[rescue] Dell Laptop, FreeBSD & Xorg

[William Barnett-Lewis]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 5:57 PM Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>
> Did you add the xfce session script to your ~/.Xsession file?

xinitrc since I'm using startx to troubleshoot.

>       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

The drm-legacy-kmod loads. The other kernel panics O_o

With it in, it is better - xfce loads and runs fine but still goes
wonky at logout. If I choose reboot, it freezes and eventually reboots
so it's working in the background. Logout just hangs until I use the
power button to do a controlled power down.  The virtual terminal key
combos don't do anything :(

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

It is what it is. I got this laptop back because I wanted to get to
know the current state of BSD. Heh. Guess I'm getting what I asked
for!

Eventually I just want a basic travel machine that I can use via wifi
to do the basics and play with some emulators (simh, tme, bochs,
dosbox) and do a wee bit of Lisp.

I was bummed out to discover that Xview and OLVWM is for 32bit x86
only and ports complains if you try to build them on 64bit.

It's almost there since 12.0 recognizes my wifi (11.3 didn't) and at
this point the desktop is usable if quirky. Not as bad as trying to
run Minix on a PC-XT (640k! 10mb Full Height Boat Anchor! Herc
Graphics! :D )...

William
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