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I've installed a fresh copy of FreeBSD 12.1 on a spare HDD.

I've followed every single instruction on installing GUI on FreeBSD.

First, I've installed Xorg "pkg install Xorg", followed by installing GNOME

pkg install gnome3

Then I've edited /etc/fstab and rc.conf to add proc, and enabled dbus, hald, gdm and GNOME.

After I rebooted the system the GUI didn't start and I'm only able to use SH shell.

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  • what does which gdm return? Commented Mar 5, 2020 at 11:22
  • here's the log from cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log pastebin.com/YhL3X8nY Commented Mar 5, 2020 at 11:27
  • /usr/local/sbin/gdm Commented Mar 5, 2020 at 11:34
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    Please explain in the question why you are not following the instructions in chapter 5 of the FreeBSD Handbook. Commented Mar 5, 2020 at 11:36
  • I'm following the instructions in the handbook Commented Mar 5, 2020 at 11:42

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/var/log/Xorg.0.log shows that no card/driver was detected. It then falls back to the VESA/framebuffer driver. Your card does however not support VESA and X cannot start.

[ 38.365] (II) scfb: driver for wsdisplay framebuffer: scfb

[ 38.366] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa

[ 38.366] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

You state you are following the FreeBSD Handbook. The relevant part is 5.4.5 but is rather hard to digest. X has become much better at autodetecting cards. This means that you do not need to fiddle with xorg.conf but you do need to make sure that you have updated drivers. This means for a regular user you should install graphics/drm-kmod.

 # pkg install drm-kmod

This might allow X to autodetect your card. If not then you need to fiddle with xorg.conf.d.

If you are still stuck - then make sure that you card is listed as supported (Intel/AMD KMS cards).

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  • If I installed the Nvidia driiver, will it solve the problem? Commented Mar 5, 2020 at 18:55
  • Probably - especially if you have a nvidia card :-). pkg install nvidia-driver and then add it to rc.conf with sysrc kld_list+="nvidia-modeset". See x11/nvidia-driver. If your card is older then you might instead need x11/nvidia-driver-304 or x11/nvidia-driver-340. Commented Mar 5, 2020 at 19:50

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