Is this an Xorg problem?

[Yousef Raffah]

On 7/21/07, illoai at gmail.com <illoai at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/07/07, Yousef Raffah <yraffah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I'm running on 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Jul 15 11:33:57 AST 2007 with the
> > GENERIC kernel. I had removed all my ports in order to have a fresh
> > install. Everything was successfully installed after that, including
> > xorg 7.2. However, when I try to start my X session, the screen
> > flickers as if it was starting then suddenly brakes and shuts down,
> > returning me to my prompt printing the following  on the console:
> > mskc0: Uncorrectable PCI Express error
> >
> > Also if I try Xorg -configure to create a new xorg.conf for me, the
> > machine freezes and does not respond to anything when I run it with X
> > -config /root/xorg.conf.new (I don't run X as root, this is just to
> > test the new config file), I can't even ssh nor ping the box! Hard
> > booting is the only way to get it back :(
> >
> > Sorry if it isn't CURRENT related but kindly let me know and I will
> > post it to the xorg mailing list. My appologies.
> >
>
> Well, a quick grep -r tells me that the only
> references to "mskc" are in:
> /usr/src/sys/dev/msk/if_msk.c
> I don't know enough to know if this is:
> a) harmless
> 2) related
>
msk0 is actually my NIC, this is one of the reasons I'm using CURRENT
as it is supporting my NIC and b0rked ACPI on this Toshiba Tecra A4.

> As far as Xorg freezing, have you tried editing
> your xorg.conf to use something like:
> Section "Device"
>   Identifier "Card1"
>   Driver "vesa"
> EndSection
>
> and then changing
> Section "Screen"
>   Device "Card0"
> to read
>   Device "Card1"
> ?
>
> If that works (albeit you likely won't get resolution
> over 1024x768 and it will be slow) then . . . oh, hell,
> I don't know enough to really help, but the results
> might be enlightening to someone.
>
Unfortunately it didn't work and it gave the same output on console :(
Thanks for trying...
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