From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 01:57:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31D816A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:57:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dave.horsfall.org (mrdavi2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.75.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE1443D41 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:57:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.horsfall.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id iBS1vPd22297 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:57:25 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:57:24 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:57:29 -0000 Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard Bejtlich, and 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 (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). 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 This used to work, so what broke? I can't even run xorgcfg either, for the same reason! I note that Xorg went from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1, and 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). 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 until wiki.x.org gets its act together? Do I need some hitherto-unneeded kernel options? -- Dave