On 7/3/2017 08:48, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
Hi everyone,I appreciate the help and patience of folks here as I ask a seemingly long list of n00b questions! Sorry if I'm being annoying in my enthusiasm to get things configured where I'd like them. Anyhow... I tried to get Gnome3 up and running and it appeared to me to be behaving badly. I added the: hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" gdm_enable="YES" gnome_enable="YES" used pkg install to install xorg and gnome3 (turned out I had to install openssl first in order to get things working - perhaps the gnome port is linked against this and the rest of the OS is linked against the far superior and wonderful... sorry, my OpenBSD propaganda kicked in... libressl?) Anyhow, the behavior I saw was a black screen instead of gdm running, so I figured, let's rock it old school and start gnome shell from my .xinitrc (exec gnome-shell) by running startx from my regular user account. What I saw then was the standard "oh no, something went wrong" screen that I typically associate with trying to run gnome3 on a system without X acceleration (this is why I have to run xfce4 on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon Skylake on OpenBSD - we don't have drm support for that chipset... yet). To that end, I double-checked /var/log/Xorg.log.0 and from my naive eyes, it sure looks like I'm running with the right driver (snippet below): [ 31.303] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0 [ 31.303] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM, Pineview G, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, GM45, 4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43 [ 31.303] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) HD Graphics [ 31.303] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics [ 31.303] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics [ 31.303] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) [ 31.303] (--) using VT number 2 [ 35.319] (II) intel(0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915, version 1.6. 0 20160229 [ 35.319] (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support [ 35.319] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) HD Graphics 40 00 [ 35.319] (--) intel(0): CPU: x86-64, sse2, sse3, ssse3, sse4.1, sse4.2, avx; using a maximum of 2 threads [ 35.319] (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 Anyhow, I know that Gnome3 is a pain in the a$$ on BSDs because of all of the nasty systemd stuff that is creeping in and my ability to use it is probably not long for this world (which is why I'm trying to move to Lumina as I can) but if anyone is successfully running a Gnome3 desktop environment with GDM on DragonFlyBSD I'd love to understand the secret FU you did just so I can hang on for a few more months! I ended up punting and going old school with xdm and xfce4 in the meanwhile until I can get Lumina tweaked the way I like it FWIW. Thanks in advance for the help and sorry to be so darned long-winded.
Honestly, all I know is that gnome3 builds. It's never been clear if it actually works. I don't recall anyone saying they use it and it works well. tbh, I would be surprised if it did.
Another desktop (like xfce4 or Lumina) would likely be the way to go, especially for a self-described newbie.
John
