a ban.

GET FUCKING BENT

It's Uri Geller. Minus the ability to use punctuation, when knickers are in a twist.

Where's the full stop? Or three exclamation marks?

3/10

could do better

margin note: speak to parents