From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 00:25:42 2008 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 16999106566B for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghirai@ghirai.com) Received: from ghirai.com (ghirai.com [193.33.187.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E488FC18 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:25:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghirai@ghirai.com) Received: from deimos.bsd.nix (unknown [89.123.26.112]) by ghirai.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E766A16F2C; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:25:38 +0300 From: Ghirai To: "Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)" Message-Id: <20080412032538.7f220229.ghirai@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <8D135C6B91AEAC4CA9A94E74604BA0990DD51C@GNBEX01.gnb.ca> References: <8D135C6B91AEAC4CA9A94E74604BA0990DD51C@GNBEX01.gnb.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6 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: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:25:42 -0000 On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:57:23 -0300 "Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)" wrote: > Hello all, > > First off I'm a total newbie to FreeBSD and the UNIX world. > > I installed FreeBSD 7 about 1 wk ago and I'm about to give up at this point as I'm having video problems but it seems like such a great OS I want to fix it. > > My video hardware: > > Integrated onboard Intel video card, 965 chipset using the system memory > > Here is the problem; > > I have GNOME (version that comes with FreeBSD 7) for an interface and initially when it loaded my mouse didn't work. I used the xorgconfig, xorgcfg did not work. Once I ran the configuration utility and the new xorg.conf file was created I rebooted and now I have a mouse but the screen resolution is extremely low (everything is huge). Before I ran the utility and loaded gnome the resolution was very decent (but I had no mouse). I know they're probably unrelated. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > p.s. I discovered on X.org that the Intel 965 chipset is 'now' supported in release X11R7.2. Would upgrading X be the smartest thing to do but my question since I'm a total newbie is... how do I do that :) > > Thanks for any advice > > Ian Make sure you have moused_enable="YES" in rc.conf, as well as usbd_enable="YES" (if you have an usb mouse). You should also verify that Xorg uses the 'intel' driver. The handbook covers basic X11 setup pretty well: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html -- Regards, Ghirai.