I can install freebsd on the MacBook, however after following the instruction to install the desktop environments it fails to boot up the Gui?, Is their a special method for MacBook hardware?
pciconf -lv
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
scfb
driver. In the code snippet above, just replace vesa
with scfb
.My MacBook is the exactly the same model as yours. Just tried FreeBSD-12.0 live on it, both the keyboard and the touchpad won't work. How did you make yours work?Try using the VESA driver. You have to save the code snippet below in a text file in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-vesa.conf. You have to be root to do that.
Code:Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "vesa" EndSection
PS: I just tried booting FreeBSD on my 2017 MacBook 12". I could make X work with using thescfb
driver. In the code snippet above, just replacevesa
withscfb
.