X11 failures after FreeBSD update

[DanamonNani1951]

Good morning,

I'm actually having problems with the X11 system, which crashed after the FreeBSD update. This incident caused the graphical interface to not start properly. To fix it, I had to install the drm-kmod and gpu-firmware-kmod components. I followed the instructions from these videos (

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59w2UMZistg
,

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUL7hhg-vs
,

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7YgNw4p64Y
) and the docs (https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/#x-config, https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop/) to install xorg along with the Budgie desktop, but nothing worked. It led me to an error that says:
(EE) Cannot run in freebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices

OS: FreeBSD 15 Current
PC: HP Pavilion 15 cw0008la
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ Vega 8 Graphics

Please help me with this issue I'm having because it's preventing me from migrating to FreeBSD.

Thank you.

 

[SirDice]

OS: FreeBSD 15 Current

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[DanamonNani1951]

The latest version 15 of FreeBSD disappeared from all FreeBSD downloads, and unexpectedly, this version has been discontinued, and that's why X11 in FreeBSD 15 crashed because of this.

 

[Emrion]

Instead of stating things that escape you, install a RELEASE version. Currently, the last is 14.2-RELEASE. You will see a difference in term of stability.

 

[SirDice]

14.3 will be available in a couple of days.

FreeBSD 14.3 Release Process

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

www.freebsd.org

And 15 hasn't been "discontinued", it's scheduled to be released in December:

FreeBSD 15.0 Release Process

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

www.freebsd.org

 

[Emrion]

14.3 will be available in a couple of days.

FreeBSD 14.3 Release Process

FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

www.freebsd.org

Hum... Not sure it be advisable for a beginner as he/she will be confronted to the kmod problem for the minor version change. For sure, there is the kmod repo, but I don't think it comes with the default pkg installation for the moment.

 

[SirDice]

but I don't think it comes with the default pkg installation for the moment.

It does, /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf is installed with the base OS, not by pkg(7) (that would present a chicken-and-egg problem).

dice@fbsd-test:~ % freebsd-version -urk
14.3-RC1
14.3-RC1
14.3-RC1
dice@fbsd-test:~ % cat /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
#
# To disable this repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
# create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file:
#
#   mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
#   echo "FreeBSD: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
#

FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}
FreeBSD-kmods: {
  url: "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/kmods_quarterly_${VERSION_MINOR}",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "fingerprints",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}