I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades. The xorg in 6.3 doesn't install much in the way of required drivers. I got the mouse and keyboard drivers installed and also the mga driver. I have run xorgconfig to create what seems like a working xorg.conf. Startx brings up twm but only in 640x480. I cannot change modes. And yes, I have mode lines defined. If I put the correct horizontal and vertical scan rates in for my Viewsonic PT810 monitor, I get a screen display with lines precessing through it. xdm gives the same result. I have tried the other suggestions on configuring X in the FreeBSD handbook, including creating a basic xorg.conf. It tests okay but only in 640x480 and it has no modelines in the .conf. Adding modelines doesn't fix the problem. The initial install was done by sysinstall under the predefined xdeveloper selection. I tried reinstalling xorg from ports by running make deinstall and make reinstall but with no change in behavior. My hardware has no problems running Slackware 12 or Openbsd 4.2. Under those OSs, X11 works fine and configures without problems. What has happened to quality control in the FreeBSD release? peter
Hi!> I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 > shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much > trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty > generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize > the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades.Basically, the problem is with the matrox board. Due to the very same reasons I had to upgrade my workstation (good excuse 8-) Matrox provides a mga_hal binary to support the relevant resolution and other gimmicks of that board. This binary works with xorg-6.x, but not with xorg-7.x, because there were changes in the interfaces to the low-level things. As far as I can see, there is no driver from mga for 7.x available as of now. -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 12 years to go !
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, peter stern wrote:> The initial install was done by sysinstall under the predefined > xdeveloper selection. I tried reinstalling xorg from ports by running > make deinstall and make reinstall but with no change in behavior.Where is your dmesg, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and X config file? A listing of /var/db/pkg would be helpful to show what X ports you have installed.> My hardware has no problems running Slackware 12 or Openbsd 4.2. > Under those OSs, X11 works fine and configures without problems. > > What has happened to quality control in the FreeBSD release?Well *I* didn't have any problem running X on 6.3 release. Maybe you should have contributed by downloading an RC and testing it? G550's are very old cards, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that someone doing RC testing would have one installed. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20080317/1216f010/attachment.pgp
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, peter stern <pstern@65north.com> wrote:> I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 > shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much > trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty > generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize > the kernel. I do clean installs not upgrades. >have you tried without an xorg.conf?> The xorg in 6.3 doesn't install much in the way of required drivers. I got > the mouse and keyboard drivers installed and also the mga driver. I have > run xorgconfig to create what seems like a working xorg.conf. Startx > brings up twm but only in 640x480. I cannot change modes. And yes, I have > mode lines defined. If I put the correct horizontal and vertical scan > rates in for my Viewsonic PT810 monitor, I get a screen display with lines > precessing through it. xdm gives the same result. > > I have tried the other suggestions on configuring X in the FreeBSD > handbook, including creating a basic xorg.conf. It tests okay but only in > 640x480 and it has no modelines in the .conf. Adding modelines doesn't fix > the problem. >I suspect modelines won't help and there might be a bug in xf86-video-mga?> The initial install was done by sysinstall under the predefined > xdeveloper selection. I tried reinstalling xorg from ports by running make > deinstall and make reinstall but with no change in behavior. >what about installing just base then using an up-to-date ports?> My hardware has no problems running Slackware 12 or Openbsd 4.2. Under > those OSs, X11 works fine and configures without problems. > > What has happened to quality control in the FreeBSD release?is it really a FreeBSD issue?> > peter >-- Best regards, Brad