From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 16:00:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17C816A4D8 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:00:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAFB43DDF for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:53:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 27024 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2006 15:52:48 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Nov 2006 15:52:48 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id ED3D528430; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:52:47 -0500 (EST) To: arnuld References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:52:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: (arnuld's message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:29:45 +0530") Message-ID: <44psbr4a40.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "X windows" configuration problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:00:29 -0000 arnuld writes: > hai all, > > i am not able to configure my X-Windows system. i will be brief: > > 1.) ASUS K8V-MX motherboard running AMD64 Athlon > 2.) VIA K8M800, VIA 8T237R chipsets. > > i downloaded FreeBSD 6.1 last night & have verified the "md5sum". > "Xorg -configure" does not work. GNOME is installed. then i tried > "xorgconfig -textmode" which worked & after checking my mouse, > keyboard etc it shows me the "video card list" which contains only 2 > drivers "ati" & "vmware" & nothing else. so i tried both drivers, > "ati" & "vmware" & edited "ttyv8" line in "/etc/ttys" to "on" from > "off". but all i get is Black Terminal. > > does anybody has any idea on how i can configure X? You don't necessarily need to with X.org: on many systems it can run just fine without any config file. > (i used to run Fedora Core 4 before that which installs "vesa" driver > for my VGA & it ran fine in "1024x768" mode. i have used FreeBSD 5.4 > once which did show me a long list of drivers for my "video card" > including "vesa" & i ran my box with that & it was fine but with this > new FreeBSD i dont have any choice except 2 drivers i mentioned. ) Do you have the xorg-server port installed? [Look at the pkg_info(1) output.]