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On Saturday 24 December 2005 03:58, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a P4 HT, and I cannot start X. Actually I
> want to start KDE; the .xinitrc is in place, but I couldn't start it
> before
> I wrote it, either. As I cannot copy and paste, I do not give you my
> xorg.conf file, but I need the i810 driver for a Realtek A'67 integrated
> sound device whose chip apparently is Intel.
>
> Upon startx, I get in the end:
>
> (==) Using config file "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"
> (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
> start: not found.

<This last line indicates that you are trying to run a program called start.
Likely this is in your .xinitrc.  Is it possible that you have something
othere than the following in your .xinitrc:

exec startkde>

> I have checked the xorg.conf file and it has no mention of module i915. I
> have tried with the config files made by "xorgcfg -textmode", but none of
> the options for the driver i810 works. The check: "Xorg -config
> xorg.conf.new", after making "Xorg -configure" and changing the resolution
> to 1280x1024, works all right, though.
>
> I would appreciate if you could give me a hint of what to do. I'll be
> happy
> to provide any additional information.

<Hope that helps.>

It helped all right. I am in now, thanks a lot.

Teilhard.