question about xorg 7.4

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, doug at safeport.com wrote:
>> 
>>> All variations give me a black screen with the keyboard locked. startx, 
>>> xdm and xorg all do the same.
>> 
>> Does ctrl-alt-f1 switch to the console?  If so, good news--it's working. 
>> You need to run dbus and hal as per the Handbook page.  Or disable hal, 
>> also as per the Handbook page.
>> 
>>> I assume this is a hardware issue and hope someone found a way around it.
>> 
>> It's possible, but hard to tell.  If you can post your xorg.conf and 
>> Xorg.0.log, that would help.
>
> I appreciate your input. With the installation from pkg_add, the keyboard was 
> locked. Power off was the only relief.

That's why I asked about ctrl-alt-f1.  If X is working even without a 
keyboard driver, that should still switch to the console.

> I tried with and without hal/dbus, I changed the Driver to ati because 
> that worked in an earlier of xorg,

What are you using for a driver now?

> I commented out dri because I (mistakenly) thought that gave an error.
> What worked was installing xorg from the 7.2-release iso.

Which is going back to the older version of xorg.

> Now what I would like to do is get rid of the black background.

See xsetroot(1).

> I actually like twm and use it when upgrading kde. Thank you for your 
> offer to review Xorg.0.log. Unfortunately the current system only 
> keeps two levels. My failures were long gone before questions was 
> restored to health.

When you want to try it again, I think we can make it work.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA