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broozar / installDesktopFreeBSD

FreeBSD desktop installer
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UEFI bios mode question #3

Closed r9guy closed 2 years ago

r9guy commented 2 years ago

Why script works only in non UEFI bios mode? I read at https://x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man4/fbdev.4.xhtml fbdev − video driver for framebuffer device is what system must be seeing then booted in UEFI mode. Can it be integrated into the script?

htw-fcaf commented 2 years ago

I originally created this script to automatically install a desktop environment as well as graphics drivers, especially nVidia, since I had a hard time doing it manually the first few times. In other words, I really wanted proper 3D acceleration. I don't know if this is possible with fbdev. In my experience, BIOS is necessary because the screen simply stays black with UEFI + Desktop + nvidia/radeon/intel drivers.

r9guy commented 2 years ago

You are right, I have also done my research. Apparently, FreeBSD is not yet mature then it comes to graphical subsystem. let's leave it to the time to fix it.