Xorg problems but not mine.

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:38:29 -0800 (PST)
Super Biscuit <super_bisquit at yahoo.com> wrote:

> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=120400
> 
> Read towards the end. 

You are perhaps referring to the problem I'm having with my PowerMac G4? Cool.
The specifications of my machine are here[1], the FreeBSD worklog here[2].
The machine is currently running FreeBSD 8.2-prerelease:
root at kg-g4# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-g4.kg4.no 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Jan 21 21:42:26 CET 2011     root at kg-g4.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  powerpc
And, if I'm correct, it has a PCI graphics card (as opposed to a AGP one):
root at kg-g4# pciconf -lv | grep -A4 vga
vgapci0 at pci0:0:16:0:	class=0x030000 card=0xa5b80208 chip=0x011010de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
    device     = 'NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (NV11)'
    class      = display
    subclass   = VGA

The problem is, that Xorg hangs every time I try to run it. So, if I try:
Xorg -configure -retro

the machine hangs hard. And (after reboot) I can see that it hasn't written anything to the /root/xorg.conf.new file:
root at kg-g4# ls -l /root/xorg*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Jan 21 23:43 /root/xorg.conf.new

I did try loading the agp.ko module; just in case, but it didn't make a difference.

If anybody has any hints, I'm game.

References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g4
2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powermac_g4_freebsd

-- 
Torfinn