From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 09:00:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DF41065670 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:00:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antik@bsd.ee) Received: from zzz.ee (kalah.zzz.ee [194.204.30.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C678FC17 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:00:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antik@bsd.ee) Received: by zzz.ee (Postfix, from userid 3019) id 8AD834EC83; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:41:16 +0200 (EET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin on spamassassin.zzz.ee X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Guessed-Language: en X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50 X-Spam-Checker-URL: http://info.zzz.ee Received: from andrei.demo (adsl215.uninet.ee [194.204.62.215]) by zzz.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96DC4EC81; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:41:14 +0200 (EET) From: Andrei Kolu To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:41:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47D6E6B4.30403@elischer.org> <18391.4566.644877.159621@gromit.timing.com> <47D712B6.4050901@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <47D712B6.4050901@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803121041.14047.antik@bsd.ee> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCBSD & X11 ugh X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:00:29 -0000 On Wednesday 12 March 2008 01:16:06 Julian Elischer wrote: > John Hein wrote: > > Julian Elischer wrote at 13:08 -0700 on Mar 11, 2008: > > > So, I tried out PCBSD on a Dell "DHP" (what ever that is) (made feb > > > '05). > > > > > > it installs great > > > but when I run boot it, (FreeBSD comes up fine) teh X server goes into > > > an infinite loop somewhere. > > > > > > 168 root 1 0 0 148M 6976K rdnrel 0:57 93.85% > > > Xorg > > > > > > and the screen stays black. > > > the fan goes onto "tornado" mode and it just sits there. > > > > > > > > > attempting to send a signal -9 to the x server has no effect so its > > > stuck in the kernel somewhere. > > > > > > does anyone have any X11 foo (or PCBSD foo) to let me know how to get > > > the damed server to do what it did in install, when it was just fine. > > > possibly I need to disable some kernel extension feature.. > > > > If it worked on install, but not now, that seems to point to an config > > difference. I have no great xorg foo either, but when I hit something > > like this, I start commenting stuff out in xorg.conf (things like dri > > - particularly if you are seeing issues in the kernel). > > I made it work by doing: > > cd /boot/kernel > mv drm.ko drm_hold.ko > > I don't know why this was needed, but my thinking was that > if the server was stuck in the kernel, it probably was going in > via some kernel module and that looked a likely candidate > amongst those loaded.. :-) > DRM stands for Direct Rendering Management and it is needed for 3D acceleration. Looks like your graphics card does not support it fully. What card you got?