Cannot get X to work (G5, NV34)

Julio Merino jmmv at freebsd.org
Sat Apr 5 03:43:31 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Julio Merino <jmmv at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to get X.Org to work on my PowerMac G5 and haven't been
> successful at it.  (Actually, this was working fine a few months ago
> when I originally got the machine... but it won't now... so either
> it's because I'm not configuring something right or because something
> somewhere has changed.)
>
> Whenever I type startx, the screen blinks for a moment and then the
> server gives up.
>
> I'm pasing below some logging information along comments.  Keep an
> eye on the "NOTE" comment at the beginning of every section.

Dug some more details by rebuilding the server, driver and related
libraries with WITH_DEBUG=yes. There seem to be a problem in the
libpciaccess library, which is apparently broken for non-x86 machines.
Filed PR ports/188278 with the relevant details.


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