Xorg on a RaspberryPI

[Ulrich Grey]

On Mon, 11 May 2015 12:51:30 +0800
Erich Dollansky <erich at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 10 May 2015 11:24:44 +0000
> Ulrich Grey <usenet at ulrich-grey.de> wrote:
> 
> > I am running FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r282366M on a RaspberryPI. The
> > Raspberry serves as a X-Terminal to access a Wandboard-Quad running
> > the same FreeBSD version.
> > 
> I have this running on 10.0 and now 10.1 without problems.

I had the X-server running on FreeBSD 10.1 (with a RaspberryPI Model B) too, but with an
older (1/2 year) ports tree. And it worked without problems.

> > I have build x11/xorg and x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb packages on the
> > Wandboard and installed it on the Raspberry. It works, but there is a
> > problem with the colors. I think the display shows complementary
> > colors (the background of the xcfe4 desktop is not blue but
> > yellow/ochre).
> > 
> Is it also the same ports tree? Why don't you compile it on the
> Raspberry? It just takes some time.

Compiling on the Raspberry is very slow. Is there any reason not to use the packages
built on the Wandboard, running the exact same FreeBSD version?

Later I had built and installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb on the RaspberryPI, but
there is no difference, the colors remain strange.

> > Can anybody give me a hint what is wrong?
> 
> Try a very basic window manager. I use blackbox without any problems.

Xfce4 is running on the Wandboard very well. If I have access to the Wandboard from a
windows7 host with Xming server, all is ok.

On the RaspberryPI I use x11-wm/fluxbox. It works, but in xterm or urxvt windows, the
output of ls -G shows the wrong colors. (The twm windows have the wrong colors, too.)

I was not able to compile x11-wm/blackbox.
See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200124
--
Ulriich
> Erich