Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:24:45 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: Christof Schulze <christof.schulze@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fun Again!!!] (Not so) funny problems with xorg-7.4 autodetection Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901291819090.312@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <200901291611.08579.christof.schulze@gmx.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901270500130.79296@pukruppa.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901290537050.1281@pukruppa.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901291352130.1734@pukruppa.net> <200901291611.08579.christof.schulze@gmx.net>
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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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | Wuppertal | Germany
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