[afnog] Fw: Re: Desktop fails to work in FreeBSD 8.0

[ata]

--- On Thu, 7/8/10, ata <psmata2g8 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: ata <psmata2g8 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Desktop fails to work in FreeBSD 8.0
To: "geraldine daloeng" <gerryspicy at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 6:26 AM




Please very this line is in your /etc/rc.conf




	 
	
	 
	




hald_enabled="YES" to
/etc/rc.conf
      

      
      xorg.conf 
      

      
      Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
EndSection
      

      
      


	 
	
	 
	



if you get a small resolution;
try this 

X -configure followed by X -config
xorg.conf.new  with -retro option
      

      
      

      

      

Redeemer Fiankor Ata
Ghana Dot Com.


--- On Wed, 7/7/10, geraldine daloeng <gerryspicy at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: geraldine daloeng <gerryspicy at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Desktop fails to work in FreeBSD 8.0
To: "Hervey Allen" <hervey at nsrc.org>, "Patrick Okui" <pokui at psg.com>
Cc: afnog at afnog.org
Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 8:05 AM

I did not choose gnome2 during installation considering that only gnome was available. 

Meanwhile the output
 for pkg_info -E gnome\* Xorg\* is as follows

gnome-doc-utils-0.16.1_1
gnome-mime-data-2.18.0_3
gnome-subr-1.0
gnomehier-2.3_12

Thanks,
Geraldine

--- On Tue, 7/6/10, Hervey Allen <hervey at nsrc.org> wrote:

From: Hervey Allen <hervey at nsrc.org>
Subject: Re: [afnog] Desktop fails to work in FreeBSD 8.0
To: "Patrick Okui" <pokui at psg.com>
Cc: "geraldine daloeng" <gerryspicy at yahoo.com>, afnog at afnog.org
Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 11:13 AM

On 7/6/10 8:34 AM, Patrick Okui wrote:
> Hi Geraldine,
> 
> On 6 Jul, 2010, at 3:45
 PM, geraldine daloeng wrote:
> 
>> I installed gnome  and added gnome_enable=yes in the etc/rc.conf file
>> to start the desktop but this does not work. I installed Kde and added
>> kde_enable =yes in the etc/rc.conf file and it still does not work.
>> (gdm is also enabled)
> 
> what is the output of pkg_info -E gnome\* xorg\*
> 
> if you are following the sa-e installation notes (which I think were
> corrected on the website) we may have suggested picking gnome-desktop
> rather than the gnome2 meta-package. This will not select bits and
> pieces of xorg including graphics drivers.
> 

I updated this before the CD was pressed...

> testing with an Ubuntu CD as Phil has suggested should eliminate this
> possibility over just an unsupported card.
> 

But, as Patrick has noted, the gnome choices in the installer can
 be
confusing (gnome-desktop vs. gnome2). The correct choice is "gnome2".

I just saw this error appear in Ubuntu 9.10 as well. The Intel i810
on-board video driver has caused issues. We had two machines crash
due to memory errors with the driver.

If you did choose "gnome2" at install time let us know. I have a few
more things you can try.

Cheers,
    - Hervey
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