Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:01:36 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Jerry Breazeale <breazeal@hemc.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setup question Message-ID: <4796CA30.1060102@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <4796C1EC.9050602@hemc.net> References: <4796C1EC.9050602@hemc.net>
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Jerry Breazeale wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Xorg config > From: > Jerry Breazeale <breazeal@hemc.net> > Date: > Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:41:40 +0000 > To: > questions@FreeBSD.org > > To: > questions@FreeBSD.org > CC: > > > Newbie question here. > I've followed the installation instructions in the book FreeBSD 6 > Unleashed and (finally) gotten it installed. Now I proceed to the > setting up of X, where the book says to log in as root, and type Xorg > -configure . I do that and get a response something like Xorg command > not known. During the installation, I selected Install it all > including X. This is version 6.3 by the way. And this is about the > 3rd or 4th attempt at installation on this HDD. Some help would be > appreciated. > > By the way, after each of the first couple attempts at > installation,during which I'd set up a separate /boot partition, I > couldn't get FreeBSD to boot from the HDD. The book had no caution > about not using a separate /boot partition, but that's what I found to > be causing the problem. I installed again but without a separate > /boot partition, and can now boot from the HDD. > > Jerry > It seems both 6.3-RELEASE and 7.0-RC1 exhibit the same symptom. If you perform the standard install + X, it is missing several parts of xorg, most obvious one is xorg-drivers. The solution is not really to install just xorg-drivers by hand (you will just find you are missing other X-related packages afterwards) but installing the entire xorg-7.3 metapackage. This can be done during the initial installation, when asked whether you would like to "browse the package collection", answer yes, then find from the list the xorg-7.3 package (I believe it is in category x11) and install it. This will pull all other required dependencies. It seems the standard installation + X only installs the xorg-server package (x11-server) which is simply not enough, since xorg is now modular. Manolis
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