Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:11:25 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412301543530.22225@dave.horsfall.org>
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(Originally posted to -questions, and someone said this was a known issue and to post here instead. Edited version, as I've learned a bit more since the original post.) Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, where Xorg worked just fine. I decided to give -STABLE a spin, followed by a "portupgrade". Now, it's unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the other straight away without trying X (I know, a big mistake). Anyway, after what seemed like an eternity (and probably maxing out my ADSL link in the process) everything finished, and I fired up "X" (X.org, which I had originally, so no issues with XFree86 etc as mentioned in UPDATING). This is when I discovered that a) 6.7.0 got itself upgraded to 6.8.1 when I was asleep, and b) it didn't work. Obscure error messages: (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate HW (ARGB) cursor space. (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting The first message seemed to be because hardware cursors are not supported on the i830M, and the second because DRI wanted the first. I disabled both, but I still get a SIGSEGV. Running GDB on the coredump (with and without intercepting signals) shows a corrupted stack. This used to work in 6.7.0, so what broke? Note that I can't even run xorgcfg either, for the same reason. I poked around wiki.x.org hoping to get release notes etc, to no avail - the links are broken. It also offered the advice of running "xorgcfg" (see above), or sending mail to xorg@freedesktop.org (which turned out to be a mailing list to which one has to subscribe; it could at least say so). Under the "Known issues after updating" page, it says "to be found and written down..." (I kid you not). What do I do now? Reinstall FreeBSD? Install XFree86 instead? Somehow downgrade to 6.7.0? Do I need some hitherto-unneeded kernel options? It fails with GENERIC as well. All configurations available upon request. -- Dave
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