trouble with xf86-video-intel

[Robert Noland]

On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 02:01 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm installing xorg on an lenovo thinkpad T400, and am running into
> some problems.  On the first try, running `X` would produce the
> familiar grey background with x-shaped cursor, and ctrl-alt-backspace
> would not kill the X server.  I could still switch to a vty and
> ctrl-C it, but the Xorg.log.0 was not terribly enlightinging.
> 
> There was a suspicious warning in the log, "ESR is 0x00000010, page 
> table error", and after a bit of googling, I found this post:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg553679.html
> that thread links here:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?h=xf86-video-intel-2.4-branch&id=01bbbd8c6c73229b5cb0c88e8eb2ac9b49a5dad8
> 
> The patch does not apply cleanly at all, but changing the definition of
> DSPARB_HWCONTROL to include "|| IS_GM45(pI810)" helps a little bit,
> in that I can now kill the X server with ctrl-alt-backspace.
> (I suppose I should add that if I switched "intel" to "vesa" in the
> xorg.conf, I could also kill the X server in such a fasion.)
> 
> However, X still does not respond to my mouse events, or
> give me the xterm that's in my .xinitrc .
> 
> I will post my Xorg.0.log here:
> http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/kaduk/freebsd/glossolalia/
> This still has the page table error, and the comment that
> "Existing errors found in hardware state." is rather suspicious,
> though I don't have enough experience with this to know for sure.

Sounds like you are running a default config which expects to have dbus
and hald running...  You either need to start them, or add Option
"AutoAddDevices" "off" to your ServerLayout or ServerFlags section.

robert.

> This is on 8-CURRENT from March 8, and I believe my ports
> snapshot to be from then as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben Kaduk
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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