Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:12:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Fred Boatwright <fred@blakemfg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Problems Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008211709120.79828@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> References: <4C6D1399.5050601@comcast.net> <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008190629170.68578@wonkity.com> <4C6F457D.E18CCA82@blakemfg.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008202215160.76288@wonkity.com> <4C700925.715E10B8@blakemfg.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008211442390.79363@wonkity.com> <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com>
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: > I installed twm and changed .xinitrc to run it. twm should have been part of the xorg install already. > I commented out the sections of xorg.conf that you suggested and changed > the resolution. > > I changed the driver from vesa to nVidia but the nVidia driver could not > be found and X exited. After restoring vesa I ran the test on xorg.conf > -retro and it worked ok. However, startx still produced only a black > screen. nVidia is a long story. There are binary drivers provided by nVidia, and there's a limited open-source driver provided by xorg. Someone else is going to have to provide detail. For now, vesa at 1024x768 should be fine. > I was not able to make heads or tails out of the pastebin.com site. > Until FBSD X is working on the pc I have to use Netscape 4.79 on a Sun > running Solaris 2.6 (which I would prefer to keep using if only a modern > browser was available). Netscape doesn't work on most web sites > anymore. Is there someplace I could ftp or email the log file? If you want to mail it to me, I can put it up temporarily.
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