Xorg on a RaspberryPI
Erich Dollansky
erich at alogt.com
Tue May 12 00:56:13 UTC 2015
Hi,
On Mon, 11 May 2015 10:30:33 +0000
Ulrich Grey <usenet at ulrich-grey.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2015 12:51:30 +0800
> Erich Dollansky <erich at alogt.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
so, it could be caused by the newer X server.
> > 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?
>
It should not make a difference.
> 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.)
It seems to be then related to X itself and not the window manager.
>
> I was not able to compile x11-wm/blackbox.
> See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200124
Where did this come from. There is another small problem in blackbox I
wanted to fix but it does not stop blackbox from working.
Erich
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