Success on powerbook6,8, but no Xorg

Ross Gohlke ross at grinz.com
Thu Mar 19 17:25:16 PDT 2009


I was finally able to install FreeBSD (7 and 8) on my Powerbook:
powerbook6,8, 1.5Ghz G4 12", Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200

I compiled a -CURRENT kernel for ADB support, so the onboard keyboard
works -- it does not work with official 7.1 ISO kernel.

I have set sysctl hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap=1.

%sudo Xorg -configure produces a valid xorg.conf, but running %sudo startx
freezes the computer and leaves a message in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. This
happens whether I use Option FBDev "False" or not. It loads the nv driver,
which loads int10, which loads vgahw.

Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libvgahw.so
...
Using HW cursor
Linear framebuffer at 0x8000000
MMIO registers at 0x0
(EE) NV(0): pci_device_map_range failed: No such file or directory

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

I'm recompiling xorg, but does anyone have ideas what is wrong and how to
fix it?

Thanks,
Ross






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