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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