[Fun Again!!!] (Not so) funny problems with xorg-7.4
autodetection
Robert Noland
rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 29 08:06:14 PST 2009
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:11 +0100, Christof Schulze wrote:
> Interesting. It seems that a lot of drivers have broken lately.
> the xf86-video-intel does the same thing for me. I completely rebuilt the
> system with hald dbus but when I start X, the system completely freezes.
> When using vesa driver things work but they do so very slowly.
Folks, issues with different drivers are rarely related. There is
another thread that I'm rapidly losing track of relating to this issue
on intel hardware. For those issues, I need to know what kernel you are
running (I don't think it is relevant now) and exactly which intel chip
you have.
When the driver seems to work properly (for some definition of proper)
for most people, I have to be able to characterize what set of hardware
is failing to be able to nail down the issue. There are a lot of moving
parts here. agp, drm, the ddx driver itself, all have some amount of
chip specific behavior.
I need to figure out a better way to keep track of issues, as trying to
search back into the 100,000+ emails in my mailbox is not working out
well. In other words, be patient, but if I drop you, just ping me
again, and please try to keep each thread on topic.
robert.
> Regards
>
> Christof
>
> Am Donnerstag 29 Januar 2009 14:21:09 schrieb Peter Ulrich Kruppa:
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Robert Noland wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > > With vesa driver (all others off) Xorg -configure produces a usable
> > > xorg.conf.new. I.e. I get xorg's default black & white pixel
> > > background, but that will remain stable, machine won't crash.
> > > I can't move the mouse cross.
> >
> > Hallo Robert,
> >
> > in the meantime I did a full portupgrade -arf (with hal support
> > and _only_ vesa-driver, keyboard and mouse support). I enabled
> > hald, dbus, moused (and uuidd - what t. h. is that good for?) in
> > /etc/rc.conf .
> >
> > Xorg -configure got me a working xorg.conf (at low resolution),
> > some fine-tuning the same as before with s3virge. For the
> > archives I put my working xorg.conf to the end of this message.
> >
> > Right now I am installing some serious applications and hope my
> > system will stay stable.
> > In the end I would conclude, that not xorg-7.4 and hald were the
> > problem, but that s3virge driver has gone crap and nv-driver
> > at least behaves strangely.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your support. I hope you will solve the
> > remaining 500 problems with xorg-7.4 as well!
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Uli.
> >
> >
> > My xorg.conf
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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 "Modino"
> > ModelName "F-15"
> > HorizSync 30-61
> > VertRefresh 50-75
> > 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 "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
> > #Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
> > Identifier "Card0"
> > Driver "vesa"
> > VendorName "S3 Inc."
> > BoardName "ViRGE/DX or /GX"
> > BusID "PCI:1:7:0"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen0"
> > Device "Card0"
> > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > DefaultDepth 16
> > # DefaultDepth 24
> > 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
> > Modes "1024x768"
> > Modes "800x600"
> > Modes "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Viewport 0 0
> > Depth 24
> > Modes "1024x768"
> > Modes "800x600"
> > Modes "640x480"
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > | Peter Ulrich Kruppa
> > | Wuppertal
> > | Germany
> >
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