black screen on Thinkpad R40 with xorg-7.3 + xf86-video-ati-6.7.195

[Don Lewis]

On 26 Nov, To: x11 at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> After upgrading my Thinkpad R40 to FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 with xorg-7.3_1 and
> xf86-video-ati-6.7.195, I now get a totally black screen in X.  If I run
> startx, the screen just blacks out even though the backlight is on.
> Switching to a text vty works fine, and I can even type commands into
> the xterm windows that are started.  If I type "exit" into the
> appropriate xterm, the Xorg server exits, and drops me back into text
> mode.  If I use the vesa driver instead of ati, X works correctly.
> I don't see any obvious problem in the server log.

After doing a bunch more searching around the net, I found that this bug
is fixed in xf86-video-ati-6.7.196, which I installed by hacking the
port's Makefile and distinfo files.