From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 8 19:34:53 2009 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 554601065705 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 19:34:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jules.stocks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f206.google.com (mail-bw0-f206.google.com [209.85.218.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73BD8FC27 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 19:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so1413471bwz.43 for ; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:34:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WdG9ODlGUiBArf/w2KH2mVLFmBau1DVsAm1NxOmOivI=; b=Bu7fDhjEglnUWeTApT6U/KhjJBVNRjqcgFMEP/xXY+/usV2dZ3nP4bn0GM8xmnW0WY YJIkDGHCp18IvpLQC4+57gL9LHMmvivAetpkq0g+n9U2T82wFFhPoe8YsIaUXJmTKI0n huxhgmlRcK219K38g324/a/ISUHhSWXYpW6TM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=xpo+UbtJ4r4OrO5JxRYlnXy8Co7ryBhxzBEmQ9+0JA/X/69GjlF0X2Wa9yNU0xtWFY 45GaOCPGR9lPpXMNlMxvGW6Sjh0pjPNBB59L/NNT6zuXLiLW8nRASXiwi76IxBo/iUdj mU7HlvyCcddhmxG/0NbSOUfy0wVoO5gTT2D6Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.65.17 with SMTP id g17mr4398457bki.193.1249758874157; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:14:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jules Gilbert Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:14:14 -0400 Message-ID: <28d0cced0908081214y5e2bde06m5701976d95f245e5@mail.gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver 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, 08 Aug 2009 19:34:53 -0000 Okay, I'm back with another question (but let me begin by saying I love FreeBSD. It really is great. Thank you for building/supporting it.) I have one of those $300 Presario laptop's, and it's really wonderful -- it compares very well to laptops' selling for $2k to even $3k. But the video driver is an AMD 8200M nvidia device and I can't get X to configure it. And I have to run X. What do I do? I've tried: X -configure that fails. I notice that PC-BSD will configure it correctly but for other reasons I have to run native 7.2 FreeBSD -- PC-BSD won't do. I am not very X experienced (mostly use the ordinary screens,) so I will need pretty explicit assistance. Sorry. --jg