From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 9 15:37:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EE712C2 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 15:37:50 +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 02BC7280D for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 15:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (rbn1-216-180-76-236.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.236]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s79FbmJv013779 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 10:37:48 -0500 Message-ID: <53E641C3.4040409@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:44:03 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: X11 setup .... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:37:50 -0000 .... 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 .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. References 1. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html