From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 03:51:17 2003 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 16DF937B401 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 03:51:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from gregale.wcom.co.uk (gregale.wcom.co.uk [193.131.254.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D648343FAF for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 03:51:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Philip.Payne@uk.uu.net) Received: from cyclone ([170.127.79.100] helo=cyclone.wcom.co.uk) by gregale.wcom.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18ysO0-00063w-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:51:04 +0000 Received: from vardar (borasco [170.127.79.99]) by cyclone.wcom.co.uk (4.0.1.37) with ESMTP id LAA21650 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:39:24 GMT Received: from ukcamgate1.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net ([62.191.1.65]) by vardar with esmtp (Exim 4.10.11) id 18ysCf-0006zd-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:39:21 +0000 Received: by ukcamgate1.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:39:52 -0000 Message-ID: <36D04A8168B2D41182250008C7E6F8780374F5EB@ukcamexch2.cbg.uk.corp.eu.uu.net> From: Philip Payne To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:39:46 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) MIME-Version: 1.0 (Generated by NET-TEL Mailguard SMTP version 4.0.1.40) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Spam-Score: -6.6 (------) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18ysO0-00063w-00*OUD9xmC5hOM* X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Xfree86 help required since upgrade. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:51:18 -0000 Hi, I recently upgraded Xfree4 via portupgrade (portupgrade -a) and I now have a problem. It appears X will only work in 8-bit mode. Before, my XF86Config specified the default bit depth as 24 and X was fine. Now X fails to start at anything over 8-bit... I mean, it starts... it just hangs after a lot of disk activity. Briefly, I'm running FreeBSD 4.X-Stable on a PC with an nvidia card and the nvidia driver from /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver and the latest version of Xfree4 from ports. I appreciate the nvidia driver is beta and could be the root cause of this problem but I've been using that driver for some time with no problems so far. I'm definitely no X-pert. I can work my way through an XF86Config file and X error log but that's about it. Nothing I can immediately identify in /var/log/Xfree86.0.log to cause the problem (that's not to say there isn't something in there). My question is: a) Is there anyone out there willing to help me resolve this? b) What information (hardware, config files) do you need to help me out? Let me know, by reply individually if you don't want to spam the list and I'll send everything relevant in one go. Thanks a lot, Phil.