From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 16 06:15:59 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 7ED46106566B for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:15:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B168FC0A for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBG6FwRZ028510 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:15:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id nBG6Fwnx028507 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:15:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:15:58 -0500 (EST) From: doug To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net> Message-ID: References: <200912131042.50936.lumiwa@gmail.com> <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net> 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-4.2.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:15:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: question about xorg 7.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug@safeport.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:15:59 -0000 I have a IBM thinkpad T42p. xorg 7.4 is pretty much a disaster for me. First I wonder if anyone has gotten 7.4 to work on this or similar hardware. The system is 3+ years old when it was still IBM. I have done this a time or two starting with the first version of KDE and FreeBSD 4.. I believe I have tried all of the options in the handbook plus a couple of various from this list and google. So I was not going to add xdm and Xorg output, at first anyway. The one thing I have not done is upgrade the BIOS and am not sure that matters. I was/am afraid of breaking an otherwise great system. It runs xorg 7.3 and KDE 3 or 4 fine. I go to this point because I broke things trying to install firefox3 and got all tangled up in upgrading ports and thought I would give xorg 7.4 a try. I am running FreeBSD 7.2. Xorg was installed using pkg_add on a system without any ports. Upon hitting the xdm trap, I also installed that package. All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx, xdm and xorg all do the same. I assume this is a hardware issue and hope someone found a way around it. Thank you for any thoughts, tips, ideas, etc.