Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3, and tried

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:08:59AM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just reinstalled Xorg

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: One question: I have

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:16:31PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] Do I need to get Xorg working first? before I deploy gnome2? I do plan to install gnome 2 -certainly at some stage - would that solve my problems? I am a bit confused nowplease help! I thought gnome 2 wouldnt work if I

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:59:09PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: snip (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:59:09PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: snip (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0)

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xf010/20 New driver is i810 The i810 driver doesn't quite support laptop screens that well. Try using the intel driver

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xf010/20 New driver is i810 The i810 driver doesn't quite

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: [...] (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-30 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:29:02PM +, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 30/01/2008, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] There should be a more elegant way to do this, but the way I did it was to: # pkg_delete -f xf86-video-i810-1.7.4 # cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Kimi
On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -

Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread doug
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? Thanks This is really a

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread Siraj Shaikh
On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?

Re: Starting X - was Re: Vista / FreeBSD dual boot

2008-01-29 Thread doug
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: On 29/01/2008, Siraj Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/01/2008, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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