Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:54:44 -0600 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X stopped working after upgrade to Xorg-7.4 Message-ID: <1235858084.1289.103.camel@widget.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20090228210928.GA422@shell.eskimo.com> References: <20090228210928.GA422@shell.eskimo.com>
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--=-nDGEUBYbYpW1gozGDb+O Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 13:09 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I have a system with the following graphics card: >=20 > Nvidia GeForce 7100 / nForce 620i >=20 > It was never supported by Xorg's nv driver. However, without an=20 > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I could run "startx" and X would start > up and I was able to run twm. I suspect it was using the vesa > driver or fbdev. >=20 > After upgrading to Xorg-7.4, that stopped working. >=20 > Now if I try to run "startx" *without* /etc/X11/xorg.conf,=20 > I get the following: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_no_xorg_conf.log >=20 > The corresponding Xorg.0.log is: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/Xorg.0.log_no_xorg_conf >=20 >=20 > If I try "X -configure", I get: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/X_-configure.log >=20 > When I try to run "startx", I get the following: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_xorg_conf.log >=20 > The corresponding Xorg.0.log is: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_xorg_conf.log >=20 > The xorg.conf file is: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/xorg.conf Ok, something has gone horribly wrong in the probe phase. Get rid of all of the Screen lines from ServerLayout except for the entry for Screen 0. Get rid of all of the Monitor sections except for Monitor 0. Get rid of all of the Device sections except for the one that has Card0. And finally, get rid of all of the Screen sections except for Screen0. See what that does... robert. =20 >=20 > Has anybody else run into the same/similar issues after upgrade=20 > to Xorg-7.4? Does anybody have any suggestions that they can offer? >=20 > Thanks in advance for reading and trying to offer suggestions. >=20 > regards, > joseph > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-nDGEUBYbYpW1gozGDb+O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmpsqQACgkQM4TrQ4qfRONGPQCcCEQ8aD3A0vWBmZAIM/VQaO63 NX4An27/e1QtllQjBpxrv+dnUABxKVPZ =mcyW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nDGEUBYbYpW1gozGDb+O--
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