From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 14:51:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD0916A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:51:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A53843D5D for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:51:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 27574 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2004 14:51:22 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Dec 2004 14:51:21 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id EF5D169; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:51:20 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Dave Horsfall References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 29 Dec 2004 09:51:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44ekh9yx7b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:51:22 -0000 Dave Horsfall writes: > Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take > advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard > Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a "portupgrade". Now, it's > unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the > other straight away (I know, a big mistake). > > Anyway, after what seemed like an eternity (and probably maxing out my > ADSL link in the process) everything finished, and I fired up "X" (X.org, > which I had originally, so no issues with XFree86 etc as mentioned in > UPDATING). > > Obscure error messages: > > (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate HW (ARGB) cursor space. > (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > This used to work, so what broke? I can't even run xorgcfg either, for > the same reason! > > I note that Xorg went from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1, and I poked around wiki.x.org > hoping to get release notes etc, to no avail - the links are broken. It > also offered the advice of running "xorgcfg" (see above), or sending mail > to xorg@freedesktop.org (which turned out to be a mailing list to which > one has to subscribe). > > Under the "Known issues after updating" page, it says "to be found and > written down..." (I kid you not). > > What do I do now? Reinstall FreeBSD? Install XFree86 instead? Somehow > downgrade to 6.7.0 until wiki.x.org gets its act together? > > Do I need some hitherto-unneeded kernel options? It kind of depends on your X configuration, I would think. Were you using DRI or not? If so, did you rebuild it? Were you using third-party drivers (e.g., NVidia)?