I've built a new system:
I installed "everything" from FreeeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso downloaded on March 1. There were a number of conflicts, primarily due to unixODBD and libiodbc.
I followed the X11 configuration instructions in section 5.4 of the FreeBSD Handbook. When I tried the Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro command, I got a course gray screen with the X mouse cursor, which responded to mouse movement. I tried the Ctrl-Alt-F1 + Ctrl-c key sequence. The screen went dark, and presently the monitor said there was no video input, and I couldn't get the system to respond except to Ctrl-Alt-Del (reboot).
I set up a hald configuration file so Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would do the same thing - and it did (another reboot).
I went on to the Advanced Configuration Topics and added a ModeLine for the monitor to the xorg.conf.new file. Same behavior.
I turned the page in the Handbook, and went on to setting up the TrueType fonts I have installed on my w2K system. I skipped setting up xdm because I don't want a graphical login when I'm bringing the system up.
I set up GNOME per the manual. I tried to set up KDE, and ran into the unixODBC conflict again. I did some research, found how to edit the ports/devel/ptlib26/Makefile to solve the problem, and got KDE and Xfce installed.
At this point, I was able to run /usr/local/bin/kdm and have the KDE Display Manager come up. I logged into KDE to verify it worked, then found there wasn't an option to terminate the X Window system, only to shut down or reboot.
After rebooting again, and re-starting kdm, I tried Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The graphical display went away, the screen went dark - and the monitor said there was no input - again.
YArB
I had not copied the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf so I'm guessing X figured out the video configuration on its own to bring up KDM.
Knowing that the X Window system will run on this machine, I went back to try the Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro command - and got exactly the same results: Mouse cursor on a mottled gray background, Ctrl-Alt-F1 + Ctrl-c yielding a "dead" video output.
I'm guessing the video card is not being set back to "text mode" when X closes. Any suggestions on how I can fix this problem?
Here's the xorg.conf.new file, as edited:
The latest Xorg.0.log file (ZIPped) is attached.
Gigabyte X58A-UDR3 motherboard
i7 980X CPU
24 GB RAM
XFXforce Radeon 5870 video card
I-INC 28" 1920x1200 LCD monitor
1KW CoolerMaster power supply
Drives:
i7 980X CPU
24 GB RAM
XFXforce Radeon 5870 video card
I-INC 28" 1920x1200 LCD monitor
1KW CoolerMaster power supply
Drives:
ad0 - 2TB partitioned for FreeBSD-stable, FreeBSD-current, Linux
ad4 - 1TB winDoze 7 (yuk!) tried in previous machine
ad5 - 2TB partitioned 144GB swap, remainder for backups
ad4 - 1TB winDoze 7 (yuk!) tried in previous machine
ad5 - 2TB partitioned 144GB swap, remainder for backups
I installed "everything" from FreeeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso downloaded on March 1. There were a number of conflicts, primarily due to unixODBD and libiodbc.
I followed the X11 configuration instructions in section 5.4 of the FreeBSD Handbook. When I tried the Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro command, I got a course gray screen with the X mouse cursor, which responded to mouse movement. I tried the Ctrl-Alt-F1 + Ctrl-c key sequence. The screen went dark, and presently the monitor said there was no video input, and I couldn't get the system to respond except to Ctrl-Alt-Del (reboot).
I set up a hald configuration file so Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would do the same thing - and it did (another reboot).
I went on to the Advanced Configuration Topics and added a ModeLine for the monitor to the xorg.conf.new file. Same behavior.
I turned the page in the Handbook, and went on to setting up the TrueType fonts I have installed on my w2K system. I skipped setting up xdm because I don't want a graphical login when I'm bringing the system up.
I set up GNOME per the manual. I tried to set up KDE, and ran into the unixODBC conflict again. I did some research, found how to edit the ports/devel/ptlib26/Makefile to solve the problem, and got KDE and Xfce installed.
At this point, I was able to run /usr/local/bin/kdm and have the KDE Display Manager come up. I logged into KDE to verify it worked, then found there wasn't an option to terminate the X Window system, only to shut down or reboot.
After rebooting again, and re-starting kdm, I tried Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. The graphical display went away, the screen went dark - and the monitor said there was no input - again.
YArB
I had not copied the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf so I'm guessing X figured out the video configuration on its own to bring up KDM.
Knowing that the X Window system will run on this machine, I went back to try the Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro command - and got exactly the same results: Mouse cursor on a mottled gray background, Ctrl-Alt-F1 + Ctrl-c yielding a "dead" video output.
I'm guessing the video card is not being set back to "text mode" when X closes. Any suggestions on how I can fix this problem?
Here's the xorg.conf.new file, as edited:
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
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
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 590 370 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "HSD"
ModelName "iH282"
ModeLine "1920x1200" 154.0 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235
HorizSync 24.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i>
#Option "AGPMode" # <i>
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # <i>
#Option "GARTSize" # <i>
#Option "RingSize" # <i>
#Option "BufferSize" # <i>
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
#Option "FBTexPercent" # <i>
#Option "DepthBits" # <i>
#Option "PCIAPERSize" # <i>
#Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "CustomEDID" # [<str>]
#Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
#Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # <i>
#Option "TunerType" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
#Option "ScalerWidth" # <i>
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "ClockGating" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
#Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectorTable" # <str>
#Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [<bool>]
#Option "Int10" # [<bool>]
#Option "EXAVSync" # [<bool>]
#Option "ATOMTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "R4xxATOM" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceLowPowerMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "DynamicPM" # [<bool>]
#Option "NewPLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress)"
BusID "PCI:3:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
The latest Xorg.0.log file (ZIPped) is attached.