Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:12:28 +0100 From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg disaster Message-ID: <498C535C.9020302@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20090205202022.L1221@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <20090205202022.L1221@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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Lars Eighner schrieb: > > > 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. Deinstall the nvidia driver and try a. first. Chances are high you will have something usable. If that doesn't work: do b. . Good Luck! Uli. > 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. >
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