X11 stopped working after upgrading ports

Conrad Meyer cem at freebsd.org
Sun Sep 25 20:45:28 UTC 2016


You want nvidia-modeset.ko now, as documented in nvidia-driver
pkg-message and UPDATING.

Best,
Conrad

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Grzegorz Junka <list1 at gjunka.com> wrote:
> Not sure which port broke it. All was working fine. I was usually starting
> X11 with 'startx'. My .xinitrc is pretty standard:
>
> exec /usr/local/bin/lumina-desktop
>
> The problem is that after upgrading some packages the X windows stopped
> displaying properly. When I issue 'startx' I see logs from applications
> being started when I switch back to the console in which I issued 'startx'
> (Ctrl+Alt+1). However, nothing is happening on the X11 screen (Alt+9). The
> screen remains black, the mouse cursors stays where it was before issuing
> 'startx' but doesn't move. And there is the big white text cursor in the
> left upper corner. And that's it.
>
> I compiled packages with poudriere. One of the upgraded packages was
> nvidia-driver which is now at version 367.44 (before it was 35x something,
> don't remember). I wasn't changing anything in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but I
> re-run nvidia-xconfig just in case. It didn't help.
>
> Was there any special script that I supposed to run after upgrading nvidia
> driver? I remember having to run something but I don't remember from where
> and in what conditions. Anything else that might have broken it? I tried
> with fluxbox instead of lumina-desktop but it doesn't make any difference.
> How to debug this problem?
>
> Grzegorz
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