From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 14:58:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4450B16A403 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:58:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C536543EAA for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:54:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 7879 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2006 14:53:22 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Sep 2006 14:53:22 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8F3132842D; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:53:21 -0400 (EDT) To: Joel Adamson References: <20060916175641.9473.qmail@web50413.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:53:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060916175641.9473.qmail@web50413.mail.yahoo.com> (Joel Adamson's message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:56:41 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <444pv3rjq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Device problems in new install by Newbie -- FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:58:01 -0000 Joel Adamson writes: > I took the plunge last night and installed FreeBSD6.1-STABLE. I found the experience rather exciting and I'm happy with the results, excep for one major challenge to overcome: no video support. I'm trying to set up X and it's failing. > > Prerequisites: > > FreeBSD6.1-STABLE (from the i386 CD iso's from freebsd.org) > Dell Dimension 5100C Desktop > WD SATA HD > Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family on IRQ 16 > > My friend the computer professional tells me the video and a bunch of other devices are integrated into the motherboard to save space (the system unit is smaller than the printer, if that tells you anything). > > when I do: > root-prompt>Xorg -configure > > I get a quick list of all video devices and "No Device Present" > The Xorg-configure-log is just a more verbose statement of the same list > > At boot, I get the following messages: > ... > acpi0: on motherboard > ... > pci0: at device 2.1 (no driver attached) > pci0: at device 27.0 (no driver attached) > ... > the boot process then proceeds to recognize all my other devices and I get to my login prompt. X.org doesn't always need any configuration file at all. Did you try just running "startx" to see if it starts up? [It probably won't, but I'm not sure I understand your description completely.] To really help, though, I suspect we'll need to see the complete boot messages and output of Xorg. The former can be obtained (close enough) from dmesg(8) (or /var/run/dmesg.boot) and the latter using screen(1). [I.e. for more information on those commands, type "man 8 dmesg" or "man 1 screen".]