From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 00:57:28 2008 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 6889E16A418 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:57:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: from smtp117.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp117.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.64.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6061E13C459 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:57:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: (qmail 13419 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2008 00:30:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.15?) (jinmtb@sbcglobal.net@76.199.107.118 with plain) by smtp117.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2008 00:30:48 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: JMnrZEAVM1kpfM0j2nhJXqXQnkxxqyLbjYn.iHby9eFddn19kose66RP62gTFBwprG0FFdyV1A-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <4793E7B4.3060809@george.lbl.gov> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:30:44 -0800 From: "Jin Guojun [VFFS]" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061027 X-Accept-Language: en, zh, zh-CN MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manolis Kiagias References: <4792C632.5010502@lbl.gov> <4793A896.3080604@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <4793A896.3080604@otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jim Guojun \[VFFS\]" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: X -configure fails on 6.3-Release 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: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:57:28 -0000 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Jim Guojun [VFFS] wrote: > >> After installed FreeBSD 6.3 on two machines, and X server cannot be >> started somehow on either one. >> >> Both "X -configure" and "X -probeonly" failed and errors are in >> attached file -- Xerr. >> Also, Xorg.o.log is attached. >> >> Both machines run FreeBSD 6.2 and X works fine. >> I search wiki.x.org and freebsd list, but did not see any information >> related to this problem. >> >> Can someone tell me what is going wrong on my installation or X >> configuration? >> >> Thanks, >> -Jin >> > > I rarely install X from packages during install myself (I most always > compile the entire Xorg from ports afterwards). But wanting to test my > CDs, I did, and got the exact same result. It seems that when > installing the Standard distribution with X, several parts are not > selected (like xorg-drivers, which is causing this exact symptom. You > will also find out there is no "startx" command). Maybe the > installation does not take into account that Xorg is now modular? > However, when you reach the question about installing packages, you > can actually select the entire xorg-7.3 package and install it. This > will take care of the problem. This was not a problem of installation on FreeBSD 6.2 and earlier. It looks like a bug in 6.3 installation process. It does not matter how to select X package from the selection menu, the drivers are not installed. -Jin