Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Henry Olyer wrote: I need more information to make this work. help, please. And thank you! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-10-25 Thread Henry Olyer
I need more information to make this work. help, please. And thank you! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine. So... If you are running hald you probably need option

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-09-25 Thread Jules Gilbert
now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine. So... On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Kenneth kennet...@earthlink.net wrote: Moving this

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-09-13 Thread Jules Gilbert
Thanks, guys! I intend to set aside some time late this week to try this. I bought one but have not been able to configure the X environment yet; I notice that PC-BSD comes up fine; I thought of doing that and copying the file, but that's about a half day or more of effort that way... Not

configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-09-12 Thread Kenneth
Moving this discussion to freebsd-x11. I have a Presario CQ60 with the NVIDIA 8200M G, and X is working! Here are the steps to get there. Do everything as root: 1) Update your ports to the most recent. Follow the FreeBSD manual, section 4.5 Using the Ports Collection, nuke the contents of

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-09-12 Thread Kenneth
Step 10 should be # Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro -Original Message- From: Kenneth kennet...@earthlink.net Sent: Sep 12, 2009 2:12 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-...@freebsd.org Cc: jules.sto...@gmail.com, ges...@yahoo.com Subject: configuring X on the Presario with

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-09-12 Thread Kenneth
OK...I forgot 1 important step before rebooting (step 6 in the sequece below)... 5.5) Edit the /etc/rc.conf file... # vi /etc/rc.conf --- add the following 2 lines hald_enable=YES dbus_enable=YES -Original Message- From: Kenneth kennet...@earthlink.net Sent: Sep 12, 2009 2:23 AM To:

configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-08-08 Thread Jules Gilbert
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

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-08-08 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:14:14 -0400 Jules Gilbert jules.sto...@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