(Not so) funny problems with xorg-7.4 autodetection

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 28 18:41:24 PST 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 05:53 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 05:24 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I am running 7.1 -STABLE amd64 with some old graphic card that
> >>> used to work with s3virge driver. xorg-7.4 built fine - I had to
> >>> delete all ports and start from scratch - but in the end it
> >>> built. Only problem that remains: Every attempt to startx will
> >>> crash the system (of course I tried all hints from
> >>> /usr/ports/UPDATING and some FreeBSD Forums).
> At least one  thing I found out:
> when I deinstall all drivers besides s3virge I get a reasonable 
> looking result for Xorg -configure: Only one card and one monitor 
> is detected.
> But a startx will still crash the machine.

Ok, let's try to rule out any libpciaccess related issues.  Try
switching to the vesa driver and see if that loads up ok.  If it does,
send me the xorg.log from that.

robert.

> This is my automatically produced xorg.conf.new:
>  	-------------------------------------------
> Section "ServerLayout"
>  	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>  	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>  	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>  	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
>  	ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
>  	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>  	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>  	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
>  	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>  	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>  	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
>  	Load  "extmod"
>  	Load  "record"
>  	Load  "dbe"
>  	Load  "glx"
>  	Load  "xtrap"
>  	Load  "dri"
>  	Load  "freetype"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>  	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>  	Driver      "kbd"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>  	Identifier  "Mouse0"
>  	Driver      "mouse"
>  	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
>  	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
>  	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>  	Identifier   "Monitor0"
>  	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>  	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>          ### Available Driver options are:-
>          ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>          ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>          ### [arg]: arg optional
>          #Option     "slow_edodram"       	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "slow_dram"          	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "fast_dram"          	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "fpm_vram"           	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "pci_burst"          	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "fifo_conservative"  	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "fifo_moderate"      	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "fifo_aggressive"    	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "pci_retry"          	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "early_ras_precharge" 	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "late_ras_precharge" 	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "lcd_center"         	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "set_lcdclk"         	# <i>
>          #Option     "set_mclk"           	# <freq>
>          #Option     "set_refclk"         	# <freq>
>          #Option     "show_cache"         	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "HWCursor"           	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "SWCursor"           	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "Rotate"             	# [<str>]
>          #Option     "mxcr3afix"          	# [<bool>]
>          #Option     "XVideo"             	# [<bool>]
>  	Identifier  "Card0"
>  	Driver      "s3virge"
>  	VendorName  "S3 Inc."
>  	BoardName   "ViRGE/DX or /GX"
>  	BusID       "PCI:1:7:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>  	Identifier "Screen0"
>  	Device     "Card0"
>  	Monitor    "Monitor0"
>  	SubSection "Display"
>  		Viewport   0 0
>  		Depth     1
>  	EndSubSection
>  	SubSection "Display"
>  		Viewport   0 0
>  		Depth     4
>  	EndSubSection
>  	SubSection "Display"
>  		Viewport   0 0
>  		Depth     8
>  	EndSubSection
>  	SubSection "Display"
>  		Viewport   0 0
>  		Depth     15
>  	EndSubSection
>  	SubSection "Display"
>  		Viewport   0 0
>  		Depth     16
>  	EndSubSection
>  	SubSection "Display"
>  		Viewport   0 0
>  		Depth     24
>  	EndSubSection
> EndSection
>  	--------------------------------------------------
> 
> Greetings and thanks,
> 
> Uli.
> 
> | Peter Ulrich Kruppa
> | Wuppertal
> | Germany
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