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"startx" invokes twm if nothing else is installed and put into .xinitrc (or equivalent). It looks miserable, but it is usable and enough to tell if things are working properly.
Does it work if you use the "VESA" driver? I don't know ATi cards, but vesa should work. And what does the xorg log say? |
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If you use the xorg meta package, you will have the 'twm' installed by default.
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Okay it works with the vesa driver. But is very basic. Anyone else have trouble with the ati drivers, namely "ati", "radeon" and "radeonhd". If so which driver would be best for my graphics card.
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You still haven't posted any Xorg logs, rather important... we're flying blind here tamtam.
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Sorry BSDfan666, but the difficulty is that I am at the moment stuck in the console, or now twm. Apart from Xorg.0.log, which other logs would give an idea what is happening here. Going to go with vesa at the moment, install gnome and such. I would like to know what others who had a problem with the drivers above have over come it.
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it's Xorg.0.log in /var/log just run X with ati driver save log switch to vga/vesa, whichever works open it, copy/paste and that;s it |
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I run my dev computer with twm all the time with Firefox, OpenOffice, etc.
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First: Xorg on FreeBSD is same one on linux, so ....
Second: if Slackware is using radeon driver and it is working than you should use same driver on FreeBSD. Third: make sure that you use same or newer Xorg version and radeon driver version on FreeBSD as you use on Slackware. |
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$ pkg_info -x xf86-video-radeonhd will query /var/db/{pkg,ports} for any installed package matching the expression 'xf86-video-radeonhd', drivers are named xf86-video-foo where foo is what you place in xorg.conf (e.g. ati, radeon, radeonhd). @killasmurf86 I disagree, twm is usable, it's just (imho) annoying to use it.
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usable if one obtains a huge-ish twmrc from the web somewhere.
........... though one might instead search out huge-ish fvwmrc's or the like instead.
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(Alternatively, # pkg_add -r firefox and then post it from within twm.)
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