Re: Trying to run KDE 6 Plasma with Wayland....

Sorry,I forgot to say that I have passed through inside the FreeBSD vm my
secondary GPU,the RTX 2080 ti. Again sorry. So,we can go on :D

On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 6:24 PM Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello Jan.
> >
> > I'm trying to install KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland on a fresh vm based on
> > FreeBSD 14.1,following your instructions,but some point is not clear for
> > me. When you say :
>
> You can stop here. FreeBSD has no KMS/DRM drivers for virtual GPUs.
> drm-kmod no longer provides vmwgfx.ko. Wayland can still be used
> if GPU is passed through (making it unavailable on the host OS)
> or nested within Xorg session (using its BIOS/UEFI drivers[1]).
>
> [1] BIOS/UEFI drivers for KMS hasn't been ported yet, see
>     https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/269
>     Such drivers lack hardware acceleration thus not a substitute for
>     the missing vmwgfx.ko or DRM-based vboxvideo, virtgpu.
>
> > 1) Should I make the installation of plasma5-kwin from ports even if I
> want
> > to install KDE Plasma 6 ?
> > 2) How should I apply the patches ? Can you tell me if the procedure
> that I
> > want to follow is correct ?
>
> Please, contact kde@ team for help with Plasma. I neither maintain nor
> use Plasma thus trying to help will lead to a burnout.
>


-- 
Mario.