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Old June 3rd, 2009, 21:05
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Having trouble getting gnome to boot up in Freebsd 7.2 on a HP dv1240us. I have tried both nikobordx's method in http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3892 , and also the method where you just set gnome_enable="YES" in the rc.conf file.
Both methods have caused my laptop to load up to where freebsd asks me to log in as if X was not running, and then attempt to boot Gnome. When it tries to boot up Gnome it flashes between a black screen with a mouse cursor that is busy and the command prompt/Shell whatever you want to call it indefinitely. Is there a suggested fix to this?
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Old June 3rd, 2009, 21:14
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Just tried stepping through the Xorg config again. I can start X by itself, but I can't do anything in it. My mouse won't work. It works with the sysinstall test daemon though.
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Before going on, did you read the sticky ?
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yes I have read the sticky. Thanks for asking. That's actually what I was referring to as my second attempt
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Please answer the following questions:
What is the output of $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald status ?
Your mouse isn't working, what about the keyboard?
Are you using /etc/X11/xorg.conf? If so, can you show us the InputDevice section about your mouse?
Do you see any warning/error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log (try egrep '(WW)|(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log) ?
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The above gives me no output when run as the standard user. I get no mouse or keyboard in X, but they both run fine in sysinstall. I did an autobuild of xorg.conf. the log fille shows intel (0) driect rendering failed. Failed to load module "i810" (already loaded, 2). Cannot locate core keyboard device. Cannot locate a core pointer device. failed to create listner for inet(but no internet was connected at the time). I am going to look at the xorg file
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using ee /etc/X11/xorg.conf tells me there is no xorg.conf file hmm
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I might have skipped a step in the xorg.conf setup I guess
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hmm fixed xorg.conf appears to give me dashes on the top of the screen. checking error log
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What after running as root the above commands and starting x again?
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/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start
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Alright so I am back to the startx giving me errors with two xterms and a login this time. No mouse and keyboard that is. here is the mouse and keyboard section of the xorg file.
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Section "InputDevice"
             Identifier     "Keyboard0"
             Driver          "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
             Identifier     "Mouse0"
             Driver          "mouse"
             Option         "Protocol" "auto"
             Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
             Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
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What after running as root the above commands and starting x again?
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/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start
Same story. Login terminal and two xterms. I can't do anything in either
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Got my mouse working... shows what I know. Read the Handbook solves everything. Option "AutoAddDevices" "false". Now I just need to get into gnome
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Did you build xorg without hal?
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I believe so.
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Got my mouse working... shows what I know. Read the Handbook solves everything. Option "AutoAddDevices" "false". Now I just need to get into gnome
Add to ~/.xinitrc:
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A startx will then start Gnome instead of the default twm.
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Add to ~/.xinitrc:
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exec gnome-session
A startx will then start Gnome instead of the default twm.
so ee ~/.xinitrc . That doesn't appear to exist on my system
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so ee ~/.xinitrc . That doesn't appear to exist on my system
So create it. I'd use vi, but that's just me.

You should also rebuild xorg with hal. You will need it. Do a "make config", select hal, then do a make deinstall, make install clean and you will have it. That assumes you have cleaned xorg before this; if not clean it first to get rid of the work files.
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Well looks like I am most of the way there, but now I am getting
intel(0): ch701x not detected, got 29: from DV0I2C_E Slave 234
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I *think* that is one of the Intel video drivers. If you are not using them, get rid of them in the config menu. If you are, then you will have to dig into it more. I'm still on nVidia 32 bit, and that works pretty well. Beyond that, I'm not much help.
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The computer does use an intel extreme graphics 2 card.
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Despite that message, does X work? If not, attach your full /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

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Despite that message, does X work? If not, attach your full /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

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X server closes itself. I will attach the full file when I get time, but for now I can't type that much
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You don't have to type the log file out. You have a number of options. You could switch to the vesa driver to start up X, for example. Or simply install pastebinit from ports, and use that to upload the log file to one of the pastebin services and then just give us the link.

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Adam, how do I go about switching to the vesa driver?
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