Walker, Michael wrote:
Hi All,
I am having a real problem setting up X under FreeBSD 5.3 on a Acer Travelmate 280 laptop. The laptop uses the Intel onboard i810 video controller, I know Xorg has issues with this controller from past experience, so I added the necessary line to my /etc/make.conf and proceeded to build XFree86-4. (My ports tree is updated as of yesterday afternoon)
However I can't seem to find a useable mode, when I try to configure X using "xf86cfg -textmode" I select the appropriate values, and run the test it specifies, the test works great, I get a plain screen with nothing on it, and the mouse (touchpad in this case) is working perfectly, but the resolution is low, it looks less than 800x600 to be honest. If I try to "startx" at any depth setting the screen just goes black and locks up, I cant return to the console, and ctrl+alt+del does not restart X. I have to turn the machine off and back on manually, which results in the boot up sequence complaining about things not being correctly unmounted.
Scary, to be sure, but probably not life threatening just yet. Take a backup ;-)
Surely you meant "CTL-ATL-Bksp". <?> Another strategem I have used --- CTL-F2 to another vtty, login as root, re-edit the config file, and -HUP the X server. Or, you could shutdown from there. At any rate you can probably find a way around a hard reboot if you try (include #disclaimer.h)
{I guess you could at least consider that encouragement?}I have used XFree86 on this laptop before, however that was using FreeBSD 5.2.1 and it worked fine. And it also works fine on my desktop machine (that to has a Intel i810 controller) Does anyone have any ideas where in my setup I am going wrong, or have a working XF86Config file for their Intel video controller.
Regards
Mick Walker NAAFI Finance International
Nothing much. The handbook does state that:
If you are using *XFree86 4.1.0* (or later) and messages about unresolved symbols like fbPictureInit appear, try adding the following line after Driver "i810" in the X11 configuration file:
Option "NoDDC"
Of course, I have no idea if you are getting such messages, and if the box is locking up, you probably don't either. Nor do I know if that particular section has been changed lately, or if it needs to be. I seem to remember getting X up on an 810 once, but I don't have that box anymore, and it wasn't a laptop anyhow.
Anything in the log files?
You might attached your configuration file and see if anyone can spot something you might have missed.
Good luck,
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