xorg problems

Jacques Chanel jchanel at free.fr
Thu May 24 18:53:50 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Jacques Chanel wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:53:41PM +0200, Koop Mast wrote:
> > Can people try this and see if it fixes the problems? 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/patch-cairo
> > Just put it in x11-servers/xorg-server/files/ and rebuild xorg-server. 
> > Works for both 1.7 and 1.10.
> 
> Hello all !
> 
> Yes, this fix works for me: xorg does not crash anymore when upgrading
> cairo-1.10.2_3,1 to cairo-1.12.2,1, on my Samsung q210 laptop:
> 
> jc at q210:~> uname -a
> FreeBSD q210.perso 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0 r235448: Mon May 14
> 20:45:22 CEST 2012     jc at q210.perso:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> jc at q210:~> grep agp0 /var/run/dmesg.boot 
> agp0: <Intel GM45 SVGA controller> on vgapci0
> agp0: aperture size is 256M, detected 32764k stolen memory
> 

Ooops.. I spoke too fast : a few hours later, Xorg crashed (in a
different way: xorg restarts every second).

Reinstalling my saved cairo-1.10.2_3,1 package instead of
cairo-1.12.2,1 is not enoughi to be able to start xorg, I must also rebuild
x11-servers/xorg-server without patch-cairo.


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