Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

[Frank Shute]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:08:59AM +0000, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
>
> On 29/01/2008, doug <doug at fledge.watson.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
> >
> > > On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh <siraj.shaikh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> On 29/01/2008, doug <doug at fledge.watson.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > > I have just reinstalled Xorg (using the xorg port) and tried startx
> > > again but it doesnt work. The error message is something like
> > >
> > > (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
> > > (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
> > > (EE) VESA(0): No matching modes
> > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> > >
> > > Please help!!!
> >
> > This looks like you did not configure X. As the handbook 5.4.2
> > says if startx does not work you need to run: Xorg -configure and
> > then test that with
> >
> >    Xorg -config xorg.conf.new
> >
> > If your Xorg is < 7.3 you have to do this. Depending on the
> > defaults selected and your video card, you may need to edit your
> > screen section. Xorg 7 did not work for me. In Xorg 6 all setup is
> > manual and required. My screen section: 

> >
> > Section "Screen"
> >         Identifier "Screen0"
> >         Device     "Card0"
> >         Monitor    "Monitor0"
> > #       DefaultDepth 16
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     1
> >         EndSubSection
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     4
> >         EndSubSection
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     8
> >         EndSubSection
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     15
> >         EndSubSection
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     16
> >                 Modes     "1280x1024"
> >         EndSubSection
> >         SubSection "Display"
> >                 Viewport   0 0
> >                 Depth     24
> >                 Modes     "1280x1024"
> >         EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> >
> I did configure Xorg as it said in the handbook, but after that the
> test didnt work, still gave me the same error. I then installed from a
> port (I assume that will be the latest Xorg 7.3 is it? How can I check
> what version do I have?
> 
> What is way forward now? uninstall this and install Xorg 6?

Check that you have xf86-video-i810 installed:

$ pkg_info | grep i810

If not, install it.

Try:

# Xorg -configure

again.

Then:

# X -config xorg.conf.new

If it doesn't work, post xorg.conf.new to this list.


-- 

 Frank 

	
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