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Date:      Tue, 12 May 2015 08:56:04 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com>
To:        Ulrich Grey <usenet@ulrich-grey.de>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg on a RaspberryPI
Message-ID:  <20150512085604.63e2349a@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150511103033.d051ec9b19ec6156714ee3d4@ulrich-grey.de>
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Hi,

On Mon, 11 May 2015 10:30:33 +0000
Ulrich Grey <usenet@ulrich-grey.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 May 2015 12:51:30 +0800
> Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 10 May 2015 11:24:44 +0000
> > Ulrich Grey <usenet@ulrich-grey.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > I am running FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r282366M on a RaspberryPI.
> > > The Raspberry serves as a X-Terminal to access a Wandboard-Quad
> > > running the same FreeBSD version.
> > > 
> > I have this running on 10.0 and now 10.1 without problems.
> 
> I had the X-server running on FreeBSD 10.1 (with a RaspberryPI Model
> B) too, but with an older (1/2 year) ports tree. And it worked
> without problems.
> 
so, it could be caused by the newer X server.

> > Is it also the same ports tree? Why don't you compile it on the
> > Raspberry? It just takes some time.
> 
> Compiling on the Raspberry is very slow. Is there any reason not to
> use the packages built on the Wandboard, running the exact same
> FreeBSD version?
> 
It should not make a difference.

> Later I had built and installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb on the
> RaspberryPI, but there is no difference, the colors remain strange.
> 
> > > Can anybody give me a hint what is wrong?
> > 
> > Try a very basic window manager. I use blackbox without any
> > problems.
> 
> Xfce4 is running on the Wandboard very well. If I have access to the
> Wandboard from a windows7 host with Xming server, all is ok.
> 
> On the RaspberryPI I use x11-wm/fluxbox. It works, but in xterm or
> urxvt windows, the output of ls -G shows the wrong colors. (The twm
> windows have the wrong colors, too.)

It seems to be then related to X itself and not the window manager.
> 
> I was not able to compile x11-wm/blackbox.
> See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200124

Where did this come from. There is another small problem in blackbox I
wanted to fix but it does not stop blackbox from working.

Erich



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