From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 12 00:21:16 2009 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 8B82C1065673 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:21:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gt@fallendusk.org) Received: from ysera.fallendusk.org (ysera.fallendusk.org [76.76.101.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA388FC45 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.gogax.com [127.0.0.1]) by ysera.fallendusk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281AF2842F for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:22:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at fallendusk.org Received: from ysera.fallendusk.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ysera.fallendusk.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id P13O78hAEG6F for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:22:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elune.home.fallendusk.org (unknown [24.192.60.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: gt@fallendusk.org) by ysera.fallendusk.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E16982842B for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:22:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:22:22 -0400 From: Gregory T Helton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090811202222.6461fa33@elune.home.fallendusk.org> In-Reply-To: <1d7089c40908111644n2b75e25bh47b30bfc35fdd839@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d7089c40908111644n2b75e25bh47b30bfc35fdd839@mail.gmail.com> Organization: fallenDUSK X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: making FBSD 7.2 X work on a CQ-60 laptop 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: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:21:16 -0000 On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:44:02 -0400 Henry Olyer wrote: > I have been having a lot of trouble getting X running on my HP/Compaq > laptop. A lot of trouble. > > For years I used to use xf86cfg and/or xf86config, but now, with > FreeBSD 7.2 I can't find them. (Don't tell me that such useful tools > were -- ugh -- depreciated. No, please no.) > > And worse, the keyboard has lot's of really nice key's on it, to dim > the screen and such like that. Which right now 7.2 ignores. > > It's a CQ-60, a Walmart special and I purchased it because it had 3GB > of RAM with a big screen (about 15.5", I think.) And I went down to > my local computer store and purchased a 500GB SATA drive for $100. > > So for $400 I think I got a good deal. (The machine is on sale now > at WM stores for less than $300. With tax it was $312.) > > Now though I have to make it work with FreeBSD 7.2. with X. I need > help. Does anyone have one running FBSD 7.2 already? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Going to need some more info. :) Do you know what kind of graphics chip is in there? Have you tried the automagic xorg configuration? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html `pciconf -lv` output would help also. --Greg