@justine @Tionisla @grahamperrin @trashheap not specialty attached to KDE, I was just curious how the new desktop installer would work out, preparing for a presentation Freebsd 15 in some time.
To get it working I will try mango, 🥭
But the root cause is drm module not loading or matching as it seems
desktop-installer is not the new desktop installer.
It's a port that was added more than sixteen years ago:
Desktop-installer is a post-install script to assist in setting up a FreeBSD desktop system using any of the mainstream desktop systems. It automatically installs essential software and configures subsystems such as dbus, CUPS, etc. for typical use.
@grahamperrin @justine @Tionisla @trashheap ouch….
I got confused by the recent installation instructions on freebsd main pages.
I do a test on wayland and mangowc using a solid looking instruction on codeberg for freebsd
Sorry to waste your time, I really thought it was a simple step to a working kde solution for the purpose of the presentation. I recheck what I used and do another go.
@passthejoe was your use of sysutils/desktop-installer for X.Org, or for Wayland?
<https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/desktop-installer/>
<https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/auto-admin/>
Desktop-installer is a post-install script to assist in setting up a FreeBSD desktop system using any of the mainstream desktop systems. It automatically installs essential software and configures subsystems such as dbus, CUPS, etc. for typical use.
@passthejoe Yes, I think you can trust desktop-installer.
As an example of good maintenance: compatibility of auto-admin was improved, for FreeBSD 15, in November last year. (I misfiled the issue in the desktop-installer area, <https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/issues/56>.)
@passthejoe failure to install KDE might happen at any time.
If a required package is unavailable, then pkg will be unable to fetch.
I can't recall what desktop-installer does in this situation, but it fails graceful.
The new desktop script will be integrated with FreeBSD installer, I should expect it to work with offline packages with the dvd1.iso approach.
@thesaigoneer @justine @Tionisla @grahamperrin @trashheap
I have a suspect : the Lenovo L380 yoga with UHD 630 in combination with freebsd 15
The i915kms driver and the resulting dms module are not loaded as there is a version conflict
I revert to 14.x to check
@thesaigoneer @justine @Tionisla @grahamperrin @trashheap
Success on 14.4 rc1
Drm-kmod mangowc and some sysrc magic: working wayland and mango setup
So it is related to the new kernel / package setup in freebsd 15
@thesaigoneer @justine @Tionisla @trashheap
hmm
root@clean:~ # freebsd-version -kru ; uname -mvKU
15.0-RELEASE-p4
15.0-RELEASE-p4
15.0-RELEASE-p4
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p4 releng/15.0-n281010-8ef0ed690df2 GENERIC amd64 1500068 1500068
root@clean:~ # pkg info drm-66-kmod | grep -i -e repos -e version
Version : 6.6.25.1500506_8
FreeBSD_version: 1500506
repository : FreeBSD-ports-kmods
This version is for FreeBSD 15 1500031
root@clean:~ # uname -KU
1500068 1500068
root@clean:~ #
If the modules in FreeBSD-ports-kmods are so outdated that they'll not work with RELEASE, that would be extraordinary.
cc @justdude
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