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by askfor
Wed Nov 09, 2016 3:32 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: [Solved] Device hint at installation
Replies: 13
Views: 14425

Re: Device hint at installation

Greetings !!! And thanks for your help. Posting this from Firefox on FreeBSD 11. An error message from Xorg -configure helped. There are two video outputs on the laptop, LCD and VGA output for external monitor. Xorg recognizes them as two different cards. For unknown reasons BIOS default is "VG...
by askfor
Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:16 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: [Solved] Device hint at installation
Replies: 13
Views: 14425

Re: Device hint at installation

I am sorry, I haven't seen your reply, I thought you have given up om me. I think I know what is going on here. This card is old Intel 82855, which seems to be supported only as VESA. I think that kernel tries to use Intel driver. I will keep experimenting with FreeBSD, it is easier because there is...
by askfor
Fri Nov 04, 2016 1:08 am
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: [Solved] Device hint at installation
Replies: 13
Views: 14425

Re: Device hint at installation

Yeah, emergency shell. Looks fine at firs glance: # kldload i915 drm0: <Intel i852GM/i855GM GMCH> on vgapci0 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe80000000 128MB info: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 #kldstat lists,among others: i915.ko drm.ko # pciconf -lv lists, among others: hdr=0x00 vendor='Intel Corporat...
by askfor
Thu Nov 03, 2016 10:57 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: [Solved] Device hint at installation
Replies: 13
Views: 14425

Re: Device hint at installation

I tried pkg install first, but Firefox core dumped on me. And kept doing it. You know, I used FreeBSD 6.something for about a year. Had to abandon it after I bought new Samsung Mono Laser Printer (ML 2010). I couldn't get it running no matter what. It was back in 2007. I was running FreeBSD on very ...
by askfor
Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:00 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: [Solved] Device hint at installation
Replies: 13
Views: 14425

Re: Device hint at installation

Again, the hint is: hint.agp.0.disabled=1. It gets an old integrated Intel video card working on FreeBSD. Notebook is ancient Thinkpad R50e, or something, I don't even remember the exact model very well. Linux is using i915 driver on it, and the same is mentioned in output from FreeBSD kernel when i...
by askfor
Thu Nov 03, 2016 3:21 pm
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: [Solved] Device hint at installation
Replies: 13
Views: 14425

Re: Device hint at installation

No dice. The kernel booted. I have pressed 'e', added 'set kFreeBSD.hint.agp.0.disabled=1' and booted with Ctrl-X. F10 does not seem to work. Kernel booted and, I believe, it was about to start XFCE (there was a message which said that), then the same panic screen appeared. As if it somehow 'forgot'...
by askfor
Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:30 am
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: [Solved] Device hint at installation
Replies: 13
Views: 14425

Re: Device hint at installation

Thanks. I see, I need to prefix them with KFreeBSD. I tried to add it with 'edit'. The hint is "hint.agp.0.disabled=1". This a 10+ years old laptop with Intel i915 based graphics, which refuses to die. Probably shouldn't be bothering you with such ancient HW. It still panics with VESA fail...
by askfor
Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:37 am
Forum: Installing GhostBSD
Topic: [Solved] Device hint at installation
Replies: 13
Views: 14425

[Solved] Device hint at installation

I am in real trouble here. I can't install OS because kernel panics every time. From my FreeBSD experience I know exactly which hint I need to enter in order to boot the kernel. However, unlike FreeBSD, there is no boot loader, only GRUB. Is there anything I can do to start the installation ?