Subject: Re: X won't work
To: None <Jakk@PunkAss.com>
From: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/11/2001 13:56:07
Hello,

> I’m new at this and I can’t seem to get X to work with NetBSD.

Welcome!

> I have NetBSD 1.5.1 on an hp Pavilion and XFree86 4.1.0. I had
> Linux-Mandrake installed on this PC with no problems and from
> it  I learned that the graphics card it had listed was Intel 810
> “i810”, so that’s the one I picked from the video card list during
> the Xfree installation.
> 
> Here’s part of the error log:
> 
> (II) Loading font FreeType
> (II) LoadModule: "i810"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module i810
> (II) UnloadModule: "i810"
> (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
> (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
> (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>           compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0
>           Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
>           ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.2
> (EE) No drivers available.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found

As I have sometimes written to other lists, i810 + XFree86 4.1.0 don't
work yet unfortunately although XFree86's documentation says that it's
available. Would you try X binaries which comes with NetBSD's
distribution?

Regards,
Masao