Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:59:18 +0300 From: "Yousef Raffah" <yraffah@gmail.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this an Xorg problem? Message-ID: <c663e0800707210559k204ae142h4b8ae51719e5b1e0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0707210538k304c6908q8dc697c683f2db5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <c663e0800707210314m4b9d5754t77cb59023ff20666@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0707210538k304c6908q8dc697c683f2db5b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/21/07, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21/07/07, Yousef Raffah <yraffah@gmail.com> wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I'm running on 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Jul 15 11:33:57 AST 2007 with the > > GENERIC kernel. I had removed all my ports in order to have a fresh > > install. Everything was successfully installed after that, including > > xorg 7.2. However, when I try to start my X session, the screen > > flickers as if it was starting then suddenly brakes and shuts down, > > returning me to my prompt printing the following on the console: > > mskc0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error > > > > Also if I try Xorg -configure to create a new xorg.conf for me, the > > machine freezes and does not respond to anything when I run it with X > > -config /root/xorg.conf.new (I don't run X as root, this is just to > > test the new config file), I can't even ssh nor ping the box! Hard > > booting is the only way to get it back :( > > > > Sorry if it isn't CURRENT related but kindly let me know and I will > > post it to the xorg mailing list. My appologies. > > > > Well, a quick grep -r tells me that the only > references to "mskc" are in: > /usr/src/sys/dev/msk/if_msk.c > I don't know enough to know if this is: > a) harmless > 2) related > msk0 is actually my NIC, this is one of the reasons I'm using CURRENT as it is supporting my NIC and b0rked ACPI on this Toshiba Tecra A4. > As far as Xorg freezing, have you tried editing > your xorg.conf to use something like: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card1" > Driver "vesa" > EndSection > > and then changing > Section "Screen" > Device "Card0" > to read > Device "Card1" > ? > > If that works (albeit you likely won't get resolution > over 1024x768 and it will be slow) then . . . oh, hell, > I don't know enough to really help, but the results > might be enlightening to someone. > Unfortunately it didn't work and it gave the same output on console :( Thanks for trying... > -- > -- > -- ------------------- |Yousef Raffah| -------------------------------- http://yousef.raffah.com | --------------------------------
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