From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 22 02:17:16 2010 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 6244B106566B for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:17:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fred@blakemfg.com) Received: from mail.getnet.net (mail.getnet.net [216.19.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A23E8FC08 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:17:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5874 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2010 02:17:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Aug 2010 02:17:15 -0000 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at getnet.net Received: from mail.getnet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.getnet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rWWVEr1xBtad for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:17:15 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 5862 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2010 02:17:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blakemfg.com) (fredb@216.19.219.132) by mail.getnet.net with ESMTPA; 22 Aug 2010 02:17:14 -0000 Sender: fred Message-ID: <4C7085E6.EF721E1E@blakemfg.com> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:05:26 -0700 From: Fred Boatwright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4C6D1399.5050601@comcast.net> <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> <4C6F457D.E18CCA82@blakemfg.com> <4C700925.715E10B8@blakemfg.com> <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> <4C707038.3070800@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Xorg Problems 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: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:17:16 -0000 Glen Barber wrote: > > On 8/21/10 7:12 PM, Warren Block wrote: > >> I changed the driver from vesa to nVidia but the nVidia driver could not > >> be found and X exited. After restoring vesa I ran the test on xorg.conf > >> -retro and it worked ok. However, startx still produced only a black > >> screen. > > > > nVidia is a long story. There are binary drivers provided by nVidia, > > and there's a limited open-source driver provided by xorg. Someone else > > is going to have to provide detail. > > > > For now, vesa at 1024x768 should be fine. > > Just curious - why are you using vesa instead of nv (not nVidia)? > > Regards, > > -- > Glen Barber > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Glen, Vesa is what Xorg -configure comes up with. Should the nVidia driver name be nv? Best regards, Fred