helloSystem / helloSystem/ISO

Migrate to FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT for better GPU support.

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## **Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
It is, limited hardware has fully working graphics hardware. My laptop has a newer iGPU so the version of drm-kmod available does not support it. Switching to the FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT snapshot allows you to get drm-devel-kmod which supports up to the soon-releasing 12th gen intel chips and tons of AMD and nVidia GPUS.

## **Describe the solution you'd like**
I would like it if helloSystem migrates to FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT so it can use drm-devel-kmod. This would give better GPU support. It would be nice if you put `exec="mode 0"` in /boot/loader.conf so a GPU not supported by the updated driver support will still run at the monitors resolution and supported GPUs will still have the native resolution before the drivers loads.

## **Describe alternatives you've considered**
The only alternative would to be putting `exec="mode 0"` in /boot/loader.conf without the GPU driver which for me at least will force FreeBSD to go to the displays maximum resolution but that would not fix any bugs relating to no hardware acceleration.

## **Additional context**
I know both of these work because I used exec="mode 0" in the loader.conf file when I used FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE (also in helloSystem 0.5 but just entering mode 0 in the loader prompt and not the file) which does not have drivers that support my iGPU and I am currently using FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT with the exec="mode 0" option in my loader to get a widescreen boot splash and have drm-devel-kmod so I have graphics acceleration.

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