starikarp Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Hi! I am newbie in the Forum and in OSX world too. I was long time FreeBSD user and three months ago I got and old iMac which I use now. I like install FreeBSD on it.How is our expirience with dual boot, please? I have: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac11,1 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 8 MB Memory: 8 GB ATI Radeon HD 4850: Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4850 Type: GPU Bus: PCIe PCIe Lane Width: x16 VRAM (Total): 512 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x944a Revision ID: 0x0000 ROM Revision: 113-B9110C-425 EFI Driver Version: 01.00.383 Displays: iMac: Display Type: LCD Resolution: 2560 x 1440 Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888) Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Built-In: Yes Connection Type: DisplayPort I will wait for final release of FreeBSD 9.2 which supposed to have better support for Radeon graphics cards. I did try to run Live DVD GhostBSD without success: black screen when start X (Xfce). I have installed rEFIT. Thanks in advance. starikarp Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291606-freebsd-on-imac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
LHT. Quốc Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Did you know this [1] article? :-) [1]: https://glenbarber.us/2011/11/12/Dual-Booting-OS-X-and-FreeBSD-9.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291606-freebsd-on-imac/#findComment-1942875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starikarp Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 Did you know this [1] article? :-) [1]: https://glenbarber.us/2011/11/12/Dual-Booting-OS-X-and-FreeBSD-9.html Yes, I know iit but there are nothing about Xorg. I am not sure how is about graphics card and monitor. I like to have KDE. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291606-freebsd-on-imac/#findComment-1942885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starikarp Posted September 10, 2013 Author Share Posted September 10, 2013 I did install FreeBSD 9.2 RC3 iMac but I am not successful with Xorg. I rdid run Xorg -configure but when I try I got just black screen. Does anyone has success running KDE for example on FreeBSD installed on iMac, please? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291606-freebsd-on-imac/#findComment-1944628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ameris_cyning Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 You would have a better chance with Linux than BSD. Not too many Mac users use BSD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291606-freebsd-on-imac/#findComment-1946744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starikarp Posted September 20, 2013 Author Share Posted September 20, 2013 You would have a better chance with Linux than BSD. Not too many Mac users use BSD It works like a charm on FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1. BTW: glxgears shows much better results under FreeBSD Xorg than on Mountain Lion. GIMP which I am using from the first version is much better too. I don't miss ML anymore. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291606-freebsd-on-imac/#findComment-1947294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ameris_cyning Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 It works like a charm on FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA1. BTW: glxgears shows much better results under FreeBSD Xorg than on Mountain Lion. GIMP which I am using from the first version is much better too. I don't miss ML anymore. I am glad to hear of your success! Yeah, OS X sucks when it comes to free software. GIMP is a joke on OS X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291606-freebsd-on-imac/#findComment-1947306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starikarp Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 I am glad to hear of your success! Yeah, OS X sucks when it comes to free software. GIMP is a joke on OS X It is so easy to install now. Also wjo has not experience with partitioning can do install. Bsdinstall has also "auto" or something like this. And follow https://glenbarber.us/2011/11/12/Dual-Booting-OS-X-and-FreeBSD-9.html should work. For me was problem with Xorg because iMac 11,1 has Radeon gr. card which need KMS which is not yet in FreeBSD 9* but it is in FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA (current) and it works. The problem is for me just sound which I am not successful yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/291606-freebsd-on-imac/#findComment-1948070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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