From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 26 5:14: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96B837B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9178744008 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 05:13:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmoestl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 6106 invoked by uid 0); 26 Feb 2003 13:13:57 -0000 Received: from p508E51BA.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO galatea.local) (80.142.81.186) by mail.gmx.net (mp020-rz3) with SMTP; 26 Feb 2003 13:13:57 -0000 Received: from tmm by galatea.local with local (Exim 4.12 #1) id 18o1Nn-0000g4-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:13:59 +0100 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:13:58 +0100 From: Thomas Moestl To: Daniel Eischen Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What broke X between 5.0R and recent current? Message-ID: <20030226131358.GB631@crow.dom2ip.de> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Eischen , current@FreeBSD.org References: <3E5A9CA9.A31E8081@vigrid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E5A9CA9.A31E8081@vigrid.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2003/02/24 at 17:28:57 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > So I got a new Dell laptop, ATI Radeon 7500. Installed FreeBSD > 5.0-RELEASE, X 4.2.1, and KDE right off the FreeBSD Mall CD-ROM. > I configured X from the installation setup and was happily > running X and KDE @ 1400x1050. Cool. > > Then I cvsup'd to a recent -current from about a week ago, > which my other laptop and desktop are currently running just > fine (both use very old 3.x or 4.x built X's, probably XFree86 > 3.2.x and running with compat libraries). Now X refuses to > work. It's not the kernel because before installing world, > I installed the kernel and booted it to make sure everything > still worked. X was happy with the old kernel too 'cause > I went back and tried it again also. But after the installworld, > X didn't work, not even xf86cfg. I tried the installworld with > and without mergemaster'ing and X didn't work regardless. I > went back and did another fresh install of 5.0R and X worked > again, but after another installworld, I got the same problem. > The XFree86 log file is at the end. It aborts with: > > [...] > (II) LoadModule: "ddc" > (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a > (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC supported > (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC Level none > (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 2 sec. > (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed > (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xfcff0000,0x80000) was already clear > (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x2000000) > (II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=12 min=12000 max=35000; xclk=16600 > (==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 10. Server aborting > > Any ideas? I'm in the process of trying a more recent -current > and am also going to try and rebuild X (though we shouldn't > have to do that). I saw something like that on my notebook, too - in my case, it was a problem in the radeon driver which could be worked around by adding an explicit "Modes" line in the used Display subsection in XF86Config, like: Section "Screen" [...] DefaultColorDepth 24 [...] SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection - Thomas -- Thomas Moestl http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ PGP fingerprint: 1C97 A604 2BD0 E492 51D0 9C0F 1FE6 4F1D 419C 776C To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message