Joel Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I took the plunge last night and installed FreeBSD6.1-STABLE. I found the > experience rather exciting and I'm happy with the results, excep for one > major challenge to overcome: no video support. I'm trying to set up X and > it's failing. > > Prerequisites: > > FreeBSD6.1-STABLE (from the i386 CD iso's from freebsd.org) > Dell Dimension 5100C Desktop > WD SATA HD > Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family on IRQ 16 > > My friend the computer professional tells me the video and a bunch of other > devices are integrated into the motherboard to save space (the system unit is > smaller than the printer, if that tells you anything). > > when I do: > root-prompt>Xorg -configure > > I get a quick list of all video devices and "No Device Present" > The Xorg-configure-log is just a more verbose statement of the same list > > At boot, I get the following messages: > ... > acpi0:<Dell 5100C > on motherboard > ... > pci0:<display> at device 2.1 (no driver attached) > pci0:<multimedia> at device 27.0 (no driver attached) > ... > the boot process then proceeds to recognize all my other devices and I get > to my login prompt.
X.org doesn't always need any configuration file at all. Did you try just running "startx" to see if it starts up? [It probably won't, but I'm not sure I understand your description completely.] To really help, though, I suspect we'll need to see the complete boot messages and output of Xorg. The former can be obtained (close enough) from dmesg(8) (or /var/run/dmesg.boot) and the latter using screen(1). [I.e. for more information on those commands, type "man 8 dmesg" or "man 1 screen".] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
