Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:12:17 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is FreeBSD+GNOME not working on my Pentium laptop ? Message-ID: <44c29a12-9880-48b8-7d53-e286dbb11ebf@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20160430084415.03be443d.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <BLU436-SMTP151A41CC0BE118F82C0C189F6660@phx.gbl> <20160430084415.03be443d.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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
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