Hi,
I don't understand this handbook doc chapter
I'm new to FreeBSD, it might be obvious but the doc explain to only change/write a file pointing to the driver under xorg.conf.d.
I was not able to launch 64 bits version of FreeBSD but the i386 worked. The proc is a true 64 bits one. Puzzled again
I found a thread with that and as a conclusion, the guy was using i386. UEFI is apparently 32 bits explaining why 64 bits DVD cannot boot.
Anyway, i386 worked and it is fine, I don't need 64 bits on this machine.
Then, it goes all right until I added Gnome 3 and follow documented steps. When it boot, it loop on bizarre scrambled graphical screen.
I can see the text login, it should load graphical login screen and failed with that scrambled screen and loop again.
No way to switch to a text console tty with ctrl-alt Fx
I had to boot the install CD again and prevent gdm to be enable in rc.conf.
By the way, is there a way to boot with a console on the boot menu ? It was quite long to go via the install DVD to get a console.
From there, I was able to boot back to HDD without Gnome and I didn't see error message in dmesg or in the log but I guess I had look to the latest one which was fine.
So I thought the driver might be the problem because of the scrambled graphics, the loop and because none look configured in that xorg.conf.d folder.
Nothing special mentioned here for this model and all models are far more recent than mine (2007)
Any idea ?
Footnote: why fighting ? Why not just install a Manjaro ? Yeah ... I know I'm crazy, but I'm trying to have only one distrib to run them all and I decided to learn FreeBSD
I don't understand this handbook doc chapter
I'm new to FreeBSD, it might be obvious but the doc explain to only change/write a file pointing to the driver under xorg.conf.d.
- driver is supposed to be detected, right ? So why is there nothing in this folder ? Where is the auto-detection result stored ?
- I don't see any
pkg install
step in the doc, so I'm puzzled, the driver must come from somewhere, isn't it ?
I was not able to launch 64 bits version of FreeBSD but the i386 worked. The proc is a true 64 bits one. Puzzled again
I found a thread with that and as a conclusion, the guy was using i386. UEFI is apparently 32 bits explaining why 64 bits DVD cannot boot.
Anyway, i386 worked and it is fine, I don't need 64 bits on this machine.
Then, it goes all right until I added Gnome 3 and follow documented steps. When it boot, it loop on bizarre scrambled graphical screen.
I can see the text login, it should load graphical login screen and failed with that scrambled screen and loop again.
No way to switch to a text console tty with ctrl-alt Fx
I had to boot the install CD again and prevent gdm to be enable in rc.conf.
By the way, is there a way to boot with a console on the boot menu ? It was quite long to go via the install DVD to get a console.
From there, I was able to boot back to HDD without Gnome and I didn't see error message in dmesg or in the log but I guess I had look to the latest one which was fine.
So I thought the driver might be the problem because of the scrambled graphics, the loop and because none look configured in that xorg.conf.d folder.
Nothing special mentioned here for this model and all models are far more recent than mine (2007)
Any idea ?
Footnote: why fighting ? Why not just install a Manjaro ? Yeah ... I know I'm crazy, but I'm trying to have only one distrib to run them all and I decided to learn FreeBSD