From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 23:56:19 2009 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 23F31106566B for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:56:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from oceanpt.safeport.com (oceanpt.safeport.com [65.122.17.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D048FC26 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oceanpt.safeport.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nBGNuA1Y033511; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:56:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:56:10 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: Pieter de Goeje In-Reply-To: <200912170031.58151.pieter@degoeje.nl> Message-ID: References: <200912131042.50936.lumiwa@gmail.com> <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net> <200912170031.58151.pieter@degoeje.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (oceanpt.safeport.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:56:11 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about xorg 7.4 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: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:56:19 -0000 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.. 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