Xorg can't find my graphics card

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:07:56 -0600 (CST)
Ross Gohlke <developer at grinz.com> wrote:

> Yes, I tried it first. Running this did not result in xorg.conf being
> created in /root, or anywhere.

OK.
BTW, in case you dont know 'pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 VGA' will report
what kind of video card you have.

> I was working from the FreeBSD documentation:

Good.

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
> X and Xorg seem to do the same thing.

Yes, X is a symlink to Xorg.

> (WW) xf86EnableIO 5
> (II) xf86EnableIO: ffffffff
> (WW) Can't map IO space!

Aha, Here is a clue.
Try 'sysctl hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap=1' before you use X, Xorg or startx.
All that from an earlier thread[1] on this mailing list.

References:
1)
http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.ppc/browse_thread/thread/f0c48b804f6e4026/3b894d8be1fe7a35?lnk=st&q=xorg-server+1.4_2%2C1+fails+on+RELENG_7#3b894d8be1fe7a35

HTH
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen