Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:31:41PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to be safe. Ya, that was the easiest problems to search on google and get fixed :) I'm going to try downgrading to xorg 7.3 ... I'm having headaches with fonts (Location bar in firefox3 is unreadable, although all pages are fine ... mail messagesin mulberry are unreadable, although the message index is *just* readable, etc) ... someone mentioned some changes in 7.4 concerning fonts, and I figure, my luck, this might be something that is trickling into other areas :( for me xorg 7.4 doesn't work at all on 7.1-stable i386 Compaq Armada 1700 laptop, I get no device found at X -configure stage. It worked fine with 7.3. The graphics device is Chips and Technologies. When I use vesa driver instead I get to the graphics screen, but still no mouse or keyboard. And if I enable_hald=YES in rc.conf, my cdrom is not working at all. I submitted a PR on this: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/131426 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:39:33PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: for me xorg 7.4 doesn't work at all on 7.1-stable i386 Compaq Armada 1700 Sorry, do you really run FreeBSD with xorg on this machine? This laptop must be at least 10 years old, right? laptop, I get no device found at X -configure stage. It worked fine with 7.3. The graphics device is Chips and Technologies. When I use vesa driver Do you have [x] CHIPS enabled when you run make config in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers? I guess this should install the right driver for your Armada. instead I get to the graphics screen, but still no mouse or keyboard. Did you follow the hints in /usr/ports/UPDATING? Uwe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:28:09PM +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:39:33PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: for me xorg 7.4 doesn't work at all on 7.1-stable i386 Compaq Armada 1700 Sorry, do you really run FreeBSD with xorg on this machine? This laptop must be at least 10 years old, right? I keep it as an additional test box. The issue is that 7.3 worked and 7.4 doesn't on this box. laptop, I get no device found at X -configure stage. It worked fine with 7.3. The graphics device is Chips and Technologies. When I use vesa driver Do you have [x] CHIPS enabled when you run make config in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers? I guess this should install the right driver for your Armada. sure. As I said, chips (and mouse and keyboard) worked fine with 7.3, but not anymore. I blame hal and dbus. instead I get to the graphics screen, but still no mouse or keyboard. Did you follow the hints in /usr/ports/UPDATING? yes, I did. After that didn't help I deinstalled and reinstalled all X-related ports - same result. On 8.0-current i386 I have different problems (black screen, cannot return to console, have to reboot) but the result is the same - xorg 7.4 isn't working at all. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, until I try and start up X ... If I use the 'nv' driver in my X conig file, and the twm window manager, everything starts up fine, I can load Firefox, etc, etc ... As soon as I switch from nv - nvidia and start, the screen goes blank and the machine reboots ... If I switch from nvidia - nv and use '/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde', the screen goes blank, and the machine reboots ... I just installed icewm, and using that, everything loads up fine too ... So, I figure there is something that I'm either missing in my install, or that I've configured wrong that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as to what ... Can anyone help? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scra...@hub.org MSN . scra...@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, until I try and start up X ... If I use the 'nv' driver in my X conig file, and the twm window manager, everything starts up fine, I can load Firefox, etc, etc ... As soon as I switch from nv - nvidia and start, the screen goes blank and the machine reboots ... If I switch from nvidia - nv and use '/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde', the screen goes blank, and the machine reboots ... I just installed icewm, and using that, everything loads up fine too ... So, I figure there is something that I'm either missing in my install, or that I've configured wrong that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as to what ... Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, until I try and start up X ... If I use the 'nv' driver in my X conig file, and the twm window manager, everything starts up fine, I can load Firefox, etc, etc ... As soon as I switch from nv - nvidia and start, the screen goes blank and the machine reboots ... If I switch from nvidia - nv and use '/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde', the screen goes blank, and the machine reboots ... I just installed icewm, and using that, everything loads up fine too ... So, I figure there is something that I'm either missing in my install, or that I've configured wrong that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as to what ... Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scra...@hub.org MSN . scra...@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to be safe. -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to be safe. Ya, that was the easiest problems to search on google and get fixed :) I'm going to try downgrading to xorg 7.3 ... I'm having headaches with fonts (Location bar in firefox3 is unreadable, although all pages are fine ... mail messagesin mulberry are unreadable, although the message index is *just* readable, etc) ... someone mentioned some changes in 7.4 concerning fonts, and I figure, my luck, this might be something that is trickling into other areas :( Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scra...@hub.org MSN . scra...@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Are you starting hald and dbus via rc.conf? Yes ... both mouse and keyboard have been working great ... Well, that's good to hear. ;) Thought I'd as to be safe. Ya, that was the easiest problems to search on google and get fixed :) I'm going to try downgrading to xorg 7.3 ... I'm having headaches with fonts (Location bar in firefox3 is unreadable, although all pages are fine ... mail messagesin mulberry are unreadable, although the message index is *just* readable, etc) ... someone mentioned some changes in 7.4 concerning fonts, and I figure, my luck, this might be something that is trickling into other areas :( FWIW, I run both KDE and KDE4 w/ nvidia driver dual head on xorg 7.4. Following UPDATING resolved the issues I had going from 7.3 7.4. midco# uname -a FreeBSD midco.net 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #5: Tue Jan 13 13:35:17 CST 2009 a...@midco.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DOMINATOR i386 midco# pkg_info | grep nvidia nvidia-driver-177.80 NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL ren nvidia-settings-180.17 Display Control Panel for X NVidia driver xorg-7.4X.Org complete distribution metaport ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
I ran into the same kind of issue. FWIW, I had better luck downloading the nVidia drivers from the website which includes modifying the kernel. I can now do all kinds of extra things, like spanning 2 monitors, etc (on workstations). I can dig up my notes if you intend to go this route at some point... d Deb Heller-Evans Energy Science Network MS-50A-3101 Berkeley, CA 94720 510/495-2243 Marc G. Fournier wrote: Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, until I try and start up X ... If I use the 'nv' driver in my X conig file, and the twm window manager, everything starts up fine, I can load Firefox, etc, etc ... As soon as I switch from nv - nvidia and start, the screen goes blank and the machine reboots ... If I switch from nvidia - nv and use '/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde', the screen goes blank, and the machine reboots ... I just installed icewm, and using that, everything loads up fine too ... So, I figure there is something that I'm either missing in my install, or that I've configured wrong that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as to what ... Can anyone help? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scra...@hub.org MSN . scra...@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
Oops. Brain FART... I'm in a multi-OS environment... My answer was with respect to a different OS, but it might be applicable to FreeBSD. I don't have experience with nVidia on FreeBSD. Deb Heller-Evans Energy Science Network MS-50A-3101 Berkeley, CA 94720 510/495-2243 Deb Heller-Evans wrote: I ran into the same kind of issue. FWIW, I had better luck downloading the nVidia drivers from the website which includes modifying the kernel. I can now do all kinds of extra things, like spanning 2 monitors, etc (on workstations). I can dig up my notes if you intend to go this route at some point... d Deb Heller-Evans Energy Science Network MS-50A-3101 Berkeley, CA 94720 510/495-2243 Marc G. Fournier wrote: Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, until I try and start up X ... If I use the 'nv' driver in my X conig file, and the twm window manager, everything starts up fine, I can load Firefox, etc, etc ... As soon as I switch from nv - nvidia and start, the screen goes blank and the machine reboots ... If I switch from nvidia - nv and use '/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde', the screen goes blank, and the machine reboots ... I just installed icewm, and using that, everything loads up fine too ... So, I figure there is something that I'm either missing in my install, or that I've configured wrong that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as to what ... Can anyone help? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scra...@hub.org MSN . scra...@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: xorg 7-current ( kde || nvidia driver ) == desktop crash
Hi Deb ... was this vs compiling from source? On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Deb Heller-Evans wrote: Oops. Brain FART... I'm in a multi-OS environment... My answer was with respect to a different OS, but it might be applicable to FreeBSD. I don't have experience with nVidia on FreeBSD. Deb Heller-Evans Energy Science Network MS-50A-3101 Berkeley, CA 94720 510/495-2243 Deb Heller-Evans wrote: I ran into the same kind of issue. FWIW, I had better luck downloading the nVidia drivers from the website which includes modifying the kernel. I can now do all kinds of extra things, like spanning 2 monitors, etc (on workstations). I can dig up my notes if you intend to go this route at some point... d Deb Heller-Evans Energy Science Network MS-50A-3101 Berkeley, CA 94720 510/495-2243 Marc G. Fournier wrote: Okay, I've exhausted every google search I can think of, and not getting anywhere, so now to ask ... Just upgraded my motherboard / CPU (old one fried out) ... picked up an ASUS P5Q with a Quad Core Intel CPU ... everything boots / runs fine, until I try and start up X ... If I use the 'nv' driver in my X conig file, and the twm window manager, everything starts up fine, I can load Firefox, etc, etc ... As soon as I switch from nv - nvidia and start, the screen goes blank and the machine reboots ... If I switch from nvidia - nv and use '/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde', the screen goes blank, and the machine reboots ... I just installed icewm, and using that, everything loads up fine too ... So, I figure there is something that I'm either missing in my install, or that I've configured wrong that kde is trying to use, but I'm at a lose as to what ... Can anyone help? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scra...@hub.org MSN . scra...@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scra...@hub.org MSN . scra...@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
