Re: Getting going with a new Dell 7810

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Kuhns
On 06/17/15 11:43, Adam McDougall wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:55, Richard Kuhns wrote: Greetings all, I've just received a new Dell Precision 7810. I've installed FreeBSD 10.1 (UEFI boot), checked out sources, built world kernel and am now running r284449. So far, so good. The problem is

Re: Getting going with a new Dell 7810

2015-06-17 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:29:48 +0200, Richard Kuhns r...@wintek.com wrote: On 06/16/15 15:58, John Nielsen wrote: On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Ronald Klop ronald-li...@klop.ws wrote: What does 'sysctl kern.vty' say? If it is not 'vt', you need the following stuff. /boot/loader.conf should

Re: Getting going with a new Dell 7810

2015-06-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
You would be more likely to get good feedback on Xorg issues by sending them to x11@. X is not a part of stable or any base system. It i a group of ports and the issues with it are often very esoteric. This is just not the best place to find expertise on them. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer,

Re: Getting going with a new Dell 7810

2015-06-17 Thread Adam McDougall
On 06/16/2015 12:55, Richard Kuhns wrote: Greetings all, I've just received a new Dell Precision 7810. I've installed FreeBSD 10.1 (UEFI boot), checked out sources, built world kernel and am now running r284449. So far, so good. The problem is Xorg. I'm running the latest Xorg in ports;

Re: Getting going with a new Dell 7810

2015-06-16 Thread Ronald Klop
What does 'sysctl kern.vty' say? If it is not 'vt', you need the following stuff. /boot/loader.conf should contain kern.vty=vt And /etc/rc.conf kld_list=radeonkms Or something similar. FreeBSD is in the transition of old-style syscons- and vt-terminal. The last one has support for modern

Re: Getting going with a new Dell 7810

2015-06-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Ronald Klop ronald-li...@klop.ws wrote: What does 'sysctl kern.vty' say? If it is not 'vt', you need the following stuff. /boot/loader.conf should contain kern.vty=vt And /etc/rc.conf kld_list=radeonkms Or something similar. FreeBSD is in the

Re: Getting going with a new Dell 7810

2015-06-16 Thread Richard Kuhns
On 06/16/15 15:58, John Nielsen wrote: On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Ronald Klop ronald-li...@klop.ws wrote: What does 'sysctl kern.vty' say? If it is not 'vt', you need the following stuff. /boot/loader.conf should contain kern.vty=vt And /etc/rc.conf kld_list=radeonkms Or something