Re: making FBSD 7.2 X work on a CQ-60 laptop
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:44:02 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: > I have been having a lot of trouble getting X running on my HP/Compaq > laptop. A lot of trouble. > > For years I used to use xf86cfg and/or xf86config, but now, with FreeBSD 7.2 > I can't find them. (Don't tell me that such useful tools were -- ugh -- > depreciated. No, please no.) They are. X introduced new means to achieve the same, mainly through autodetection. The command # X -configure should provide a xorg.conf.new file with the relevant settings. Have a look at what /var/log/Xorg.0.log says in case of errors. Keep in mind that the new X server now has a different behaviour when it works. They old-fashioned greyish pattern has been abandoned in favour of a modern solid black background. :-) > And worse, the keyboard has lot's of really nice key's on it, to dim the > screen and such like that. Which right now 7.2 ignores. I always thought these keys were software-independent. But who wonders about "modern" laptops where even the socket for headphones requires a driver that manages to switch off the speakers when a headphone is plugged in... > So for $400 I think I got a good deal. If it works. If it doesn't, it was a bad deal. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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"
Re: making FBSD 7.2 X work on a CQ-60 laptop
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:44:02 -0400 Henry Olyer wrote: > I have been having a lot of trouble getting X running on my HP/Compaq > laptop. A lot of trouble. > > For years I used to use xf86cfg and/or xf86config, but now, with > FreeBSD 7.2 I can't find them. (Don't tell me that such useful tools > were -- ugh -- depreciated. No, please no.) > > And worse, the keyboard has lot's of really nice key's on it, to dim > the screen and such like that. Which right now 7.2 ignores. > > It's a CQ-60, a Walmart special and I purchased it because it had 3GB > of RAM with a big screen (about 15.5", I think.) And I went down to > my local computer store and purchased a 500GB SATA drive for $100. > > So for $400 I think I got a good deal. (The machine is on sale now > at WM stores for less than $300. With tax it was $312.) > > Now though I have to make it work with FreeBSD 7.2. with X. I need > help. Does anyone have one running FBSD 7.2 already? > ___ > 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" Going to need some more info. :) Do you know what kind of graphics chip is in there? Have you tried the automagic xorg configuration? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html `pciconf -lv` output would help also. --Greg ___ 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"
