From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 12:48:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B5C106566B for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:48:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from mx.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb7:b8fe]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021258FC23 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:48:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by mx.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m2HCl1bw025695; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:47:02 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, robert@chalmers.com.au Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:47:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080316211253.M2398@jago.65north.com> <3dd203290803162338k3b277790kec608ccfc7e59082@mail.gmail.com> <47de2136.261d640a.1c5a.66d2@mx.google.com> In-Reply-To: <47de2136.261d640a.1c5a.66d2@mx.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803171347.01465.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:48:03 -0000 On Monday 17 March 2008, Robert Chalmers wrote: > Well, I suppose this will eventually get to the original poster. > > I too have just gone through this nightmare. But, I short circuited it all. > > I went to a clean install of 7.0-RELEASE. > > Ah ha. Easy. Nope. The gremlins were waiting. > > So basically here's what I did. > > When I loaded the new system, I installed EVERYTHING I could enable. If > there was an option, I installed it. > Beautiful. > Rebooted - X blah blah blah .... of course not. > Fiddled with the xogconfig and made lots of xorg.config attempts, then > realised - looking at the log - that it couldn't find the S3 driver. Yes, > ancient S3 card in this box. All of 8 years old. > So - took a clue from the log, and went into I think, like, > ....xorg-drivers, and looked at the Makefile, which had everything in it. I > commented out the things I would never need - mouses, and video - which is > all that is in there, and left in the obvious ones, including some that > "might come in handy one day" and typed > Make install clean > Now it all works. Well, as soon as I figure out some of the other mystical > incantations - worse than World of War this lot. > > But bottom lline. > Go into that xorg-driveers directory and check the Makefile, then "make > install clean" and lots of things start happening. > > > And I add - this is after a clean install where I said "Just do it" ... yea > right. :-) > > Sorry I can't check those directories - I'm currently trying to port in VNC > .... I live in hope. > Robert This is the reason why it is recommended to install x11/xorg. It will install all necessary drivers, servers, fonts and clients automatically. Installing x11-servers/xorg-server is not enough, because it doesn't install any drivers (it used to do this before Xorg 7 existed). -- Pieter de Goeje