Not booting to MATE after installation

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xp4eternity

this is weird.

So I'm a newbie to FreeBSD (someone coming from Linux with 2.25 Years experience)

I Followed 2 YT Videos For Installation (Tony BTW) And Configuration (AgileDevArt)

I Followed The Steps Exactly But For Some Apparent Reason, It Doesent Want To Boot To MATE.

I Followed Exact Steps On The Laptop Im Writing On (Latitude E5440). Same Said To XPS 15 9530 But Again, MATE Doesent Want To Boot.

Is there any way I can try to extract a log file from the computer to post here and see whats going on?

Let Me Know If Anything Additional Is Needed
 
Hello,

Try kde and plasma6 from the handbook. I think the upcoming freebsd-installer will have options for it.

If you still want to use mate I have been known to install it like this on old laptop booting UEFI:

pkg update && pkg upgrade
pkg install xorg drm-kmod mate mate-terminal lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
sysrc dbus_enable="YES"
sysrc lightdm_enable="YES"


If that still doesn't work then - depending on what version of FreeBSD you are installing and what graphics your laptops have - you might want to install drm-515-kmod or even drm-510-kmod and add a line to /etc/rc.conf with the appropriate driver.

An example for the line in rc.conf for older intel graphics is kld_list="i915kms".

As SirDice points out - the handbook is the starting point and the log file for xorg is at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

/grandpa
 
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