new card, still can't get X11 working

[Hauan, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dustin [mailto:dustin at marsik.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 3:21 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: new card, still can't get X11 working
> 
> 
> I originally sent this to the XFree86 list, but thought I may 
> get some useful insight if I sent it here.  
> 
> 	 
> 	 
> 	I had a SIS 6326, and had problems getting X11 up and 
> running, so went
> 	to the store, and picked up an ATI Radeon 9200SE.
> 	
> 	Then I rebuilt the system, here's the info:
> 	
> 	ids# uname -a
> 	
> 	FreeBSD ids.marsik.org 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 
> 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb
> 	23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
> 	root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 	
> 	Immediately after install, I updated the ports tree 
> using cvsup, then
> 	updated the ports by running:
> 	
> 	Portsdb -uU
> 	Pkgdb -u
> 	Portversion -v
> 	Portupgrade -varRp -x openoffice
> 	Portsclean -CDD
> 	
> 	I then installed xorg from ports and configured xorg 
> using both methods
> 	specified by the handbook, which were:
> 	
> 	The 'Xorg -configure' method &
> 	The xorgconfig method
> 	
> 	When I run 'startx', the system hangs.
> 	
> 	
> 	Is there a magical video card I can buy to alleviate 
> these issues?  I
> 	need to get past this point and get to what I'm really 
> trying to do.
> 	
> 	Any help is much appreciated.
> 	
> 	Dustin
> 	Ps, the xorg log is attached
> 	
Disable DRM? in your XF86Config (or whatever it may be for Xorg).
I had this problem as well and that cleared it up.

Hope that helps

dave