Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:53:21 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Joel Adamson <trashbird1240@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Device problems in new install by Newbie -- FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <444pv3rjq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060916175641.9473.qmail@web50413.mail.yahoo.com> (Joel Adamson's message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:56:41 -0700 (PDT)") References: <20060916175641.9473.qmail@web50413.mail.yahoo.com>
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Joel Adamson <trashbird1240@yahoo.com> writes: > I took the plunge last night and installed FreeBSD6.1-STABLE. I found the experience rather exciting and I'm happy with the results, excep for one major challenge to overcome: no video support. I'm trying to set up X and it's failing. > > Prerequisites: > > FreeBSD6.1-STABLE (from the i386 CD iso's from freebsd.org) > Dell Dimension 5100C Desktop > WD SATA HD > Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family on IRQ 16 > > My friend the computer professional tells me the video and a bunch of other devices are integrated into the motherboard to save space (the system unit is smaller than the printer, if that tells you anything). > > when I do: > root-prompt>Xorg -configure > > I get a quick list of all video devices and "No Device Present" > The Xorg-configure-log is just a more verbose statement of the same list > > At boot, I get the following messages: > ... > acpi0:<Dell 5100C > on motherboard > ... > pci0:<display> at device 2.1 (no driver attached) > pci0:<multimedia> at device 27.0 (no driver attached) > ... > the boot process then proceeds to recognize all my other devices and I get to my login prompt. X.org doesn't always need any configuration file at all. Did you try just running "startx" to see if it starts up? [It probably won't, but I'm not sure I understand your description completely.] To really help, though, I suspect we'll need to see the complete boot messages and output of Xorg. The former can be obtained (close enough) from dmesg(8) (or /var/run/dmesg.boot) and the latter using screen(1). [I.e. for more information on those commands, type "man 8 dmesg" or "man 1 screen".]
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