Testing 11.1-BETA1
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 8:36 am
Took the chance at the weekend to do a little testing: I backed up data and did test installations of GhostBSD on several machines. Almost everything worked well. Here's just two things that I encountered for now:
1. On one machine with Intel graphics SLiM (well, actually X11) wouldn't start. I logged in as root, did a kldload i915kms ; slim and all was set.
Eric: What has happened to that dialog-based (?) configuration menu of 11.0-ALPHA? Do you intend to bring that back? If not: Do you think adding i915kms to kld_list in rc.conf would be a problem on some other systems? Either way: Currently users with similar hardware will not be able to use 11.1-BETA1 if they don't know a bit about all that fuss with recent versions of X on FreeBSD.
2. The update-station seems to be broken. In the past I often had the case where I'd have to pkg update manually and then it would display that it had updates available. Now I could not even get it to work at all on 11.1-BETA1. In fact not even the icon appears in the panel. Am I doing something wrong or is this a known problem?
1. On one machine with Intel graphics SLiM (well, actually X11) wouldn't start. I logged in as root, did a kldload i915kms ; slim and all was set.
Eric: What has happened to that dialog-based (?) configuration menu of 11.0-ALPHA? Do you intend to bring that back? If not: Do you think adding i915kms to kld_list in rc.conf would be a problem on some other systems? Either way: Currently users with similar hardware will not be able to use 11.1-BETA1 if they don't know a bit about all that fuss with recent versions of X on FreeBSD.
2. The update-station seems to be broken. In the past I often had the case where I'd have to pkg update manually and then it would display that it had updates available. Now I could not even get it to work at all on 11.1-BETA1. In fact not even the icon appears in the panel. Am I doing something wrong or is this a known problem?