Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> writes:

> Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take 
> advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard 
> Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a "portupgrade".  Now, it's 
> unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the 
> other straight away (I know, a big mistake).
> 
> Anyway, after what seemed like an eternity (and probably maxing out my 
> ADSL link in the process) everything finished, and I fired up "X" (X.org, 
> which I had originally, so no issues with XFree86 etc as mentioned in 
> UPDATING).
> 
> Obscure error messages:
> 
> (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate HW (ARGB) cursor space.
> (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> This used to work, so what broke?  I can't even run xorgcfg either, for 
> the same reason!
> 
> I note that Xorg went from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1, and I poked around wiki.x.org 
> hoping to get release notes etc, to no avail - the links are broken.  It 
> also offered the advice of running "xorgcfg" (see above), or sending mail 
> to xorg at freedesktop.org (which turned out to be a mailing list to which 
> one has to subscribe).
> 
> Under the "Known issues after updating" page, it says "to be found and 
> written down..." (I kid you not).
> 
> What do I do now?  Reinstall FreeBSD?  Install XFree86 instead?  Somehow 
> downgrade to 6.7.0 until wiki.x.org gets its act together?
> 
> Do I need some hitherto-unneeded kernel options?

It kind of depends on your X configuration, I would think.  Were you
using DRI or not?  If so, did you rebuild it?  Were you using
third-party drivers (e.g., NVidia)?