Xorg Redux

[Rem P Roberti]

  On 08/23/10 16:33, Glen Barber wrote:
> On 8/23/10 7:01 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
>>> Ok, one quick question.  When your screen goes blank, can you
>>> [ctrl][alt][fN] to a different TTY, where N is anything between 2-7?
>>> I'm curious about the machine's state when you start X.
>>>
>> No, when the screen goes blank the whole computer freezes.  No mouse, no
>> keyboard.  And I also noticed that the wireless indicator freezes in the
>> on position.  Everything stops dead its tracks.
>>
> In your xorg.conf, switch 'Driver "intel"' to 'Driver "vesa"', and see
> if it hangs with that.
>
> In addition, it might be helpful to build debugging options into your
> GENERIC kernel.  If you're willing to go down this path, I'll help you
> get set up, but the gory details are here:
>
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
>
> First, let's try the "vesa" thing.
>

Eureka!  I changed Driver to "vesa" in both of the "Device" sections and 
X now loads.  I doubt that "vesa" is the ideal entry in the 
configuration, but at this point I'm not going to complain.