From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 22:36:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD71106566B for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:36:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB058FC0A for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbwd18 with SMTP id wd18so14881341obb.13 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:36:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=+E36TqRQXIoUPil0GJjplIukh5uPblRWZnoSbSRBceQ=; b=TkTSvxJvjDP5bVYKZuBSK0ljVSX77DRpM98M4XkzRAMTvN9bGd328SCUjL5OQWRfBx ICKKf43Xkp8GuhR8s7NJi1dk9Lx5Z0WptGbObTc43/ohz9qOxPLgLx2as1UaTnYYvUIl 16b4Gyz5emjWEK45ApT8EAQYA/bkJ4aG+iNe8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.2.136 with SMTP id 8mr32616008obu.71.1325198188695; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.152.6 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:36:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:36:28 -0800 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: pfg@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:39:13 +0000 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Setting up xorg, the quick and dirty method (was "Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool") X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:36:29 -0000 (Splitting off one part of the thread to be relevant to the right group; moving x11 mailing list to BCC) On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hello; > > --- Gio 29/12/11, Chris Rees ha scritto: > >> > >> > I use the nvidia driver, no idea what people with ATI >> > cards do. >> >> I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with that, if you >> ever want to try again and you can't work it out get me >> off list ;) >> > > Getting X11 to run on virtualbox from a FreeBSD 9.0 CD > installation is pretty much a nightmare. Is there something > about it in the users handbook? A wiki page about setting up > X11 on FreeBSD would do it too. Perhaps we should write one. There is a chapter in the handbook [1], but what I've learned from the last go-around setting up X11 4 months ago, is that it's smart to do: cd x11/xorg make config-recursive make install # An hour or so passes by on a fast machine echo 'dbus_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf echo 'hald_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf service dbus start service hald start startx That's it. Generally no configuration is required for X.org to work on hardware (in fact I'm not using an xorg.conf right now. after I blasted away my packages due to the CURRENT 9 -> 10 major version bump..). You'll need to pimp your install to do non-standard stuff via nvidia-settings, not use hald, etc, but the X.org supplied method seems to work the majority of the time if you have standard hardware, compared to the hoops one needed to go through when setting up XFree86 or earlier versions of X.org. Cheers, -Garrett 1. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html