Trouble running KDE or Gnome

[Bernard Mentink]

Hi Peeter,

Thanks for that, that was very helpful.
Good to have confirmation that Gnome does not work at the moment .....

Thanks also for the hints regarding pciconf ...

Now the only other issue I have running KDE is that when I enable sound on
my platform by loading the snd_hda module, I get  pulseaudio taking up 100%
of one of my cpu cores ...
Sound works ok though .... any idea what goes on there? do I have to adjust
some pulseaudio parameters?

Cheers,
Bernie

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:06 AM, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Bernard Mentink <bmentink at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Appreciate the explanation.
> > However, the description of the FreeBSD setup for gnome and the DFly one
> are
> > quite different.
> >
> > The FreeBSD one says to start dbus and hald  via rc.conf. Dfly does not
> say
> > to do that.
> >
> > If I follow FreeBSD instructions KDE won't work at all, because KDE
> starts
> > dbus itself and bombs out if it is already running. So at least Dfly
> works
> > with KDE by NOT starting dbus in rc.conf ..
>
>
> There are two standard dbus session instances normally: one is the
> systemwide bus that is started via /etc/rc.conf, the other is a
> session bus which is started by KDE, GNOME, XFCE, MATE when they
> launch. So you should include
>
> dbus_enable="YES"
>
> in rc.conf. If you do not do this, you'll see some complaining in the
> log; but may still be able to run the DE. This is how I run KDE and I
> can confirm that it runs fine on my machine DragonFly
> v4.5.0.1247.g122b6-DEVELOPMENT. MATE and XFCE run fine as well. I
> don't run hald for any of the DEs. Not sure why KDE does not run when
> you start the system dbus instance.
>
> GNOME (gnome3) does not work, or at least to my experience. There's
> some complaining by gnome-settings-daemon about not being able to
> communicate via dbus, and it may well be the reason but I haven't
> followed up.
>
>
> > PS: Man pages don't help a new user get up and running when they are
> used to
> > the Linux way of doing things .... for example, the Lack of the lspci
> > instruction means I can't see what module I need to load  for my audio
> > hardware ...
>
>
> pciconf -l
> pciconf -lv
>
> A lot of this applies to DragonFly as well:
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-users/article.html
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Peeter
>
> --
>
>
>
>
> >> On 6/26/2016 3:38 AM, Bernard Mentink wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi John,
> >>>
> >>> So why should I use the FreeBSD instructions? I thought this was
> >>> DragonFlyBSD forum?
> >>>
> >>> I used the instructions from
> >>> here: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/X/#index2h2
> >>>
> >>> Are you saying I should not use the DFly instructions to setup DFly?
> >>>
> >>> That is just weird ..
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Bernard,
> >> Of course it would be ideal if DragonFly documentation was at the same
> >> level as FreeBSD but the fact is that this is not the case.  FreeBSD
> has an
> >> entire team whose primary responsibility is documentation.
> >>
> >> Now you may be aware that DragonFly DPorts is basically FreeBSD ports
> made
> >> to work on DragonFly.  As such, instructions to install third-party
> software
> >> on FreeBSD are good for DragonFly as well.  So it's not weird to
> reference
> >> FreeBSD documentation when DPorts are involved as is the case here.
> >>
> >> As a last thought, our handbook is a living wiki.  Some people have
> >> improved KDE instructions recently, but if you think it needs more then
> you
> >> have the ability to write these improvements so everyone can benefit.
> >>
> >> DragonFly MAN pages are top notch, but the handbook / wiki is not at the
> >> same quality level (and in some cases are poor quality).
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
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