On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, 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.
My T42--no P--is the only system that the new Xorg has worked on
completely from the start, including 3D acceleration! But it has a
Radeon 7500, and yours might have fancier graphics.
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.
I would not attempt to install KDE or GNOME until xorg was working and
twm works.
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.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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