Hello, I have been wanting to put FreeBSD on my laptop for some time now. I backed up all of my files to a separate HD. I burned 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso to a DVD and installed it on my laptop, removing all partitions so FreeBSD is my sole OS. I also used the FreeBSD boot manager. I have attempted a number of different settings variations and installations. My problem is that FreeBSD seems to install properly, yet I cannot get to a GUI. I have added all ports and specifically checked the GNOME packages. When I attempt to run 'gdm', I get returned:
** (gdm-binary:878): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory I am also very limited at the prompt, unable to use 'su' or 'sudo'. Logging in as root does not fix the issue. My 'uname -a' results are as follows: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 SIDE NOTE: After trying for a few hours to get my FreeBSD install to work properly, I attempted a number of other OS installations; all of which failed. Windows XP -- Failed before attemting installation with a BSOD -- STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) -- This seems to be tied to the fact that the XP installation cannot recognize a SATA HD and therefore thinks it has nothing to install to. (Typical Microsoft) Ubuntu 7.04 -- After overcoming the ACPI heat issue, I was given a message stating that my "display" was incompatible. This laptop is a tablet PC, so maybe this is also the issue with the FreeBSD GUI? Backtrack 3 -- .Fatal error occured - Data for Live CD not found. Are you using unsupported SCSI? -- Again, possibly the same issue as XP? Knopppix 4 -- Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry. Both Backtrack and Knoppix threw errors while trying to use off CD, not install. I will deeply appreciate any help you can offer. I would very much like to use FreeBSD but any OS at this point is appreciated. I am hoping I did not brick my laptop in this process ... -- Edward Lerner Twitter : http://twitter.com/wkdown/ LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/edlerner _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
