Report on FreeBSD 14.0 Compatibility with Beelink Ser5 AMD Ryzen 5 5560U Mini PC

[free_monkey123]

Hi, I just had an opportunity to install FreeBSD 14.0 on my new Mini PC. I decided to share results with the community.

Specs:
Mini PC Beelink SER5 5560U, integrated Radeon GPU (Cezanne Radeon Vega).
Ram 16 GB
SSD 512 GB.

Works:
The system works well, GPU drivers installed by using SCFB driver, or I deleted 20-vesa.conf and 20-scfb.conf at the end, I don't remember… But I added in rc.conf "kld_list="/boot/modules/amdgpu. ko"

Audio works (I'm using headphones with 3.5 jack connected to monitor) and sound goes through HDMI.
1080p, 144 hz monitor works as well.

What doesn't work well:
Wi-Fi connected, but speed is about 10-15 mbps. I hope Cheng Cui’s will fix it soon!
Ethernet network works well, full speed.

What doesn't work at all:
Bluetooth. I think I tried everything, including dongles.

Probe can be seen here.
Thanks

 

[meaw229a]

Thanks, I'm a mini-pc fan boy. I have a very similar one than yours and run FreeBSD on it.

How much noise does it makes? Can you hear it at all doing web surfing or office work?

 

[free_monkey123]

Totally silent: web with youtube, office, htop - all together makes no noise at all.

 

[MarkD]

Hi, I just had an opportunity to install FreeBSD 14.0 on my new Mini PC. I decided to share results with the community.

Specs:
Mini PC Beelink SER5 5560U, integrated Radeon GPU (Cezanne Radeon Vega).
Ram 16 GB
SSD 512 GB.

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Works:
The system works well, GPU drivers installed by using SCFB driver, or I deleted 20-vesa.conf and 20-scfb.conf at the end, I don't remember… But I added in rc.conf "kld_list="/boot/modules/amdgpu. ko"

Audio works (I'm using headphones with 3.5 jack connected to monitor) and sound goes through HDMI.
1080p, 144 hz monitor works as well.

What doesn't work well:
Wi-Fi connected, but speed is about 10-15 mbps. I hope Cheng Cui’s will fix it soon!
Ethernet network works well, full speed.

What doesn't work at all:
Bluetooth. I think I tried everything, including dongles.

Probe can be seen here.
Thanks

Thanks for those details. I'm very interest in spinning up one of these as I'm a bit of a mini-PC/NUC fan for homelabs. I don't care much about the graphics side of things but the network side is important and I've always heard/read that the Realtek NIC performs pretty poorly on FBSD. Now that you've had it running for a little while, are you still happy with the ethernet side of things?

 

[free_monkey123]

Now that you've had it running for a little while, are you still happy with the ethernet side of things?

Ethernet works fine, full speed (about 400 Mbps), no issue at all.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Bluetooth

Probe 87e25e2abd last year reported that AX200 works with ubt on 14.0-CURRENT. I wonder how.

jrm@

 

[free_monkey123]

Probe 87e25e2abd last year reported that AX200 works with ubt on 14.0-CURRENT. I wonder how.

jrm@

I tested Bluetooth only with my odd Logi Lift vertical mouse. Maybe it uses different Bluetooth version, or it doesn't matter? I spend days trying over and over. I even wasn't able to see that mouse in devices list.

But please note, I'm a total noob, and some more skilled person might be successful.

 

[scottro]

As for wireless, there's also wifibox. https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox

I didn't get it to work for me, but a lot of people have had success--basically, you run a little virtual instance of Alpine Linux and that handles the wireless for you, resulting in Linux wireless speeds. And thanks for the write up. I've been thinking of getting a beelink myself.

 

[pulpi]

Thanks for the report. Question about web browsing with firefox: is the scrolling fast and without tearing?

I have bad experience with intel graphics on freebsd so I am searching an alternative.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… firefox: is the scrolling fast and without tearing? …

For me, yes.

% pkg iinfo firefox
firefox-129.0_1,2
% uname -aKU
FreeBSD mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd 15.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n271625-104ee24349c0 GENERIC-NODEBUG amd64 1500023 1500023
% pkg iinfo nvidia
linux-nvidia-libs-470-470.161.03
nvidia-driver-470-470.161.03_1
nvidia-settings-535.146.02_1
nvidia-xconfig-525.116.04
%

 

[pulpi]

For me, yes.

% pkg iinfo firefox
firefox-129.0_1,2
% uname -aKU
FreeBSD mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd 15.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT main-n271625-104ee24349c0 GENERIC-NODEBUG amd64 1500023 1500023
% pkg iinfo nvidia
linux-nvidia-libs-470-470.161.03
nvidia-driver-470-470.161.03_1
nvidia-settings-535.146.02_1
nvidia-xconfig-525.116.04
%

on which hardware? Beelink AMD Ryzen 5 5560U has an amd gpu