hi everybody,
first of all, my situation: i'm in the process of trying to migrate from linux (arch, the best one out there, imho) to freebsd. feel free to ask about my reasons, although they're beyond the scope of this post. i'm not a newcomer, my first encounter with unix was at the age of 12.
so.. this is what i did so far: i've installed freebsd 8 on my thinkpad t42, created a user, installed bash with pkg_add and changed my shell to it (chsh). then i installed xorg. nowadays it should run without any xorg.conf whatsoever, which is a blessing compared to the situation a few years ago. fair enough, since xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse, xf86-video-ati and twm are already installed, i typed startx. boom, twm's godawful interface comes up, but neither my touchpad, mouse or keyboard works, be it the built-in (ps2) or exteral (usb). internal pointing devices work outside x. interestingly i couldn't ctrl-alt-bckspc out of x, however i could switch back to ttyv1 with ctrl-alt-f1.
okay, so i killed xorg (ctrl-c), and typed 'X -configure', and tried to start x with 'X -config worg.conf.new'. boom. blank screen. with backlight. so i killed xorg again. took a look at the xorg.conf, but everything seems to be in order. tried removing 'load "dri2"' and changing 'driver "radeon"' to ati, but to no avail.
is this normal/expected? am i missing something here?
sorry for writing pretty much a novel, i wanted to be precise.
thanks,
bamdad
first of all, my situation: i'm in the process of trying to migrate from linux (arch, the best one out there, imho) to freebsd. feel free to ask about my reasons, although they're beyond the scope of this post. i'm not a newcomer, my first encounter with unix was at the age of 12.
so.. this is what i did so far: i've installed freebsd 8 on my thinkpad t42, created a user, installed bash with pkg_add and changed my shell to it (chsh). then i installed xorg. nowadays it should run without any xorg.conf whatsoever, which is a blessing compared to the situation a few years ago. fair enough, since xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse, xf86-video-ati and twm are already installed, i typed startx. boom, twm's godawful interface comes up, but neither my touchpad, mouse or keyboard works, be it the built-in (ps2) or exteral (usb). internal pointing devices work outside x. interestingly i couldn't ctrl-alt-bckspc out of x, however i could switch back to ttyv1 with ctrl-alt-f1.
okay, so i killed xorg (ctrl-c), and typed 'X -configure', and tried to start x with 'X -config worg.conf.new'. boom. blank screen. with backlight. so i killed xorg again. took a look at the xorg.conf, but everything seems to be in order. tried removing 'load "dri2"' and changing 'driver "radeon"' to ati, but to no avail.
is this normal/expected? am i missing something here?
sorry for writing pretty much a novel, i wanted to be precise.
thanks,
bamdad