From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 8 23:34:03 2009 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 5CF1A106564A for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:34:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gesbbb@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp107.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (smtp107.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0787D8FC0A for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 84474 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2009 23:34:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Received:X-Virus-Status:X-Virus-Scanned:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:Reply-To:Organization:X-Mailer:Face:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=WYU2kIeWEGEQs1FGLE5Jj6v3UkYXiHH6Cp8VPv4cyELDHcK6yfWat9rhz2kXLoxGpyZk0d6BgM0QGGFbmJkRMsHEBQDGkMpDPQC5DFN7uSH8ynvS0dGJYz3R+xBRUGc1SKjpjISOJZIXCgDNjpxpkYk4RPqrN9/r/9J8NNmJH1o= ; Received: from c-76-23-177-172.hsd1.ny.comcast.net (gesbbb@76.23.177.172 with login) by smtp107.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 08 Aug 2009 16:34:02 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: yeAAMgKswBATCul4lSbCWspvTA-- X-YMail-OSG: sLSLewEVM1lnYxYpDuRGACRAI4i9eNVw2_c8yGTQSbl5AfFalNeri7_lz9JuwzwQx3jLmd7AG_2eWAFzzxEaLWiInkp4MxOORarVQWU5h435wG.B5OFeMG4U_QCutj5FpRE6qi6hjcRq0PYklD7KYkSP7omJH0Y6QmA9MQf7iD5CFGy5.IcoWAZVQuHYv1l44L0B0GfBesuDUWR8zOHze.iN1q7kPsrMgIJKc1VwdlT.gtXHOhorvtGLsMo3yYkjzN8i7aocT.cMSTB042C7PJrnjs.f50ccXF.Cb79Uo7L6NV1PWFcpbawbVkchWjvOGgxnvB0P X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: gesbbb@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B644522910 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 19:34:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.2 at scorpio.seibercom.net Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 19:34:01 -0400 From: Jerry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090808193401.16f4a3e6@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <28d0cced0908081214y5e2bde06m5701976d95f245e5@mail.gmail.com> References: <28d0cced0908081214y5e2bde06m5701976d95f245e5@mail.gmail.com> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Face: 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 X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:34:03 -0000 On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:14:14 -0400 Jules Gilbert wrote: > Okay, I'm back with another question (but let me begin by saying I > love FreeBSD. It really is great. Thank you for building/supporting > it.) > > I have one of those $300 Presario laptop's, and it's really wonderful > -- it compares very well to laptops' selling for $2k to even $3k. > > But the video driver is an AMD 8200M nvidia device and I can't get X > to configure it. And I have to run X. What do I do? > > I've tried: > > X -configure > > that fails. > > I notice that PC-BSD will configure it correctly but for other reasons > I have to run native 7.2 FreeBSD -- PC-BSD won't do. > > I am not very X experienced (mostly use the ordinary screens,) so I > will need pretty explicit assistance. Sorry. As root, run: Xorg -configure FILES The Xorg server config file can be found in a range of locations. These are documented fully in the xorg.conf(5) manual page. The most commonly used locations are shown here. /etc/X11/xorg.conf Server configuration file. /etc/X11/xorg.conf-4 Server configuration file. /etc/xorg.conf Server configuration file. /usr/local/etc/xorg.conf Server configuration file. /usr/local/lib/X11/xorg.conf Server configuration file. Be sure to copy the newly created xorg.conf file to the appropriate directory. Make sure the file permissions and ownership are also correct. I use 0644 and it works well. Check out: man Xorg and man xorg.conf for further details. -- Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. Blake Clark