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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:15:03 -0600
From:      Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Xorg Not Finding AGP Card
Message-ID:  <4B6341C7.9020809@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>

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First time I installed FreeBSD (yes, there was a first time, I managed
to hose the root account and had to start over again) I was asked
something about whether or not my vid card was PCI or AGP. I answered
AGP (as that is all I have that is halfway decent). I had Xorg up and
running with minimum fuss (aside from it's choice of default wm even
when I had wmaker already installed), I had no such prompt this time,
which I didn't think of until now.

I've got the latest Xorg installed from ports (I think it's 7.4_2).

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

#Xorg -configure
<bunch of stuff about it failing>
No devices to configure. Configuration failed.

Which is a pile of malarky, obviously. It also says it cannot find
fbdev. hald and dbus are installed (although I get "no such command"
when I try to start dbus from the cli (despite it being a requirement
for like 50 million different packages (yes, I can nest parenthesis and
use hyperbole all day long), half of which are probably installed by now)=
).

I am /not/ reinstalling for this relatively minor problem, though my
patience (mainly with my lack of apparent ability) is wearing thin.
--=20
Yours In Christ,

PIT
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.


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