recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

[Brad Pitney]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, peter stern <pstern at 65north.com> wrote:
> I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3
>  shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much
>  trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty
>  generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize
>  the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades.
>

have you tried without an xorg.conf?

>  The xorg in 6.3 doesn't install much in the way of required drivers. I got
>  the mouse and keyboard drivers installed and also the mga driver. I have
>  run xorgconfig to create what seems like a working xorg.conf. Startx
>  brings up twm but only in 640x480. I cannot change modes. And yes, I have
>  mode lines defined. If I put the correct horizontal and vertical scan
>  rates in for my Viewsonic PT810 monitor, I get a screen display with lines
>  precessing through it. xdm gives the same result.
>
>  I have tried the other suggestions on configuring X in the FreeBSD
>  handbook, including creating a basic xorg.conf. It tests okay but only in
>  640x480 and it has no modelines in the .conf. Adding modelines doesn't fix
>  the problem.
>

I suspect modelines won't help and there might be a bug in xf86-video-mga?

>  The initial install was done by sysinstall under the predefined
>  xdeveloper selection. I tried reinstalling xorg from ports by running make
>  deinstall and make reinstall but with no change in behavior.
>

what about installing just base then using an up-to-date ports?

>  My hardware has no problems running Slackware 12 or Openbsd 4.2. Under
>  those OSs, X11 works fine and configures without problems.
>
>  What has happened to quality control in the FreeBSD release?

is it really a FreeBSD issue?

>
>  peter
>



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Best regards,
 Brad