Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:16:49 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X fails to start Message-ID: <3a142e750907020316o34095c68ua5581b201f206b28@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY143-W1650E4647EAFA7A6968FF8D2F0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY143-W1650E4647EAFA7A6968FF8D2F0@phx.gbl>
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On 7/2/09, Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I'm still having intermittent troubles with getting the freebsd servers > seeing my mail servers for my normal maillist subscription, so if I could be > cc'd... > > I'm struggling to get my head around a reasonably severe problem with Xorg - > I'm wondering if anyone else is having the same. I've installed Xorg, got it > working, started to refine some settings with the wm and other apps for it, > and then Xorg refuses to work. > > My xorg log has only a couple of errors, for reference I'm using the i915 ko > with drm: > > startx: > X.Org X Server 1.6.1 > Release Date: 2009-4-14 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p1 i386 > ... > (EE) [drm] Could not set DRM device bus ID. > (EE) intel(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > Setting master > MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support > > Xorg.0.log: > ... > drmGetBusid returned '' > (II) [drm] DRM interface version 1.0 > (EE) [drm] Could not set DRM device bus ID. > (EE) intel(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI > ... > (WW) intel(0): drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -1 > ... > (WW) intel(0): PRB0_CTL (0x0001f001) indicates ring buffer enabled > (WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state. > ... > MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support > ... > (WW) intel(0): drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -1 > > Because of my communications issues I've been trying to resolve this myself- > with no luck. I've been trying to get some more info on this, and it seems > to be a huge bug on a lot of linux distros, but noone has a clear response- > it all seems to be a secondary issue to whatever their problem is. SO, I > then tried to find out how to debug, and ran into ANOTHER issue. I've > rebuilt xorg-server with debug (ccflags='-O0 -g3' as per xorg wiki) with no > real success, so then I moved to dri and hit this wall: > > ../../../src/mesa/main/dispatch.o(.text+0xbb90):../../../src/mesa/glapi/glapitemp.h:4951: > first defined here > ../../../src/mesa/x86/glapi_x86.o(.text+0x4130): In function > `glPointParameteri': > ../../../src/mesa/x86/glapi_x86.S:1270: multiple definition of > `glPointParameteri' > ../../../src/mesa/main/dispatch.o(.text+0xc8e0):../../../src/mesa/glapi/glapitemp.h:5256: > first defined here > ../../../src/mesa/x86/glapi_x86.o(.text+0x4140): In function > `glPointParameteriv': > ../../../src/mesa/x86/glapi_x86.S:1271: multiple definition of > `glPointParameteriv' > ../../../src/mesa/main/dispatch.o(.text+0xc940):../../../src/mesa/glapi/glapitemp.h:5266: > first defined here > mklib: Installing libGL.so.1 libGL.so in ../../../lib > mv: rename libGL.so.1 to ../../../lib/libGL.so.1: No such file or directory > gmake[2]: *** [../../../lib/libGL.so] Error 1 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa-7.4.4/src/glx/x11' > gmake[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa-7.4.4/src' > gmake: *** [default] Error 1 > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/dri. > > The various warnings are in the gallon, but my main problem lay with the > mklib error. So I tried to simply copy or rename libGL.so(.1) to make it > happy (I couldn't find references in the Makefile(s) after half an hour of > examination, so I took a little shortcut). It did, but then the gallon of > warnings came back to hit me again- but harder, and so I get another stop in > the build. > > So now I can't get dri back, I can't get X working and I'm losing my > patience fast! :) > > What I can't figure out is what started all this in the first place, because > it was working. Unfortunately I was in the midst of several things happening > at once, so I can't remember if I rebuilt the kernel, upgraded xorg or both > before X failed. As far as I can tell that is only secondary at any rate, as > I need to prevent this happening again during upgrades/updates whatever. > > My main questions here are: > > 1. How do debug Xorg? The debug flags haven't provided much at all so far > (maybe I've done it wrong?) You can still use xf86-video-vesa even without dri. Debug flags are useful only if Xorg crashed and dropped core. > 2. Why can I get the busid failure and Xorg keep going? How do I force it? > Where is this problem lying (kmod, driver, server)? Is it critical? What kernel modules are loaded? What version of server, Mesa, drivers are installed and how are they installed? > 3. Is the MIT-SHM error the cause of my problems? (Or a contributor) You are using custom kernel without sysv* modules. Not a good idea for X. > 4. What do I need to do about the Mesa library? Is this related to the core > issue? Is this a known bug in the port build? Your environment is highly polluted. > I've considered manually debugging the drmGetBusID failure, but I don't > exactly relish the idea of going through that much code. I could easily > follow the procedures in the wiki, but I'd rather go through ports. > > I've also just completely removed xorg and started again with the cflags, > but it has failed again at the dri port. > > I hope someone help here... :/ -- Paul
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