Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:41:46 -0800 From: richard childers <fscked@pacbell.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SuperProbe: KDENABIO failed Message-ID: <3A99FAAA.48167FB6@pacbell.net>
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I'm installing FreeBSD 4.2 on a Toshiba 1555CDS, a laptop which has
given me a few problems but which has faithfully run FreeBSD 4.0, and
X11R6 (albeit, at a lower resolution than I'd like to see) for the
better part of a year, back and forth across the country, a few times
now.
I've gotten past the basic installation and am now working on X11R6
configuration. When I ran XF86Setup, I got the following error:
XF86Setup: KDENABIO failed
XF86Setup: Cannot open video
I did some irresponsible fiddling around, first; just to see if I could
hotwire it, I copied my old /etc/XF86Config into place from the
pre-upgrade backup, created the soft link /usr/X11R6/bin/X, and tried
'startx'. Same message (plus a bunch of others :-).
Then I tried more rigorous approaches to problem resolution; including
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV all
# reboot
... as well as examining the kernel configuration file, line by line,
and rebuilding it ... and also, using the command-line utility,
'xf86config', using values gleaned from old FreeBSD 4.0 notes, Toshiba
hardware manuals, and my old /etc/XF86Config. No success.
So I tried SuperProbe, and got the same !@#$ message:
SuperProbe: KDENABIO failed
SuperProbe: Cannot open video
... and I get the same message when I invoke 'SuperProbe' with the
'-verbose' option.
I already have my suspicions about the CDROM I bought at CompUSA; the
boot images didn't boot and I had to download the working images from
ftp.freebsd.org.
Does 'KDENABIO' imply that KDE-specific dependencies have been built
into X11R6?
-- richard
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