recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess
Brad Pitney
pitney.brad at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 17 00:04:53 PDT 2008
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, peter stern <pstern at 65north.com> wrote:
> I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3
> shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much
> trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty
> generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize
> the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades.
>
have you tried without an xorg.conf?
> The xorg in 6.3 doesn't install much in the way of required drivers. I got
> the mouse and keyboard drivers installed and also the mga driver. I have
> run xorgconfig to create what seems like a working xorg.conf. Startx
> brings up twm but only in 640x480. I cannot change modes. And yes, I have
> mode lines defined. If I put the correct horizontal and vertical scan
> rates in for my Viewsonic PT810 monitor, I get a screen display with lines
> precessing through it. xdm gives the same result.
>
> I have tried the other suggestions on configuring X in the FreeBSD
> handbook, including creating a basic xorg.conf. It tests okay but only in
> 640x480 and it has no modelines in the .conf. Adding modelines doesn't fix
> the problem.
>
I suspect modelines won't help and there might be a bug in xf86-video-mga?
> The initial install was done by sysinstall under the predefined
> xdeveloper selection. I tried reinstalling xorg from ports by running make
> deinstall and make reinstall but with no change in behavior.
>
what about installing just base then using an up-to-date ports?
> My hardware has no problems running Slackware 12 or Openbsd 4.2. Under
> those OSs, X11 works fine and configures without problems.
>
> What has happened to quality control in the FreeBSD release?
is it really a FreeBSD issue?
>
> peter
>
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Best regards,
Brad
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