On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:28:00PM -0600, Bomgardner,Jon wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and am having a bit of trouble getting > Xorg up and running on my laptop. > > I've searched the handbook, FAQ, Google, and FreeBSD newsgroups to no > avail. After following the handbook instructions to set up an xorg.conf > file (the command xorg -configure actually hangs my system, so I used > both xorgcfg -textmode and xorgconf to generate the file) everytime I > run startx(1) or Xorg(1) the system hangs. Checking out the > /var/log/xorg.0.log file shows the final item as: > > > (II) Loading sub module "ddc" > (II) LoadModule: "ddc" > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/mofules/libddc.a > (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0 > ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 > > > Everytime I run this it hangs, I CTRL-ALT-DEL to shut it down and this > is the place where the log file ends - EVERY TIME. Here's my specs:
Are you sure the system is totally frozen? The console maybe locked up, but can you ping the machine from another or even ssh in and kill X? I did have a problem with X locking up on FreeBSD 5.2.1 and I fixed it by disabling acpi at boot, there's the startup message and I think adding acpi_load="NO" in /boot/loader.conf will make it permanent. > > Toshiba Satellite 1805-S203 (yes, I know it's not on the compatible > list) > 800MHz Pentium II (I believe... it's been a while since I've had to > quote specs) > 128M RAM > 15G HD > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE (Build date: 16 October 2004) > Xorg (X11, Release 6.7) > > Any thoughts or help of any kind would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Jon Bomgardner > > > > ============================================================================== > This communication, together with any attachments hereto or links contained > herein, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain > information that is confidential or legally protected. If you are not the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, > copying, dissemination, distribution or use of this communication is STRICTLY > PROHIBITED. If you have received this communication in error, please notify > the sender immediately by return e-mail message and delete the original and > all copies of the communication, along with any attachments hereto or links > herein, from your system. > > ============================================================================== > The St. Paul Travelers e-mail system made this annotation on 12/10/2004, > 04:28:01 PM. > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
