Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:55:24 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Metacity not loading Message-ID: <1191261324.56945.15.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <op.tzi4zqpb9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <1191172047.16238.9.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <op.tzi4zqpb9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 12:46 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > Have you read in the /usr/ports/UPDATING (20070913) about xorg 7.3 vs > nvidia-driver? You have to start xorg by 'startx -- -ignoreABI' and make > sure the Composite extension is disable. Yes, all that was done. As was the patch to CUPS to allow its upgrade, and the revised mouse code to cure the Xinerama cursor problem. > > If you still have problem, then I have no idea. > Oddly enough, I loaded Metacity from a terminal window once Gnome was invoked as a regular user, and it loaded. Since then it has more-or-less loaded -- often there is a message that it crashed, but ps shows that it is running. I don't know Gnome's internals, but I've never seen this sort of behavior before.
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