From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 6:30:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1976E37B41D for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 06:30:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA21610; Fri, 3 May 2002 06:30:17 -0700 Message-ID: <3CD290E9.3000801@owt.com> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 06:30:17 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.J.Rijpkema" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 Problem References: <000001c1f29f$5199f290$9600000a@pluto> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J.J.Rijpkema wrote: > Hello, > > > > I am a Newbie to BSD and I have a problem configuring the X11. > > First I installed FreeBSD without any problem, but when I want to > configure X11, I constantly get the message that the X Server can?t start. > > I have read the chapter about Configuring X, it says that (a different > way than using /stand/sysinstall) you can configure X if you type > > XFree86 ?configure, it than makes a new XF86Config.new file to edit. > > But when I do this, my monitor goes black and than turns off for about > 10 sec. and than it switches on again, but than I can?t see anything > > it just turns on. > > After I reboot (with ctrl+alt+del or the power button), I do have the > file XF86Config.new that should be created, nothing wrong about that, but I > > still can?t start X with startx because than I get the same thing as > when I create the XF86Config.new file. I had problems getting KDE to start up after installing 4.2. What I found was that you needed to get rid of /etc/XF86Config. It is for XFree86-3.3.6. Then, I had to run "xf86cfg to finish the configuration. The new XF86Config is located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Kent > > > > I have a Intel 810e chipset, and I have read that XFree86 4.X supports > these chips. > > I also read that if you want to configure the XF86Config file for these > chips that you have to load the agp.ko module into the kernel to use agpgart > > I have done this by adding the line agp_load=?YES? to the > /boot/loader.conf file, they said it than loads the module at booting. > > I also created the AGP device node in the /dev directory with sh MAKEDEV > agpgart, but with all these changes, I still can?t configure or get the X > > server starting. > > > > I don?t know if I am doing something wrong or missing something, but > when I do I hope you guys can help me with this, because for so far I > like BSD > > and would like to learn much more of it. > > > > Greetings > > J.J. Rijpkema > > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message