Why does the installer no longer have the option of installing Xorg along with the base system? In previous versions this was available. After the installer finished and I rebooted I tried using sysinstall to install Xorg. It was not successful because there is not a clearly labeled package, maybe call it Xorg-base? Installing the servers and clients fails because it does't get all the libs and default X apps. Maybe installing some window managers will work because they need Xorg as a dependency. No luck there, they install even without Xorg. A bit of googling from another computer led me to handbook saying "pkg_add -r xorg" which finally did work.
Now Xorg itself has some issues. Who thinks that X displaying a solid black screen is a good indication of correct video settings? For the longest time I thought something was broken until the -retro option was used. I can do this so called "test" myself by turning the monitor off.
Now that X was working I found the keyboard and mouse were not. A bit more googling revealed the AllowEmptyInput option had to be turned off. If this option should always be off then why is it on by default?
I have not run FreeBSD since the version 4 or 5 days but this 8.1 release is not nearly as smooth as previous versions.
Now Xorg itself has some issues. Who thinks that X displaying a solid black screen is a good indication of correct video settings? For the longest time I thought something was broken until the -retro option was used. I can do this so called "test" myself by turning the monitor off.
Now that X was working I found the keyboard and mouse were not. A bit more googling revealed the AllowEmptyInput option had to be turned off. If this option should always be off then why is it on by default?
I have not run FreeBSD since the version 4 or 5 days but this 8.1 release is not nearly as smooth as previous versions.
