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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 19:29:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Cc:        XFree86 LIST <Newbie@XFree86.Org>, XFree86 FreeBSD LIST <FreeBsd-XFree86@Lists.CSociety.Org>
Subject:   XFree86 -xf86config ~/XF86Config ; echo HELLLLLLLLP
Message-ID:  <20020515192009.N617-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>

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The saga continues.  I grow slightly wiser.  From my ~/.history file:

  1075  19:09   more /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards

Does running the binary XFree86 check ones /etc/X11/XF86Config file's
specifications against the above Cards file??

  1085  19:12   XFree86 -probeonly ; more /var/log/XFree86.0.log

Is this "-probeonly" flag really useful?  I didn't see anything about
driver or chipset confirmed in the logfile.  :(

  1088  19:14   more /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o

Oops, that's a binary file.  Are driver files usually Object files??

  1091  19:14   more /usr/X11R6/bin/startx

We are not even CLOSE yet to tweaking a ~/.xinitrc - skip ahead please!

  1098  19:16   chmod 700 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86

The chmods used to be -rws--x--x but I didn't like that "s."  So anyway
does it make sense for me, logged in as root, to chmod the XFree86 binary
to -rwx------?

  1119  19:19   XFree86 -xf86config ~/XF86Config

The screen goes black, and after a few seconds that "standby crackly" noise
is heard.  When I C-A-BS to kill the server, the bulk of the errors are:

Symbol drmFreeBufs from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol drmR128TextureBlit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol drmFreeBufs from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o is unresolved!
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, removing from list!

Does this offer anything clueful in my ever-woeful ongoing problem with XF86?

--
Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
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