From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 13:39:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED10C106564A for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E7E8FC13 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LWsq4-0005sM-LB; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:55 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.238]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LWspz-0002mv-7J; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:43 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1ADdgBq093370; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:42 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n1ADdXFn093369; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:33 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:33 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: "Marc G. Fournier" Message-ID: <20090210133933.GA93330@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090209211505.O14664@hub.org> <4ad871310902091719x74eed964gfc81d63c437da0cf@mail.gmail.com> <20090209212116.W14664@hub.org> <4ad871310902091723v6549b870rbf6926ac8f5468f@mail.gmail.com> <20090209212935.I14664@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090209212935.I14664@hub.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Glen Barber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg && 7-current && ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:58 -0000 On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:31:41PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >>> Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? > >> > >> Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... > >> > > > > Well, that's good to hear. ;) > > > > Thought I'd as to be safe. > > Ya, that was the easiest problems to search on google and get fixed :) > > I'm going to try downgrading to xorg 7.3 ... I'm having headaches with > fonts (Location bar in firefox3 is unreadable, although all pages are fine > ... mail messagesin mulberry are unreadable, although the message index is > *just* readable, etc) ... someone mentioned some changes in 7.4 concerning > fonts, and I figure, my luck, this might be something that is trickling > into other areas :( for me xorg 7.4 doesn't work at all on 7.1-stable i386 Compaq Armada 1700 laptop, I get "no device found" at X -configure stage. It worked fine with 7.3. The graphics device is Chips and Technologies. When I use vesa driver instead I get to the graphics screen, but still no mouse or keyboard. And if I enable_hald="YES" in rc.conf, my cdrom is not working at all. I submitted a PR on this: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/131426 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423