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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:37:13 -0600
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: X stopped working after upgrade to Xorg-7.4
Message-ID:  <1235875033.1289.105.camel@widget.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090301020758.GA4336@shell.eskimo.com>
References:  <20090228210928.GA422@shell.eskimo.com> <1235858084.1289.103.camel@widget.2hip.net> <20090301020758.GA4336@shell.eskimo.com>

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On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 18:07 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:54:44PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 13:09 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >=20
> > > I have a system with the following graphics card:
> > >=20
> > > Nvidia GeForce 7100 / nForce 620i
> > >=20
> > > It was never supported by Xorg's nv driver. However, without an=20
> > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I could run "startx" and X would start
> > > up and I was able to run twm. I suspect it was using the vesa
> > > driver or fbdev.
> > >=20
> > > After upgrading to Xorg-7.4, that stopped working.
> > >=20
> > > Now if I try to run "startx" *without* /etc/X11/xorg.conf,=20
> > > I get the following:
> > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_no_xorg_conf.log
> > >=20
> > > The corresponding Xorg.0.log is:
> > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/Xorg.0.log_no_xorg_conf
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > If I try "X -configure", I get:
> > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/X_-configure.log
> > >=20
> > > When I try to run "startx", I get the following:
> > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_xorg_conf.log
> > >=20
> > > The corresponding Xorg.0.log is:
> > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_xorg_conf.log
> > >=20
> > > The xorg.conf file is:
> > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/xorg.conf
> >=20
> > Ok, something has gone horribly wrong in the probe phase.  Get rid of
> > all of the Screen lines from ServerLayout except for the entry for
> > Screen 0.  Get rid of all of the Monitor sections except for Monitor 0.
> > Get rid of all of the Device sections except for the one that has Card0=
.
> > And finally, get rid of all of the Screen sections except for Screen0.
> > See what that does...
> >=20
> > robert.
> <snip>
>=20
> Hello Robert,
>=20
> I've removed everything except the lines for Screen 0. Running startx
> gave the following:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_1.log
>=20
> Corresponding Xorg.0.log is:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/Xorg.0.log_1
>=20
> xorg.conf is:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/xorg.conf_1
>=20
> thoughts?
>=20
> Thanks for your willingness to provide suggestions...

Ok, it looks like the driver is just broken... I'm not sure why a
release with the fixed code hasn't been made, but try this patch.

http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/patch-xf86-video-nv

robert.

> regards,
> joseph
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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
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