X stopped working after upgrade to Xorg-7.4

[Joseph Olatt]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:04:35PM -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 06:25:57PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 15:05 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:37:13PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 18:07 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:54:44PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 13:09 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Oh, right I committed that earlier today as it was clearly broken.
> > 
> > So, now the config looks right, but your chip isn't supported...  You
> > can try the attached patch, or try the nouveau driver, though that will
> > require pulling libdrm from git at the moment.
> 
> I tried your patch. It did not work. It dumped core :-(
> 
> The output of "X -configure" and "startx" is at:
> http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/X_-configure_3
> 
> 
> Any idea why I lost all my colors (except the basic colors)
> when I upgraded the vesa driver and attempted to use it?

On a gut-feel, I rebooted and now I have all the colors with the vesa
driver. I wonder if I have a very poor quality graphics card or if all
the patching/compiling etc. caused the graphics card to go into some
sort of a weird state!

So now I have the X server working with the vesa driver. I can live with
that.

Thanks for all your assistance.

regards,
joseph