From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 29 19:09:35 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C69FAE2712 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9AFB11ED for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:09:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id u2TJ9Wpt051580 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:09:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id u2TJ9WJF051577; Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:09:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:09:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: gyliamos@gmail.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to downgrade X server In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <56F60B8D.8080900@ShaneWare.Biz> <56F77C30.5090808@ShaneWare.Biz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:09:32 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:09:35 -0000 On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Will Parsons wrote: > Warren Block wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, Will Parsons wrote: >> >>> I haven't been using one. The Xorg log shows: >>> ... >> >> The fbdev errors are ignorable. Is that the entire log? The Intel >> HD3000 should work fine. > > No - I just started with the first errror messages. I've included the > entire log below. > >> As a start, please describe your hardware. Some notebooks have hybrid >> graphics like Optimus which are a problem. If that is not present, >> defining just the device in xorg.conf.d might be all that is needed. > > It's a Lenovo Edge E520 laptop - see below for info from dmesg. > Any help is much appreciated. Specs from the web don't indicate any hybrid graphics, which is good news. The log file does not have any obvious problems. Please make sure there are no old xorg.conf files in /etc/X11/ or /usr/local/etc/X11/. Nothing more should be required, but it would do no harm to manually set a Device as shown here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html#x-config-video-cards-file-intel Probably also a good idea to use vt(4) in case the black screen is due to X exiting. In /boot/loader.conf, add kern.vty=vt That only takes effect after a reboot. Finally, check the contents of .xinitrc and .xsession for unexpected things. Neither is required. Test X with just startx. Don't try to use display managers like xdm or gdm yet.