[rescue] Dell Laptop, FreeBSD & Xorg

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

> I installed 12.1 and then did pkg install the usual suspects for me:
> xorg, xfce, chromium, libre office, gimp, emacs, maxima, etc.
>
> Set up rc.conf - dbus = yes, hald=yes, moused=yes Turned on XDM in

I don't think moused is strictly necessary anymore.

> ttys. Boots fine. XDM pops up. Input login data and boom. Totally
> nothing responds. Black background. Pointer won't move. Plug in USB
> mouse- nothing there either.
>
> Got me scratching my head. Any ideas?

Did you add the xfce session script to your ~/.Xsession file?

      https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-wm.html#x11-wm-xfce

The freezing might be due to weirdness with the graphics drivers.  If
you're using the Intel "i915" graphics, you may have to fiddle with kernel
modules.

      https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics#Intel_Integrated_Graphics_.28aka_HD_Graphics.29

It pains me to say that local X11 on FreeBSD isn't nearly as plug-and-chug
as it is on SystemdOS.

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