Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 19:34:01 -0400 From: Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver Message-ID: <20090808193401.16f4a3e6@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <28d0cced0908081214y5e2bde06m5701976d95f245e5@mail.gmail.com> References: <28d0cced0908081214y5e2bde06m5701976d95f245e5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:14:14 -0400
Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I'm back with another question (but let me begin by saying I
> love FreeBSD. It really is great. Thank you for building/supporting
> it.)
>
> I have one of those $300 Presario laptop's, and it's really wonderful
> -- it compares very well to laptops' selling for $2k to even $3k.
>
> But the video driver is an AMD 8200M nvidia device and I can't get X
> to configure it. And I have to run X. What do I do?
>
> I've tried:
>
> X -configure
>
> that fails.
>
> I notice that PC-BSD will configure it correctly but for other reasons
> I have to run native 7.2 FreeBSD -- PC-BSD won't do.
>
> I am not very X experienced (mostly use the ordinary screens,) so I
> will need pretty explicit assistance. Sorry.
As root, run: Xorg -configure
FILES
The Xorg server config file can be found in a range of locations.
These are documented fully in the xorg.conf(5) manual page. The most
commonly used locations are shown here.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf Server configuration file.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf-4 Server configuration file.
/etc/xorg.conf Server configuration file.
/usr/local/etc/xorg.conf Server configuration file.
/usr/local/lib/X11/xorg.conf Server configuration file.
Be sure to copy the newly created xorg.conf file to the appropriate
directory. Make sure the file permissions and ownership are also
correct. I use 0644 and it works well.
Check out: man Xorg and man xorg.conf for further details.
--
Jerry
gesbbb@yahoo.com
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the
Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
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