Re: ROCK64

video has lot to be deserved

the issue is not someone desperately wanting to piss people off. it's because nearly every gpu manufacturer business decision is to hide all the things

often things stop even before video but video/gpu is decades of fist shaking from oss community to manufacturers

iirc you can even video up on that board. which is ridiculous, i know. basically if you're really lucky you get video

that about video...

also many of those sbc boards have sdio wifi on it. also not supported. you have usb wifi and even those have issues. it's issues on top of issues

if you get down to simpler io, it gets better. sound. i2c. uart

ethernets also often work (again, feels like joke)

that all also is issue with rpi's

i bet there are better guys than me that give better picture of state of embedded hw in fbsd, you can use https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm which is also kind of outdated

access

on those images, user is freebsd:freebsd on ssh, then root:root



On October 17, 2025 11:10:42 PM GMT+03:00, [email protected] wrote:
>I posted this already in questions@ but this may be a better place.
>
>I have the ROCK64 SBC by Pine64, and it is one of the handful of
>non-x86 systems with an image intended for it on the FreeBSD download
>page. Yesterday I powered it up for the first time with an SD card
>flashed with FreeBSD 14.3. Perhaps naively, I connected a USB keyboard
>and a HDMI display. I saw nothing (except the power LED on the board
>itself). Is this supposed to work as the BSD console, or do I have to
>mess with a serial connection?
>
>In the latter case, I'd prefer to get started over ssh, so is sshd
>enabled to start with and what is the initial login and password?
>
>Aside: there is also a Raspberry Pi image, but only for RPi 3 and
>4. What is the status of RPi 5? Known to not work, known to work,
>supposed to work, unknown?
>
>Thanks,
>