Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:14:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009220708290.71257@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100922081117.1785.qmail@ssr.com> References: <20100922081117.1785.qmail@ssr.com>
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > I'm upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 8.1 --- much wonderful work has been > done clearly, I'm very impressed and hat's off to the developers. > > Unfortunately I've hit a snag with X. I have an LG "Flatron" W2253, a > 5750 graphics card and I have not been able to get them to work with X > at all. > > Following the handbook's instructions: > > Xorg -config xorg.conf.new > > with and without the -retro option just give me a black screen from > which there is no escape. Does the black screen show a mouse pointer? No escape including ctrl-alt-f1? > I have to log into the machine from somewhere else on the network to > reboot it. Killing the Xorg process doesn't help. Try running X without an xorg.conf.
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