Re: random freezes, xterm not displaying everything correctly what to do?

2017-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
I reinstalled the xterm and the fonts. The problem remains. When pkg comleted, it output a comment that the fonts would be wide and if I could place an image of how xterm looks then a better conclusion can be made. Somehow, if the settings were changed and a darker tone/color of the fonts could

Re: random freezes, xterm not displaying everything correctly what to do?

2017-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
I reinstalled the xterm and the fonts. The problem remains. When pkg comleted, it output a comment that the fonts would be wide and if I could place an image of how xterm looks then a better conclusion can be made. Somehow, if the settings were changed and a darker tone/color of the fonts could

Re: random freezes, xterm not displaying everything correctly what to do?

2017-05-05 Thread karu.pruun
I don't know about xterm, I'm using xfce4-terminal with Droid Sans Mono Bold. I would try force installing the xterm and the said fonts again > sudo pkg upgrade -f xorg-fonts xterm note the "-f" is important. If you still don't see the fonts, then start investigating what fonts the xterm uses

Re: random freezes, xterm not displaying everything correctly what to do?

2017-05-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
One problem appears to be solved. However one remains. The Chromium browser works and I dont get the crashes that I did before. However, I have the other problem with xterm. I cannot see the prompt. The display does not show the characters or fonts correctly. I have installed some fonts, but

Re: random freezes, xterm not displaying everything correctly what to do?

2017-05-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear Peeter & Michael I am giving Michael's advice a try, running chrome(chromium) at this time and it has not frozen yet :) crossing fingers. If it crashes, then I will definitely take a look at trying out weston without hesitation. Problem with chrome would be how would I launch an

Re: random freezes, xterm not displaying everything correctly what to do?

2017-05-04 Thread karu.pruun
It seems you have a Radeon card and use the radeon kms driver. I can't see any NVidia devices in your dmesg. Maybe it helps narrow down the issue when you try running weston/wayland instead of your DE/Xorg. If weston does not get the freezes then chances are Xorg is at fault. Quick instructions

Re: random freezes, xterm not displaying everything correctly what to do?

2017-05-03 Thread Michael Neumann
On 05/03/17 21:31, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear folks, > > I have successfully installed DragonFlyBSD4.8 on an ASUS eight core > machine with AMD Graphics card, nvidia hardware still use nv driver > and screen output do not help much. When I open firefox, and I see a > youtube video, or try

random freezes, xterm not displaying everything correctly what to do?

2017-05-03 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have successfully installed DragonFlyBSD4.8 on an ASUS eight core machine with AMD Graphics card, nvidia hardware still use nv driver and screen output do not help much. When I open firefox, and I see a youtube video, or try to check mail, I get random freezes and sceen blacks out