Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:28:06 -0400 From: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intro Message-ID: <b7db2fea-a1d8-1b7a-21df-602bd9e0c42e@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <696fb5ea-e1bf-d7c2-004a-eb4eb2af43d7@nomadlogic.org> References: <f0fb13d6-1d4e-2de8-f3cb-c6976f57fc9f@gmail.com> <696fb5ea-e1bf-d7c2-004a-eb4eb2af43d7@nomadlogic.org>
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+1 on TrueOS.... they are doing a fine job. It's on my gf (50+) desktop and her mother's (80+) desktop... for the last 5 years.... They LOVE IT!!! P On 10/10/2017 16:51, Pete Wright wrote: > > > On 10/10/2017 13:29, Tom Rushworth wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> A few quick words to say where I'm coming from: >> >> I'm a long time C programmer, mostly userland, but I have done some >> kernel work. I was doing Linux USB drivers in the early 2000's, and >> I tinkered with the NetBSD serial driver way back when serial ports >> were actually useful. I wrote my first serious C program in the late >> 1970s. >> >> I'm a FreeBSD desktop user, driven out of MacOS by the marketroids, >> and driven out of Linux by systemd :). >> >> I recently purchased a new desktop machine that turns out to have an >> Intel Iris Pro P6300 (Broadwell GT3e) graphics system. It came with >> Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon, which manages the screen very nicely, so >> the Linux driver is good enough. I ran into issues with ssh within >> hours of starting up, and I'm just not interested in digging through >> yet another (foolish) system administration issue involving systemd >> to sort it out. >> >> I tried FreeBSD 11.1, but the i915 driver there isn't quite up to the >> job. I've looked at the various FreeBSD i915 websites and >> discussions, but can't easily sort out where the current focus is. >> >> What I'd like from the list is advice on where to start :). I'm >> willing to test pre-built stuff, or build it myself, or even work on >> the code, but everything I looked at seemed to have ground to a halt >> about a year ago. >> >> So, where to begin? > > I'd suggest taking a look at TrueOS to see if the updated i915 support > in there offers you a better X experience. > > https://www.trueos.org/ > > TrueOS is FreeBSD with some nice prebuilt additions for desktops and > laptops. They even have a live image that should allow you to verify > X is working as expected before you install it. > > If you are wanting to run vanilla FreeBSD and don't mind periodic > instability you can also run 12-CURRENT and install the > "drm-next-kmod" pkg. Although depending on how much time you want to > put into hacking on things TrueOS may be an easier entry point for you. > > HTH! > -pete >
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