From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 17 01:10:49 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 7682D106566C for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:10:49 +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 2BAF98FC0C for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBH1AmIS098272; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id nBH1AmZ7098269; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:48 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: doug@safeport.com In-Reply-To: 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 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about xorg 7.4 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: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:10:49 -0000 On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, doug@safeport.com wrote: >> >>> All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx, >>> xdm and xorg all do the same. >> >> Does ctrl-alt-f1 switch to the console? If so, good news--it's working. >> You need to run dbus and hal as per the Handbook page. Or disable hal, >> also as per the Handbook page. >> >>> I assume this is a hardware issue and hope someone found a way around it. >> >> It's possible, but hard to tell. If you can post your xorg.conf and >> Xorg.0.log, that would help. > > I appreciate your input. With the installation from pkg_add, the keyboard was > locked. Power off was the only relief. That's why I asked about ctrl-alt-f1. If X is working even without a keyboard driver, that should still switch to the console. > I tried with and without hal/dbus, I changed the Driver to ati because > that worked in an earlier of xorg, What are you using for a driver now? > I commented out dri because I (mistakenly) thought that gave an error. > What worked was installing xorg from the 7.2-release iso. Which is going back to the older version of xorg. > Now what I would like to do is get rid of the black background. See xsetroot(1). > I actually like twm and use it when upgrading kde. Thank you for your > offer to review Xorg.0.log. Unfortunately the current system only > keeps two levels. My failures were long gone before questions was > restored to health. When you want to try it again, I think we can make it work. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA