Xorg Configuration trouble: FreeBSD 5.4

[Angka H. K.]

Can it be narrowed down ?

May be try to solve the mouse problem first.
Try put this 4 line on you "/etc/rc.conf"

moused_enable="YES"
moused_flags="-3"
moused_port="/dev/psm0"
moused_type="auto"

If there any line begined with "moused" should be removed.
It will configure you mouse and useable at console mode. After that if this
work try using "/dev/sysmouse" as your mouse device at "xorg.conf"


On 9/11/06, Arindam <arindam.mukerjee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am an absolute FreeBSD Newbie and I decided to give it a try over a
> lazy weekend - mainly because I don't want to throw away my old PIII
> box. I picked up FreeBSD 5.4 which was all I got and I am dual booting
> it with RHEL4.3. My box is rather old ... P3 733 Mhz with 256 megs of
> SDRAM at 100MHz (actually 384 ... but that's another story), and I
> installed FreeBSD on the first 6.5 Gigs of my Seagate harddrive ...
> connected to the Primary master IDE interface.
>
> Now I had these two FreeBSD 5.4 ISOs ... CD1 and CD2, and I booted
> from CD1 directly and did the install. There is no automatic X
> configuration in the installer so I tried running it manually.
>
> 1. I tried running "Xorg -configure". For some reason "Xorg
> -configure" threw an error:
> xf86EnableIO: could not open /dev/io for extended IO. However, when I did
> run:
>
> ls -l /dev/io
>
> I got:
>
> crw------- root wheel 246, 14 /dev/io
>
> 2. Never figured out what went wrong there but instead used
> "xorgconfig" and that "worked", as in, it wrote my config file. Here
> are my Screen details:
>
> *** Samsung Samtron 45Bn monitor (33-55 KHz HorSyncRate, 50-120 Hz
> Vert Refresh Rate).
> *** Cirrus Logic GD 5465 graphics card on a PCI slot - with 4MB video
> memory.
> *** An old Logitech mouse with middle-button connected to a serial
> port (/dev/cuaa0? /dev/sysmouse? /dev/tty00 ... don't know which
> device to use).
>
> I would have liked to attach my xorg.conf file but don't have access
> to it right away. I guess there are no probs in it ... I read through
> the relevant sections of it and from what I remember of my RedHat
> Linux 6.0 days, this file seems fine.
>
> 3. Finally I tried changing the /etc/ttys file and for /dev/ttyv8,
> turned xterm "on" from "off".
>
> ==>> Now each time I boot into FreeBSD, I get a flickering blank,
> black screen with nothing on it. I keep try [Ctrl+] Alt + F<n> ...
> n=1..12 ... but no success.
> ==>> I keep trying Ctrl + Alt + Backspace ... but no breakthrough.
> ==>> I tried Ctrl + Alt + KP_+/- also, with the Num Lock on ... but
> again no respite.
>
>
> Some observations:
> 1. While the screen continuously flickers, the Num Lock of the
> Keyboard keeps blinking too (if it was on, to start with).
> 2. A while back, when I had not yet configured X with xorgconfig and
> just like that switched on "xterm" on /dev/ttyv8, I rememeber the
> getty program was respawning too quickly, due to which it was going
> into 30 second sleeps. So I switched xterm off. Of course, after that
> I found xorgconfig.
>
> 3. Here are the modes I have allowed in xorgconfig:
> a. 8 bit - 800x600, 640x480 (removed 1024x768, 1280x1024)
> b. 16 bit (default) - 800x600, 640x480 (removed 1024x768, 1280x1024)
> c. 24 bit - 800x600, 640x480 (removed 1024x768, 1280x1024)
>
> 4. Earlier, after completing xorgconfig, while xterm was off on ttyv8
> in /etc/ttys, I tried:
>
> startx -- -depth 16 :1 vt10
>
> and it gave me the same problems.
>
> 5. Finally, during sysinstall installation of the OS, I could not
> configure moused with my mouse ... and while I would briefly see a
> tiny pointer, I would not see it move with my mouse movements.
>
> Aaaargh!! What a long, bad post!! Still, if you can wade through this
> nonsense, please help.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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