Video concerns on BSD upgrades

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plumtreed
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Video concerns on BSD upgrades

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I was concerned about talk regarding changes made to trueos/freebsd that would affect the video on older PCs in future upgrades. I have tried Trident but ran into trouble with every, almost weekly, update. The 'no video' problem can be sorted but it takes a bit of work and even then you have a only a 'half-baked' os!

Naturally I was concerned when I tried GhostBSD13. RC1 so I installed on a USB to see the result.............the installer introduced a page which allowed you to select a choice of video ?drivers............on my older machine I selected vesa and everything went well and the installation is OK and the video works.
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Re: Video concerns on BSD upgrades

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I have now installed 19.04 -RC3.iso.........it installed easily, I chose the vesa selection when asked and GhostBSD is up and running!

...........Network Manager responded immediately and I have wifi.

I'm looking for a fault but can't find anything to complain about. :)
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Re: Video concerns on BSD upgrades

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....found a complaint! I can't find GParted.......not installed and I can't find as new software.:(
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Re: Video concerns on BSD upgrades

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GParted is a GNU/Linux software not a BSD software.
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Re: Video concerns on BSD upgrades

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......now I have nothing to grumble about!
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