From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 15:56:35 2010 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 F294010656A3 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:56:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19B08FC0A for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi17 with SMTP id 17so2578493pxi.13 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:56:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bUyZr4LCGvS+3itSsFh8cH1pBAdotbyKk3rZIwiyZgg=; b=N+08WgvKFHaGSZqdE5mqQFwNVmcxGVOp1g1HCTZW39+wG/NWMUv2nxM7glDrhoNFap oxo0p/mYmB9aZIXmnYvHHZ4ddbw2czYNscZntK007CEnQZkQtAQGgQEQjzj7GkybRTA2 9VhXDkVI3dNMh6/YkRJ2K5H8CQy3pEb19mQzc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=BGkM3fV9Ry048jj0RMlNWffVpLEj4bS9OaQyQujoFX+G5N81SsQBGsRb5DDJwuJZIc fpIk72OJcbq2aTG4XPdC2RY7cS9bOttQnkrrUPP2S62J8sAVUG2rot592YJF3PKH2xH2 6ZGbGo54IBbPtC0RiZz8KXjjzR9CNQ+myfG7Q= Received: by 10.142.204.17 with SMTP id b17mr4650508wfg.109.1282578995059; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (173-161-130-225-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.161.130.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o7sm1875169vcn.5.2010.08.23.08.56.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C729A2D.8010107@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:56:29 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rem P Roberti References: <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net> <4C72995F.6060802@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C72995F.6060802@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Xorg Redux 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, 23 Aug 2010 15:56:36 -0000 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