Problems with Xorg update
Arthur Barlow
arthurbarlow at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 29 16:59:53 PST 2009
On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> Arthur Barlow wrote:
>> Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I
>> noticed that many xf86 and various xorg drivers were. Because the
>> number was significant I used the "portupgrade -a" command to make
>> sure
>> all the dependencies were processed properly. As it turned out,
>> there
>> were still a couple of places were the process broke and I needed
>> to do
>> a "deinstall" and "reinstall" on a certain package(s) before I could
>> continue. When the process was done I tried to run "startx", but I
>> got
>> an error. I ran just X without startx or xinit and I get the
>> message:
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> Caught signal 11: Server aborting
>>
>> Abort trap: 6
>>
>> I've tried to reinstall xorg, xorg-drivers, and a handful of other
>> drivers, but no luck. I'm using FreeBSD 6.4, and the upgrade was for
>> xorg-7.4. Any suggestions?
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> What video driver are you using? Could you give us output of any logs
> and config files?
>
> --
> Eitan Adler
> "Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually
> behave."
> -Jakob Nielsen
I'm using the "glint" driver or xf86-video-glint. It's for the TI
Premedia graphic chip. I''ve attached the Xorg.0.log file.
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