On 8/23/10 11:44 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so
on my Thinkpad R51. Here's what's happening. I installed xorg on this
new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program, copying
the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11 as
On 8/23/10 11:53 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 11:44 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so
on my Thinkpad R51. Here's what's happening. I installed xorg on this
new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program,
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so on my
Thinkpad R51. Here's what's happening. I installed xorg on this new 8.1
installation, and have run the xorg configure program, copying the
xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11 as
On 08/23/10 09:21, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so
on my Thinkpad R51. Here's what's happening. I installed xorg on
this new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program,
The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the
xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500:
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947
Here is the xorg.conf that was created by Xorg -configure:
On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the
xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500:
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947
Here is the xorg.conf that was created by Xorg
On 8/23/10 1:51 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the
xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500:
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947
Here is the
On 08/23/10 10:51, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the
xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500:
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947
Here is the
On 08/23/10 10:59, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 1:51 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the
xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Section Device
Identifier Card0
Driver intel
VendorName Intel Corporation
BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
BusID PCI:0:2:0
EndSection
Section Device
Identifier Card1
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
I forgot to mention that previous to my installing 8.1 I had PCBSD 8.1
installed just to check it out (no likee), and the PCBSD installer had
no problem configuring X. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of that
xorg.conf.
PCBSD has a live mode to
On 8/23/10 3:08 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Section Device
Identifier Card0
Driver intel
VendorName Intel Corporation
BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
BusID PCI:0:2:0
EndSection
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:08:24 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Interesting, two device sections. Some notebooks actually do have two
video cards, although the R51 might not and this might just be
misdetected.
Doesn't have to be - maybe it's one VGA and one DVI output?
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
On 08/23/10 10:51, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Here is the xorg.conf that was created by Xorg -configure:
Section ServerLayout
Identifier
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:08:24 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com
wrote:
Interesting, two device sections. Some notebooks actually do have two
video cards, although the R51 might not and this might just be
misdetected.
Doesn't have to be -
On 08/23/10 12:14, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 3:08 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Section Device
Identifier Card0
Driver intel
VendorName Intel Corporation
BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
On 08/23/10 12:11, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
I forgot to mention that previous to my installing 8.1 I had PCBSD
8.1 installed just to check it out (no likee), and the PCBSD
installer had no problem configuring X. Unfortunately, I don't have
a copy of
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad
was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't
install. The screen goes blank and the computer freezes, just as
happens when trying to install X11 with FreeBSD 8.1
On 08/23/10 14:34, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad
was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't
install. The screen goes blank and the computer freezes, just as
happens when
On 8/23/10 5:51 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
On 08/23/10 14:34, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad
was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't
install. The screen goes blank and
On 08/23/10 15:31, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 5:51 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
On 08/23/10 14:34, Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:
I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad
was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't
On 8/23/10 7:01 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Ok, one quick question. When your screen goes blank, can you
[ctrl][alt][fN] to a different TTY, where N is anything between 2-7?
I'm curious about the machine's state when you start X.
No, when the screen goes blank the whole computer freezes. No
On 8/23/10 7:33 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
In addition, it might be helpful to build debugging options into your
GENERIC kernel. If you're willing to go down this path, I'll help you
get set up,
I should mention, though - I used to have issues with the nVidia driver
putting my machine in an
On 08/23/10 16:33, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 7:01 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Ok, one quick question. When your screen goes blank, can you
[ctrl][alt][fN] to a different TTY, where N is anything between 2-7?
I'm curious about the machine's state when you start X.
No, when the screen goes
On 08/23/10 16:59, Glen Barber wrote:
On 8/23/10 7:53 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
First, let's try the vesa thing.
Eureka! I changed Driver to vesa in both of the Device sections and
X now loads. I doubt that vesa is the ideal entry in the
configuration, but at this point I'm not going to
On 8/23/10 7:53 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
First, let's try the vesa thing.
Eureka! I changed Driver to vesa in both of the Device sections and
X now loads. I doubt that vesa is the ideal entry in the
configuration, but at this point I'm not going to complain.
Great. It looks like the
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