AW: Desktop problems

[Dr. Martin Ivanov]

Hello Aaron,

Thank you very much for your reply. I can't see an option in my BIOS for disabling NVIDIA. Have you got any idea where I should look at in the BIOS settings?

I fixed the library problem, but the error message still shows at staring lxde.

Greetings,
Martin

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Von: Aaron LI [aly at aaronly.me]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 11. November 2018 17:02
An: Dr. Martin Ivanov
Cc: users at dragonflybsd.org
Betreff: Re: Desktop problems

On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:31:22 +0000
"Dr. Martin Ivanov" <martin.ivanov at greenpocket.de> wrote:

> Hello, I am running DragonFly BSD 5.2.2 on my 10-year-old laptop TOSHIBA
> TECRA S11-11H. Intel® Core™ i5-520M Processor, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA®
> Quadro® NVS 2100M mit CUDA™ Technology, Monitor resolution:  1600 x 900 ,
> 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless Technology Version : Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N
> 6200. After installation the VESA driver was started, which could not
> provide the native 1600 x 900 display resolution I need. Installing
> xf86-video-nv-2.1.21_1 solved this problem.

Hi Martin,

Thanks for trying with dfly :)

DFly doesn't have any (KMS) Nivida GPU support, and your laptop seems really
old (i.e., without UEFI), so I don't think the xf86-video-scfb work for you.

If you can disable the Nvidia GPU (in BIOS) and use the integrated Intel GPU,
it would be the best for dfly.

> I tried most of the available desktop environments for dragonfly:
> windowmaker, lumina, mate, lxde, xfce, kde. All desktops except for
> windowmaker and lumina are practically unusable, because the logout time is
> about 4 minutes. This is the time between clicking on logout and the actual
> logout. Furhtermore, on kde the opening of the start menu itself takes
> about 2 minutes. The biggest problems occurred with the mate desktop, where
> the logout time is more than 15 minutes, I never waited to see if it is
> even finite. The mate-terminal fails to start. Trying to start most
> applications from the command line in mate fails (e.g. vim, gvim, kate,
> kwrite, thunderbird). The only text editor that opens there is mousepad.
> Kate and kwrite print the following message: "QDBusConnection: session
> D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may
> misbehave." and never start. Vim and gvim never start, the console window
> hangs and I can do nothing but close it. I am typing this from lumina,
> which works pretty OK, all the applications so far start and seem to behave
> well.

There are quite some users and devs running dfly as a desktop, and XFCE and
MATE (I'm not sure about other DEs) should work well.

There is a known library problem with polkit
(/usr/local/lib/polkit-1/polkitd), which causes problem for dbus, but I don't
know whether this problem is related to your issues.

To workaround the library problem:
# cd /usr/local/lib
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmozjs-52.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0


Cheers,
--
Aaron