Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:45:48 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about xorg 7.4 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161636340.97785@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912151013210.13455@fledge.watson.org> References: <200912131042.50936.lumiwa@gmail.com> <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912151013210.13455@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, doug wrote: > I have a IBM thinkpad T42p. xorg 7.4 is pretty much a disaster for me. First > I wonder if anyone has gotten 7.4 to work on this or similar hardware. The > system is 3+ years old when it was still IBM. My T42--no P--is the only system that the new Xorg has worked on completely from the start, including 3D acceleration! But it has a Radeon 7500, and yours might have fancier graphics. > I have done this a time or two starting with the first version of KDE and > FreeBSD 4.<something>. I believe I have tried all of the options in the > handbook plus a couple of various from this list and google. So I was not > going to add xdm and Xorg output, at first anyway. > > The one thing I have not done is upgrade the BIOS and am not sure that > matters. I was/am afraid of breaking an otherwise great system. It runs xorg > 7.3 and KDE 3 or 4 fine. I go to this point because I broke things trying to > install firefox3 and got all tangled up in upgrading ports and thought I > would give xorg 7.4 a try. > > I am running FreeBSD 7.2. Xorg was installed using pkg_add on a system > without any ports. Upon hitting the xdm trap, I also installed that package. I would not attempt to install KDE or GNOME until xorg was working and twm works. > All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx, xdm > and xorg all do the same. Does ctrl-alt-f1 switch to the console? If so, good news--it's working. You need to run dbus and hal as per the Handbook page. Or disable hal, also as per the Handbook page. > I assume this is a hardware issue and hope someone found a way around > it. It's possible, but hard to tell. If you can post your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log, that would help. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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