Difficulty running X11 on Toshiba Satellite A10-S1692 running FreeBSD 9.0

[Bernard Higonnet]

There appeared to be no errors in any of the install, Xorg -configure is
happy.

But when I run Xorg -config xorg.conf.new (with or without -retro)
screen goes black, computer freezes and I can only restart it by first
powering off...

I have searched for configuration files for this machine without success.

The output of pciconf says

vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x00021179 chip=0x35828086
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vgapci1@pci0:0:2:1:     class=0x038000 card=0x00021179 chip=0x35828086
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00


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Hope that's OK

TIA
Bernard Higonnet
PS May well ask same question soon about a SA10-S811...
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[Kevin Oberman-3]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Bernard Higonnet <[hidden email]> wrote:

> There appeared to be no errors in any of the install, Xorg -configure is
> happy.
>
> But when I run Xorg -config xorg.conf.new (with or without -retro) screen
> goes black, computer freezes and I can only restart it by first powering
> off...
>
> I have searched for configuration files for this machine without success.
>
> The output of pciconf says
>
> vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x00021179 chip=0x35828086
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> vgapci1@pci0:0:2:1:     class=0x038000 card=0x00021179 chip=0x35828086
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00

OK. Maybe a bit more information would help.

 What do you get from 'pciconf -lv'? Can you start Xorg without trying
to create a config file? Most systems today will start out of the box
and the configuration generator has been know to lock up. What about
make.conf? Do you have WITH_NEW_XORG in it or any other options tied
to video or Xorg?
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[Bernard Higonnet-2]

On 21/08/2012 02:58, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Bernard Higonnet <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> There appeared to be no errors in any of the install, Xorg -configure is
>> happy.
>>
>> But when I run Xorg -config xorg.conf.new (with or without -retro) screen
>> goes black, computer freezes and I can only restart it by first powering
>> off...
>>
>> I have searched for configuration files for this machine without success.
>>
>> The output of pciconf says
>>
>> vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x00021179 chip=0x35828086
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>> vgapci1@pci0:0:2:1:     class=0x038000 card=0x00021179 chip=0x35828086
>> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>
> OK. Maybe a bit more information would help.
>
>   What do you get from 'pciconf -lv'? Can you start Xorg without trying
> to create a config file? Most systems today will start out of the box
> and the configuration generator has been know to lock up. What about
> make.conf? Do you have WITH_NEW_XORG in it or any other options tied
> to video or Xorg?
>

Well, I replaced
          Driver      "intel"   by
          Driver      "vesa"

Now when I run X with xorg.conf.new and -retro I get the herringbone
pattern and I can move the mouse around.

That's the good news.

The bad news is I can not get out of this and still have to power down
the machine to regain control of it...

Bernard Higonnet
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