Problems with Xorg update
Eitan Adler
eitanadlerlist at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 19:13:35 PST 2009
Arthur Barlow wrote:
> Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I
> noticed that many xf86 and various xorg drivers were. Because the
> number was significant I used the "portupgrade -a" command to make sure
> all the dependencies were processed properly. As it turned out, there
> were still a couple of places were the process broke and I needed to do
> a "deinstall" and "reinstall" on a certain package(s) before I could
> continue. When the process was done I tried to run "startx", but I got
> an error. I ran just X without startx or xinit and I get the message:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11: Server aborting
>
> Abort trap: 6
>
> I've tried to reinstall xorg, xorg-drivers, and a handful of other
> drivers, but no luck. I'm using FreeBSD 6.4, and the upgrade was for
> xorg-7.4. Any suggestions?
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What video driver are you using? Could you give us output of any logs
and config files?
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Eitan Adler
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