Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:49:33 +0000 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: "Wilde, Donald" <dwilde@sandia.gov> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 6.9 Message-ID: <20060130184933.GK20911@crom.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <040DF00BF960A24897B5B3EFBE63FE8A01CE91B0@ES20SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> References: <040DF00BF960A24897B5B3EFBE63FE8A01CE91B0@ES20SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov>
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Hello, On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Wilde, Donald wrote: > Friday, I updated to latest 6-stable and did portupgrade --all > successfully, however, I did not restart the system and X until this > morning. The system boots to login properly, but will not startx to KDE. > It locks up completely, cannot even ssh in from outside. Seeing the note > in /usr/ports/UPDATING about Display Postscript, I cvsupped again and > rebuilt world, ran portupgrade again, and cleaned x11/kde3 and did make > && make install on it. No tasty enchiladas yet. I just tried running > startx without startkde in .xinitrc, but still no luck. The X log file > (/var/log/Xorg.0.log) never gets written. I am about to make clean for > all X.org libraries and reinstall. > > What else should I be doing? For me on my IBM T43, updating to Xorg-6.9 broke X as well. After some time spent hunting around for answers, I found a thread that suggested that Xorg-6.9 broke DRI (certainly for the graphics card on the T43). Disabling DRI in xorg.conf then enabled me to use startx successfully thereafter., Might be worth a shot for you too. Regards, Stacey > > -- > Don Wilde Org 01737 505-844-1126 > Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has > to eat them. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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