From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 14:11:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79AA1065692 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:11:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D7D8FC1F for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o06EBIuf014740; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:11:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o06EBIqY014737; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:11:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:11:18 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: manish jain In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:11:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: rsmith@xs4all.nl, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express chipset X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:11:20 -0000 On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, manish jain wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD-8.0-i386 on my office system. I can't find anything > like the xf86cfg/xf86config tools for configuring X that used to come with > FreeBSD earlier. The only utility I could find is xorg-edit, but this is > nowhere as user-friendly as the earlier tools. Xorg -configure will create a very basic xorg.conf. Usually I just copy the Device section out of that and into one of my own configs where all the excess has been removed. > Can somebody please send me a sample xorg.conf for Intel Q35 Express > chipset (384 MB video RAM) and a PNP Dell LCD monitor which is > happiest @ (1440X900 resolution/ 32-bit colour / 60 Hz refresh) in > Windows ? The keyboard and mouse are standard USB. First, check the Handbook X11 configuration section to see what it says about hal and dbus. It describes both using them and running without. > I assume the default file location remains unchanged : /etc/X11/xorg.conf That works, yes. Here's a slightly-modified copy of the xorg.conf from my netbook, which uses hal and dbus. You'll probably need to change the BusID to match your system. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "AA1 Manually Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bitstream-vera/" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "NoAccel" # [] #Option "SWcursor" # [] #Option "ColorKey" # #Option "CacheLines" # #Option "Dac6Bit" # [] #Option "DRI" # [] #Option "NoDDC" # [] #Option "ShowCache" # [] #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # #Option "PageFlip" # [] Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Option "Monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0" Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,VGA" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" SubSection "Display" Virtual 1440 900 EndSubSection EndSection -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA