Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:55:36 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "Niki Kovacs" <contact@kikinovak.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem configuring X: FreeBSD 6.4, Intel video card, Fujitsu lifebook Message-ID: <3a142e750812020455j4fc5005dxbb2b8d84b38ffe5c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49351D20.7030507@kikinovak.net> References: <49351D20.7030507@kikinovak.net>
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On 12/2/08, Niki Kovacs <contact@kikinovak.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed FreeBSD 6.4 on a Fujitsu lifebook. I'm quite new to > FreeBSD (see previous post "Introduction"). Some time ago, I had bought > (and partially read) Michael Urban's "FreeBSD 6 Unleashed". I just > worked through the initial chapters, and managed installing FreeBSD and > configuring X just fine. Only I ran into trouble installing a desktop > environment, since building gnome2-lite failed. I thought before doing > anything, I'd get a more recent set of FreeBSD install discs, since the > book includes 6.1, which seems a bit outdated. > > Now I did an install using a set of 6.4 install discs. Everything ran > fine, except I can't get X to work anymore. > > Configuration: > > # Xorg -configure > # mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > And then test: > > # startx > > X crashes with the following error message: > > Fatal server error: > Couldn't find PLL settings for mode! > > I googled about this and found a few results... on the Ubuntu 8.10 > bugtracker. Apparently the 'intel' video driver has some problems with > my specific Intel video card. > > What now? Try to use the older 'i810' instead of 'intel'? But how would > I do that? Simply replacing the corresponding "Driver" line in xorg.conf > doesn't help. Because xf86-video-i810 conflicts with xf86-video-intel and for xf86-video-intel 'i810' is alias for 'intel' in xorg.conf. To really test 'i810' driver you should deinstall xf86-video-intel and install xf86-video-i810. -- Paul
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