Just a warning to those still using old nvidia cards that the upgrade to 12 will break firefox and thunderbird.
Here's what I did:
Load 12.0 from a boot cd and then update and upgrade everything, I think I ended up with 12.0 P3.
switch to F9 and try to launch it in the gui and nothing happens, open a terminal in the gui and type
I get the same thing with thunderbird.
Searching the internet I found I wasn't the only one. Bug 235077 at FreeBSD Bugzilla is basically the same thing. The poster of the bug says they had to revert back to 11.2 so I've abandoned 12.0 and installed 11.2, everything seems to work in 11.2.
I'll monitor bugzilla for a fix and post here when it works again.
Mostly I wanted to try to save people the hour of their life they would lose if they have nvidia and thing an upgrade to 12.0 might be good.
Here's what I did:
Load 12.0 from a boot cd and then update and upgrade everything, I think I ended up with 12.0 P3.
pkg install desktop-installer
, desktop-installer
, chose XFCE and it loaded. My nvidia processor was recognized by the install script and I chose driver version 304. (I have a GeForce6600PCIe). Once the install script finished I rebooted and confirmed that the desktop worked. pkg install firefox
, it ran fine, no errors.switch to F9 and try to launch it in the gui and nothing happens, open a terminal in the gui and type
firefox
and I get a segmentation fault.I get the same thing with thunderbird.
Searching the internet I found I wasn't the only one. Bug 235077 at FreeBSD Bugzilla is basically the same thing. The poster of the bug says they had to revert back to 11.2 so I've abandoned 12.0 and installed 11.2, everything seems to work in 11.2.
I'll monitor bugzilla for a fix and post here when it works again.
Mostly I wanted to try to save people the hour of their life they would lose if they have nvidia and thing an upgrade to 12.0 might be good.