Problem configuring X: FreeBSD 6.4, Intel video card, Fujitsu lifebook

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 12/2/08, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 6.4 on a Fujitsu lifebook. I'm quite new to
> FreeBSD (see previous post "Introduction"). Some time ago, I had bought
> (and partially read) Michael Urban's "FreeBSD 6 Unleashed". I just
> worked through the initial chapters, and managed installing FreeBSD and
> configuring X just fine. Only I ran into trouble installing a desktop
> environment, since building gnome2-lite failed. I thought before doing
> anything, I'd get a more recent set of FreeBSD install discs, since the
> book includes 6.1, which seems a bit outdated.
>
> Now I did an install using a set of 6.4 install discs. Everything ran
> fine, except I can't get X to work anymore.
>
> Configuration:
>
> # Xorg -configure
> # mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> And then test:
>
> # startx
>
> X crashes with the following error message:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Couldn't find PLL settings for mode!
>
> I googled about this and found a few results... on the Ubuntu 8.10
> bugtracker. Apparently the 'intel' video driver has some problems with
> my specific Intel video card.
>
> What now? Try to use the older 'i810' instead of 'intel'? But how would
> I do that? Simply replacing the corresponding "Driver" line in xorg.conf
> doesn't help.

Because xf86-video-i810 conflicts with xf86-video-intel and for
xf86-video-intel 'i810' is alias for 'intel' in xorg.conf.

To really test 'i810' driver you should deinstall xf86-video-intel and
install xf86-video-i810.

-- 
Paul