Third try! No luck.

SirDice said:
Open a terminal on your iMac and ssh <username>@<IP or hostname of your FreeBSD host>, for example ssh myuser@1.2.3.4
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Not sure, I tried this;
Franks-iMac:~ frankvsoranno$ ssh frank@fvs


ssh: Could not resolve hostname fvs: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
 
I suspect your modem/router at home doesn't register hostnames in its DNS (thus it has no way to figure out what the IP address of 'fvs' is). Use the IP address of the host instead.
 
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SirDice said:
I suspect your modem/router at home doesn't register hostnames in its DNS (thus it has no way to figure out what the IP address of 'fvs' is). Use the IP address of the host instead.
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SirDice, Their to many things I don't know about freebsd and codes I haven't a clue too. So I Think I'll take a break and give this forum a break for today,
I want to Thank all the members on this forum for their great effort to help me.
Thanks all of you.
Frank
 
There's a LOT of new information you need to absorb. Definitely take a break every now and then, give your brain some time to process it all. Rome wasn't built in day as they say.
 
fvs said:
I 'm using an 5 year old and built AMD Athlon 5350 ap with Radeon R3.
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I have Radeon R4. It's an ATI chip, older than the later amdgpu chips, and uses different drivers. I suggest:

pkg install xf86-video-ati

and, in /etc/rc.conf
kld_list="radeonkms acpi_video"

my /etc/fstab "proc /proc procfs rw 00
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You should put a space or a tab between the two zeroes:

proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
 
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Vull said:
I have Radeon R4. It's an ATI chip, older than the later amdgpu chips, and uses different drivers. I suggest:

pkg install xf86-video-ati

and, in /etc/rc.conf
kld_list="radeonkms acpi_video"



You should put a space or a tab between the two zeroes:

proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
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That did it! the
pkg install xf86-video-ati

and, in /etc/rc.conf
kld_list="radeonkms acpi_video"
Thanks, and I didn't forget the whole crew for trying, Hats off!
 
fvs said:
OK Followed the Desktop Environment to the letter for gnome3 after reboot it went into a grey screen, so I tried to get back into xterm
it opened with grey screen also? It must be the graphics as you mentioned, where should I look? I do have kld_list=amdgpu in /etc/rc.conf
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Gnome ? Really ?
I can't run it even with my radeon pro i don't think its ready, try plasma its runs absolutely perfect on FreeBSD also you can always try mate or lxqt
 
Vull said:
pkg install xf86-video-ati

and, in /etc/rc.conf
kld_list="radeonkms acpi_video"
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What would (or should) be the effect of x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati without acpi_video?


acpi_video aside: the driver was, in the past, a source of confusion for me. Sometimes apparently required, sometimes apparently not. Randomness without explanation.

The driver was installed, when I last shared a probe (which I can't share at the moment, (OT) there's a known issue with bsd-hardware.info). Deleted a few minutes ago, after restarting the OS radeonkms was not automatically loaded, after reinstalling the driver I manually loaded radeonkms then restarted SDDM.

(I omitted to test whether radeonkms would load manually in the absence of the driver. From experience, I guess that it would not.)

Think bubbles … maybe the randomness predated learning the workaround for <https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/108> …
 
TrueOS actually used acpi_video for graphics, and had a well-ironed-out wizard to select a driver for the GPU...
 
grahamperrin said:
What would (or should) be the effect of x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati without acpi_video?


acpi_video aside: the driver was, in the past, a source of confusion for me. Sometimes apparently required, sometimes apparently not. Randomness without explanation.

The driver was installed, when I last shared a probe (which I can't share at the moment, (OT) there's a known issue with bsd-hardware.info). Deleted a few minutes ago, after restarting the OS radeonkms was not automatically loaded, after reinstalling the drive I manually loaded radeonkms then restarted SDDM.

(I omitted to test whether radeonkms would load manually in the absence of the driver. From experience, my guess is that it would not.)

Think bubbles … maybe the randomness predated learning the workaround for <https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/108> …
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acpi_video lets me change screen brightness using the laptop function keys.
 
grahamperrin said:
What would (or should) be the effect of x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati without acpi_video?


acpi_video aside: the driver was, in the past, a source of confusion for me. Sometimes apparently required, sometimes apparently not. Randomness without explanation.

The driver was installed, when I last shared a probe (which I can't share at the moment, (OT) there's a known issue with bsd-hardware.info). Deleted a few minutes ago, after restarting the OS radeonkms was not automatically loaded, after reinstalling the driver I manually loaded radeonkms then restarted SDDM.

(I omitted to test whether radeonkms would load manually in the absence of the driver. From experience, I guess that it would not.)

Think bubbles … maybe the randomness predated learning the workaround for <https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/issues/108> …
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Solved!
OK, I'm on Mate and running fine, So it was the radeonkms, Here is my configuration, Hope this helps someone>
Configure Freebsd October 7, 2021



root@freebsd:/home/frank # cat /etc/rc.conf



hostname="freebsd"



ifconfig_re0="DHCP"



sshd_enable="YES"



# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable



dumpdev="AUTO"



zfs_enable="YES"



dbus_enable="YES"



slim_enable="YES"



#kdl_list="amdgpu"



hald_enable="YES"



#kld_list="i915kms"



kdl_list="radeonkms acpi_video"



mixer_enable="YES"



root@freebsd:/home/frank #







root@freebsd:/home/frank # cat /etc/fstab



# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#



/dev/ada0p2 none swap sw 0 0



proc /proc procfs rw 0 0



root@freebsd:/home/frank #



root@freebsd:/home/frank # cat /boot/loader.conf



kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"



kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"



cryptodev_load="YES"



zfs_load="YES"



kern.vty=vt



autoboot_delay="5"



root@freebsd:/home/frank #
 
fvs said:
OK, I'm on Mate and running fine, So it was the radeonkms, Here is my configuration, Hope this helps someone>
Configure Freebsd October 7, 2021



root@freebsd:/home/frank # cat /etc/rc.conf



hostname="freebsd"



ifconfig_re0="DHCP"



sshd_enable="YES"



# Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable



dumpdev="AUTO"



zfs_enable="YES"



dbus_enable="YES"



slim_enable="YES"



#kdl_list="amdgpu"



hald_enable="YES"



#kld_list="i915kms"



kdl_list="radeonkms acpi_video"



mixer_enable="YES"



root@freebsd:/home/frank #







root@freebsd:/home/frank # cat /etc/fstab



# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#



/dev/ada0p2 none swap sw 0 0



proc /proc procfs rw 0 0



root@freebsd:/home/frank #



root@freebsd:/home/frank # cat /boot/loader.conf



kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"



kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"



cryptodev_load="YES"



zfs_load="YES"



kern.vty=vt



autoboot_delay="5"



root@freebsd:/home/frank #
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You can drop hald_enable="YES" its deprecated and have been removed from ports 7 months ago.
 
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