From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 12 11:35:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE3537B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0BF843FBF for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from adsl-68-20-23-48.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net (adsl-68-20-23-48.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.23.48]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h2CJZOLJ013067; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:35:24 -0600 (CST) From: David Syphers To: Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: problems with XFree86 4.3.0 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:35:23 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1047494881.315.21.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1047494881.315.21.camel@gyros> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303121335.01282.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday 12 March 2003 12:48 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:36, David Syphers wrote: > > I upgraded to XFree86 4.3.0 from 4.2.0/1 today, and when I rebooted, > > nothing worked. To be precise, it claims that no screens are available. > > My XFree86 log file can be seen at > > http://home.uchicago.edu/~dsyphers/XFree86.0.log. /etc/ttys has > > > > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm" xterm on secure > > > > which is what worked before. Help! I am currently rebuilding XFree86 > > 4.2.0, and until then I am stuck at a text console that freezes every 30 > > seconds because it's still trying to start the X sever. Thus the terse > > nature of this email. Thanks, > > Try either deleting the Chipset entry in your XF86Config file, or rename > it to "GeForce2 GTS". Deleting the chipset entry worked. Thanks! As I recall, that line was generated by xf86cfg, so I didn't think a new version of X would break on something like that. -David -- http://www.seektruth.org Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message