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Originally Posted by sacerdos_daemonis
Next time I shall look for those files (or NetBSD equivalents). I watch the screen during boot and the readout looks very similar to to what I see on OpenBSD. There might be something else in dmesg that could be helpful, but it will have to wait until the next time I try to install it. At the moment I am giving FreeBSD a go, but want to collect any information I can for the near future.
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In order to determine where the problem lays, checking out
/var/log/Xorg.*.log as it's been suggested above by ibara, is a good starting point. There's good chance the GPU it's actually the one causing trouble.
In order to see what sort of hardware (and graphics) is your box equipped with, type:
Also, don't forget to check out the dmesg, thus to see which drm driver (if any) was attached at boot to your GPU.
8.1 provides i915 graphics support up to Broadwell, but I found it quite buggy when I tried it last on my i7 5600k; it seems the issue got fixed the moment drm/kms graphics were updated on HEAD least year, so as to be in par with Linux 4.11: my suggestion, if you have Intel 5th+ gen graphics, is to either upgrade to 9.0_BETA or 9.9*-current. So far, my laptop works shamelessly with 9.0_BETA (I transitioned to it from 8.9*-current), it's very stable and brings a not negligible performance boost compared to 8.0-8.1.
You can upgrade to 9.0_BETA or to -current branch using sysupgrade, or for 9.0_BETA, by using the boot.iso or the miniroot image provided to perform a fresh installation; you'll find everything needed, including the sets to point sysupgrade at, here:
http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-d.../latest/amd64/