First time I installed FreeBSD (yes, there was a first time, I managed to hose the root account and had to start over again) I was asked something about whether or not my vid card was PCI or AGP. I answered AGP (as that is all I have that is halfway decent). I had Xorg up and running with minimum fuss (aside from it's choice of default wm even when I had wmaker already installed), I had no such prompt this time, which I didn't think of until now.
I've got the latest Xorg installed from ports (I think it's 7.4_2). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html #Xorg -configure <bunch of stuff about it failing> No devices to configure. Configuration failed. Which is a pile of malarky, obviously. It also says it cannot find fbdev. hald and dbus are installed (although I get "no such command" when I try to start dbus from the cli (despite it being a requirement for like 50 million different packages (yes, I can nest parenthesis and use hyperbole all day long), half of which are probably installed by now)). I am /not/ reinstalling for this relatively minor problem, though my patience (mainly with my lack of apparent ability) is wearing thin. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
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