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<h2>Ghostbsd installation</h2>
<h3>2026-06-14</h3>
<h4>messing around on a sunday</h4>
<p>
So now we have Microsoft delivering Linux, and the Arch based AUR
getting wrecked by people who should be locked into a public pillory,
and I have some free time. Well in fact a lot of free time now that
I'm retired.
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So. I downloaded the latest #Ghostbsd Mate and cut a usb key, then
plugged it into my Thinkpad X220.
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The installation was simple and uneventful, and it booted without
problem. Everything worked out of the box. Mate seems pretty and
unobfuscated, just like me.
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<p>So far I've done just two things:</p>
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(1) to get some thinkpad function keys to work I've added in
/boot/loader.conf
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acpi_ibm_load="YES"
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Printscreen works, brightness and volume controls work, vol mute
works, lid led works, but the MICMUTE button doesn't work.<br />
For the X220 MICMUTE key, which is F20 or 0xBE (190), unfortunately
Ghostbsd's acpi_ibm doesn't pass on the event, so any script for it in
/etc/devd won't be fired. Checking the source code, acpi_ibm only accepts
a subset of events accepted by Linux's thinkpad_acpi, which appears to
cover them all. It's unfortunate as I'm a bit pedantic about keys but I
guess I'll have to live with it as the code is 20 years old and I
doubt it will change anytime soon.
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<p>FYI, acpi_ibm accepts only these keyboard events:</p>
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LCD_BACKLIGHT
SUSPEND_TO_RAM
BLUETOOTH
SCREEN_EXPAND
SUSPEND_TO_DISK
BRIGHTNESS_UP
BRIGHTNESS_DOWN
THINKLIGHT
ZOOM
VOLUME_UP
VOLUME_DOWN
MUTE
ACCESS_IBM_BUTTON
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<p>(2) to enable the automounting of usb storage media:</p>
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sudo pkg install automount
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<p>
I've replaced the default Firefox with Librewolf, and I'm not too sure
about zsh instead of bash, and why not doas instead of sudo?
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Ghostbsd is a very nice BSD distribution that's been around since
2010.
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<p><a href="https://www.ghostbsd.org/">https://www.ghostbsd.org</a></p>
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