From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 01:03:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C535216A468 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: from smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9737D13C447 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: (qmail 17282 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2008 00:36:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.15?) (jinmtb@sbcglobal.net@76.199.107.118 with plain) by smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2008 00:36:21 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: eTHtwxYVM1khTCweIDcdmq9I4FV5GUzxuEO6qXQWE_OOmqL6N72HoD7eIfbDHtKpXRUgUR1WEA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <4793E904.5020608@george.lbl.gov> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:36:20 -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: Predrag Punosevac References: <4792C632.5010502@lbl.gov> <4792D7A1.6020903@math.arizona.edu> <47939CBA.6090809@george.lbl.gov> <4793A534.7020705@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <4793A534.7020705@math.arizona.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, x11@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 01:03:02 -0000 Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Jin Guojun [VFFS] wrote: > >> Predrag Punosevac 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. >>>> >>> >>> (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) Failed to load module "vga" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0) >>> (EE) No drivers available. >>> >>> >>> How did you add Xorg? It looks like you are completely missing >>> drivers. Did you reboot the computers after the XOrg was added. >>> >> I did not add Xorg. From installation, I selected either 5 >> (X-Developer) or 7 (X-Kern-Developer). >> This is what older FreeBSD installation used to add X Window system. >> > That should be enough. Did you create initial xorg.conf.new file with > Xorg -configure? Nop, "X -configure" does not work due to missing many X related packages. >> Is this an issue for 6.3 installation? >> I will try to add Xorg manually to see if this can fix the problem. >> >> -Jin > > I have no clue. I tried to play recently with 7.0 which is not as > stable as 6.3. I wanted to use Miro. Xorg was properly installed and > configured but it was crushing right after the start. > The same machine is running OpenBSD 4.2 without any issues.I actually > tried to start X even with VESA driver > (normaly I would use i810) and very conservative options but aval:-(. > It is 10 year old PIII. So nothing fancy. Manually adding Xorg package resolves the problem -- it installs everything. So, the problem is likely a 6.3 installation bug, but I wonder no one else complained it :-( Thanks for help, -Jin