Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:55:53 +0000 From: Richard Danter <richard.danter@ntlworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange Xorg problems - SOLVED Message-ID: <422DCB09.6060306@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <422D74DC.9060303@ntlworld.com> References: <422D74DC.9060303@ntlworld.com>
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Richard Danter wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a strange problem with starting Xorg after a boot on my Compaq > Presario 1800T laptop. First time I try to startx the screen is > corrupted, the mouse moves very slowly (if at all) and sometimes the > only way out is to kill the window manager by SSH'ing in from a remote > host. > > What is odd is that the second time I run startx it works perfectly! > Same for all subsequent starts, so only the very first startx after a > boot has this problem. > > Lookling through the logs I can see that there is a failure to open the > device /dev/dri/card0 first time, but it seems to work second time. > > I managed to find some references to problems with dri by googling but > could not find any resolutions. > > I have attached a dump from dmesg after starting X so you can see the > boot and drm messages. Also attached are logs from Xorg after both a bad > and a good start. I hope attachments are ok. One think I noticed from > the dmesg dump is that the graphics card is detected as an ATI Rage 128 > Mobility LF, but Linux said it was an M3. Not sure if that is relevant. > > I used to have RedHat Linux 7.2 and then 9 running on this machine and > never had any problems with X, was even able to play DVD's perfectly > using Ogle, so I am sure Xorg should work. > > Does anyone know what is going on here? Have I made a mistake somewhere?? > I fixed it! It was simply a matter of adding r128_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. Another newbie mistake I think. :) Rich
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