Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:37:13 -0600 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X stopped working after upgrade to Xorg-7.4 Message-ID: <1235875033.1289.105.camel@widget.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20090301020758.GA4336@shell.eskimo.com> References: <20090228210928.GA422@shell.eskimo.com> <1235858084.1289.103.camel@widget.2hip.net> <20090301020758.GA4336@shell.eskimo.com>
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--=-9QQKUERwuyDWwP6+8zy+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 18:07 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:54:44PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 13:09 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote: > > > Hello, > > >=20 > > > I have a system with the following graphics card: > > >=20 > > > Nvidia GeForce 7100 / nForce 620i > > >=20 > > > It was never supported by Xorg's nv driver. However, without an=20 > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I could run "startx" and X would start > > > up and I was able to run twm. I suspect it was using the vesa > > > driver or fbdev. > > >=20 > > > After upgrading to Xorg-7.4, that stopped working. > > >=20 > > > Now if I try to run "startx" *without* /etc/X11/xorg.conf,=20 > > > I get the following: > > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_no_xorg_conf.log > > >=20 > > > The corresponding Xorg.0.log is: > > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/Xorg.0.log_no_xorg_conf > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > If I try "X -configure", I get: > > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/X_-configure.log > > >=20 > > > When I try to run "startx", I get the following: > > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_xorg_conf.log > > >=20 > > > The corresponding Xorg.0.log is: > > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_xorg_conf.log > > >=20 > > > The xorg.conf file is: > > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/xorg.conf > >=20 > > Ok, something has gone horribly wrong in the probe phase. Get rid of > > all of the Screen lines from ServerLayout except for the entry for > > Screen 0. Get rid of all of the Monitor sections except for Monitor 0. > > Get rid of all of the Device sections except for the one that has Card0= . > > And finally, get rid of all of the Screen sections except for Screen0. > > See what that does... > >=20 > > robert. > <snip> >=20 > Hello Robert, >=20 > I've removed everything except the lines for Screen 0. Running startx > gave the following: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_1.log >=20 > Corresponding Xorg.0.log is: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/Xorg.0.log_1 >=20 > xorg.conf is: > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/xorg.conf_1 >=20 > thoughts? >=20 > Thanks for your willingness to provide suggestions... Ok, it looks like the driver is just broken... I'm not sure why a release with the fixed code hasn't been made, but try this patch. http://people.freebsd.org/~rnoland/patch-xf86-video-nv robert. > regards, > joseph > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-9QQKUERwuyDWwP6+8zy+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmp9NkACgkQM4TrQ4qfRONkdgCfbyrCg7gJpNpd9EzkaKpCKL7z UGAAnAhkRlTWyD4kFv293dVRCfdS3S+j =dWjw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9QQKUERwuyDWwP6+8zy+--
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