• FreeBSD Rpi model3 B Download

• 2024-04-15, I downloaded https://download.freebsd.org/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz and boot it up.

Default Passwd

• normal user freebsd, freebsd

• super root, root

• ssh freebsd@192.168.2.201

freebsd@generic:~ % ifconfig
lo0: flags=1008049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 16384
	options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
	groups: lo
	nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
ue0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=80009<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,LINKSTATE>
	ether b8:27:eb:7d:5f:4a
	inet 192.168.2.201 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
	inet6 fe80::ba27:ebff:fe7d:5f4a%ue0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
	status: active
	nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
f# ls /dev
audit		da0p3		geom.ctl	led		netdump		stdout		ttyv7		ugen1.7
auditpipe	da0p4		gpioc0		log		null		sysmouse	ttyv8		uhid0
bpf		da0p5		gpioc1		mdctl		openfirm	tcp_log		ttyv9		uinput
bpf0		devctl		gpt		mem		pass0		ttyu0		ttyva		ukbd0
console		devctl2		gptid		midistat	pci		ttyu0.init	ttyvb		ums0
consolectl	devstat		iic0		mlx5ctl		pfil		ttyu0.lock	ufs		urandom
ctty		diskid		input		mmcsd0		pts		ttyv0		ufssuspend	usb
cuau0		efi		kbd0		mmcsd0s1	random		ttyv1		ugen1.1		usbctl
cuau0.init	ext2fs		kbd1		mmcsd0s2	reroot		ttyv2		ugen1.2		vcio
cuau0.lock	fb0		kbdmux0		mmcsd0s2a	sequencer0	ttyv3		ugen1.3		xpt0
da0		fd		klog		mmcsd0s2b	sndstat		ttyv4		ugen1.4		zero
da0p1		fido		kmem		msdosfs		stderr		ttyv5		ugen1.5
da0p2		full		label		music0		stdin		ttyv6		ugen1.6

# gpart show /dev/da0
=>       34  625142381  da0  GPT  (298G)
         34       2014       - free -  (1.0M)
       2048    3903488    1  linux-data  (1.9G)
    3905536   15624192    2  linux-swap  (7.5G)
   19529728   62500864    3  linux-data  (30G)
   82030592  187500544    4  linux-data  (89G)
  269531136  134217728    5  linux-data  (64G)
  403748864  221393551       - free -  (106G)

• update

# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install

• install desktgop https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/desktop/

# pkg install xorg

# pkg install gnome-lite

pw groupmod video -m username <-- add user to video group

The following command can be used to identify which graphics card is installed in the system:

% pciconf -lv|grep -B4 VGA