On Sun, 19 April 2009 03:14:35 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This week upgraded my Acer TravelMate 4060 laptop from FreeBSD 7.0 > > to FreeBSD 7.1 and also csup'ed my ports and portupgraded them and > > I am not able to start X correctly. When I invoke startx, it tries > > to start it and then the screen goes blank and black, nothing is > > seen on it and I am no able to kill X using ctrl-alt-backspace or > > swtich to another terminal and I have to cold reboot my machine. > > > > uname -r shows 7.1-RELEASE-p4 > > > > The version of xorg metaport is 7.4_1, the version of xorg-server > > is 1.6.0,1. > > > > After I did the portupgrade I rebooted my machine and the KDE > > display manager failed to appear, so I disabled it from /etc/ttys > > for easier debugging. After I logged in to a shell, I called startx > > and the screen went blank and black. After I rebooted the machine I > > invoked > > > > X -configure > > > > as root and run > > > > X -config /root/xorg.conf.new > > > > and again the same problem. > > The default screen when not running a WM/DE is no longer the familiar > screen pattern / X mouse pointer, but a black screen. Go figure... > You maybe having a working X and not know it. >
I had the same issues starting and stopping X. I was looking at a pitch black screen and did not know if the server was running properly or not. After some digging around I found a new parameter which will produce the traditional stipple with cursor in the center of the screen: X -retro The above command plus the settings in xorg.conf about killing the server with Ctrl+Atl+BS (specified elsewhere in this thread) will produce a traditional startup and shutdown for X. Thank for all the useful tips Marek > > I then tried to make ctrl-alt-backspace > > work and I added the following section at the end of > > /root/xorg.conf.new > > > > Section "ServerFlags" > > Option "DontZap" "off" > > EndSection > > This should definitely work. > > > and called X -config /root/xorg.conf.new again - same results and > > still could not kill ther server. I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING, > > entry from 20090123 and disabled moused and added > > > > Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > > Browsing your xorg.conf, you forgot to add the keyword "Option" in > front of "AllowEmptyInput". And actually this should also go the > "ServerFlags" section. > > > in the ServerLayout section. Again X refuses to start > > appropriately. > > > > I would be very grateful if you help me in resolving this issue. > > > > I am attaching my xorg.conf file and the logs from > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log and I will happily provide more information if > > needed. > > > > Thank you very much in advance. > > > > Regards > > Rambius > > You can download my working xorg.conf from here: > > http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/xorg.conf.tar.gz > > It even includes some comments. Give it a try. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
