From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 03:51:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C78106564A for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 03:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex-goncharov@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB628FC1C for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 03:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex-goncharov@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.60]) by QMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id CE471b04L1HzFnQ53TrrZ8; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:51:51 +0000 Received: from daland.home ([24.34.211.11]) by OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id CTrr1b00C0FJTGg3aTrr0n; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:51:51 +0000 Received: from algo by daland.home with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1LVHks-000CRL-24; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:51:50 -0500 From: Alex Goncharov To: Lars Eighner In-reply-to: <20090205202022.L1221@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> (message from Lars Eighner on Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:20:50 -0600 (CST)) References: <20090205202022.L1221@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> Message-Id: Sender: Alex Goncharov Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:51:50 -0500 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg disaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Alex Goncharov List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:51:52 -0000 ,--- You/Lars (Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:20:50 -0600 (CST)) ----* | 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. Been there (last week) -- know what you mean. | 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. I tried "b" -- very successfully. The path is (roughly): 1. Find the dependencies of xproto and xextproto: pkg_info -R xproto-\* xextproto-\* | wc -l Prepare to remove those (new) packages from your system. 2. Before you remove them, record their names and origins -- you will need them to either get their old versions from ftp.freebsd.org or too build from ports source. 3. Remove the packages identified in step 1. 4. FTP-get or build the old versions. If you are to build them, you need the old ports tree: use this tag in your ports-supfile: *default release=cvs tag=. date=2009.01.23.12.00.00 I would not recommend your own build under the circumstances: FTP-getting is much faster, of course -- the whole process will take you about two hours, I think. | 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. I use the nv driver BTW -- perfectly -- in the old (downgraded to) X. | 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. Use ncftpget instead of the browser. Good luck! -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --