From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 9 18:16:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB91C150 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 18:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6AC0279B for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 18:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (rbn1-216-180-76-131.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.131]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s79IGP4N012134 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 13:16:26 -0500 Message-ID: <53E666F0.809@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 13:22:40 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: X11 setup .... References: <53E641C3.4040409@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 18:16:28 -0000 On 08/09/14 12:03, doug wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> .... I am following the instructions at >> [1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.h >> tml to get my newly installed xorg setup. I stepped through everything >> up to the 'Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro' which didn't fail, bit >> didn't behave quite like it was supposed to .... Machine is AMD Jaguar >> Kabini based, quad core, 1.3 GHz, 25W, gfx on die: >> Aug 9 10:23:34 kabini1 kernel: CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) 3850 APU with >> Radeon(tm) R3 (1297.59-MHz K8-class CPU) >> xorg detects it as: BoardName "Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 Series]" >> The above test is supposed to give a black & grey grid on the screen, >> w/ an X-mouse. I have the mouse, & it moves around, although >> click-&-drag does nothing, & I might have the grid, although it is >> pixel-by-pixel, not finitely sized grid .... The troubleshooting page >> is little help .... Am I good to go or not :-/ ? TIA .... >> -- > Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Errors are somewhat esoteric unless you > know a lot about X11 but they are clearly marked. You can subscribe to > the X11 mailing list or just search the archives of that list. > > You can see if you are good to go by trying startx. > Thanks. My question was poorly articulated, should have been 'am I OK for XFCE ?' .... I plunged on & started XFCE, & it works mostly pretty good, but the gfx is definitely spotty, lotta flickering, background on desktop looks a bit dicey, window frames are granular & flickery. I just looked through /var/log/Xorg.0.log & there are *no* errors (no '(EE)'s) .... what now :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.