Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 08:04:09 +0200 From: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> To: freeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: missing X11 mouse cursor w. FreeBSD 12.1 (GhostBSD 20.03) Message-ID: <CADqw_gJGUyRw5i8mqHuyvFH=WVwHrRGhxcM09jAhvABEqqfNdA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADqw_gJi%2BA9qXb5bUTPjOZuRbdbv8p8MdaKyXXoTGapQZk3znw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADqw_gJi%2BA9qXb5bUTPjOZuRbdbv8p8MdaKyXXoTGapQZk3znw@mail.gmail.com>
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update/solution: - clone running boot env. into new one - bectl mount <cloned be> /mnt - pkg -c /mnt upgrade - bectl activate -t <cloned be> - reboot I can now see the X cursor, so I've permanently activated the new BE. cheers Michael On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:39 AM Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ancient Lenovo T60(p?) with a radeon graphics adapter (ATI > Mobility FireGL V5250) that I installed the latest build of GhostBSD > (20.03, uses FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE) on. > > With the radeon driver (xf86-video-amdgpu-19.1.0_1), display resolution > seems right, but the mouse cursor isn't visible. > In /var/log/messages, I see tons of "error: > [drm:pid2974:radeon_crtc_cursor_move] *ERROR* radeon_crtc_cursor_move: > x(-1) < 0" messages (w/o newline, in case that matters). > > I installed drm-fbsd12.0-kmod-4.16.g20200221, which did the trick once > (but that installation had to be removed after an update that caused a > kernel crash at boot); this time round, it doesn't seem to be working, so > this may be a necessary but not sufficient element. > > from rc.conf: > kld_list="linux linux64 cuse /boot/modules/radeonkms.ko" > > I've done quite a bit of searching, so far w/o success ... > Does anyone have suggestions for me how to get the cursor back? I'd > really like to stick to BSD (ZFS alone is worth the effort, and if I get > boot environments sorted out too, so much the better!) ... > > TIA > Michael > -- > Michael Schuster > http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ > recursion, n: see 'recursion' > -- Michael Schuster http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ recursion, n: see 'recursion'
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