Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:39:33 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg && 7-current && ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash Message-ID: <20090210133933.GA93330@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090209212935.I14664@hub.org> References: <20090209211505.O14664@hub.org> <4ad871310902091719x74eed964gfc81d63c437da0cf@mail.gmail.com> <20090209212116.W14664@hub.org> <4ad871310902091723v6549b870rbf6926ac8f5468f@mail.gmail.com> <20090209212935.I14664@hub.org>
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:31:41PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: > >>> Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? > >> > >> Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... > >> > > > > Well, that's good to hear. ;) > > > > Thought I'd as to be safe. > > Ya, that was the easiest problems to search on google and get fixed :) > > I'm going to try downgrading to xorg 7.3 ... I'm having headaches with > fonts (Location bar in firefox3 is unreadable, although all pages are fine > ... mail messagesin mulberry are unreadable, although the message index is > *just* readable, etc) ... someone mentioned some changes in 7.4 concerning > fonts, and I figure, my luck, this might be something that is trickling > into other areas :( for me xorg 7.4 doesn't work at all on 7.1-stable i386 Compaq Armada 1700 laptop, I get "no device found" at X -configure stage. It worked fine with 7.3. The graphics device is Chips and Technologies. When I use vesa driver instead I get to the graphics screen, but still no mouse or keyboard. And if I enable_hald="YES" in rc.conf, my cdrom is not working at all. I submitted a PR on this: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/131426 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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