no X after installing xorg + xfce

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:36:50 -0700
Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:28 PM,  <"Thomas Mueller
> <mueller6727"@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >> I have successfully installed FreeBSD-9.0-BETA2 to an amd64 bit
> >> machine, I have used the ports to install xfce and xorg.  When I type
> >> startx, I get a screen with a bunch of colors no mouse, no keyboard,
> >> just colors.  The machine has nvidia onboard graphics.  I am trying to
> >> get kernel sources installed via sysinstall to install nvidia-driver
> >> but I can't get anywhere from any ftp site I select at random.  I have
> >> updated to latest sources available on the ports and it comes up the
> >> same.  I have to use the nv driver, should I try the nouveau driver?
> >> What should I do?  I want to help in testing and have no way to report
> >> bugs as without X there's not much one can do :(
> >
> >> Is it not automatically installed when one goes into
> >> /usr/ports/x11/xorg, and runs make install clean?
> >
> > You would get the xorg server with the xorg metaport/megaport.
> >
> > One thing I can think of is a little dirty trick I have seen in FreeBSD but not NetBSD or Linux, X comes up but no response to mouse or keyboard.
> >
> > I ran startx, got twm with its windows, but no response to mouse or keyboard.
> >
> > Cure was, to include in /etc/rc.conf
> >
> >
> > hald_enable="YES"
> > dbus_enable="YES"
> 
>     This seems like more of a question@ issue.
>     I doubt that the above claim is at fault, given past experience.
> What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say, and what does your xorg.conf
> contain?
>

This may not be relevant, but I had a similar problem when I installed
xorg-dev a few weeks ago.  I'd forgotten to update the mouse and
keyboard drivers and they apparently are not updated automatically.

So try going into /usr/ports/x11-drivers and reinstalling
xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-keyboard.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn