Description

Installation

Boot disk

Create a bootable installation USB stick from FreeBSD.org. Install the disk by:

OS	Command
MacOS	`sudo dd if=FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/diskX bs=4m`
Linux	`sudo dd if=FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4=M`

Disks

The best solution is using ZFS. Downside, it will take your whole disk. Encrypt your disk and swap file.

Configuration

Users

Add the users:

Kernel

svnlite checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/12.2.0 /usr/src

Window manager

pkg install xorg xfce

NVIDIA

Updated the ports

distinfo

SHA256 (NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-460.27.04.tar.gz) = b9c0e676b5e66569d2f71a25ab1e782bb8a52cbcb3e413e854b72debc37b6623
SIZE (NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-460.27.04.tar.gz) = 103234112

Makefile

+DISTVERSION?=   460.27.04

-SUB_PATCHES=   extra-patch-src-Makefile \
-               extra-patch-src-nv-freebsd.h \
-               extra-patch-src-nv-misc.h \
-               extra-patch-src-nvidia_ctl.c \
-               extra-patch-src-nvidia_dev.c \
-               extra-patch-src-nvidia_linux.c \
-               extra-patch-src-nvidia_pci.c

-.if ${NVVERSION} >= 358.009
-# Initialize memory allocations to avoid spurious "lock re-initialization"
-# errors.  A little more detail can be found in bug 201340 starting around
-# comment #50.
-EXTRA_PATCHES+= ${FILESDIR}/extra-patch-src_nvidia-modeset_nvidia-modeset-freebsd.c
-.endif

removed some includes

In /boot/loader.conf:

nvidia-modeset_load="YES"

pkg install nvidia-xconfig nvidia-settings

run nvidia-xconfig

Xorg

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Card0"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        # BusID         "PCI:0:8:0:0"
EndSection

    Section "Module"
        Load           "freetype"
        Load           "bitmap"
        Load           "type1"
        Load           "glx"
    EndSection

In /etc/rc.conf:

dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

Login manager

pkg install slim