On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:15:58 doug wrote:
I have a IBM thinkpad T42p. xorg 7.4 is pretty much a disaster for me.
First I wonder if anyone has gotten 7.4 to work on this or similar
hardware. The system is 3+ years old when it was still IBM.
I have done this a time or two starting with the first version of KDE and
FreeBSD 4.<something>. I believe I have tried all of the options in the
handbook plus a couple of various from this list and google. So I was not
going to add xdm and Xorg output, at first anyway.
The one thing I have not done is upgrade the BIOS and am not sure that
matters. I was/am afraid of breaking an otherwise great system. It runs
xorg 7.3 and KDE 3 or 4 fine. I go to this point because I broke things
trying to install firefox3 and got all tangled up in upgrading ports and
thought I would give xorg 7.4 a try.
I am running FreeBSD 7.2. Xorg was installed using pkg_add on a system
without any ports. Upon hitting the xdm trap, I also installed that
package.
All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx, xdm
and xorg all do the same. I assume this is a hardware issue and hope
someone found a way around it.
Thank you for any thoughts, tips, ideas, etc.
Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern these days.
Keyboard and mouse input is handled by hald(8), so don't forget to enable and
start it before starting Xorg. hald depends on dbus so that also needs to be
enabled and started. Add the following to rc.conf:
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
Good luck,
Pieter de Goeje
Thanks for your reply. I tried all that and more. Installing xorg 7.4 from the
7.2-release iso worked with the last verision of my xorg.conf file which
happened to be not using hal and dbus.
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