Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:33:17 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Note that you shouldn't run "startx" from your root account I've still tons of issues to solve, one issue is to get GDM run or to directly start x without a display manager. It didn't work as described in the handbook, perhaps it would work

Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:09:52 +0100, Polytropon wrote: Infrastructures are moving on, and backwards compatibility isn't the biggest strength of desktop environments. :-( Full ACK with the smiley ;) ... :(. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:59:44 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:22:04 +0100, Hrisikesh sahu > wrote: > > #portupgrade gnome2 > > Is there a future for GNOME 2 on FreeBSD? I assume -- on the _long_ run -- Gnome 2 will be dead, just as Gnome 1, KDE 1 and 2, and XFCE (capitals, s

Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:22:04 +0100, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: #portupgrade gnome2 Is there a future for GNOME 2 on FreeBSD? GNOME 2 forks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(desktop_environment) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(user_interface) GNOMER 3 fallback mode fork http://solusos.com/b

Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:52:04 +0530, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: > On command prompt Mouse and key board functionality is proper, but > when i switched to GUI using #startx , then mouse and key stopped > working. This looks like a typical configuration error, not quite uncommon today. :-) Note that you

Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-22 Thread Hrisikesh sahu
Hi , Forgive my stupidity. Yes, i was getting so many shared library issue. So I deleted to rebuild the pkgdb using #portupgrade. Now I am able to do #portupgrade gnome2. I followed both the following links to upgrade Xorg and Gnome2 . On command prompt Mouse and key board functionality is prop

Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 01:02:17PM +0530, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: > > # portupgrade -fr gnome-session > > But I am facing a problem "shared object libz.so.5 not found freebsd" I see libz.so.6 in my /usr/lib on: 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r245243: Wed Jan 9 18:25:14 EST 2013 r...@whispere