Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:12:05 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Gr=c3=a9gory_Reinbold?= <gregory@nosheep.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failed to set mtrr: Invalid argument Message-ID: <5015ac99-8af2-6927-e114-59e5b153d9ec@nosheep.fr> In-Reply-To: <20170731062421.95e8026c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <31a46ee8-85c6-2a85-4f8f-c33bcdad34dc@holgerdanske.com> <20170731062421.95e8026c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Hi, If you try to add a exec line in your ~/.xinitrc? Like this: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html#x11-wm-xfce On 31/07/2017 06:24, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:12:24 -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> I have installed lumina. 'start-lumina-desktop' causes the screen to >> flicker and then return to the CLI: >> >> $ start-lumina-desktop >> No X11 session detected: Lumina will try to start one... > I think I had that kind of problem last year. The error message > did not really help, so I finally decided to start X with only > one X terminal open, and then ran "start-lumina-desktop" from > that "controlling shell". It didn't work (as in your case), and > I did then use "truss start-lumina-desktop", found out what was > wrong, but I cannot remember what it was, sorry. Lumina worked > for some time, even though it was partially incomplete. After > a "pkg upgrade" of the system, it didn't work anymore, and I > was not able to return it to a working state, so I dumped it > and installed fvwm2 which worked (and still does after several > software upgrades). :-) > > Side note: > > Have you tried creating a ~/.xinitrc and putting the command > "exec start-lumina-desktop" into that file, then use "startx" > from text mode? That is a common way to start X sessions (when > you're _not_ using a display manager like xdm). > > > >> Note the error message "failed to set mtrr: Invalid argument". > That might have been the error message that I saw as well. > > > >> How do I make Lumina work? > Good question. ;-) > > > -- Grégory Reinbold
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