First Install ... continued.

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello David,
How do you start the GUI? What error messages do you get? Please create a
.xinit file  with the correct command to start Mate and then run startx.

Best regards,
Martin

David Crosswell <curmudgeon at telaman.net.au> schrieb am Mi. 27. Aug. 2025 um
01:59:

> Greetings all!
>
> I've been trying to figure out what's wrong.
>
> Solid install.
>
> I still can't get a GUI up.
>
> I have installed Mate, lightdm, and lightdm-gtk-greeter.
>
> Proc is already configured in the installation media.
>
> I have i915_load="YES", dbus_enable="YES", and lightdm_enable="YES" in
> /etc/rc.conf.
>
> And have kldload i915 loaded.
>
> I still can't get past the cli.
>
> Can anybody see where I'm going wrong?
>
> Thanks for any time and trouble.
>
> --
> `To be an enemy of America can be dangerous,
> but to be a friend is fatal'.
>
> — Henry Kissinger
>
>
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