X.org 6.9

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

My X also didn't start after the update. I got it fixed though.
The trouble seems to be related to improved monitor detection that
conflicts with manual settings.

To get my X work again I removed all entries in the section Monitor
except for Identifier:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "LCD"
EndSection

I also removed the MonitorLayout from my Device section, this was
actually causing the problem I think, even though the entry was correct
it seemed to cause problems with the auto detection of xorg. It now
looks like this:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile"
        Driver      "radeon"
        Option  "BusType" "AGP"
        Option  "AGPMode" "4"
        Option  "AGPFastWrite" "true"
        Option  "GartSize" "64"
        Option  "EnablePageFlip" "true"
        Option  "DDCMode" "true"
EndSection

I also cleaned up my Screen section, because X is now well capable of
detecting the supported resolutions without me interfering:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier  "Screen 1"
        Device      "ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile"
        Monitor     "LCD"
        DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

BTW, DRI is not broken for me and after the update glxgears performs
with 37% more fps. I also noticed a performance boost in Quake 3 Arena.

Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Wilde, Donald wrote:
> 
>> Friday, I updated to latest 6-stable and did portupgrade --all
>> successfully, however, I did not restart the system and X until this
>> morning. The system boots to login properly, but will not startx to KDE.
>> It locks up completely, cannot even ssh in from outside. Seeing the note
>> in /usr/ports/UPDATING about Display Postscript, I cvsupped again and
>> rebuilt world, ran portupgrade again, and cleaned x11/kde3 and did make
>> && make install on it. No tasty enchiladas yet. I just tried running
>> startx without startkde in .xinitrc, but still no luck. The X log file
>> (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) never gets written. I am about to make clean for
>> all X.org libraries and reinstall.
>>
>> What else should I be doing?
> 
> For me on my IBM T43, updating to Xorg-6.9 broke X as well. After some time spent hunting around for answers, I
> found a thread that suggested that Xorg-6.9 broke DRI (certainly for the graphics card on the T43).
> 
> Disabling DRI in xorg.conf then enabled me to use startx successfully thereafter., Might be worth a shot for you
> too.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stacey
> 
>> --
>> Don Wilde    Org 01737    505-844-1126
>> Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has
>> to eat them. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. 
>>
>>
>>
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