So I got a usable Gnome3 desktop on this machine! Trying to install gnome was a bit of a pain due to a library version mismatch with the snapshot I grabbed. However, after building /usr/ports/devel/harfbuzz and /usr/ports/graphics/exiv2 from source (amazing how fast that build went on this hardware), I managed to get everything installed.
The rsu driver I'm using as an external USB network adapter appears to be a bit flaky on this hardware (dropping packets and connections entirely sometimes) so that's been a barrier as well necessitating multiple retries of pkg_add. The HiDPI support in Gnome 3.18 worked flawlessly and everything looks "normal". The acid test for me will be to reformat the drive, get OSX installed again and document each step along the way so I can be certain that I can reproduce the end state. tldr; looks pretty promising - thanks to everyone who put in the massive hard work to get us to this point! Thanks, Bryan On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister <br...@bsdjournal.net> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 06:28:04PM -0500, Bryan Everly wrote: > > I only had to bless my thumb drive so the keyboard worked. Everything > > else is native when booting from the hard drive afaik. > > Very good. I didn't think about "blessing" the thumb drive. Good idea. > > Bryan
