Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:57:24 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412281226060.22225@dave.horsfall.org>
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Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a "portupgrade". Now, it's unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the other straight away (I know, a big mistake). Anyway, after what seemed like an eternity (and probably maxing out my ADSL link in the process) everything finished, and I fired up "X" (X.org, which I had originally, so no issues with XFree86 etc as mentioned in UPDATING). Obscure error messages: (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate HW (ARGB) cursor space. (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting This used to work, so what broke? I can't even run xorgcfg either, for the same reason! I note that Xorg went from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1, and I poked around wiki.x.org hoping to get release notes etc, to no avail - the links are broken. It also offered the advice of running "xorgcfg" (see above), or sending mail to xorg@freedesktop.org (which turned out to be a mailing list to which one has to subscribe). Under the "Known issues after updating" page, it says "to be found and written down..." (I kid you not). What do I do now? Reinstall FreeBSD? Install XFree86 instead? Somehow downgrade to 6.7.0 until wiki.x.org gets its act together? Do I need some hitherto-unneeded kernel options? -- Dave
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