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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:53:03 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Xorg Redux
Message-ID:  <4C72995F.6060802@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net>
References:  <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net>

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On 8/23/10 11:44 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>  Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so
> on my Thinkpad R51.  Here's what's happening.  I installed xorg on this
> new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program, copying
> the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11 as xorg.conf.  I have both hald and
> dbus enabled in /etc/rc.conf.  When I try to run the test on xorg.conf,
> or if I just run "startx" I momentarily see the initial screen, which is
> displayed when X11 loads, but then the screen goes blank, and that's all
> she wrote.  No keyboard, no mouse, totally frozen.  The only way out is
> a reboot via the power switch.
> 
> As usual, help is very appreciated.
> 

Try adding this to xorg.conf:

	Section "ServerFlags"
		option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
	EndSection

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber



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