Xorg on X300 lenovo with 7.2-RELEASE

Robert Blacquiere freebsd at blacquiere.nl
Fri May 15 15:02:04 UTC 2009



On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 05:20:31PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Robert Blacquiere wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I installed a fresh version of FreeBSD 7.2 on my lenovo X300. It was
> > running OpenBSD for some time. For some reason I can't get Xorg to
> > display any thing on screen except backlight. In the Xorg.0.log seems no
> > real issues. I have run freebsd 7.0R with Xorg before without any
> > problems. I tried also 8.0-CURRENT but it had the same problems so I
> > tried the 7.2R. They all produce the same backlighted black screen. 
> >
> > What can I do to get things running, any hints?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Logs and xorg.conf. 
> >
> >   
> 
> Are you by any chance trying the test with i.e.:
> 
> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
> 
> In the new Xorg this produces a black screen. This is the new 'standard'.
> 
> Try something like X -config /root/xorg.conf.new -retro (and have a look
> at the updated handbook section,
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html )

Oh oh seems i'me old school and expected it to behave as my old
typewriter :) 

Thanks for the info and hints, yes it worked of course :)

Thanks 

Regards

Robert

> 


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