From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 7 21:34:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1432C4D5 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 21:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E68906 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 21:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [75.187.32.8] ([75.187.32.8:54788] helo=raspberrypi.bildanet.com) by cdptpa-oedge03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 16/BD-09243-3CE6BF45; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:33:55 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.55] (helo=dell.bildanet.com) by raspberrypi.bildanet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YUMM7-0008Ps-H5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:33:55 -0500 Message-ID: <54FB6EC3.1060006@columbus.rr.com> Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:33:55 -0500 From: scrat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Questions Subject: Re: Xorg problems References: <20150307163942.GG34815@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> <20150307212542.1ef212fa.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20150307212542.1ef212fa.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.142:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:34:03 -0000 On 03/07/15 15:25, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 10:04:09 -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: >> The 1501 is a $50 laptop from 2006? i dont know that nvidia is the right >> driver, I think it has ATI before AMD bought it. This would have been >> around the time FreeBSD 7.0 was HEAD i think? > In that case, it's highly questionable if Xorg autodetection > magic will work here. Maybe "Xorg -configure" and manually > post-configuring xorg.conf is the way to go. Of course you > have to verify _which_ graphics is installed: Maybe it's > ATI, maybe Intel. Then you have to install the corresponsing > driver. In worst case, try the VESA driver, but don't expect > any 3D stuff working flawlessly with that. > > > The vesa driver works as I can log out of Xfce4 and it goes to the terminal correctly, also I can use Ctrl+Alt+Fn to goto terminals while in Xfce4. So this appears to be a problem with xf86-video-ati-7.5.0_1. How can I debug this further?