Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:17:41 -0700 From: Tom Rushworth <tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Iris Pro P6300 intel X11 driver (was Re: intro) Message-ID: <23570022-8f26-0ed8-4ffb-933c19042953@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201710230617.v9N6HgIW013185@sdf.org> References: <f0fb13d6-1d4e-2de8-f3cb-c6976f57fc9f@gmail.com> <696fb5ea-e1bf-d7c2-004a-eb4eb2af43d7@nomadlogic.org> <b7db2fea-a1d8-1b7a-21df-602bd9e0c42e@yahoo.com> <b058386b-4832-5b6e-29df-927077df9541@gmail.com> <201710230617.v9N6HgIW013185@sdf.org>
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Hi All, On 22/10/2017 23:17, Scott Bennett wrote: > Tom Rushworth <tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Before I get to the real content, a list etiquette question - should I >> top/interleave/bottom post, and should I trim? Does the list care? > > Editing in line is the norm, Right, that's my preference anyways, [snip] >> Suggestion 2 - try TrueOS > > TrueOS *is* FreeBSD 12 (at the moment) at its heart. Yes, absolutely, but the configuration is much more complete than a plain FreeBSD-12 install with the desktop added piecemeal by pkg. > [snip] >> >> So now I either have to learn to like TrueOS and Lumina, or figure out >> where my source version or configuration is wrong for the FreeBSD-12 >> setup :). I'm probably going to do a bit of both. > > Or you can just install the window manager of your preference, and > use that. I haven't yet used TrueOS, but the times I've installed and used > PC-BSD (the predecessor to TrueOS) I always installed my usual choice > (WindowMaker) and proceeded happily on. Lumina will still be there if you > need to use it. The only nuisance is that some of the special TrueOS > graphical applications may work better with Lumina, just as the earlier ones > did with KDE, which was the PC-BSD standard before Ken Moore wrote Lumina > for PC-BSD. I will probably try that, but I still have to learn a bit of the TrueOS setup (e.g. sysadm) so I can at least start fixing things when I break them :). [snip] Regards, -- Tom Rushworth
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