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handbook: Add notes to VMWare related setup guide #424

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@claucambra claucambra commented Oct 6, 2024

When setting up FreeBSD 14 on my M1 macOS machine I ran across a couple of issues; I thought the fixes may be useful to other users, mainly:

  • The driver packages recommended in the installation are not available for aarch64
  • The mouse was not working out of the box and required modifications to /boot/loader.conf

@claucambra claucambra changed the title Add notes to VMWare related setup guide in handbook handbook: Add notes to VMWare related setup guide Oct 6, 2024
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I can't test the procedure as I use neither a Macbook nor VMWare.

[.procedure]
. Enabling the mouse
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Some users have reported issues using the mouse in the virtual machine. The mouse may be enabled by appending the following to [.filename]#/boot/loader.conf#:
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One sentence per line. Also, is there a reason to use loader.conf instead of the kld_list rc.conf(5) variable?

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Thanks, I put the sentence on a new line.

Also, is there a reason to use loader.conf instead of the kld_list rc.conf(5) variable?

Yes -- this module should be loaded at boot time. From the manpages:

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

   device ums
   device hid
   device uhci
   device ohci
   device usb

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

   ums_load="YES"

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ums&sektion=4&format=html

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