Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:51:50 -0500 From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> To: Lars Eighner <portsuser@larseighner.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg disaster Message-ID: <E1LVHks-000CRL-24@daland.home> 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>
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,--- 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 --
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