Hello,
I am an experienced Linux user who has been trying to learn FreeBSD with a view to replacing Linux with FreeBSD on my main desktop PC. To this end I successfully installed FreeBSD on an older Intel PC; after a lot of trial and error I settled on FreeBSD with XFCE and got it stable and working very well, so well that yesterday I installed FreeBSD 12.1 on a new PC - an AMD 2600 processor with a Gigabyte GeForce GT 1030 Nvidia graphics card. The install went fine but I have been unable to get X11 / Xorg working with a consequence that XFCE will not load. I am hoping the FreeBSD community might be able to pinpoint the problem and suggest a solution.
Logs indicate that "xinit is unable to connect to xserver - connection refused"; digging a bit deeper it seems that the main problem is that xwindows cannot run in framebuffer mode. My main source of information has been https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.3-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html but it seems this documentation is outdated and no longer correct. There are a lot of posts online; I tried the most likely but none provided a solution and I don't have a working FreeBSD instance.
Can anyone in the very helpful and knowledgeable FreeBSD community suggest a definitive solution.
Thanks,
Ron Chambers
Melbourne, Australia
I am an experienced Linux user who has been trying to learn FreeBSD with a view to replacing Linux with FreeBSD on my main desktop PC. To this end I successfully installed FreeBSD on an older Intel PC; after a lot of trial and error I settled on FreeBSD with XFCE and got it stable and working very well, so well that yesterday I installed FreeBSD 12.1 on a new PC - an AMD 2600 processor with a Gigabyte GeForce GT 1030 Nvidia graphics card. The install went fine but I have been unable to get X11 / Xorg working with a consequence that XFCE will not load. I am hoping the FreeBSD community might be able to pinpoint the problem and suggest a solution.
Logs indicate that "xinit is unable to connect to xserver - connection refused"; digging a bit deeper it seems that the main problem is that xwindows cannot run in framebuffer mode. My main source of information has been https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.3-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html but it seems this documentation is outdated and no longer correct. There are a lot of posts online; I tried the most likely but none provided a solution and I don't have a working FreeBSD instance.
Can anyone in the very helpful and knowledgeable FreeBSD community suggest a definitive solution.
Thanks,
Ron Chambers
Melbourne, Australia