From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 02:43:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3251065670 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 02:43:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96848FC08 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 02:43:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id E2D7B16B4BD; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:22:18 -0600 (CST) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.88]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D93916B77A for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:22:17 -0600 (CST) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:21:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:20:50 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: freebsd-ports Message-ID: <20090205202022.L1221@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html Subject: Xorg disaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:43:25 -0000 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