From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Apr 30 07:38:35 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 6FDD4AD9A28 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 07:38:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bourne.identity@hotmail.com) Received: from BLU004-OMC2S26.hotmail.com (blu004-omc2s26.hotmail.com [65.55.111.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.outlook.com", Issuer "Microsoft IT SSL SHA2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CEDC1C70 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2016 07:38:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bourne.identity@hotmail.com) Received: from BLU436-SMTP75 ([65.55.111.73]) by BLU004-OMC2S26.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:37:28 -0700 X-TMN: [yD4oC6otJ8AklTUUaYrtd+v39ZmeQHEb] X-Originating-Email: [bourne.identity@hotmail.com] Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD+GNOME not working on my Pentium laptop ? To: Polytropon References: <20160430084415.03be443d.freebsd@edvax.de> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dalescott@shaw.ca From: Manish Jain Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:05:41 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 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-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Apr 2016 07:37:05.0031 (UTC) FILETIME=[17A9E170:01D1A2B3] 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 07:38:35 -0000 On 04/30/16 12:14, 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. > > > > Thanks for replying. I installed bash and the xorg meta-port from sources and then gnome3 via 'pkg install gnome3'. Logically, all dependencies should have been met. The funny part is FreeBSD 10.1 was working well on the laptop earlier. So this should have been just a simple version upgrade. But things are not going as expected. Any tips ? As for PC-BSD, I tried it a couple of months back and was entirely underwhelmed. So that is a No Go. Regards, Manish Jain