On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
d...@safeport.com wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern these
days.
You can revert to the old style with -retro flag to X .If things are working
you should see the old style screen with an X mouse pointer (if enabled)
Not trying to rtfm but
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html
Thanks Chris. I did rtfm. I posted a relatively lengthy vent (civilized rant :)
that included comments on the excellence of the handbook in this area. It was
probably lost in the questions down-period. Before dropping back to the
7.2-release iso version I tried retro and running without and without hal/dbus.
All this the same result. I did indeed get the black screen but with no
keyboard.
I believe (but am not 100% sure) that the current version of xorg.conf I am
running was generate with the -retro option. I am however still running with the
ati driver. I kind of 'lost interest' in xorg when I got some thing that worked
and moved on to my next problem, kde4. In the meantime xsetroot saves my eyes
while I labor on with kde.
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