From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 17:32:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F40106566C for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:32:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from varga.michal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137008FC12 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh15 with SMTP id 15so997456wyh.13 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:32:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:organization :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wUG7L7k5ctJM67pHuq+k5Z+Vy9uoTzX/9yJLPrszs20=; b=c/4M+fL7ohdXV7Obz7cGy/XxNBq58jR3FvC2Q4bf41gf82cshiqWeuFrdG0+PbxO6g 5uPnEKr7FfNWZqw/p2kSu1xXc0v3eMn5urhvHXw6eC1P0CriNjuTS5iV73eyVDdofujL 3wuWpNGZVxTTzl8vqo8R26taNg5VGyLuW59XY= Received: by 10.227.5.193 with SMTP id 1mr4372367wbw.57.1316539954121; Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.101.2] (254.166.broadband10.iol.cz. [90.177.166.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f26sm3282609wbp.7.2011.09.20.10.32.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:32:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Michal Varga To: Antonio Olivares In-Reply-To: References: <20110918042853.3D61C106566C@hub.freebsd.org> <1316521778.1744.92.camel@xenon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Stonehenge Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:32:27 +0200 Message-ID: <1316539947.1744.103.camel@xenon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Garrett Cooper , Tom Evans , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no X after installing xorg + xfce X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:32:36 -0000 On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 12:02 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Newb hacker tip number one: try CTRL-ALT-F1 when you get the > > technicolor screen. If your system isn't hosed then you'll get the > > first tty. > > I do know this, before it was CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE and now it is > CTRL + ALT + F1 :) I am not exactly a ``newbie'' but I am not an > ``expert'' as I am still learning :) > Those two are very different kinds of beasts. CTRL+ALT+Fx is an xf86/xorg substitute for the regular ALT+Fx (console switching), so that ALT+Fx can be still used within X applications. On the other hand, CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is a "zap" command, that will let you instantly kill a currently running X server. Note that in more recent versions of xorg (incl. 7.5), CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is disabled by default. To get it working again, you will need to setup xorg.conf with at least: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Main Layout" [...] InputDevice "Main Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" [...] Option "DontZap" "False" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Main Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" EndSection > Garrett & all, > > I have X working :) Used nvidia-driver, as specified in FreeBSD howto > (handbook page). changed 'nv' to 'nvidia', added nvidia_enable="YES" > to /etc/rc.conf and now X works. I am loading more software that is That's good to hear. Congratulations. m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)