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

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:24:50 +0200, Jan Beich stated:
> 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.

I have never gotten it to work either. You only viable solution would
be to use a different OS. 🤠️