desktop-installer woes

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bunkum

Hey guys,

been able to install the system no issue but I seem to be having issues with desktop-installer. I have a user setup in the wheel and video group although it isn't detected.

I went for KDE which it didn't initiate at the start, so I added:

sysrc dbus_enable="YES"
sysrc sddm_enable="YES"
and then:
service sddm start

This allowed it to start after reboot but when I try to type in my password I don't get a incorrect password, it just kinda studders and then makes me type in the password again but it's still in the password area.

Any ideas as to what I'm missing? the xinitrc looks fine, I am at a loss.

Help me BSD-One-Kenobi, you're my only hope.
 
Maybe wrong keyboard layout, if your keybord is not en_US and your password contains chars other than alpha-numerics, that is you press the `@` character but it is not. I do not know how to set it up in sddm.
 
It looks like a input problem. You could try to start X and an xterm manually to check if the keyboard works correctly. Type X and if that works, start xterm from another system console using ctrl-alt-F?. (Switch back to X with alt-F9)
If it complains about a DISPLAY variable, try export DISPLAY=":0."
 
For Mate Try this.

pkg update && pkg upgrade
pkg install xorg drm-kmod mate mate-terminal lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
cat <<EOF>> /etc/rc.conf
dbus_enable="YES"
lightdm_enable="YES"
EOF
cat <<EOF>> /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "ident"
Driver "scfb"
EndSection
EOF
reboot

After log in you can add your driver to the xorg.conf.d and rc.conf depending on what graphics you have.

Mind you, the login can be slightly finicky if the driver isn't kicking in. Symptom is that the login loops. Just hit ctrl-alt-f1 for a ttyv and change the driver config.

/grandpa
 
grandpa said:
Code: 
cat <<EOF>> /etc/rc.conf
dbus_enable="YES"
lightdm_enable="YES"
EOF
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Less error prone:
Code: 
sysrc dbus_enable="YES"
sysrc lightdm_enable="YES"
You don't run the risk of adding those lines multiple times when you execute the script more than once; sysrc(8)

grandpa said:
Code: 
cat <<EOF>> /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "ident"
Driver "scfb"
EndSection
EOF
Click to expand...
Don't need to set the scfb(4) driver, Xorg typically detects it automagically if it's available. And it's only available if you UEFI boot. With a CSM (BIOS) boot it would fallback to vesa(4) instead.

With Intel/AMD graphics (iGPU or standalone cards) you want to give graphics/drm-kmod a shot. Xorg will then automatically detect and use the modesetting(4) driver.

Agree with balanga test with startx first, make sure X actually works properly. Then enable a display manager (SDDM, LightDM, SLiM, whichever you like).
 
Sorry guys, I am returning to this thread to inform you that I had found the easiest solution to the problem and that was to do everything manually, this seems to be the best approach as I learned quite a bit. Thank you for your replies.

As for why it was doing it? I am not entirely certain but aside from taking an hour of fiddling I managed to get it installed in full and working perfectly
 
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