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Subject: Re: Xorg on FreeBSD 10.x. Mac mini G4: black screen
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Are you sure it *isn't* working? For a few releases now, X's extremely 
irritating default behavior is to give you an all-black screen with a 
black cursor and do nothing else. So if you just start X without also 
starting, say, an xterm, success and failure are indistinguishable.
-Nathan

On 04/13/14 04:30, Tilman Keskinöz wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I updated my Mac Mini to FreeBSD 10-STABLE. FreeBSD is much more solid
> than a few years ago when i last tried.
>
> But i am still struggling with X. I am using xorg-server-1.7.7_11,1  and
> just get a black screen and later the screen goes into powersave mode.
> The box is reachable via SSH. If i kill the Xserver i get a console back.
>
> Does anyone have X11 working on a G4 mac mini and might want to share
> his xorg.conf and what version he is running?
>
> TIA
> arved