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Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE today
and everything went as planned and I am to load the kernel and log in as root. However, when I proceed to attempting ...
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- 01-02-2006 #1Just Joined!
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Windows X Server
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE today
and everything went as planned and I am to load the kernel and log in as root. However, when I proceed to attempting to setup the X Windows System something goes wrong. I typed # Xorg -configure and I receive the error:
Fatal Server Error: xf86Enable IO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O. I googled for an answer, and someone told me to modify the file: /etc/rc.conf and change to the following: kern_securelevel="0" (was previously set at 1) and kern_securelevel_enabled="NO"(was previously set at YES). I reinstalled FreeBSD and then proceeded as soon as I logged in to root to change /etc/rc.conf. I typed #Xorg -configure and still go the exact same error, so i proceeded to continue to the next step of the Windows X server and did #Xorg -config xorg.conf.new and then modified the file xorg.conf.new. I found this file entirely blank, so I typed in all of the things following this guide
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO.../x-config.html
It was as follows:
(I did # edit xorg.conf.new)
I then saved it, and tried startx, but then got the error: No Screens Found.Code:Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "HP Pavilion" ModelName "hp pavilion f50" HorizSync 30-60 VertRefresh 60-75 (I was not quite sure about this so I put my flat panel monitor's v. sync range) Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection
Here is the monitor which I have:
http://www.factorydirect.ca/cgi-bin/...ec.pl/ZZ002317
Does anyone knwo why I am getting all of the errors, I would really appreciate it. Please feel free to ask for any more info from me which may be useful in debugging these problems. Thanks a lot.
EDIT: By the way, my video card is an ATI Radeon 9550 256MB AGP Dual Monitor Graphic Card (which is supported by FreeBSD)
http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9550/index.html
~Xer0x
- 01-02-2006 #2
Is that all you have got in your xorg.conf.new? You really need more.
First copy the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.example file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and start editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. It is heavily commented so just read the instructions in the file for every section.
- 01-02-2006 #3Just Joined!
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fixed it
thank you, but now I have a new problem tryign to configure my wireless :-p see my other post
- 01-31-2006 #4Just Joined!
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Please don't leave people hanging.
Please post how you sovled your problem.


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