I recently installed 9.1-RELEASE. The installation seemed to go smoothly and it boots up and runs fine in console mode.
The next step was to get X working. Installed x11/xorg-minimal from ports. I also installed xterm, xclock, and twm, the basic apps referenced by the default xinitrc.
I typed
My video card is an older ATI Radeon 7000 series. I looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and noticed that it was using the VESA driver. There were also messages that it tried to load the ATI driver, but it was not found. Apparently, the generic VESA driver was the only one installed by xorg-minimal. So, I went to /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati and installed the ATI driver.
Now when I type
From the root account, I tried
Any suggestions?
The next step was to get X working. Installed x11/xorg-minimal from ports. I also installed xterm, xclock, and twm, the basic apps referenced by the default xinitrc.
I typed
startx
and X started right up. I got the various windows, the keyboard and mouse worked etc.My video card is an older ATI Radeon 7000 series. I looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and noticed that it was using the VESA driver. There were also messages that it tried to load the ATI driver, but it was not found. Apparently, the generic VESA driver was the only one installed by xorg-minimal. So, I went to /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati and installed the ATI driver.
Now when I type
startx
, the screen goes blank, there is a pause of a few seconds and then the system reboots. I tried looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log again for error messages, but no such log file was created. (After experimenting with this some more, I think that probably one was in the process of getting created but it gets lost with the system crash and reboot.)From the root account, I tried
Xorg -configure
. I got some messages about detecting video drivers: radeon, ati and vesa. Then I entered Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro
. There was a long pause, nothing appeared on the screen, and the system rebooted.Any suggestions?