Some time ago, I built a desktop on the second HDD (the first HDD has Billy Gates' junk on it) in my personal office computer, using FreeBSD-13.2-RELEASE-P(something), XORG, the MATE desktop, and other software. It installed easily and worked perfectly. After using it for a some time, the entire computer took a big hardware hike. I had to replace the motherboard and in the process, my FreeBSD installation went totally away. About a year after that incident, I decided I would start over and rebuild my FreeBSD installation. My goal, from the beginning, was to eventually dump Billy Gates' junk for all the computers in our home (6, so far) and use only FreeBSD.
So, about a week ago, I started the process all over again. I had previously used "The Beginner's Guide - How To Set Up a FreeBSD Desktop from Scratch" which worked perfectly the last time. THIS time, however, when I got to the final step of invoking
However, THIS time when I invoke
"Error messages - startx
Fatal server error
Cannot run in framebuffer mode
Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices
Please consult the The X.org Foundation Support at http://wiki.x.org for help
Please also check the log file at /var/log/xorg.0.log for additional information
Server terminated with error (1)
Closing log file
xinti: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: connection refused
xinit: server error"
So, I visited the Xorg wiki, but, so far, have not found much there that might help. And I have not yet looked at the mentioned log file.
But first, how do I find my framebuffer devices?
I tried
Anyone else here run into the same issues?
Ken Gordon
So, about a week ago, I started the process all over again. I had previously used "The Beginner's Guide - How To Set Up a FreeBSD Desktop from Scratch" which worked perfectly the last time. THIS time, however, when I got to the final step of invoking
startx
, I got a file not found
error. After dinking around for some time attempting to find the cause of the error, I simply installed and ran desktop-installer, which completed, apparently, successfully.However, THIS time when I invoke
startx
I get the following:"Error messages - startx
Fatal server error
Cannot run in framebuffer mode
Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices
Please consult the The X.org Foundation Support at http://wiki.x.org for help
Please also check the log file at /var/log/xorg.0.log for additional information
Server terminated with error (1)
Closing log file
xinti: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: connection refused
xinit: server error"
So, I visited the Xorg wiki, but, so far, have not found much there that might help. And I have not yet looked at the mentioned log file.
But first, how do I find my framebuffer devices?
dmesg -a
, maybe? And how do I then specifiy those? In /etc/rc.conf perhaps?I tried
dmesg -a
but didn't see anything I would recognize as a framebuffer.Anyone else here run into the same issues?
Ken Gordon