trouble with xf86-video-intel

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Robert Noland wrote:

> 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.

Actually, poking around a bit more, it seems that my trackpoint
is not being picked up by sysmouse, which is a rather different
issue.  If I plug in a USB mouse, things work just fine.

Sorry for the noise,

Ben Kaduk