Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:38:30 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Yousef Raffah" <yraffah@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this an Xorg problem? Message-ID: <d7195cff0707210538k304c6908q8dc697c683f2db5b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c663e0800707210314m4b9d5754t77cb59023ff20666@mail.gmail.com> References: <c663e0800707210314m4b9d5754t77cb59023ff20666@mail.gmail.com>
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On 21/07/07, Yousef Raffah <yraffah@gmail.com> 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 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. -- --
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