From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 12:55:37 2008 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 E836A1065676 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:55:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4208FC20 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:55:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so1187954yxb.13 for ; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:55:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=8iROc15K8H08RONKFgtw/MNOC8Im9W9/pad49FnHaaw=; b=Lr/6YRplT35iP0hYvQYyfklwak6yCRPj43UaFsOQNFno3/xdfIlMt+6DU2UE+Carxw dGPk1fbZXJTeKjEVKCIdv+iv3SX+DiiE8arJXzK/U66UwCm6+QgxMsF8Y7sdlaKlhpnz Now0uJLQpeoPfTYTmbF5QvAKkh5RmXFX7fPrA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=AfhwcLudjdtlP3oQAtw5NXDCVmC0h1itoEYNPqQpjREFX26V3y7o6p/weuJysZZaJG FxpGcYlKvWhcfaBO/o3y6RE1N+OB6g45djB2J+0iGbjKogzh9/U+7SpuXT36+WqAiRg2 /Va+Lynf1tLzsGfAQE9kjxgGlrHCw0Z/fg1zo= Received: by 10.231.15.73 with SMTP id j9mr45515iba.53.1228222536582; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:55:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.19.8 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 04:55:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3a142e750812020455j4fc5005dxbb2b8d84b38ffe5c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:55:36 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: "Niki Kovacs" In-Reply-To: <49351D20.7030507@kikinovak.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49351D20.7030507@kikinovak.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem configuring X: FreeBSD 6.4, Intel video card, Fujitsu lifebook 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: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:55:38 -0000 On 12/2/08, Niki Kovacs 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