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Date:      Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:21:29 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Xorg Redux
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008231018080.88061@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net>
References:  <4C72977B.9060104@comcast.net>

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote:

> Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so on my 
> Thinkpad R51.  Here's what's happening.  I installed xorg on this new 8.1 
> installation, and have run the xorg configure program, copying the 
> xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11 as xorg.conf.  I have both hald and dbus 
> enabled in /etc/rc.conf.  When I try to run the test on xorg.conf, or if I 
> just run "startx" I momentarily see the initial screen, which is displayed 
> when X11 loads, but then the screen goes blank, and that's all she wrote.  No 
> keyboard, no mouse, totally frozen.  The only way out is a reboot via the 
> power switch.

The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics.  Here's the 
xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500:

http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_config&config=xconfig&laptop=12947



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