Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 18:55:18 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X11 setup .... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408091850330.96880@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <53E6936A.900@hiwaay.net> References: <53E641C3.4040409@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408091258160.96880@fledge.watson.org> <53E666F0.809@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408091628040.96880@fledge.watson.org> <53E6936A.900@hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 08/09/14 15:37, doug wrote: >> On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >>> 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 :-/ .... >> Ah - my desktop of choice. The X11 list might help. I excel at choosing PCs >> whose video card are not supported. However flickering and worse in my >> experience has meant driver errors. Have you tried the vesa driver? You >> will not get the full use of the card but if that driver does not work it >> may mean hardware issues. If you have a windows partition, it is good to >> test the hardware. >> >> I am afraid this one is above my pay grade :( >> > > It's already on the vesa driver, & the 'gfx card' is on die w/ the CPU .... > No sweat, I figured I might have a few glitches w/ such new hardware .... > When you say X11 list, do you mean the FreeBSD/X11 list, or X.org ? Thanks > :-) .... > "FreeBSD X11 mailing list" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> is the one I follow. I am hoping for a solution to the console switching issue. Either list is probably okay for this issue.
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