Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:38:51 +0000 From: "Brad Pitney" <pitney.brad@googlemail.com> To: "peter stern" <pstern@65north.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess Message-ID: <3dd203290803162338k3b277790kec608ccfc7e59082@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080316211253.M2398@jago.65north.com> References: <20080316211253.M2398@jago.65north.com>
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, peter stern <pstern@65north.com> wrote: > I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 > shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much > trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty > generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize > the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades. > have you tried without an xorg.conf? > The xorg in 6.3 doesn't install much in the way of required drivers. I got > the mouse and keyboard drivers installed and also the mga driver. I have > run xorgconfig to create what seems like a working xorg.conf. Startx > brings up twm but only in 640x480. I cannot change modes. And yes, I have > mode lines defined. If I put the correct horizontal and vertical scan > rates in for my Viewsonic PT810 monitor, I get a screen display with lines > precessing through it. xdm gives the same result. > > I have tried the other suggestions on configuring X in the FreeBSD > handbook, including creating a basic xorg.conf. It tests okay but only in > 640x480 and it has no modelines in the .conf. Adding modelines doesn't fix > the problem. > I suspect modelines won't help and there might be a bug in xf86-video-mga? > The initial install was done by sysinstall under the predefined > xdeveloper selection. I tried reinstalling xorg from ports by running make > deinstall and make reinstall but with no change in behavior. > what about installing just base then using an up-to-date ports? > My hardware has no problems running Slackware 12 or Openbsd 4.2. Under > those OSs, X11 works fine and configures without problems. > > What has happened to quality control in the FreeBSD release? is it really a FreeBSD issue? > > peter > -- Best regards, Brad
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