gnome: gray screen and mouse

[ahmadreza]

Hello to all friends

I configured GNOME installation on my system according to this tutorial

How to install Gnome on FreeBSD 13

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After everything went according to the instructions, I restarted the system and after the system came up, I encountered this problem.

I noticed a problem with my graphic driver settings because the /etc/rc.conf file also has a problem with the value kld_list = "radeonkms" xorg, but when I delete the value and do not introduce it, everything works fine

According to the link below, all amd graphics that are less than "HD7000" must apply the following command to their graphics card.

link : https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
command : sysrc -f /etc/rc.conf kld_list+=radeonkms

Interesting point: I used xfce before I configured the GNOME desktop and there was no problem, and everything was fine.

I put the information mentioned in the troubleshooting guide here :

cpu : i5 2500k
graphic:

vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0:    class=0x030000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1002 device=0x68f9 subvendor=0x1682 subdevice=0x3030
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
    device     = 'Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA
hdac0@pci0:1:0:1:    class=0x040300 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1002 device=0xaa68 subvendor=0x1682 subdevice=0xaa68
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
    device     = 'Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]'
    class      = multimedia
    subclass   = HDA

• dmesg command output
• pciconf -lvbce command output
• devinfo -vr command output
• sysctl hw.model command output
• pkg info command output

 

[Alexander88207]

Do you use an AMD GPU?

If yes then: PR 253746

 

[SirDice]

I configured GNOME installation on my system according to this tutorial

Handbook: Chapter 5. The X Window System

I even copied the following contents to the ~ / .xinitrc and~ / .xsession files.
exec / usr / local / bin / gnome-session

I'm going to assume this is a copy/paste issue but please be careful, don't put spaces in places where they don't belong.

 

[ahmadreza]

Handbook: Chapter 5. The X Window System


I'm going to assume this is a copy/paste issue but please be careful, don't put spaces in places where they don't belong.

Yes, I copied / pasted them

 

[ahmadreza]

Do you use an AMD GPU?

If yes then: PR 253746

My graphics are radeon amd 5500

And my processor cpu i5 2500k

 

[grahamperrin]

…

vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0:    class=0x030000 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1002 device=0x68f9 subvendor=0x1682 subdevice=0x3030
    vendor     = 'Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]'
    device     = 'Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA
…

…

… PR 253746

Also FreeBSD bug 257810 – x11/gnome3(-lite) & x11/gdm lags significantly on amdgpu – with comment 8 questioning whether it's a duplicate of 253746.

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My own experience of what might be bug 253746 is, if I recall correctly, being (repeatedly) stuck but not at the grey screen pictured above. My recollection might be tainted by me switching away from, then back to, GNOME at ttyv8 (e.g. Control-Alt-F2 then Control-F9) – this part of <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711028#c2> is remarkable:

… when something changes on the screen only try to only redraw those parts …

 

[grahamperrin]

… this tutorial

How to install Gnome on FreeBSD 13

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…

Not an ideal tutorial. gnome3 is no longer packaged, and HAL was retired before the tutorial was published.

ahmadreza if you followed the HAL-related advice, please undo that.