Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

[doug at safeport.com]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, 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:
>>>>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried "startx"
>>>>>> but it isnt coming up, giving some sort of error. Am I missing
>>>>>> something here? I did choose for "Windows X" during the FreeBSD setup
>>>>>> - shall I do a port upgrade?

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>>> (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)

[cut x config stuff]

> 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?

  1) Post xorg.conf.new as suggested.
  2) pkg_info | grep xorg  will show you whats installed
  3) check the hardware list to see if there are know issues
  4) Google the error and freebsd + xorg + your system

You will get the most (probably) from posting xorg.conf.new. along with
'uname -a' output. Don't edit it just send it to the list avoiding line 
wrapping.


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