I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed FreeBSD
7.4-RELEASE(i386) system. I'm trying to follow the procedures in Sections 5.3
and 5.4 of the Handbook and can't seem to get "startx" to fire up; I get a
black screen when I try. Here's what I've done so far:
1. Installed Xorg from packages per 5.3. That seemed ultimately to go
OK.
2. As my Xorg is version 7.5, I next enabled hald and dbus per 5.4.2.
3. Then as I remember, I tried to startx and ended up with a black
screen from which I could not escape. Had to manually shut off and restart the
PC.
4. Next I think I went ahead with the Xorg -configure per 5.4.2. and
ended up with an error saying that "fbdev" was missing. Don't know what fbdev
is.
5. Somewhere in the mailing list archives I found a similar error
description that solved the problem by installing fbdev from packages or ports
or can't remember where. Anyway fbdev seemed to install OK, at least I didn't
see anymore error messages to that effect.
5. When I run Xorg -configure now and then look at the configuration
file xorg.conf.new, I can't see any obvious errors but of course I mostly don't
know what I'm l;ooking at.
6. The Handbook next suggests testing the configuration and gives
instructions for a modified command for later versions of Xorg. I found that
the modified command does not work. Fortunately my screen tells me a different
command to test the server config: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new.
7. OK, so I try the alternative test command but still end up at a
black screen from which I've found no escape. (As an aside I'd sure like to
find a more graceful way to recover from that black screen. The procedure
described in 5.4.2, Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, does not work even when enabled for later
Xorg versions. Nor does Ctrl+Alt+Fn.)
I'm sure there are logs or files I could supply that would help sort out this
problem; if I knew what they were I'd send them. As I don't have email
configured of the FreeBSD machine, I'll have to manually copy those lines. I'm
so new I don't know any other way to get text off of the machine.
Here's my hardware for what it's worth: SONY Vaio Desktop, Pentium 4 2.0GHz,
2GB RAM, GeForce FX5200 256MB PCI Vid Card, 2x IDE HDD's, DVD-RW, CD-ROM, FDD.
I do have my mouse (Ikari Optical), keyboard (Logitech Wireless), and montior
(ASUS LCD) running through a KVM, but they haven't had any troubles being
recognized and operating after bootup.
Would appreciate anyone's suggestions. Thanks. John Hixson
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