From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 22:32:01 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 3CE221065694 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:32:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAEB8FC18 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so6570287vws.13 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:32:00 -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=QbM8csx0tDK7F0Ot+pQNxUC8daIzdXb0JuqBRY4lwoM=; b=Bkyb2PMJaxZ2DnKlnOSc3lrI42itPRVPuXIdcLmHfzSzZIV2rRGL2MayE5p/T0ETKj 0F7HKSZ4Tqp8eeWerXkN2B0e0+F4NCV01NDU2AFYLgcuBdV+KIkjhofPSvkutPbrisle Lx7FHJ99IUXQw36PEqOgIOSLDY/e+mIgDJflQ= 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=ONY/ff7iDga+6/mOByCA4qzqz84oIdl5IdH7vM2VeNHAfZLYlk98Vul7y5DOvAWWqG L5S2lH9Wxc50w2XW1DFb6ceQaPniWXdeAvyfa730X3AdNxIhscI7/9NNmmlRstmTFYGH t4RpTe43j1UNBzwtJYqGmcsMaxAOsaWf0eCwQ= Received: by 10.220.128.16 with SMTP id i16mr3592591vcs.270.1282602719993; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:31:59 -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 e18sm2090694vcm.31.2010.08.23.15.31.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C72F6DC.1040009@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:31:56 -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> <4C72B37D.2020504@comcast.net> <4C72B51C.8020901@gmail.com> <4C72B6EE.6050205@gmail.com> <4C72B8A3.2@comcast.net> <4C72E620.8070007@comcast.net> <4C72ED4D.9060909@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4C72ED4D.9060909@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 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 22:32:01 -0000 On 8/23/10 5:51 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > On 08/23/10 14:34, Warren Block wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: >>> >>> I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad >>> was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't >>> install. The screen goes blank and the computer freezes, just as >>> happens when trying to install X11 with FreeBSD 8.1 >> >> No real idea what to try next, so let's try turning off acceleration >> in the Device section: >> >> Option "NoAccel" "On" > > Nope. BTW, thanks for hanging in here. I've never had trouble like > this getting X11 to function. Of course, I've never tried to install > 8.1 on a Thinkpad either. > Ok, one quick question. When your screen goes blank, can you [ctrl][alt][fN] to a different TTY, where N is anything between 2-7? I'm curious about the machine's state when you start X. -- Glen Barber