Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:56:10 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about xorg 7.4 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161854010.2594@oceanpt.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <200912170031.58151.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <200912131042.50936.lumiwa@gmail.com> <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912151013210.13455@fledge.watson.org> <200912170031.58151.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:15:58 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. >> >> 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. >> >> All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx, xdm >> and xorg all do the same. I assume this is a hardware issue and hope >> someone found a way around it. >> >> Thank you for any thoughts, tips, ideas, etc. > > Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern these days. > Keyboard and mouse input is handled by hald(8), so don't forget to enable and > start it before starting Xorg. hald depends on dbus so that also needs to be > enabled and started. Add the following to rc.conf: > hald_enable="YES" > dbus_enable="YES" > > Good luck, > Pieter de Goeje Thanks for your reply. I tried all that and more. Installing xorg 7.4 from the 7.2-release iso worked with the last verision of my xorg.conf file which happened to be not using hal and dbus. _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277
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