Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:15:58 -0500 (EST) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: question about xorg 7.4 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912151013210.13455@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net> References: <200912131042.50936.lumiwa@gmail.com> <200912131810.38468.frank@fthieme.net>
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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.<something>. 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.
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