X stopped working after upgrade to Xorg-7.4

[Joseph Olatt]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:25:36PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 17:04 -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
> 
> Ok, we are mostly out of options with the nv driver then...
> 
> > 
> > Any idea why I lost all my colors (except the basic colors)
> > when I upgraded the vesa driver and attempted to use it?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here.

I'm currently running the vesa driver and sometimes the display
seems to be losing colors (like as though it is switching from 24-bit
color to 4-bit color)...

Don't worry about it for now. I'm not sure I understand what is going
on. I will try to understand what is going on...

Thanks for all your attempts.

regards,
joseph