PCBSD & X11 ugh

[Andrei Kolu]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 01:16:06 Julian Elischer wrote:
> John Hein wrote:
> > Julian Elischer wrote at 13:08 -0700 on Mar 11, 2008:
> >  > So, I tried out PCBSD on a Dell "DHP" (what ever that is) (made feb
> >  > '05).
> >  >
> >  > it installs great
> >  > but when I run boot it, (FreeBSD comes up fine) teh X server goes into
> >  > an infinite loop somewhere.
> >  >
> >  >    168 root          1   0    0   148M  6976K rdnrel   0:57 93.85%
> >  > Xorg
> >  >
> >  > and the screen stays black.
> >  > the fan goes onto "tornado" mode and it just sits there.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > attempting to send a signal -9 to the x server has no effect so its
> >  > stuck in the kernel somewhere.
> >  >
> >  > does anyone have any X11 foo (or PCBSD foo) to let me know how to get
> >  > the damed server to do what it did in install, when it was just fine.
> >  > possibly I need to disable some kernel extension feature..
> >
> > If it worked on install, but not now, that seems to point to an config
> > difference.  I have no great xorg foo either, but when I hit something
> > like this, I start commenting stuff out in xorg.conf (things like dri
> > - particularly if you are seeing issues in the kernel).
>
> I made it work by doing:
>
> cd /boot/kernel
> mv drm.ko drm_hold.ko
>
> I don't know why this was needed, but my thinking was that
> if the server was stuck in the kernel, it probably was going in
> via some kernel module and that looked a likely candidate
> amongst those loaded.. :-)
>
DRM stands for Direct Rendering Management and it is needed for 3D 
acceleration. Looks like your graphics card does not support it fully. What 
card you got?