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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:56:29 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Xorg Redux
Message-ID:  <4C729A2D.8010107@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C72995F.6060802@gmail.com>
References:  <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net> <4C72995F.6060802@gmail.com>

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On 8/23/10 11:53 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
> On 8/23/10 11:44 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>>  Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so
>> on my Thinkpad R51.  Here's what's happening.  I installed xorg on this
>> new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program, copying
>> the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11 as xorg.conf.  I have both hald and
>> dbus enabled in /etc/rc.conf.  When I try to run the test on xorg.conf,
>> or if I just run "startx" I momentarily see the initial screen, which is
>> displayed when X11 loads, but then the screen goes blank, and that's all
>> she wrote.  No keyboard, no mouse, totally frozen.  The only way out is
>> a reboot via the power switch.
>>
>> As usual, help is very appreciated.
>>
> 
> Try adding this to xorg.conf:
> 
> 	Section "ServerFlags"
> 		option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
> 	EndSection
> 
> Regards,
> 

I misread your 'hald and dbus enabled' as 'disabled' initially, so this
may or may not help.

Do you see a mouse pointer when the screen goes blank?  Also, can you
include Xorg.log.0 and xorg.conf?

-- 
Glen Barber



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