Re: Installing/running X11
- In reply to: Paul M Foster : "Installing/running X11"
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 08:24:22 UTC
On 2/3/24, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > X won't start https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/ Identify the GPU. After the correct kernel module files for that are physically installed on disk, the simplest functional configless X test is: # from video group, or as root Xorg & # as unpriviledged user xterm -display :0 & # press through the alt-F[keys] and ctrl-alt-F[keys] # till you find all the screens, then twm -display :0 & firefox --display=:0 & Xorg can trigger autoload of the necessary modules, kldstat before and after will show that. Nothing else is needed for this test, nor to test firefox and many other apps. None of xdm, xfce, hald, or dbus are needed for this test. Without the below, nobody will know what actual video bits the box needs, so they can't say anything about drm-kmod, xf86-video-intel, or i915kms. If it doesn't work, you'll need to post... - grep '^CPU' /var/run/dmesg.boot - uname -vmpKU - GPU part number - pciconf -lv | egrep -B3 -A1 display - dmesg -a # sanitized - kldstat - output from Xorg - /var/log/Xorg.0.log