setup question

[Manolis Kiagias]

Jerry Breazeale wrote:
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> Subject:
> Xorg config
> From:
> Jerry Breazeale <breazeal at hemc.net>
> Date:
> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:41:40 +0000
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>     Newbie question here.
>     I've followed the installation instructions in the book FreeBSD 6 
> Unleashed and (finally) gotten it installed.  Now I proceed to the 
> setting up of X, where the book says to log in as root, and type Xorg 
> -configure .  I do that and get a response something like Xorg command 
> not known.  During the installation, I selected Install it all 
> including X.  This is version 6.3 by the way.  And this is about the 
> 3rd or 4th attempt at installation on this HDD.  Some help would be 
> appreciated.
>
>     By the way, after each of the first couple attempts at 
> installation,during which I'd set up a separate /boot partition, I 
> couldn't get FreeBSD to boot from the HDD.  The book had no caution 
> about not using a separate /boot partition, but that's what I found to 
> be causing the problem.  I installed again but without a separate 
> /boot partition, and can now boot from the HDD.
>
>         Jerry
>

It seems both 6.3-RELEASE and 7.0-RC1 exhibit the same symptom. If you 
perform the standard install + X, it is missing several parts of xorg, 
most obvious one is xorg-drivers. The solution is not really to install 
just xorg-drivers by hand (you will just find you are missing other 
X-related packages afterwards) but installing the entire xorg-7.3 
metapackage. This can be done during the initial installation, when 
asked whether you would like to "browse the package collection", answer 
yes, then find from the list the xorg-7.3 package (I believe it is in 
category x11) and install it. This will pull all other required 
dependencies. It seems the standard installation + X only installs the 
xorg-server package (x11-server) which is simply not enough, since xorg 
is now modular.

Manolis