Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:32:10 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about xorg 7.4 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912171805550.2594@oceanpt.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <4B2AA81E.6030600@onetel.com> References: <200912131042.50936.lumiwa@gmail.com> <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912151013210.13455@fledge.watson.org> <200912170031.58151.pieter@degoeje.nl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912161854010.2594@oceanpt.safeport.com> <4B2AA81E.6030600@onetel.com>
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > doug@safeport.com wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote: >> >>> Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern these >>> days. > > You can revert to the old style with -retro flag to X .If things are working > you should see the old style screen with an X mouse pointer (if enabled) > > Not trying to rtfm but > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html Thanks Chris. I did rtfm. I posted a relatively lengthy vent (civilized rant :) that included comments on the excellence of the handbook in this area. It was probably lost in the questions down-period. Before dropping back to the 7.2-release iso version I tried retro and running without and without hal/dbus. All this the same result. I did indeed get the black screen but with no keyboard. I believe (but am not 100% sure) that the current version of xorg.conf I am running was generate with the -retro option. I am however still running with the ati driver. I kind of 'lost interest' in xorg when I got some thing that worked and moved on to my next problem, kde4. In the meantime xsetroot saves my eyes while I labor on with kde. _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277
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