question about xorg 7.4

[doug at safeport.com]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 December 2009 07:15:58 doug wrote:
>> I have a IBM thinkpad T42p. xorg 7.4 is pretty much a disaster for me.
>> First I wonder if anyone has gotten 7.4 to work on this or similar
>> hardware. The system is 3+ years old when it was still IBM.
>>
>> I have done this a time or two starting with the first version of KDE and
>> FreeBSD 4.<something>. I believe I have tried all of the options in the
>> handbook plus a couple of various from this list and google. So I was not
>> going to add xdm and Xorg output, at first anyway.
>>
>> The one thing I have not done is upgrade the BIOS and am not sure that
>> matters. I was/am afraid of breaking an otherwise great system. It runs
>> xorg 7.3 and KDE 3 or 4 fine. I go to this point because I broke things
>> trying to install firefox3 and got all tangled up in upgrading ports and
>> thought I would give xorg 7.4 a try.
>>
>> I am running FreeBSD 7.2. Xorg was installed using pkg_add on a system
>> without any ports. Upon hitting the xdm trap, I also installed that
>> package.
>>
>> All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx, xdm
>> and xorg all do the same. I assume this is a hardware issue and hope
>> someone found a way around it.
>>
>> Thank you for any thoughts, tips, ideas, etc.
>
> Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern these days.
> Keyboard and mouse input is handled by hald(8), so don't forget to enable and
> start it before starting Xorg. hald depends on dbus so that also needs to be
> enabled and started. Add the following to rc.conf:
> hald_enable="YES"
> dbus_enable="YES"
>
> Good luck,
> Pieter de Goeje

Thanks for your reply. I tried all that and more. Installing xorg 7.4 from the 
7.2-release iso worked with the last verision of my xorg.conf file which 
happened to be not using hal and dbus.


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