X11 on Dell D830 with latest 7.1-PRERELEASE

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 05:30:00 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a Dell Latitude D830 running 7.1-PRERELEASE/amd64 which I've
> just csup'd to the -STABLE as of 5-Jan-2009, and after going thru' the
> std build+install; XOrg now comes up with a blank screen, sometimes
> interspersed with green dots. I did test out X prior to doing an
> installworld, and that came up with no problems. However, after doing
> an installworld, X is now broken.
>
> Prior to this update, the D830 was running -STABLE from Nov-2008;
> which appeared to work fine. All ports are up to date.
>
> I'd appreciate any help in resolving this problem.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>

Jonathan,
    What video card driver are you using and have you recompiled the driver?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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