Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:32:01 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CURRENT+xorg-7.4 on eeePC 900 && X crashes on shutdown Message-ID: <3a142e750904270732r48be04f7k776b5c4d13ba1383@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090427141929.GA13902@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090417084446.GA3929@rebelion.Sisis.de> <3a142e750904170613s63f6445el7adab4f74ab3dbf5@mail.gmail.com> <20090427141929.GA13902@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On 4/27/09, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=EDa Friday, April 17, 2009 a las 03:13:06PM +0200, Paul B. Mahol > escribi=F3: > >> Usefull info is missing, what xserver version, which video driver and >> what version of it >> are you using. >> >> I had same behaviour with intel but issue got fixed for me with latest >> Mesa and Xorg from ports. > > I'm still think what would be the best way to update via CVS & ports to > the xerver 1.6.0; maybe the cleanest way would be: > > # rm /var/db/pkg/* > # rm -r /usr/local/* > # rm -r /usr/ports > # cd /usr > # cvs checkout ports > # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg > # make install > > and generate from the than installed ports the packages with pkg_create t= o > install them as updates on the smaller EeePC.... > > while I'm thinking about, it would be nice to get the alpha-console back > to a usable state; when the X server crashes it let the display in > nonsense output; all other is still working, i.e. I can use Alt-F2 to go > to another alpha console, can login and reboot, but all this without > seeing what I type; is there some tool/command to reset the VGA so that t= he > output is visible again? I could insert this into the ~/.xinitrc after > the call of 'startkde' and all would be fine until updating the X11 > server; any idea? > Doesnt starting Xorg again fix problem, doesnt using vesa instead of intel makes console output more useful l(starting Xorg with vesa driver after Xorg crash with intel, you can use -layout switch for that). If you dont care about acceleration and more CPU usage use vesa until furth= er. --=20 Paul
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