Xorg Problems

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote:

> I installed twm and changed .xinitrc to run it.

twm should have been part of the xorg install already.

> I commented out the sections of xorg.conf that you suggested and changed
> the resolution.
>
> I changed the driver from vesa to nVidia but the nVidia driver could not
> be found and X exited.  After restoring vesa I ran the test on xorg.conf
> -retro and it worked ok.  However, startx still produced only a black
> screen.

nVidia is a long story.  There are binary drivers provided by nVidia, 
and there's a limited open-source driver provided by xorg.  Someone else 
is going to have to provide detail.

For now, vesa at 1024x768 should be fine.

> I was not able to make heads or tails out of the pastebin.com site.
> Until FBSD X is working on the pc I have to use Netscape 4.79 on a Sun
> running Solaris 2.6 (which I would prefer to keep using if only a modern
> browser was available).  Netscape doesn't work on most web sites
> anymore.  Is there someplace I could ftp or email the log file?

If you want to mail it to me, I can put it up temporarily.