Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 20:54:56 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@wnt.sas.com> To: "Jason Barnes" <jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86 and Sony Vaio PCG-FXA49 Message-ID: <20020224015456.DB495BA08@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On Friday 22 February 2002 12:32 am, Jason Barnes wrote:
> I am having difficulty installing XFree86 on a Sony Vaio PCF-FXA49
> machine. For XFree86-4.1 I try:
>
> XFree86 -configure
>
> and the machine locks up totally. Likewise, when I run xf86config and
> tell it what's going on, I run into the same problem -- when I run XFree86
> the screen goes blank and the machine becomes unresponsive. In the
> -configure case there is no output to the screen before lockup, and in the
> other case there is some but I don't get a chance to read it before the
> screen goes blank. xf86cfg does the same thing.
> I've tried installing XFree86 version 4.2, and there is no
> apparent difference. I am running FreeBSD-4.5-RELEASE on the machine. If
> anyone has any ideas as to things I might be able to try to get X working,
> I would greatly apreciate it. Thanks in advance for your time!!!
1. Try the "linux for laptops" page. Since XFree is the same for Linux and
FreeBSD this usually applies -- except with NVidia chipsets since they make
proprietary Linux drivers. I recommend avoid NVidia, period.
2. Knowing that you are going to lock up the screen, do
X >& /tmp/logfile
(that assume csh -- for ksh use X >/tmp/logfile 2>1
that we you can actually read what it's telling you.
Try this with configure and other ways.
See if you can recover from the locked strings with CRL-ALT-BS or CTL-ALT-F2.
If not, before doing this, mount your non-/tmp partitions read-only (mount -u
-a -o ro) to save time when you come back up.
>
> - Jason
>
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