FreeBSD Enable Graphics Acceleration for your Desktop.
You can get FreeBSD (and maybe others) installed without graphics acceleration and that will still allow you go install and run KDE Plasma. However, the experience will be somewhat poor. What made me take note is that when I looked at KDE Plasma settings under Display and Monitor the refresh rate of the monitor was 0hz. When I was at a remote location I decided to run using x11 forwarding the settings program where I found the refresh rate properly set for that monitor, which was 60hz. In order to actually install the accelerated graphics you must install the appropriate drm-* driver. This is done with the following command. sudo pkg install graphics/drm-kmod This will download and install nearly 100 items pertaining to various graphics technologies, such as AMD, NVIDIA,…