Okay, so I went ahead and fixed the problem myself. Long story short, X
seems to work with FreeBSD 5.0 DP1 and Xfree86 4.2.0 -current (after I fixed
the typos in the source that caused it not to compile). Now I have a new
issue, two, actually. 1. When I run Xfree86, I get the nice little
hatched-background and my pointer moves gleefully. No more. No desktop, no
nothing. I'm guessing I need to install KDE or something, though I thought
I had. Can anyone confirm/deny my suspicion there? Second, the nice little
hatched area is about one quarter the size of my screen, and centered. I
took a config file generated with the -configure switch and added the
following lines, but still the display was the same size.
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubsection
Without the Depth 8 section in there, something complained about there being
no 8bpp configuration. I'd love to pull up the error for you, but the
battery in my laptop just died. What am I doing wrong this time? I'm going
to guess these problems are simpler to solve than my last one, so I'm hoping
for a good turnout of advice
Thanks in advance,
Fish
-----Original Message-----
From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On Behalf Of
Jamey Price
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 8:30 AM
To: newbie@XFree86.Org
Subject: RE: [Newbie]Dell Inspiron 8200, Geforce 2 Go, FreeBSD, and Mindless
Evil.
I've got the nvidia driver.
Fish
-----Original Message-----
From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On Behalf Of
Lionel Lecoq
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:33 AM
To: newbie@XFree86.Org
Subject: RE: [Newbie]Dell Inspiron 8200, Geforce 2 Go, FreeBSD, and Mindless
Evil.
I did not follow the thread, so sorry if what I ask has already been
answered...
are you running nv or the nvidia closed source driver. I believe (from what
I saw on this list, I
don't have a nvidia) that getting the nvidia driver (download from their
site) might be the only
way...
Lionel
--- Jamey Price <fish@fish-mail.com> wrote:
> Still no dice. Same error. Someone has to have some idea about what I'm
> doing wrong.... I mean, there are loads of people out there with FreeBSD
> 4.5-stable and X 4.2.0 running on GeForce 2 Go video cards. :(
>
> I think I'm going to start doing drastic things like trying out -current
or
> something.
>
> Fish
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newbie-admin@XFree86.Org [mailto:newbie-admin@XFree86.Org]On Behalf
Of
> Lionel Lecoq
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:02 PM
> To: newbie@XFree86.Org
> Subject: Re: [Newbie]Dell Inspiron 8200, Geforce 2 Go, FreeBSD, and
Mindless
> Evil.
>
> Not only do I agree with the proposal but I would probably uncomment
> everything but xtrap...
> Lionel
> --- Ted Spradley <tsprad@spradley.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:08:22 -0400
> > "Jamey Price" <fish@fish-mail.com> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > > errors, though. After the white text I get "(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to
> > > load glX" "(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the Nvdriver kernel
> > > module!" "(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***" "Fatal server error:
> > > AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0"
> > [...]
> > > Section "Module"
> > > # Load "extmod"
> > > #Load "dri"
> > > #Load "dbe"
> > > #Load "record"
> > > #Load "xtrap"
> > > #Load "speedo"
> > > #Load "type1"
> > > EndSection
> >
> > Try adding
> >
> > Load "glx"
> >
> > to the "Module" section. Might want to un-comment some of these others,
> > too.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I'm just guessing.
> >
> > --
> > Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in
> > the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html
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