KDE Troubles

[Junix]

For the past few weeks, I've been curious to try FreeBSD(I've been primarily a Linux user for around 5 months and wanted to try some other UNIX-Like OSes), and so far, haven't had too many issues. I installed it on my 12 year old laptop, with KDE which worked fine, and even installed it on my 22 year old Pentium 4 system(Without KDE). So far, it's been good, and I wanted to install it onto my old daily driver I had sitting around in homes of turning it into a Minecraft server.

Everything went well, I got KDE 5 installer(Later tried 6) without any issues, but as soon as I would go to install the "drm-kmod" package for my AMD Radeon RX560, and proceed to add "kld_list="amdgpu" to my /etc/rc.conf file, on reboot, KDE would not start. I didn't know this at first, but when I removed the line from my /etc/rc.conf file, KDE would start on reboot. I'm not sure why I'm having this issue, and currently would like to resolve this(Which would hopefully allow me to change my desktop resolution and refresh rate).

Any help would be appreciated, so if you have any ideas as to what might be happening, please say so.

Thanks.

 

[SirDice]

Not a KDE issue, make sure Xorg itself works before moving to KDE.

Chapter 5. The X Window System

This chapter describes how to install and configure Xorg on FreeBSD, which provides the open source X Window System used to provide a graphical environment

docs.freebsd.org

 

[Junix]

Not a KDE issue, make sure Xorg itself works before moving to KDE.

Chapter 5. The X Window System

This chapter describes how to install and configure Xorg on FreeBSD, which provides the open source X Window System used to provide a graphical environment

docs.freebsd.org

I've looked through the handbook, and I did what it says to do, I even tried reinstalling xorg. Doesn't seem to work with the 'startx' command anymore.
all I get is 'xinit: giving up', and 'unable to conntect to X server: Connection refused'

Should I mention that I am on an AMD APU that has integrated Radeon R7 Graphics? Is it possible these could be conflicting?

 

[SirDice]

Should I mention that I am on an AMD APU that has integrated Radeon R7 Graphics?

You should probably add the driver in a specific video driver config, you may need to provide a BusID, because you technically have two graphics cards.

 

[BaronBS]

I've looked through the handbook, and I did what it says to do, I even tried reinstalling xorg. Doesn't seem to work with the 'startx' command anymore.
all I get is 'xinit: giving up', and 'unable to conntect to X server: Connection refused'

Should I mention that I am on an AMD APU that has integrated Radeon R7 Graphics? Is it possible these could be conflicting?

If you have any file inside /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d try it out without them. My latitude 5400 don't accepted any kind of intel configuration, it only work when this folder is empty.

PS.: In my case, the DE don't matter. It is like this in XFCE and in LXQt.

 

[Junix]

I just ended up removing the Radeon card in the end. I would liked to have had it, but I honestly don't need it for what I'm going to do with my system(Likely a Minecraft server). But thanks again for your help, and I shall keep this in mind in the future.