Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online ....

[doug at safeport.com]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

>
> On 08/15/14 12:46, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:45:45 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>> On 08/15/14 12:36, Polytropon wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:32:06 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>>> Hmmmm .... I don't know what got attached, my xorg.conf specifies vesa
>>>>> gfx driver ....
>>>> That also sounds wrong. What kind of graphics card are
>>>> you actually using? Typical answers: ATI, nVidia, Intel...
>>>> Follow-up question: Did you install the <name>-driver
>>>> package (in case of nVidia: nvidia-driver)?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> AMD jaguar kabini CPU, GPU on die w/ CPU, not yet supported by X.org .....
>> No support with the ATI driver? That would have been my first
>> guess. Anyway, "nvidia" as a driver is wrong in that case,
>> and "vesa" should at least work, even if it doesn't provide
>> sufficient 3D power.
>> 
>
> xconfig didn't pick it out .... just because it's ATI doesn't mean it 
> supports this new gfx set. I looked on X.org, & this GPU (Kabini [Radeon HD 
> 8280 / R3 Series]) isn't even mentioned, & the next 2 under it are listed as 
> unsupported or partially supported .... No biggie, I expected that, & would 
> guess they'll get on that soon ....
>
> -- 
This may be off point, I did not read the entire thread. If you want to use xdm 
with xfce you need to comment out the line in /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config. 
The xfce (and Gnome folks also I guess) changed something in session management. 
I could not (easily) find the link but the change is by design.

I use xdm with .session =

   #!/bin/sh
   /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/local/bin/startxfce4

and its all good. I do not use hal, all you need do is to comment out

   Option          "AutoAddDevices" "false"

This is on 10.0 but I did similiar stuff on a 9.2. The xdm change came with xfce 
4.8 (I think) but for sure with 4.10. As I recall from the writeup it is code 
they share with Gnome (again I think).

Hope this helps.