Simple questions about FreeBSD at the beginning of the journey

tutu23

tutu23

Hey, everybody!

Guys, I have a few questions. I've switched from linux to openbsd on my laptop for a few months now and I'm loving it. But I have questions about freebsd on my PC, which I also want to migrate from linux to freebsd.
  1. The only thing is that I really like the PoE game series. I understand to launch steam and play through the proton no problem? Or the same wine? Install linux-steam-utils and edit Linuxulator, right? Maybe some of you play PoE and share your experience on freebsd Vulkan.
  2. what does amd driver support look like? I take it my 7900xtx shouldn't be a problem? I'm edit file /etc/rc.conf and add kld_list="amdgpu" and check in my /boot/loader.conf string "hw.vga.textmode=1", right?
  3. Support for ultrawidescreen monitors, let's say for my monitor me need create conf. file Xorg edit him?example /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.con (I'm used i3wm)
  4. Support for xbox and dualshock ps4 controllers from what I've seen implemented. As a last resort I need to install xboxdrv drivers or for ps4 kldload usbhid and kldload hid_ps4.
Thx for help!
 
tutu23 said:
The only thing is that I really like the PoE game series. I understand to launch steam and play through the proton no problem? Or the same wine? Install linux-steam-utils and edit Linuxulator, right? Maybe some of you play PoE and share your experience on freebsd Vulkan.
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DXVK and Vulkan work through FreeBSD's Wine: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/dota-2.79688/#post-682298

I haven't tried Steam client itself, but iirc PoE has a standalone PC client. I'm thinking PoE would run fine in a 64-bit Wine prefix.
 
In a few Wine tests I have seen that not all games that work on Linux with Wine work on FreeBSD with a similar version of Wine. Never ran the Steam client on FreeBSD.
 
More of my game library works with Mizuma than steam-linux-utils.

Nvidia cards complain more than Radeon. The 7000 series AMD cards are supported with drm-kmod.

The /boot/loader.conf option
Code: 
hw.vga.textmode=1
I've never used with Nvidia or Radeon cards.

You shouldn't have to config Xorg unless you're using Nvidia.
Code: 
nvidia-xconfig

I tested my gamepads and they worked with linux-steam-utils but apparently there is an issue with that support now. Also, my system detected the gamepads that I have and was able to use with games available in ports. I don't have either of those controllers you mentioned though.

EDIT: Also in linux-steam-utils there can be mouse pointer issues and you may need to mess with you settings. I don't recall what check box I had to tick to make my mouse pointer work with menus, sorry. Also, adding external library storage proved impossible on linux-steam-utils. I have all of my games on external storage and adding them with Mizuma was no issue.

EDIT2: Recently there were changes to the steam client so you'll need steam-beta installed in Mizuma. Some of my game library has stopped working. Not sure what's going on with that though. Alexander88207 is aware of the issues.
 
Thank you all so much for your help and advice!
As I see there are almost no problems, but I didn't know about Mizutamari, looks very cool!

p.s. PoE also has its own launcher not linked to steam, so I guess there shouldn't be any problems.
 
LibreQuest said:
I tested my gamepads and they worked with linux-steam-utils but apparently there is an issue with that support now.
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What issue?

LibreQuest said:
EDIT: Also in linux-steam-utils there can be mouse pointer issues and you may need to mess with you settings. I don't recall what check box I had to tick to make my mouse pointer work with menus, sorry.
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I'm not aware of any such bugs.

LibreQuest said:
Also, adding external library storage proved impossible on linux-steam-utils.
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ZFS?
 
shkhln said:
What issue?


I'm not aware of any such bugs.


ZFS?
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It's more than likely my system. I change systems and hardware all the time.

The bug is likely my ever changing hardware, yet again.

UFS for external storage.

EDIT: I attempted to add the external storage again today and with success! :D
 
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