FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6

[Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)]

Thank you for such a quick response.
 
1. How could I verify which driver is being used?
 
2. I went it the post-install configuration and tried downloading the Intel driver package but it failed... giving me error -1 and states to look at debug screen but I have no idea where to see that.

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From: Ghirai [mailto:ghirai at ghirai.com]
Sent: Fri 2008-04-11 21:25
To: Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6



On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:57:23 -0300
"Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)" <Ian.Pitre at gnb.ca> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> First off I'm a total newbie to FreeBSD and the UNIX world.
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 7 about 1 wk ago and I'm about to give up at this point as I'm having video problems but it seems like such a great OS I want to fix it.
> 
> My video hardware:
> 
> Integrated onboard Intel video card, 965 chipset using the system memory
> 
> Here is the problem;
> 
> I have GNOME (version that comes with FreeBSD 7) for an interface and initially when it loaded my mouse didn't work.  I used the xorgconfig, xorgcfg did not work.  Once I ran the configuration utility and the new xorg.conf file was created I rebooted and now I have a mouse but the screen resolution is extremely low (everything is huge).  Before I ran the utility and loaded gnome the resolution was very decent (but I had no mouse).  I know they're probably unrelated.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> p.s. I discovered on X.org that the Intel 965 chipset is 'now' supported in release X11R7.2.  Would upgrading X be the smartest thing to do but my question since I'm a total newbie is... how do I do that :)
> 
> Thanks for any advice
> 
> Ian

Make sure you have moused_enable="YES" in rc.conf,
as well as usbd_enable="YES" (if you have an usb mouse).

You should also verify that Xorg uses the 'intel' driver.

The handbook covers basic X11 setup pretty well:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html

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Regards,
Ghirai.