New card, Xorg frozen

sossego

sossego

Retired from the forums
Reinstalled 7.2 today and had purchased a new card. Nvidia 8400GS 128MB RAM.
Card works on Debian with the normal setup.
Anyway, I added the mode lines and saved the file.
Using startx from the command line gives me a Desktop that freezes.

I know that I am doing something wrong; but, what it is I do not know.


Should I reconfigure x and let it be or are the mode lines- e.g. Modes "WxH" ""2Wx2H" etc- still acceptable.

Usually, if I can get X to work, I just install firefox and use it along with the ports to build the system.
 
Then please pastebin your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. You can use misc/pastebinit from ports to do that.

Adam
 
I have pastebinit but I do not know how to upload the file from my machine to here.
 
OK, see, that's not the URL to your post :-) And, at the moment, pastebin.com is really, painfully slow.

Run:

pastebinit -b http://slexy.org /var/log/Xorg.0.log

And then give us the URL that command gives you.

Adam
 
How are you starting X? It looks like you are running something like 'Xorg -config ~/xorg.conf.new' or something similar. Instead, copy the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add this line to the ServerLayout or ServerFlags section:

Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"

Then try starting X simply with 'startx'.

Adam
 
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