From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Apr 30 21:06:55 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AA1B22FCC for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:06:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B5E71A1F for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:06:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-240-4.knology.net [216.186.240.4] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id u3UL6l9V004128 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:06:48 -0500 Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD+GNOME not working on my Pentium laptop ? References: <20160430084415.03be443d.freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <44c29a12-9880-48b8-7d53-e286dbb11ebf@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:12:17 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160430084415.03be443d.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:06:55 -0000 On 04/30/16 01:50, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 04:26:47 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a 5 year old Intel x86 Pentium-based laptop (Gateway NE56R). I >> just finished installing FreeBSD 10.3 (i386) with Gnome on it. I was >> expecting everything to go smoothly but the Gnome desktop is proving to >> be a disaster. > This also was my first impression when installing Gnome 2 ("classic > Gnome desktop") on a Dell D630 laptop running FreeBSD i386 10.2 (started > with 10.0). There was some work to do, things to update and to install, > scripts to abuse, crazy things to do... but after that, everything > worked as intended. Sadly I didn't take notes on what I did, but I can > assure you that most of it was not obvious, logical, or acceptable. :-/ > > How did you install Gnome? Ports or packages? Which version? > > > >> Most of the desktop is trash, half the application icons >> are missing and there are no panels. > You probably are missing some important dependency packages. > > > >> Even keyboard input typed into >> gnome-terminal is not displayed correctly (some of the characters in the >> echo go missing). > That _really_ sounds strange. > > > >> All necessary entries (hald_enable, polkitd_enable, >> dbus_enable, gnome_enable) are set to YES in rc.conf. I wonder what is >> wrong ? > Using Gnome is wrong. ;-) > > > >> Is there any way I can get FreeBSD and Gnome working on the laptop ? > Reconsider using Gnome. Check if Lxde or Xfce will work better for you. > > > > +1 on ditch Gnome. I am using XFCE, works AOK for me, relatively thrifty on RAM, etc. Love it .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.