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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:16:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Polytropon wrote:

> The reason why I ask: I've been using FreeBSD 5 and XFree86 4
> for many years happily, my ATI Radeon 9000 RV250 had excellent
> driver support, 3D no problems. Since I was forced to upgrade
> to FreeBSD 7 due to a massive data loss, I have problems with
> Xorg 7. When X is started, it takes several seconds for the display
> to initialize - such an amount of time that the monitor switches
> off (no signal).

I found that not having moused enabled made for slow switches to X with 
xorg:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=55740+0+archive/2008/freebsd-x11/20080727.freebsd-x11

Setting moused_enable="Y" in /etc/rc.conf cured it.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA