User contributions for Grahamperrin

16:2416:24, 28 December 2025 diff hist +157 FreeBSD/Setup Introduce plasma6-plasma and webcamd. `devd restart` does not start the webcamd service, neither does 'reboot -r', so restart the OS. current

03:5803:58, 27 December 2025 diff hist −34 m FreeBSD/Setup I was unaware of deskutils/plasma6-sddm-kcm, https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/plasma6-sddm-kcm#requiredforRun
03:5503:55, 27 December 2025 diff hist +270 m FreeBSD/Setup Explain the reason for --fetch-only before installation of packages.
03:4603:46, 27 December 2025 diff hist +34 m FreeBSD/Setup deskutils/plasma5-sddm-kcm is no longer automatic with x11/kde. https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/plasma5-sddm-kcm/#requiredby

12:3112:31, 26 December 2025 diff hist +41 m FreeBSD/Setup SDDM and X.Org context in the quick start.
12:2812:28, 26 December 2025 diff hist +40 FreeBSD/Setup The indirect conflict with games/mizuma https://github.com/grahamperrin/freebsd-ports/pull/5 is no longer evident, however let's not be careless with --yes (my bad).
12:2112:21, 26 December 2025 diff hist +247 m FreeBSD/Setup Plasma (X11) only with SDDM on FreeBSD in VirtualBox. Link to my /r/freebsd post.
11:5611:56, 26 December 2025 diff hist +3 m FreeBSD/Setup Update the link to the package message for the port of Oracle VirtualBox Guest Additions.
11:5511:55, 26 December 2025 diff hist +12 m FreeBSD/Setup emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions is deprecated. End-of-life upstream was 2024-01-31.
11:5211:52, 26 December 2025 diff hist −17 m FreeBSD/Setup plasma6-sddm-kcm is no longer needed separately, it's a runtime dependency of x11/plasma6-plasma. https://www.freshports.org/x11/plasma6-plasma/#requiredrun
11:4511:45, 26 December 2025 diff hist −22 m FreeBSD/Setup The Wayland chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook is no longer outdated "(May 2021)".

13:0713:07, 22 November 2025 diff hist +172 FreeBSD/Setup Noting that the FreeBSD Handbook is outdated, and linking to bug 286592.

16:1916:19, 26 July 2025 diff hist +68 m FreeBSD/Setup Quick start: graphics: refer to two chapters of the FreeBSD Handbook.
09:3509:35, 26 July 2025 diff hist +28 m FreeBSD/Setup Quick start: refer to the documentation portal; remove a full stop from a command.

19:4719:47, 7 June 2025 diff hist 0 m FreeBSD/Setup emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions 6.1.50_2 or greater.
19:4619:46, 7 June 2025 diff hist +161 FreeBSD/Setup SDDM may default to ''Plasma (Wayland)'' on systems that do not support Wayland.
11:1711:17, 7 June 2025 diff hist +96 m Distributions Drivers for graphics hardware are not integral to FreeBSD.
10:4610:46, 7 June 2025 diff hist −12 Distributions Plasma 6 was added to the FreeBSD ports collection on 2025-02-03.

02:1102:11, 8 May 2025 diff hist −153 FreeBSD/Setup Update for 6. Remove the Wayland-oriented line, it might be redundant.

18:3618:36, 15 March 2025 diff hist −8 m FreeBSD/Setup service … enable (instead of sysrc)

04:2604:26, 1 July 2023 diff hist −12 m FreeBSD/Setup Undo my revision 97067. sysutils/consolekit2 is gained, indirectly, through installation of x11/kde5. Tag: Undo
03:4103:41, 1 July 2023 diff hist +12 FreeBSD/Setup consolekit2 – compare with <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/35c0952fb382a2a5249db10d5522826ce24a3a3c>.

20:5620:56, 12 January 2023 diff hist −156 FreeBSD/Setup https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

08:5408:54, 10 April 2022 diff hist −251 FreeBSD FreeBSD is less than thirty years old; <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261058#c2>. No need to link to the Handbook from here. current

23:3823:38, 4 April 2022 diff hist 0 m FreeBSD/Setup emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions 6.1.30

08:2308:23, 1 March 2022 diff hist +11 m FreeBSD/Setup --quiet --yes for installation of kde5 sddm xorg

03:4503:45, 2 December 2021 diff hist +29 m FreeBSD/Setup Mention NVIDIA graphics hardware.

12:4312:43, 9 October 2021 diff hist −184 FreeBSD/Setup Weed KDE Plasma 4-related content. Attempt to bring some other parts of the page up-to-date.
12:0912:09, 9 October 2021 diff hist −515 FreeBSD/Setup We're advised that KDE software should – already – use libprocstat or another FreeBSD API; that proc is no longer a requirement.

20:4220:42, 25 April 2021 diff hist +101 m FreeBSD/Setup VBoxSVGA is good with virtualbox-ose-additions 6.1.18. Make the quick start a little more readable.

16:4216:42, 21 April 2021 diff hist +170 FreeBSD/Setup Cross reference FreeBSD bug 254464.

18:0818:08, 13 April 2021 diff hist +495 FreeBSD/Setup procfs(5) and video drivers.
17:5817:58, 13 April 2021 diff hist −10 m FreeBSD/Setup A mistake in my previous edition. We do _not_ want noauto for procfs.
17:5217:52, 13 April 2021 diff hist +147 FreeBSD/Setup fstab entry
08:1708:17, 13 April 2021 diff hist −138 FreeBSD/Setup HAL is no longer in ports <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-freebsd-13-0-rc5.79798/#post-505832>.
08:1608:16, 13 April 2021 diff hist +12 FreeBSD/Setup HAL is no longer in ports <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-freebsd-13-0-rc5.79798/#post-505832>. The referenced article is not part of the Handbook. This section probably requires further attention.
07:5007:50, 13 April 2021 diff hist +59 FreeBSD/Setup HAL was removed from ports some time ago. The legacy Intel-specific driver is not required in all cases.