From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 17 15:04:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CF61065676 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout6.freenet.de (mout6.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E2F48FC1F for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [195.4.92.25] (helo=15.mx.freenet.de) by mout6.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #92) id 1MoIXA-0005Wn-Jp; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:32 +0200 Received: from tc0b1.t.pppool.de ([89.55.192.177]:60158 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 15.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #94) id 1MoIXA-0004OO-6f; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:32 +0200 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:31 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: David Wolfskill Message-ID: <20090917170431.47be4a06@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20090917134924.GZ1212@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20090917134924.GZ1212@albert.catwhisker.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.2; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/compat6x port no longer sufficient for DRI under head? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:04:34 -0000 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:49:24 -0700 David Wolfskill wrote: > I've been in the practice of running multiple bootable slices on my > laptop, arranged such that each slice has its own / and /usr, but other > chunks of disk (such as /usr/local, /var, home directories, and swap > space) are shared. (Naturally, the machine is in only one environment > at a time.) > > With that setup, then, I have been tracking RELENG_6 (now stable/6), > RELENG_7 (now stable/7), and HEAD (now head) -- leaving one slice for > "messing around." I have a local mirror of the FreeBSD CVS & SVN > repositories (to facilitate work while I'm on the train, for example), > and I have been tracking FreeBSD stable/6, stab\le/7, and head, as well > as updating ports, on a daily basis for quite a while. > > As the laptop is "user-facing," I've tended to accumulate quite a few > installed ports; as updating some of those is rather time-consuming, > and I want to be able to actually use my laptop for more than merely > building software, I have taken to building the ports under the oldest > installed version of FreeBSD and installing the appropriate > misc/compatNx port(s) while running the more recent versions. > > For the most part, this has worked pretty well, and has allowed me to > get a bit of an idea of what's in the pipeline for upcoming releases. > > A few weeks ago, though, I found that when I tried to start Xorg while > running stable/7, the mouse & keyboard apparently locked up. While I > had used hald(8) when Xorg was changed to defaul to requiring it, I had > given up on that as not worth the trouble, and changed xorg.conf so > hald(8) was no longer required. I also changed /etc/rc.conf so neither > hald(8) nor dbus(8) was started. > > More recently -- about a week ago -- a similar effect occured in head. > (Up to that point, Xorg ran fine in stable/6 and head, but not in > stable/7.) > > This morning, I tried disabling DRI in xorg.conf -- and now Xorg runs OK > in stable/6, stable/7, and head. (Well, perhaps not with the best > performance, but running at all is a great deal better than requiring a > power-cycle to reboot and requiring a reboot to function.) > > It's quite possible that what I'm trying to do is sufficiently unususal > that it's not worth the effort to "fix" it. That said, I'll be happy to > test changes that folks would care to suggest. > Maybe you need to install misc/compat7x also for things to work with head? Don't forget options COMPAT_FREEBSD7 in your kernconf for head. --- Gary Jennejohn