From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 21 12:59:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2734616A420 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ECC13C45A for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:59:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so1433373waf for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:59:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=r/BRPFdNZOxm9PbR9Av9PgNBZE+lyZjSeP78F9nGU3Jg0lmG5e+/ppbsrfGcKiucOTGxPkAbBzjXuV2h40p5xNCOpUbZAL0aFNLRqdflwcZoz7BXw0OQ2brj2SFLUrkf/GiXZylDSgOWlVpjqugQaCzvii98x+UPiTIOCHN58R4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rNeMYMIY0oKdnESzjO1Z8v4PoYsqdJv2zJePIzZWgrDKC1r7mSC467l2AbL6uVUxtXpPOV5+/X2QMovkkTy4Z5lnQS7z54eaRehHUTSJT3+ST1dTNFGfbjPaY81fuZhX0nVnV/+uW0fB7puVE8oUy8W1tiYOMDAaEdqciMmvTb4= Received: by 10.114.61.1 with SMTP id j1mr1383411waa.1185022758170; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.66.15 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:59:18 +0300 From: "Yousef Raffah" To: "illoai@gmail.com" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this an Xorg problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:59:19 -0000 On 7/21/07, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 21/07/07, Yousef Raffah wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I'm running on 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Jul 15 11:33:57 AST 2007 with the > > GENERIC kernel. I had removed all my ports in order to have a fresh > > install. Everything was successfully installed after that, including > > xorg 7.2. However, when I try to start my X session, the screen > > flickers as if it was starting then suddenly brakes and shuts down, > > returning me to my prompt printing the following on the console: > > mskc0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error > > > > Also if I try Xorg -configure to create a new xorg.conf for me, the > > machine freezes and does not respond to anything when I run it with X > > -config /root/xorg.conf.new (I don't run X as root, this is just to > > test the new config file), I can't even ssh nor ping the box! Hard > > booting is the only way to get it back :( > > > > Sorry if it isn't CURRENT related but kindly let me know and I will > > post it to the xorg mailing list. My appologies. > > > > Well, a quick grep -r tells me that the only > references to "mskc" are in: > /usr/src/sys/dev/msk/if_msk.c > I don't know enough to know if this is: > a) harmless > 2) related > msk0 is actually my NIC, this is one of the reasons I'm using CURRENT as it is supporting my NIC and b0rked ACPI on this Toshiba Tecra A4. > As far as Xorg freezing, have you tried editing > your xorg.conf to use something like: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card1" > Driver "vesa" > EndSection > > and then changing > Section "Screen" > Device "Card0" > to read > Device "Card1" > ? > > If that works (albeit you likely won't get resolution > over 1024x768 and it will be slow) then . . . oh, hell, > I don't know enough to really help, but the results > might be enlightening to someone. > Unfortunately it didn't work and it gave the same output on console :( Thanks for trying... > -- > -- > -- ------------------- |Yousef Raffah| -------------------------------- http://yousef.raffah.com | --------------------------------