Xorg/laptop

[Loren M. Lang]

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
> 
> 
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