Just over a week ago I downloaded and built Xorg-7.7_3 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE r366954 GENERIC. The hardware is a MacBook Air mid 2013.
When I log into a non-administrator account (a member of the video and wheel groups) and execute "startx", the normal CLI goes away and just a thin streak of red shows up at the top of the screen, horizontally occupying the quadrant of the screen just to the right of center. I wonder whether that is an ASCII representation of Beastie that is squished vertically.
With no particular action on my part, after 17 1/2 minutes, the red streak goes away and two small white images appear on a black background: a rectangle in the upper left of the screen occupying the area of a single character, and the standard mouse pointer in the center of the screen. Typing on the keyboard or moving and clicking the mouse have no apparent effect.
After another 30 minutes, some live xterms and an xclock show up.
Apparently, X11 isn't configured properly. What can be done to speed things up?
When I log into a non-administrator account (a member of the video and wheel groups) and execute "startx", the normal CLI goes away and just a thin streak of red shows up at the top of the screen, horizontally occupying the quadrant of the screen just to the right of center. I wonder whether that is an ASCII representation of Beastie that is squished vertically.
With no particular action on my part, after 17 1/2 minutes, the red streak goes away and two small white images appear on a black background: a rectangle in the upper left of the screen occupying the area of a single character, and the standard mouse pointer in the center of the screen. Typing on the keyboard or moving and clicking the mouse have no apparent effect.
After another 30 minutes, some live xterms and an xclock show up.
Apparently, X11 isn't configured properly. What can be done to speed things up?