From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 21 23:12:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C002106566B for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:12:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D993F8FC19 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7LNC5L1079850; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:12:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id o7LNC5rn079847; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:12:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:12:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Fred Boatwright In-Reply-To: <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> Message-ID: References: <4C6D1399.5050601@comcast.net> <4C6CBEAD.4070504@gmail.com> <4C6F457D.E18CCA82@blakemfg.com> <4C700925.715E10B8@blakemfg.com> <4C704C7B.134759E5@blakemfg.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:12:06 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg Problems 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: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:12:08 -0000 On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: > I installed twm and changed .xinitrc to run it. twm should have been part of the xorg install already. > I commented out the sections of xorg.conf that you suggested and changed > the resolution. > > I changed the driver from vesa to nVidia but the nVidia driver could not > be found and X exited. After restoring vesa I ran the test on xorg.conf > -retro and it worked ok. However, startx still produced only a black > screen. nVidia is a long story. There are binary drivers provided by nVidia, and there's a limited open-source driver provided by xorg. Someone else is going to have to provide detail. For now, vesa at 1024x768 should be fine. > I was not able to make heads or tails out of the pastebin.com site. > Until FBSD X is working on the pc I have to use Netscape 4.79 on a Sun > running Solaris 2.6 (which I would prefer to keep using if only a modern > browser was available). Netscape doesn't work on most web sites > anymore. Is there someplace I could ftp or email the log file? If you want to mail it to me, I can put it up temporarily.