Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:28:50 -0600 From: Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> To: freebsdQuestions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 10.2 graphics problem Message-ID: <0F355724-42C6-4DB4-A470-7AC8D7667CEA@slsware.net> In-Reply-To: <55FADDE7.9000702@bananmonarki.se> References: <8F541F88-2EAE-434C-B52C-43A744F54ADD@slsware.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1509151329030.76298@wonkity.com> <E6FDE819-14B8-4906-8E9C-F297341781E7@slsware.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1509151859160.69660@wonkity.com> <B06FA0D2-6A5F-4ACC-8034-9AAA64D87446@slsware.net> <55FADDE7.9000702@bananmonarki.se>
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OK. Some progress. I think I may have tried too hard. I was working from = :A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-to". I tried another install using just = defaults (except for turning off games and turning on NTP). It almost = works. It will boot, run in a console (I don't think it switches from one = workspace to another). And pkg xorg and pkg xfce work. And when I = starxfce4, it comes up with the mouse and the keyboard working as = expected. I can install widgets in the panel, the terminal emulator = works. 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. After a reboot, I brought up X again, and typed, among some other = things, ctl-alt-1, and X froze just like it did before. I'm trying to get used to the way things are done in FreeBSD, and I = truly believe it can all be done, but things doesn't work like they do = in Debian.=20 I can't even get a thumb-drive mounted. When I put one in, there's text = saying that da0 and da0s1 have been noticed. If I type 'mount /dev/da0 = /mnt', it says that /dev/da0 is an invalid param (or something like = that). So I tried 'mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt'. Same error message. I looked = at man, and it looked like a -t was what it was looking for, so I added = -t msdosfs to the command IIRC, I got a different error message, but it = didn't mount. I don't have a problem with things being different, but the = documentation on how to get this stuff working requires that I have it = working to read the dox. Does anyone know of an accurate set of instructions on the 'Net for a = BSD install. Is there anything that really need editing after a really = basic install (the one I just did had to download pkg when I tried to = get xorg installed :-) This is getting frustrating. --=20 Glenn English
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