From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 22:38:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA90B37B491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: (qmail 24231 invoked by uid 0); 26 Feb 2001 07:38:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2001 07:38:31 -0000 Message-ID: <3A99F9E0.17922043@urx.com> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:38:24 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: richard childers Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SuperProbe: KDENABIO failed References: <3A99FAAA.48167FB6@pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG richard childers wrote: > > I'm installing FreeBSD 4.2 on a Toshiba 1555CDS, a laptop which has > given me a few problems but which has faithfully run FreeBSD 4.0, and > X11R6 (albeit, at a lower resolution than I'd like to see) for the > better part of a year, back and forth across the country, a few times > now. > > I've gotten past the basic installation and am now working on X11R6 > configuration. When I ran XF86Setup, I got the following error: > > XF86Setup: KDENABIO failed > XF86Setup: Cannot open video > > I did some irresponsible fiddling around, first; just to see if I could > hotwire it, I copied my old /etc/XF86Config into place from the > pre-upgrade backup, created the soft link /usr/X11R6/bin/X, and tried > 'startx'. Same message (plus a bunch of others :-). > > Then I tried more rigorous approaches to problem resolution; including > > # cd /dev > # ./MAKEDEV all > # reboot > > ... as well as examining the kernel configuration file, line by line, > and rebuilding it ... and also, using the command-line utility, > 'xf86config', using values gleaned from old FreeBSD 4.0 notes, Toshiba > hardware manuals, and my old /etc/XF86Config. No success. > > So I tried SuperProbe, and got the same !@#$ message: > > SuperProbe: KDENABIO failed > SuperProbe: Cannot open video > > ... and I get the same message when I invoke 'SuperProbe' with the > '-verbose' option. > > I already have my suspicions about the CDROM I bought at CompUSA; the > boot images didn't boot and I had to download the working images from > ftp.freebsd.org. > > Does 'KDENABIO' imply that KDE-specific dependencies have been built > into X11R6? First question, did you crank up the kernel security level and not pay attention to the side effects such as x-windows not running on the higher levels. Kent > > -- richard > > -- > Richard A. Childers > Senor UNIX Administrator > fscked@pacbell.net (email) > 203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) > > # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. > # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message