[Call for Testing] X.org 7.5 for FreeBSD

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Something else that I recently got reminded of. XFCE4 uses a lot of
>>> the compositing effects in the window manager. Have you tried
>>> disabling them in xorg.conf and restart the X session?
>>>
>>
>> I tried disabling a few load lines in xorg.conf:
>>        #Load  "glx"
>>        #Load  "dri"
>>        #Load  "dri2"
>> Is that the correct way to do it?
>>
>> Anyway, it didn't make a difference - xfce4-session still crashes when doing
>> 'startxfce4'.
>
> Actually it's:
>
> Section "Screen"
> # ...
>      Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "false"
>      Option "RenderAccel" "false"
> # ...
>
> Section "Extensions"
> # ...
>      Option "Composite" "disable"
>      Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "false"
> # ...
>
>    But getting back to basics, maybe you should try starting up X
> with twm to see whether or not the whole setup is broken. Then you'll
> be able to run glxgears and some xfce4 apps to determine whether or
> not opengl is broken or xfce4 is busted somewhere along the way.

I just read Robert's email. DRM's busted so it looks like X won't work
for you until that's resolved. I wouldn't bother with the steps I've
described above since Warren said "it works for me!" :\.
Thanks,
-Garrett