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 Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I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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