xfce 4.8 upgrade errors

[Olivier Duchateau]

I have also an ATI graphics card (below excerpt from dmesg).

[...]
drm0: <ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.31.0 20080613
info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
info: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
info: [drm] Num pipes: 2
info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs

In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in section Device:
Section "Device"
        Option     "int10"              "on"
        Option     "BusType"              "PCIE"
        Option     "RenderAccel"          "on"
        Option     "AccelMethod"          "exa"
        Option     "DRI"                  "on"
        Option     "DynamicPM"            "on"
  Identifier  "Card0"
  Driver      "radeon"
  VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
  BoardName   "Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
  BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

I used Xfce 4.8 (during development stages) with FreeBSD 8.1 and older
version of X.org, and I didn't notice particular.


2011/4/15 Pavel Timofeev <timp87 at gmail.com>:
>> I've send PR, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156231
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156230
>> We must wait for upgrade made by maintainer, but you can use patches.
>
> Yes, I tried ports/156231 and ports/156230. Nothing changed. And tried
>
>> Pavel, are you able to run your xfce session with startx command?
>> 1. In /etc/ttys (line beginning by ttyv8), replace 'on' by 'off',
>> reboot your computer.
>
> I use slim and rc.conf. Ok, slim_enable="YES" was commented in /etc/rc.conf
>
>> 2. if in your $HOME directory, .xinitrc (or .xsession) file doesn't
>> exist, copy it from /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/.
>> 3. create also .xsession (ln -sf ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession)
> Copied and created. (Before I had .xinitrc and it contained
> /usr/local/bin/startxfce4, and I had .xsession which used as link to
> .xinitrc. Made by your advice.)
>
>> 4. finally, run 'startx' command, a file called .xsession-errors will
>> appear
> Done. But no .xsession-errors file =(
> And system hangs as before when I want to run opera and other problem apps.
>
>
> About miwi`s post:
> I noticed that adding line 'Option "BusType" "PCIE"' to xorg.conf in the
> 'Section "Device"' makes something strange.
> At first Xorg start I see black screen (no errors in Xorg.log.0), but after
> restart it works good, and hangs don't occur.
> Is it normal? My card is 'ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600] rev 0'
> and it is AGP card.
> Changing BusType to AGP or PCI doesn`t bring anything good: system hangs.
>
> 2011/4/15 Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier at gmail.com>
>>
>> 2011/4/14 Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>:
>> > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Pavel Timofeev wrote:
>> >
>> >> I just understood the problem!
>> >> It dawned upon me! All these apps are united by the fact that they have
>> >> icons (when they running) at notification area on xfce4-panel.
>> >> Problem with xfce4-panel! I checked it.
>> >>
>> >> If I make
>> >> $ rm -rf .config
>> >> and then logon to xfce4 it tell me 'Welcome to the first start of the
>> >> panel'
>> >> and I choose  'Use default config'.
>> >> Now all works very good,
>> >> But if I make logout and then relogon to xfce4 again opera and some
>> >> apps
>> >> hangs system.
>> >>
>> >> Ok. Reboot system. Logon to xfce4 and first thing remove 'notification
>> >> area'
>> >> from xfce4-panel. And now all works fine!
>> >> Problem in xfce4-panel.
>> >
>> > There was a new release of xfce4-panel a few days ago:
>> > http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-April/028514.html
>>
>> I've send PR, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156231
>>
>> >
>> > Also a new version of garcon:
>> > http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-April/028513.html
>> >
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156230
>>
>> We must wait for upgrade made by maintainer, but you can use patches.
>>
>> Pavel, are you able to run your xfce session with startx command ?
>>
>> 1. In /etc/ttys (line beginning by ttyv8), replace 'on' by 'off',
>> reboot your computer.
>> 2. if in your $HOME directory, .xinitrc (or .xsession) file doesn't
>> exist, copy it from /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/.
>> 3. create also .xsession (ln -sf ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession)
>> 4. finally, run 'startx' command, a file called .xsession-errors will
>> appear
>>
>> Look at warning and errors.
>>
>> --
>> olivier
>
>



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olivier