[Fun Again!!!] (Not so) funny problems with xorg-7.4
autodetection
Peter Ulrich Kruppa
ulrich at pukruppa.net
Thu Jan 29 09:21:25 PST 2009
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Christof Schulze wrote:
> 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.
You can try to tune down colour depth a little bit by setting
DefaultDepth 16
(instead of 24) in Section Screen (see my xorg.conf at the end
of this mail).
Greetings
Uli.
>
> 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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