[Fun Again!!!] (Not so) funny problems with xorg-7.4
autodetection
Christof Schulze
christof.schulze at gmx.net
Thu Jan 29 07:37:54 PST 2009
Interesting. It seems that a lot of drivers have broken lately.
the xf86-video-intel does the same thing for me. I completely rebuilt the
system with hald dbus but when I start X, the system completely freezes.
When using vesa driver things work but they do so very slowly.
Regards
Christof
Am Donnerstag 29 Januar 2009 14:21:09 schrieb Peter Ulrich Kruppa:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 05:53 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 05:24 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am running 7.1 -STABLE amd64 with some old graphic card that
> >>>>>> used to work with s3virge driver. xorg-7.4 built fine - I had to
> >>>>>> delete all ports and start from scratch - but in the end it
> >>>>>> built. Only problem that remains: Every attempt to startx will
> >>>>>> crash the system (of course I tried all hints from
> >>>>>> /usr/ports/UPDATING and some FreeBSD Forums).
> >>>
> >>> At least one thing I found out:
> >>> when I deinstall all drivers besides s3virge I get a reasonable
> >>> looking result for Xorg -configure: Only one card and one monitor
> >>> is detected.
> >>> But a startx will still crash the machine.
> >>
> >> Ok, let's try to rule out any libpciaccess related issues. Try
> >> switching to the vesa driver and see if that loads up ok. If it
> >> does, send me the xorg.log from that.
> >>
> >> robert.
> >
> > With vesa driver (all others off) Xorg -configure produces a usable
> > xorg.conf.new. I.e. I get xorg's default black & white pixel
> > background, but that will remain stable, machine won't crash.
> > I can't move the mouse cross.
>
> Hallo Robert,
>
> in the meantime I did a full portupgrade -arf (with hal support
> and _only_ vesa-driver, keyboard and mouse support). I enabled
> hald, dbus, moused (and uuidd - what t. h. is that good for?) in
> /etc/rc.conf .
>
> Xorg -configure got me a working xorg.conf (at low resolution),
> some fine-tuning the same as before with s3virge. For the
> archives I put my working xorg.conf to the end of this message.
>
> Right now I am installing some serious applications and hope my
> system will stay stable.
> In the end I would conclude, that not xorg-7.4 and hald were the
> problem, but that s3virge driver has gone crap and nv-driver
> at least behaves strangely.
>
> Thanks a lot for your support. I hope you will solve the
> remaining 500 problems with xorg-7.4 as well!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Uli.
>
>
> My xorg.conf
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "X.org Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "record"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "glx"
> Load "xtrap"
> Load "dri"
> Load "freetype"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Modino"
> ModelName "F-15"
> HorizSync 30-61
> VertRefresh 50-75
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Device"
> ### Available Driver options are:-
> ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
> ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
> ### [arg]: arg optional
> #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
> #Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
> #Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "vesa"
> VendorName "S3 Inc."
> BoardName "ViRGE/DX or /GX"
> BusID "PCI:1:7:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 16
> # DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 1
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 4
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 8
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 15
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768"
> Modes "800x600"
> Modes "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768"
> Modes "800x600"
> Modes "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> | Peter Ulrich Kruppa
> | Wuppertal
> | Germany
>
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