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On this page we will collect some tips and tricks from users to users. It is not always sure, that a tip helps for your issue, but if so, you can comment on the Discussions page or write you solution in this list with your name as source.

It is not a forum. If you have a question and no answer yet, go to GhostBSD Forums.
But if you got a solution for your issues, you are welcome to describe it here in a short way.

Some proposals need to get there own pages, because of there volume. (see the blue links)

Tips and Tricks

OS related

How to move from Trident to GhostBSD?

Here you will find a Step by step tutorial on GitHub.

How to install GhostBSD/FreeBSD on a ThinkPad T530.

Here you will find a guide to a fully functional installation

How to get some information about your running system

Get some system information, kernel version, release date by using sysctl
With

uname -a
You get: FreeBSD yourname.ghostbsd-pc.home 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE GENERIC amd64
It is a summary of kernel information, you can get with sysctl NAME.

More information to uname on the man page.

How to get more information about your running system

pkg info | grep os-generic

uname -U

How to upgrade from a prerelease

Eric Turgeon, [12.03.20 02:07] on Telegram

os pkg upgrade

How to find multiple interface language packs on GhostBSD

Go to Profile

How to set openrc parallel service startup

Put in
/etc/rc.conf
rc_parallel="YES"
"But I don't think it works properly yet."
Source: Neville Goddard on Telegram on 16.02.2020 at 15:40

What to do if after reboot the sshd stops

With status: stopped

Neville Goddard, [12.03.20 00:09] on Telegram
[In reply to Ulf Danielsson]
To keep the service going after reboot run

rc-update add sshd

Where can I find OpenRC documented

See link above and the following:

Desktop related

How to adjust lcd screen brightness?

Eric Turgeon, [02.03.20 14:12] [In reply to Hiencv] acpi_video_load="YES" is needed in /boot/loader.conf for that to work

Neville Goddard, [02.03.20 14:09] [In reply to Hiencv] Does this work? xrandr --output HDMI-0 --brightness 0.9

Hiencv, [02.03.20 14:15] [In reply to Neville Goddard] It works for me. Tks! Did you try to use the brightness from your keyborad? - It doesn't work.

Sound related

How to solve if no USB Sound 2.1

Look at this tutorial

Hints from the Community

GhostBSD Forum

Virtualization

How to install VirtualBox on GhostBSD

Guide to install VirtualBox on GhostBSD

Software

How to find Software on GhostBSD

Go to GhostBSD Wiki or Applications
Than to Application Management and choose your preferred method for installation.

How to Run Orchestrator on Ghost/FreeBSD

Use this tip: percona

Using Ports

"Don't use FreeBSD ports via portsnap on GhostBSD Install it from GhostBSD ports
sudo git clone https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-ports/ /usr/ports
Source: ericbsd

Looking for devtools?

"Devtools are not installed by default" on GhostBSD You have to install them:
sudo pkg install os-generic-userland-devtools Source: ericbsd

Like to change the display manager

sudo rc-update delete lightdm
sudo rc-update add gdm
Tip from Eric on Telegram at 27.01.2020 17:09

Migrate from Linux to GhostBSD and take your E-Mails and bookmarks with you

You would like to move from a Linux OS to GhostBSD and take your settings and E-Mails from Thunderbird and bookmarks from Firefox to GhostBSD.
Go on Linux to .thunderbird and .mozilla in your home directory and safe each folder /xyz.default and insert the contents in the folder /xyz.default-release on GhostBSD. xyz is only a replacement for bk3yc9n7 or something similar.
This worked from Debian to GhostBSD. Tested by Slughorn

Hardware / Kernel / Driver related

How to find out if my hardware is detected

Use the dmesg command or look into the file /var/run/dmesg.boot.

How can I find out if my hardware is supported

The first step should be: Look on both pages: Kernel and Modules first.
See also The FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Hardware Notes.

How to get information about loaded modules into the kernel

You get some information with the command kldstat
The kldstat utility displays the status of any files dynamically linked into the kernel. More information on FreeBSD

How to get information about loadable kernel modules

Loadable kernel modules related to hardware, firmware, graphics driver. and virtual machines you will find in the directory of your system: /boot/modules/ and /boot/kernel/

All files end with .ko.

How to load kernel modules

Once the machine has booted, you may load a module with the command kldload, unload with kldunload and list with kldstat.
Modules can also be loaded from the loader before the kernel starts, automatically if you makes an entry in the /boot/loader.conf.
For example:
fuse_load="YES"
vboxdrv_load="YES"

HowTo setup Wifi Edimax EW-7811utn USB Dongle for GhostBSD

How to setup RealTek RTL8188CE Wii-Fi PCI network hardware

RealTek RTL8188CE Wii-Fi PCI network hardware setup

How to install driver to graphic card Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470

Post by sweeney » Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:31 am on GhostBSD Forum:

"I've got mine working! Make sure that have the drm-kmod package installed (of which you may already have). Run the following commands as root:

pkg install drm-kmod

This should make sure that drivers are installed. Being a Radeon Mobilty HD 7000 and earlier, we need to set to set the radeondms driver to load at startup:

sysrc kld_list="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko"

Next edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf so the "Device" section looks like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection

Note: It is better to move or delete the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and force xorg to auto-detect. Now reboot. If the driver is loading at startup, you will see the console output change screen resolution before xorg starts. Note the screen resolution will have not changed, but you should be able to go to System => Preferences => Hardware => Displays, and if xorg is using the right driver, you should be able to set the desired resolution. I hope this helps"

How to set mouse cursor if bit too sensitive and fast

mouse cursor - bit too senstive and fast even on lowest setting

How is the battery optimization for GhostBSD

Eric Turgeon, [21.02.20 11:50] [In reply to Jared] sudo rc-update add powerd default helps a lot.

Some issues with WLAN/WiFi

Proposals from the community see on special page WLAN

drm-fbsd12.0-kmod

Very important: when I send the next @GhostBSD packages everyone that uses drm-fbsd12.0-kmod need to make a sudo pkg upgrade -f drm-fbsd12.0-kmod or pkg upgrade -f if not on reboot you will have a kernel panic at less for intell."
Source: Eric on Telegram 4.2.2020 15:23

How to install Nvidia drivers?

Look on the linked pages:

Hints for the use of Graphic Carts

On the GhostBSD Forum

Radeon Mobility HD 4200: Invisible Mouse Cursor

Unread post by sweeney » Tue Feb 04, 2020 4:46 am

"I have an interesting issue. When I boot into GhostBSD 20.01 on my old Toshiba Satelitte, BSD does detect and uses the AMD Radeon Mobility 4200HD chipset (RS880) sucessfully, but I have a missing mouse cursor. You are still able to click and move the cursor, but it rather difficult to use as you cannot see it current location. I installed GhostBSD using VESA mode and then installed the radeonkms driver using pkg. I have added kld_list="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko" to rc.conf using sysrc but xorg does not use the driver. The driver seems loading as the console changes screen resolution but xorg does not recognise it. So currently I stuck at a lower screen resolution and without hardware acceleration. The FreeBSD forums do mention a similar issue but I cannot get xorg to use the radeonkms driver in order to try the workaround. Can I edit the live ISO to try the workaround and reinstall? https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/invi ... ter.70572/ https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_ ... ?id=237642

I managed to get it working.

I had to change the /etc/X11/xorg.conf from "VESA" to "radeon" under the Section "Device" and rebooted. Done!

As per the following post: https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.p ... 7958#p7958"

Files and file systems

Search for Files on GhostBSD

There is a very useful application called catfish that can be used to search your computer for files. Read more on the GhostBSD Forum. Author: Neville Goddard

Mount / unmount

How to mount Ext4 internal SSD

Mount Ext4 internal SSD

Show USB devices

Connect USB device
Open a terminal
Change to root
Write: # gpart show
gpart will show you the device dax and the partition sx

mount NTFS

Do first gpart show
Install: ntfs-3g
Write: # ntfs-3g /dev/da5s1 /mnt
da5s1 is an example
/mnt is the mountpoint you wish
open Thunar and go to /mnt
Thunar shows you the content of your device and you can work with it
Caja does not allways

Source: Tested by Slughorn
Thanks to:user hunghung

mount FAT32

System management

rc

Command scripts for auto-reboot and daemon startup|br/> See: Man Page

pkg is locked by an other process

sudo killall -9 pkg && sudo pkg update -f && sudo pkg upgrade -y
Suggestion from #hd_scania on Telegram on 25.01.2020 at 11:10

System sticks during shutdown

If your system sticks during shutdown at: Saving dependencies cache

Do:
sudo rc-update delete savecache shutdown

That will remove save cache.
Tip from Eric

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