Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:47:56 -0500 From: matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com> To: Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Xorg disaster Message-ID: <28283d910902051847m383d13b0v13c2fea711e292bc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090205202022.L1221@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <20090205202022.L1221@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com>wrote: > > > Xorg upgrade (gory details follow) went south. I must have a working > graphics browser by Monday. This is pretty much *vital*, as in a matter of > survival. > > What is the fastest and/or surest way to get a platform that will run > firefox or opera? > > a. try to get my nvidia hardware to work with a generic (vesa or vga) > driver? > b. try to downgrade Xorg to something that worked. > > Hints on either course would be appreciated. > > What happened: upgraded system from 7.1 prerelease to 7.1 release p2. > > cvsupped the ports tree. Upgraded Xorg and nvidia-driver (after upgrading > perl and everything portupgrade -fr perl5.8 will upgrade (as the script > failed miserably). This was after 20090124 when the mouse problem was > supposed to be fixed. > > What happens: first there is something undefined in nvidia's libwfb > so I changed the symbolic link to point to Xorg's version of the lib. > That message went away, but there are tons of "Generic Event Extension" > missing messages and no mouse --- what is more the accessibility keypad > mouse thing doesn't work at all. > > I can't pay my bills and I can't get to another computer to use someone > else's browser to do it. > > -- > Lars Eighner > http://www.larseighner.com/index.html > 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I've had issues with nvidia driver not hooking into the kernel on 7.1. but Generic Event Extension problem is in /usr/ports/UPDATING the xorg server does not have that entension yet but will be in the next version.
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