Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:48 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about xorg 7.4 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161802310.97785@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161857080.2594@oceanpt.safeport.com> References: <200912131042.50936.lumiwa@gmail.com> <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912151013210.13455@fledge.watson.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161636340.97785@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161857080.2594@oceanpt.safeport.com>
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, doug@safeport.com wrote: >> >>> All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx, >>> xdm and xorg all do the same. >> >> Does ctrl-alt-f1 switch to the console? If so, good news--it's working. >> You need to run dbus and hal as per the Handbook page. Or disable hal, >> also as per the Handbook page. >> >>> I assume this is a hardware issue and hope someone found a way around it. >> >> It's possible, but hard to tell. If you can post your xorg.conf and >> Xorg.0.log, that would help. > > I appreciate your input. With the installation from pkg_add, the keyboard was > locked. Power off was the only relief. That's why I asked about ctrl-alt-f1. If X is working even without a keyboard driver, that should still switch to the console. > I tried with and without hal/dbus, I changed the Driver to ati because > that worked in an earlier of xorg, What are you using for a driver now? > I commented out dri because I (mistakenly) thought that gave an error. > What worked was installing xorg from the 7.2-release iso. Which is going back to the older version of xorg. > Now what I would like to do is get rid of the black background. See xsetroot(1). > I actually like twm and use it when upgrading kde. Thank you for your > offer to review Xorg.0.log. Unfortunately the current system only > keeps two levels. My failures were long gone before questions was > restored to health. When you want to try it again, I think we can make it work. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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