From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 23 05:01:40 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 28CC516A419 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A533B13C467 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:01:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from aquarius.dyndns.org (athedsl-284011.home.otenet.gr [85.73.157.9]) by aiolos.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m0N51aNp017646; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:01:37 +0200 Message-ID: <4796CA30.1060102@otenet.gr> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:01:36 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071231) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry Breazeale References: <4796C1EC.9050602@hemc.net> In-Reply-To: <4796C1EC.9050602@hemc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setup question 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: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:01:40 -0000 Jerry Breazeale wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Xorg config > From: > Jerry Breazeale > 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