From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Sep 18 00:41:20 2015 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 C145C9CFC9A for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:41:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8408A125B for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:41:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baho-utot@columbus.rr.com) Received: from [75.187.32.8] ([75.187.32.8:43118] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id A7/F8-06235-76D5BF55; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:40:07 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.53] (helo=baho-utot.bildanet.com) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Zcjig-0005zj-Ta for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:40:06 -0400 Subject: Re: 10.2 graphics problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <8F541F88-2EAE-434C-B52C-43A744F54ADD@slsware.net> <55FADDE7.9000702@bananmonarki.se> <0F355724-42C6-4DB4-A470-7AC8D7667CEA@slsware.net> From: Baho Utot Message-ID: <55FB5D66.2040000@columbus.rr.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:40:06 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0F355724-42C6-4DB4-A470-7AC8D7667CEA@slsware.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.142:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:41:20 -0000 On 09/17/15 18:28, Glenn English wrote: [putolin] > But selecting logout in the menu drops XFCE as it should, but it > drops to a completely blank screen with nothing paying any attention > at mouse or screen. I tried ctl-n, ctl-alt-n, and just alt-n. Nothing. I had the same trouble as you when I starting to use FreeBSD. I use ATI graphics card and I had big trouble like you do, I fixed it as follows: Break out a text editor in a CLI (vi etc). I use vim-lite install by pkg. Try adding this to /boot/loader.conf vim /boot/loader.conf # Use new graphical console driver kern.vty=vt save and exit. Then reboot and see if it fixes your trouble. > I can't even get a thumb-drive mounted. When I put one in, there's text saying that da0 and da0s1 have been noticed. > If I type 'mount /dev/da0 /mnt', it says that /dev/da0 is an invalid param (or something like that). So I tried 'mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt'. Same error message. I looked at man, and it looked like a -t was what it was looking for, so I added -t msdosfs to the command IIRC, I got a different error message, but it didn't mount. I am running 10.1 and 10.2. The above is caused by /dev/da0s1 already mounted. ( At least in my neck of the woods ) as root in a CLI...... # mount Look for da0s1 as already mounted. If if is mounted # umount /dev/da0s1 Then try to mount it again to /mnt # mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt see if that works for you > > I don't have a problem with things being different, but the documentation on how to get this stuff working requires that I have it working to read the dox. > > Does anyone know of an accurate set of instructions on the 'Net for a BSD install. Is there anything that really need editing after a really basic install (the one I just did had to download pkg when I tried to get xorg installed :-) > > This is getting frustrating. I know been there and done that. Keep going and you will slay that beast.