From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 9 21:32:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D17CF18E for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 21:32:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DB3E2AE7 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 21:32:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (rbn1-216-180-76-131.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.131]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s79LWEgT028447 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:32:14 -0500 Message-ID: <53E694D5.8000007@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:38:29 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD X11 mailing list Subject: Re: X11 setup .... References: <53E641C3.4040409@hiwaay.net> <53E666F0.809@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:32:16 -0000 On 08/09/14 15:37, doug wrote: 1st post, re-routed from FreeBD-questions, since it already has BG info .... > On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> On 08/09/14 12:03, doug wrote: >>> On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> >>>> .... I am following the instructions at >>>> [1]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.h >>>> >>>> tml to get my newly installed xorg setup. I stepped through >>>> everything >>>> up to the 'Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro' which didn't fail, bit >>>> didn't behave quite like it was supposed to .... Machine is AMD >>>> Jaguar >>>> Kabini based, quad core, 1.3 GHz, 25W, gfx on die: >>>> Aug 9 10:23:34 kabini1 kernel: CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) 3850 APU with >>>> Radeon(tm) R3 (1297.59-MHz K8-class CPU) >>>> xorg detects it as: BoardName "Kabini [Radeon HD 8280 / R3 >>>> Series]" >>>> The above test is supposed to give a black & grey grid on the >>>> screen, >>>> w/ an X-mouse. I have the mouse, & it moves around, although >>>> click-&-drag does nothing, & I might have the grid, although it is >>>> pixel-by-pixel, not finitely sized grid .... The troubleshooting >>>> page >>>> is little help .... Am I good to go or not :-/ ? TIA .... >>>> -- >>> Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Errors are somewhat esoteric unless you >>> know a lot about X11 but they are clearly marked. You can subscribe >>> to the X11 mailing list or just search the archives of that list. >>> >>> You can see if you are good to go by trying startx. >> >> Thanks. My question was poorly articulated, should have been 'am I OK >> for XFCE ?' .... I plunged on & started XFCE, & it works mostly >> pretty good, but the gfx is definitely spotty, lotta flickering, >> background on desktop looks a bit dicey, window frames are granular & >> flickery. I just looked through /var/log/Xorg.0.log & there are *no* >> errors (no '(EE)'s) .... what now :-/ .... > Ah - my desktop of choice. The X11 list might help. I excel at > choosing PCs whose video card are not supported. However flickering > and worse in my experience has meant driver errors. Have you tried the > vesa driver? You will not get the full use of the card but if that > driver does not work it may mean hardware issues. If you have a > windows partition, it is good to test the hardware. > > I am afraid this one is above my pay grade :( > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It's already on the vesa driver, & the 'gfx card' is on die w/ the CPU .... No sweat, I figured I might have a few glitches w/ such new hardware .... When you say X11 list, do you mean the FreeBSD/X11 list, or X.org ? Thanks :-) .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"