From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 05:46:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C089F106564A for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:46:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pstern@jago.65north.com) Received: from jago.65north.com (209-193-47-81-cdsl-rb1.fai.acsalaska.net [209.193.47.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723FD8FC16 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:46:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pstern@jago.65north.com) Received: from jago.65north.com (localhost.65north.com [127.0.0.1]) by jago.65north.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m2H5Tsxj002421 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:29:54 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from pstern@jago.65north.com) Received: from localhost (pstern@localhost) by jago.65north.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id m2H5TrtL002418 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:29:54 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from pstern@jago.65north.com) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:29:53 -0800 (AKDT) From: peter stern To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080316211253.M2398@jago.65north.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:46:48 -0000 I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades. The xorg in 6.3 doesn't install much in the way of required drivers. I got the mouse and keyboard drivers installed and also the mga driver. I have run xorgconfig to create what seems like a working xorg.conf. Startx brings up twm but only in 640x480. I cannot change modes. And yes, I have mode lines defined. If I put the correct horizontal and vertical scan rates in for my Viewsonic PT810 monitor, I get a screen display with lines precessing through it. xdm gives the same result. I have tried the other suggestions on configuring X in the FreeBSD handbook, including creating a basic xorg.conf. It tests okay but only in 640x480 and it has no modelines in the .conf. Adding modelines doesn't fix the problem. The initial install was done by sysinstall under the predefined xdeveloper selection. I tried reinstalling xorg from ports by running make deinstall and make reinstall but with no change in behavior. My hardware has no problems running Slackware 12 or Openbsd 4.2. Under those OSs, X11 works fine and configures without problems. What has happened to quality control in the FreeBSD release? peter