From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 18:06:31 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 388DC106566C for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:06:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE1A8FC13 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.88]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id xoYJ1e0051u4NiLAAu6Wpa; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:06:30 +0000 Received: from remegius.comcast.net ([67.180.204.190]) by omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id xu6T1e00W46zqiB8hu6VAJ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:06:30 +0000 Message-ID: <4C72B8A3.2@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:06:27 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100819 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glen Barber References: <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net> <4C72B37D.2020504@comcast.net> <4C72B51C.8020901@gmail.com> <4C72B6EE.6050205@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C72B6EE.6050205@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 18:06:31 -0000 On 08/23/10 10:59, Glen Barber wrote: > On 8/23/10 1:51 PM, Glen Barber wrote: >> On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: >>>> The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the >>>> xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500: >>>> >>>> http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_config&config=xconfig&laptop=12947 >>>> >>>> >>> Here is the xorg.conf that was created by Xorg -configure: >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Section "ServerLayout" >>> Identifier "X.org Configured" >>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >>> Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" >> Hmmm.. What happens if you disable Screen 1 ? >> > I suspect your laptop has an external connector for a second monitor. > If so, can you plug a monitor in before trying what I suggested earlier? > Too late :-) . I forgot to mention that previous to my installing 8.1 I had PCBSD 8.1 installed just to check it out (no likee), and the PCBSD installer had no problem configuring X. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of that xorg.conf.