BIG BIG problem with Xorg and... something else...

Mathieu Prevot freebsd-stable at club-internet.fr
Fri Feb 17 09:31:48 PST 2006


Le 13 févr. 06 à 14:15, Gerard Milhaud a écrit :

> J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> g at esil.univ-mrs.fr wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>    First don't blame me for cross-posting on stable and x11 lists  
>>> but both seem
>>> relevant for my problem.
>>>
>>>    I'm tracking 6-STABLE. Since one week, I can't use my computer  
>>> under FreeBSD.
>>> The boot is OK, xdm screen is OK. But if I launch a KDE session,  
>>> I've some color
>>> problems during initializing session, then X freezes (before end  
>>> of loading !!!)
>>> and the only way is to poweroff the computer !!! No ssh, no way  
>>> to CTRL-ALT F1
>>> switching to a console screen, the box is down...
>>>
>>
>> I seem to recall something similar being posted recently, having  
>> more to do with the X.ORG 6.9 upgrade than anything else. You  
>> might try doing a 'portupgrade -af' to rebuild everything against  
>> the new libraries.
>
> I've done it (19 hours...). It's a little bit better. I've about  
> 300 seconds before the freeze...
>
> Thank you for your suggestion.
>
> Any other idea from anyone ???

Try X -configure or change your driver from radeon to vesa (/etc/X11/ 
xorg.conf).

Mathieu
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