From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 00:33:02 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 1EC54106566C for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:33:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAAFE8FC17 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:33:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so4678350qwg.13 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:33:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z4ZeAKsoNKj2oMVOTUG/ReiffLBRm+OjLt6B5aFqem0=; b=XMtO7J13qTGSqeuxRULVyATA50lwrYj0Qf5QRxdO+7qQ9Gc2cugF/X1PaMGJfY6JRq t73FUoVWvtNYo2/BfMuT1BhnRXSrbPlzc53aODeYDveZeha3jY/7mzywUNKEFYc7090C rbxj2LGumPgf2IyTNIGAuWo16xf9lHTON3OPM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=aT+Deiv0u+XppcfO4gb5QIoCqF9cACMJ4rduugm1nVSEU+9clbWeWA619XeVQwJnFt F6qbELoqaIT5Y8Bm37CUZ11dW6kj/L1UuuPoaoFVg3GFKK2Oa4nwu04hPFyk4sZvN0S9 Y2e1+By6RSq8tr+swGfn+MMU5fLjrH3PsqwdM= Received: by 10.229.220.20 with SMTP id hw20mr2383628qcb.94.1282437180832; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (75.97.128.170.res-cmts.sewb.ptd.net [75.97.128.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e6sm5122324qcr.41.2010.08.21.17.32.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C707038.3070800@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:32:56 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fred Boatwright References: <4C6D1399.5050601@comcast.net> <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> <4C6F457D.E18CCA82@blakemfg.com> <4C700925.715E10B8@blakemfg.com> <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Problems 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: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:33:02 -0000 On 8/21/10 7:12 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> I changed the driver from vesa to nVidia but the nVidia driver could not >> be found and X exited. After restoring vesa I ran the test on xorg.conf >> -retro and it worked ok. However, startx still produced only a black >> screen. > > nVidia is a long story. There are binary drivers provided by nVidia, > and there's a limited open-source driver provided by xorg. Someone else > is going to have to provide detail. > > For now, vesa at 1024x768 should be fine. Just curious - why are you using vesa instead of nv (not nVidia)? Regards, -- Glen Barber