Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:20:50 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> To: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Xorg disaster Message-ID: <20090205202022.L1221@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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Xorg upgrade (gory details follow) went south. I must have a working graphics browser by Monday. This is pretty much *vital*, as in a matter of survival. What is the fastest and/or surest way to get a platform that will run firefox or opera? a. try to get my nvidia hardware to work with a generic (vesa or vga) driver? b. try to downgrade Xorg to something that worked. Hints on either course would be appreciated. What happened: upgraded system from 7.1 prerelease to 7.1 release p2. cvsupped the ports tree. Upgraded Xorg and nvidia-driver (after upgrading perl and everything portupgrade -fr perl5.8 will upgrade (as the script failed miserably). This was after 20090124 when the mouse problem was supposed to be fixed. What happens: first there is something undefined in nvidia's libwfb so I changed the symbolic link to point to Xorg's version of the lib. That message went away, but there are tons of "Generic Event Extension" missing messages and no mouse --- what is more the accessibility keypad mouse thing doesn't work at all. I can't pay my bills and I can't get to another computer to use someone else's browser to do it. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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