From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 21 13:02:34 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 4B04D16A419 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:02:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF0E13C46E for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:02:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so1264176mue for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:02:31 -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=iINQRLwznhIK1jX5dMbkFvalVt5zSc5qUqaZwlK4etRRgOZcqdBfKHFC7VdrWAATBwjBKskWbWF0Z2G1nfuOjZabFSyQDN3U3s6dhsGr/6bXn6m4nBx/r9LepzZ0Izrg917fX3ngoJkQXzmPzGjq7zAI3Cu3ZqcP8YCCYQaYbXg= 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=Vsih/1kBnBZUj2bfUXbvyQx6oprDmwjhALKY2ZGNqSaNcUG8vL9V3TGdo1s3jnJHF6gxLUrerZ4tNswub9Cvj5ul9Ip2kEZYYhQj0ci3Ij6dVF2CWXGZpzlRRry6YId/iXSnaVFuT5dSFdIUAhqQZY0fB20hTia8jm4SfaDyARs= Received: by 10.82.183.19 with SMTP id g19mr1134013buf.1185021510144; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.187.6 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:38:30 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Yousef Raffah" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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 13:02:34 -0000 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 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. -- --