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Graham Perrin Mar 15

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p3 on ARM64 in QEMU:

― SDDM, pictured, is barely usable.

After login to Plasma (X11), resolution is limited to 800 x 600.

How can I avoid the issue with SDDM?

Host: Kubuntu 25.10, Virtual Machine Manager with Ramfb for video. Guest: non-base packages from the latest repos.

Not reproducible with FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT on ARM64 in QEMU on the same host.

#FreeBSD #ARM64 #aarch64 #QEMU #SDDM

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artemis Mar 16

@grahamperrin SDDM itself doesn't control display resolution. X11 is likely unable to read your display information correctly, therein preferring to use a fallback resolution. Perhaps you can get a TTY open and make a manual change to xorg.conf within the FreeBSD instance? You can potentially change the resolution of QEMU directly as well.

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Graham Perrin

@nethack

Better following a run of desktop-installer – following the hint at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qeztx1/comment/obd43wk/>.

#FreeBSD #ARM64 #aarch64 #QEMU #SDDM