ports/131016: xorg-7.4 renders system unusable!
O. Hartmann
ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Tue Jan 27 07:20:03 PST 2009
The following reply was made to PR ports/131016; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov at comcast.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/131016: xorg-7.4 renders system unusable!
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:54:18 +0000
Alex Goncharov wrote:
> Ditto here.
>
> Last night I updated a desktop and have garbage (or call it a visual
> noise if you will) in my windows all the time now.
>
> Nevertheless, I upgraded a laptop -- and can't use X here at all:
> while the mouse pointer moves, the keyboard is "dead", until some
> number of key presses leads to a loud continuous beep; I can switch to
> the non-X virtual consoles but the beep continues and I have to reboot
> the system to kill the sound.
>
> Disabling HAL doesn't make things much better, although in my current
> configuration I don't have a continuous sound and can experiment.
>
> Putting `xev' into ~/.xsession, I observed that all (?) the keystrokes
> result in "keysym 0x0".
>
> Bottom line: the X system is unusable after the upgrade; no diagnostic
> tool that I tried provides a clue about how to make it work.
After an compilation orgy and the weirdness of an obvious false xcb-XXX
compilation (xcb-proto etc needs to be recompiled BEFORE the suggested
UPDATING step via portupgrade -rf libxcb is performed) X is up and
running - but NO(!!!!) switching to any VT. This sucks. This is with
driver 'nv' as with 'radeon'. Switching obviously works - I can switch
vom ttyv7 keeping the X11-display to others - but they are black and the
monitor is NO SIGNAL signalling. I can switch back to the tty keeping
X11 without any problem. Having no VT/console is very bad :-(
I also performed the steps for avoiding this useless 'hald/dbus'
combination for my keyboard and mouse and it works now for me - but with
the above mentioned result of not having access to my VT.
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