FreeBSD-12.1 on laptop

vm finance vm.finance2 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 07:03:47 UTC 2019


I also downloaded NVIDIA FreeBSD driver for my laptop and built/make
install its driver.

When I try to do startx now, its no longer showing Framebuffer
error...however it fails with error:
(EE) No Screens found (EE)

Looks like one step closer...any thoughts on how to fix this?

Thanks!

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:56 AM vm finance <vm.finance2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I followed steps to remove all drm* packages, and built it natively:
>
> ===========================================================
> #make -C /usr/ports/graphics/drm-kmod install
> ===> Installing for drm-kmod-g20190710
> ===> Checking if drm-kmod-g20190710 is already installed
> actual-package-depends: dependency on /boot/modules/drm.ko not registered (
>
> ===> REgistering installation for drm-kmod-g20190710
> =============================================================
>
> That seems to have worked...
>
> However, same issue w/ startx.....Framebuffer.
>
> BTW, since this is a
>
> Pls let me know how to proceed further.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 9:06 AM vm finance <vm.finance2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After I followed steps to remove all drm* packages, and built
>> make -C /usr/ports/graphics/drm-kmod install
>> That seems to have worked.
>>
>> However, same issue w/ startx.....
>>
>> Pls let me know how to proceed further.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:49 AM vm finance <vm.finance2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Kyle. That worked!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:12 AM Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 8:20 PM vm finance <vm.finance2 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > I can't even get to any prompt, except loader prompt.
>>>> > Is there a way to undo the change from loader prompt?
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> For that particular decision, drop to loader prompt and speak to it:
>>>>
>>>> set hw.syscons.disable=0
>>>>
>>>


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