Re: Video Device problems in new install by Newbie -- FreeBSD 6.1
- From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:53:21 -0400
Joel Adamson <trashbird1240@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I took the plunge last night and installed FreeBSD6.1-STABLE. I found the experience rather exciting and I'm happy with the results, excep for one major challenge to overcome: no video support. I'm trying to set up X and it's failing.
Prerequisites:
FreeBSD6.1-STABLE (from the i386 CD iso's from freebsd.org)
Dell Dimension 5100C Desktop
WD SATA HD
Intel 82945G Express Chipset Family on IRQ 16
My friend the computer professional tells me the video and a bunch of other devices are integrated into the motherboard to save space (the system unit is smaller than the printer, if that tells you anything).
when I do:
root-prompt>Xorg -configure
I get a quick list of all video devices and "No Device Present"
The Xorg-configure-log is just a more verbose statement of the same list
At boot, I get the following messages:
...
acpi0:<Dell 5100C > on motherboard
...
pci0:<display> at device 2.1 (no driver attached)
pci0:<multimedia> at device 27.0 (no driver attached)
...
the boot process then proceeds to recognize all my other devices and I get to my login prompt.
X.org doesn't always need any configuration file at all. Did you try
just running "startx" to see if it starts up? [It probably won't, but
I'm not sure I understand your description completely.]
To really help, though, I suspect we'll need to see the complete boot
messages and output of Xorg. The former can be obtained (close
enough) from dmesg(8) (or /var/run/dmesg.boot) and the latter using
screen(1).
[I.e. for more information on those commands, type "man 8 dmesg"
or "man 1 screen".]
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