On Monday 17 March 2008, Robert Chalmers wrote: > Well, I suppose this will eventually get to the original poster. > > I too have just gone through this nightmare. But, I short circuited it all. > > I went to a clean install of 7.0-RELEASE. > > Ah ha. Easy. Nope. The gremlins were waiting. > > So basically here's what I did. > > When I loaded the new system, I installed EVERYTHING I could enable. If > there was an option, I installed it. > Beautiful. > Rebooted - X blah blah blah .... of course not. > Fiddled with the xogconfig and made lots of xorg.config attempts, then > realised - looking at the log - that it couldn't find the S3 driver. Yes, > ancient S3 card in this box. All of 8 years old. > So - took a clue from the log, and went into I think, like, > ....xorg-drivers, and looked at the Makefile, which had everything in it. I > commented out the things I would never need - mouses, and video - which is > all that is in there, and left in the obvious ones, including some that > "might come in handy one day" and typed > Make install clean > Now it all works. Well, as soon as I figure out some of the other mystical > incantations - worse than World of War this lot. > > But bottom lline. > Go into that xorg-driveers directory and check the Makefile, then "make > install clean" and lots of things start happening. > > > And I add - this is after a clean install where I said "Just do it" ... yea > right. :-) > > Sorry I can't check those directories - I'm currently trying to port in VNC > .... I live in hope. > Robert
This is the reason why it is recommended to install x11/xorg. It will install all necessary drivers, servers, fonts and clients automatically. Installing x11-servers/xorg-server is not enough, because it doesn't install any drivers (it used to do this before Xorg 7 existed). -- Pieter de Goeje _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
