From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Sep 18 16:58:27 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 780329CFF1E for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:58:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org", Issuer "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 162AB18F9 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:58:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id t8IGw5L4008270; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:58:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Subject: Re: 10.2 graphics problem To: kpneal@pobox.com, Baho Utot References: <8F541F88-2EAE-434C-B52C-43A744F54ADD@slsware.net> <55FADDE7.9000702@bananmonarki.se> <0F355724-42C6-4DB4-A470-7AC8D7667CEA@slsware.net> <55FB5D66.2040000@columbus.rr.com> <20150918142505.GA39509@neutralgood.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <55FC429D.7000707@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:58:05 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150918142505.GA39509@neutralgood.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:58:27 -0000 On 18/09/2015 15:25, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 08:40:06PM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: >> >> >> 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. > > Too difficult. Those of us who have had to restore systems when dynamic > linking was hosed learned tricks like this: > > echo >> /boot/loader.conf "kern.vty=vt" > > That's it. Nothing else to install, and "echo" is normally a shell builtin. > So if you can get a working shell command line then you can typically make > this change. > But if you really want vi and dynamic linking is broken try /rescue/vi $file "man rescue" is (should be) mandatory reading for admins. I just wish there was /rescue/emacs. :-) -- Those who do not learn from computing history are doomed to GOTO 1