Gnome3 startup cannot progress beyond stage of black screen

[Denise H. G.]

On 2012/10/06 at 22:55, maskor maskor <maskor at inbox.com> wrote:
> 
> Gnome has been installed without problem, perhaps some patches could
> be needed also in my case but I don't know which ones?
> 

Sorry. I've installed GNOME 3 on my laptop but just couldn't get GDM
running on it. And gnome-shell is not running at all. On my desktop both
gdm and gnome-shell are OK, though with some issues.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: darcsis at gmail.com
>> Sent: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:32:41 +0800
>> To: maskor at inbox.com
>> Subject: Re: Gnome3 startup cannot progress beyond stage of black screen
>> 
>> 
>> On 2012/10/05 at 05:11, maskor maskor <maskor at inbox.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> I am running x86_64 FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 with NVIDIA 8600 GT graphic card
>>> (driver version : 304-51 provided by x11/nvidia-driver port).
>>> 
>>> I want to use Gnome so I have installed gnome 3 from Marcus
>>> recommendation.
>>> 
>>> At startup gnome 3 is launched but stays for ever at stage of black
>>> screen with watch form cursor without to reach the stage of gnome 3
>>> login window.
>>> 
>>> I need your help to fix that problem.
>> 
>> the gnome-shell port needs some extra patches to get things done for me.
>> I don't know whether it's my problem or that of the original port. With
>> the patches GNOME 3 could be running without many problems here.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
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