Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:50:34 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to 5.3-STABLE broke X? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412311641160.3466@dave.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <1104384783.854.62.camel@leguin> References: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412301543530.22225@dave.horsfall.org> <1104384783.854.62.camel@leguin>
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Eric Anholt wrote: > I'm not sure yet. I was assuming it was some regression in 6.8.0/1 > which would have been fixed in 6.8.2, so I made a patch to pull in the > updates, http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/patch-i810-6_8 which would > be dropped in x11-server/xorg-server/files/ before you rebuild/install > it. The associated PR is > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/75425 and has > information on other workarounds. Thanks; I actually installed from a package, so I'm downloading the sources now. Should be compiled some time next year :-) Actually, I'll interrupt it after I've downloaded the sources, and try some of the mentioned workarounds. > If you'd like to contribute to the debugging process, please note what > hardware you're seeing the issue on in a followup to ports/75425, and > try out patch-i810-6_8 to see if it helps. One person has said it > didn't help them, but I'd like to see two before I give up on this > angle. Will do. I'm happy to help any way I can, as I want my X back... > I'm also concerned about the V_BIOS warnings I've seen, which have meant > AGP issues in the past, though it seems odd that it would crop up now. > Getting people to say what hardware they're seeing the issue on > (something that's been rather lacking until now) could help a lot here. Yes, I noticed something about checksum errors, but there's not much I can do about that (except to look for a new BIOS to flash, and hope that it works...). [ Broken links ] > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ would be the place to complain about > that :) It seems that had a server crash or something. -- Dave
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