Fresh Installation Of FreeBSD 11.2--Mate Not Working Properly

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Sun Dec 2 23:50:30 UTC 2018


On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 04:28:24 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> On 12/03/18 04:21, B J wrote:
> > <snip>
> > 
> >> Nothing, that is the correct behaviour. In order to get
> >> a window manager or desktop environment, just install it. ;-)
> >>
> >> Further details:
> >>
> >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html
> > 
> > I can't get a proper display when I run:
> > 
> > xinit mate-session
> > 
> > I get the following message:
> > 
> > scfb trace:  probe start
> > scfb trace:  probe done
> > failed to set mtrr:  Invalid argument
> > xinit:  connection to X server lost
> > waiting for X server to shut down failed to unset mtrr:  No such file
> > or directory (II)
> > Server terminated successfully (0).
> > Closing log file.
> > 
> > Is this a serious problem?  If so, how can I fix it?  Thanks.
> 
> 1)
> Perhaps you should put kern.vty=vt in /boot/loader.conf and reboot.
> Do you still get the error with startx ?

On FreeBSD 11.2 (as written in an earlier message), this
should already be the default.


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