Dave Horsfall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Was running 5.3-RELEASE (from CD) on R31 Thinkpad, when I decided to take > advantage of the excellent upgrade guide posted here recently by Richard > Bejtlich, and give -STABLE a spin, followed by a "portupgrade". Now, it's > unclear at what point the breakage happened, because one followed the > other straight away (I know, a big mistake). > > Anyway, after what seemed like an eternity (and probably maxing out my > ADSL link in the process) everything finished, and I fired up "X" (X.org, > which I had originally, so no issues with XFree86 etc as mentioned in > UPDATING). > > Obscure error messages: > > (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate HW (ARGB) cursor space. > (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > This used to work, so what broke? I can't even run xorgcfg either, for > the same reason! > > I note that Xorg went from 6.7.0 to 6.8.1, and I poked around wiki.x.org > hoping to get release notes etc, to no avail - the links are broken. It > also offered the advice of running "xorgcfg" (see above), or sending mail > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which turned out to be a mailing list to which > one has to subscribe). > > Under the "Known issues after updating" page, it says "to be found and > written down..." (I kid you not). > > What do I do now? Reinstall FreeBSD? Install XFree86 instead? Somehow > downgrade to 6.7.0 until wiki.x.org gets its act together? > > Do I need some hitherto-unneeded kernel options?
It kind of depends on your X configuration, I would think. Were you using DRI or not? If so, did you rebuild it? Were you using third-party drivers (e.g., NVidia)? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
