Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:41:37 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought usbd was gone. The difference I found was that if moused was run by HAL or xorg or sysmouse, xorg has that long delay switching to graphics. Hmm.. yes, of course, no usbd. I'm so stupid. moused seems to be run automatically by... devd? At least the mouse is available on the text mode consoles, this is what I usually associated with moused run by usbd. But I'm new to FreeBSD 7, I used FreeBSD 5 until it died. With moused enabled in /etc/rc.conf, the xorg switch to graphics is back to normal. I've put in these settings moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/ums0 moused_type=auto and I'll check soon. Again, thanks for the clear advice. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Polytropon wrote: With moused enabled in /etc/rc.conf, the xorg switch to graphics is back to normal. I've put in these settings moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/ums0 moused_type=auto and I'll check soon. Again, thanks for the clear advice. On the I haven't really been clear note, I should also add that it might take a reboot. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Polytropon wrote: The reason why I ask: I've been using FreeBSD 5 and XFree86 4 for many years happily, my ATI Radeon 9000 RV250 had excellent driver support, 3D no problems. Since I was forced to upgrade to FreeBSD 7 due to a massive data loss, I have problems with Xorg 7. When X is started, it takes several seconds for the display to initialize - such an amount of time that the monitor switches off (no signal). I found that not having moused enabled made for slow switches to X with xorg: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=55740+0+archive/2008/freebsd-x11/20080727.freebsd-x11 Setting moused_enable=Y in /etc/rc.conf cured it. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Gurvich wrote: Using Xfree86 is possible but may require much manual configuration. I also have problems with firefox and claws-mail in windowmaker icewm, but not in kde3 or kde4. I suspect there is a library path issue. I was doing some experimentation, so I downloaded the xfree86 code to look it over. I was interested, so I went ahead and made the very minimal changes I wanted in the site.def (I dislike FreeBSD's default of having X installed into /usr/local) and it built perfectly well. It actually took significantly less time to compile than Xorg (the build.sh method I used with Xorg does all that autoconf stuff, takes forever). There are probably faster methods to use for the Xorg build, like, they support jhbuild. Xfree86 only supports imake, which is pretty fast, but a lot of folks find it hard to understand. I understand imake, but can't really track the jhbuild. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkixiNgACgkQz62J6PPcoOmE1ACfW4/2bn+X8twXuXweCLtYi/Zm jSIAn2YRg/WNJ17hCf+kcedNQpt6lUlO =pXh1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:16:16 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found that not having moused enabled made for slow switches to X with xorg: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=55740+0+archive/2008/freebsd-x11/20080727.freebsd-x11 Setting moused_enable=Y in /etc/rc.conf cured it. I have moused enabled (in fact, via usbd), Sun Type 6 USB mouse. This is because I like to use the mouse marking and copying functionality (middle mouse button) on text mode consoles. But still interesting... and strange... -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:16:16 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found that not having moused enabled made for slow switches to X with xorg: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=55740+0+archive/2008/freebsd-x11/20080727.freebsd-x11 Setting moused_enable=Y in /etc/rc.conf cured it. I have moused enabled (in fact, via usbd), I thought usbd was gone. The difference I found was that if moused was run by HAL or xorg or sysmouse, xorg has that long delay switching to graphics. With moused enabled in /etc/rc.conf, the xorg switch to graphics is back to normal. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
First of all, thanks for the quick reply. On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:23:34 +, Christopher Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you could open your Xorg config file, and put in specific variables in there for the graphic mode you use. This would cut down on auto detection scripts. I don't have auto detection for regular X init. I did this only one time to see the new layout of xorg.conf, then put everything in it manually (e. g. Screen, Keyboard, Device Card0, Card1). This brings up another problem: With FreeBSD 5 + XFree86 my monitor, Eizo FlexScan F980 21 CRT, could have 1400x1050; that's not possible anymore with FreeBSD 7 + Xorg, only 1152x864 is available, even if I force certain modes (PrefferedMode and ModeLines), in this case the system isn't accessible anymore, and the screen shows a complete nonsense dimension (1200x600 or so). So my xorg.conf settings are completely standard stuff. I've played with xrandr and even got the desired mode for one time, but with a virtual screen (content scrolls). % xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1152 x 864, maximum 1400 x 1050 VGA-0 connected 1152x864+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1152x864 75.0*+ 1400x1050 74.8 60.0 1280x1024 85.0 75.0 60.0 1280x960 85.0 60.0 1152x768 54.8 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0 832x62474.6 800x60085.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x48085.0 72.8 75.0 59.9 720x40085.0 640x40085.1 640x35085.1 DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) % xvidtune Vendor: EIZO, Model: FlexScan F980 Num hsync: 1, Num vsync: 1 hsync range 0: 30.00 - 137.00 vsync range 0: 50.00 - 160.00 % gears libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x6b 2101 frames in 5.001 seconds = 420.116 FPS 2846 frames in 5.000 seconds = 569.200 FPS 3000 frames in 5.000 seconds = 600.000 FPS % geartrain libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x6b 1226 frames in 5.002 seconds = 245.102 FPS 1238 frames in 5.002 seconds = 247.501 FPS 1224 frames in 5.003 seconds = 244.653 FPS % gearbox libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x6b 147 frames in 5.029 seconds = 29.230 FPS 168 frames in 5.015 seconds = 33.500 FPS 168 frames in 5.019 seconds = 33.473 FPS Are these values realistic? In the hand book it tells you how to configure the X server. But I am only giving a suggestion on this, not fact. I did follow the handbook. X runs fine, but slow, read: it worked much faster before. I really do not think your hardware is the problem, but rather the configuration. I'm just asking because... it worked with XFree86, why can't it work the same way with Xorg? I update my software to make things faster, not slower. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 instead of Xorg?
Using Xfree86 is possible but may require much manual configuration. I also have problems with firefox and claws-mail in windowmaker icewm, but not in kde3 or kde4. I suspect there is a library path issue. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
Andrew P. wrote: On 1/13/06, offbyone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x? Look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf Nope, that is not it. Turns out the solution for this is a variable set in /etc/make.conf /usr/ports/UPDATING at 20040723 and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#WHICH-X point the way In the case of the problem system I was working on, X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 in /etc/make.conf solved it. - Jake ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
On 1/13/06, offbyone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem: Running FreeBSD_5.4-RELEASE with XFree86-4.5.0, there is a mis-match: the underlying o.s. and newly installed and upgraded ports expect X.org After portupgrade of an X-supported port, this mis-match shows up as stale dependency(ies) It's a bore repeatedly to point new and upgraded ports to XFree86-libraries-4.5.0, etc. (and there is no XFree86 component that corresponds directly to X.org-TrueType, or is there?) My questions: 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x? Look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf 1.) Is a better solution to bite the bullet, deinstall all XFree86 components and install X.org, since FreeBDS is 5.x? Sure. There's no debate about it whatsoever. You are also avdised to bite another bullet and upgrade to FreeBSD 6, it's a painless/seamless procedure now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:21, offbyone wrote: My problem: Running FreeBSD_5.4-RELEASE with XFree86-4.5.0, there is a mis-match: the underlying o.s. and newly installed and upgraded ports expect X.org After portupgrade of an X-supported port, this mis-match shows up as stale dependency(ies) It's a bore repeatedly to point new and upgraded ports to XFree86-libraries-4.5.0, etc. (and there is no XFree86 component that corresponds directly to X.org-TrueType, or is there?) My questions: 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x? 1.) Is a better solution to bite the bullet, deinstall all XFree86 components and install X.org, since FreeBDS is 5.x? (N.B. I do not want to start a flame over XFree86 vs. X.org. That's a too-old and pointless debate, and I have no inherent reason to prefer one over the other.) Thanks, very much. for more info, suggestions. Jake Jake, I am sorry I do not have an answer. but when I installed 5.4 not long ago it installed Xorg as the default from the iso. Did you update to 5.4 from an earlier version? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
Robert Slade wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:21, offbyone wrote: My problem: Running FreeBSD_5.4-RELEASE with XFree86-4.5.0, there is a mis-match: the underlying o.s. and newly installed and upgraded ports expect X.org After portupgrade of an X-supported port, this mis-match shows up as stale dependency(ies) It's a bore repeatedly to point new and upgraded ports to XFree86-libraries-4.5.0, etc. (and there is no XFree86 component that corresponds directly to X.org-TrueType, or is there?) My questions: 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x? 1.) Is a better solution to bite the bullet, deinstall all XFree86 components and install X.org, since FreeBDS is 5.x? (N.B. I do not want to start a flame over XFree86 vs. X.org. That's a too-old and pointless debate, and I have no inherent reason to prefer one over the other.) Thanks, very much. for more info, suggestions. Jake Jake, I am sorry I do not have an answer. but when I installed 5.4 not long ago it installed Xorg as the default from the iso. Did you update to 5.4 from an earlier version? Rob Yes, from 5.1-RELEASE on CD-ROM; cvsup to 5.4-STABLE and built from source. # uname -a is: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 5.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 #0: Sun Jan 8 15:26:20 CET 2006 X.org is included in the distribution, and I knew about the changed default. I just reflexively went with XFree86 during the install, out of long-established habit with FreeBSD. - Jake ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
Andrew P. wrote: On 1/13/06, offbyone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem: Running FreeBSD_5.4-RELEASE with XFree86-4.5.0, there is a mis-match: the underlying o.s. and newly installed and upgraded ports expect X.org After portupgrade of an X-supported port, this mis-match shows up as stale dependency(ies) It's a bore repeatedly to point new and upgraded ports to XFree86-libraries-4.5.0, etc. (and there is no XFree86 component that corresponds directly to X.org-TrueType, or is there?) My questions: 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x? Look at /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf 1.) Is a better solution to bite the bullet, deinstall all XFree86 components and install X.org, since FreeBDS is 5.x? Sure. There's no debate about it whatsoever. You are also avdised to bite another bullet and upgrade to FreeBSD 6, it's a painless/seamless procedure now. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew P. - Thanks for the reminder about pkgtools.conf. But about FreeBSD 6... I still see a lot of complaints of headaches from people using 6, here and on the -Stable mailing list, so I'm dubious. - Jake ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
On 1/13/06, offbyone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew P. - Thanks for the reminder about pkgtools.conf. But about FreeBSD 6... I still see a lot of complaints of headaches from people using 6, here and on the -Stable mailing list, so I'm dubious. The -stable mailing list has a purpose of diminishing the dubiousness, yet it has an opposite effect on some people. If you really feel uncertain because of it, I'd advise to unsubcribe. Besides, I'm not asking you to run -current or -stable and help community with any precious input. I just say that there was enough effort to make 6.0-RELEASE a better thing to run for almost all of us. My $.02 as always. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:21:54PM +0100, offbyone wrote: My problem: Running FreeBSD_5.4-RELEASE with XFree86-4.5.0, there is a mis-match: the underlying o.s. and newly installed and upgraded ports expect X.org After portupgrade of an X-supported port, this mis-match shows up as stale dependency(ies) It's a bore repeatedly to point new and upgraded ports to XFree86-libraries-4.5.0, etc. (and there is no XFree86 component that corresponds directly to X.org-TrueType, or is there?) My questions: 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x? 1.) Is a better solution to bite the bullet, deinstall all XFree86 components and install X.org, since FreeBDS is 5.x? (N.B. I do not want to start a flame over XFree86 vs. X.org. That's a too-old and pointless debate, and I have no inherent reason to prefer one over the other.) Thanks, very much. for more info, suggestions. See /usr/ports/UPDATING or the FAQ Kris pgpxM6WqbK6wb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:49:32PM +0100, offbyone wrote: Thanks for the reminder about pkgtools.conf. But about FreeBSD 6... I still see a lot of complaints of headaches from people using 6, here and on the -Stable mailing list, so I'm dubious. What about all the people you don't see complaining because it just works (or works better) for them? :-) Kris pgpONWOdP19pQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550
On Friday 17 of June 2005 01:42, Steven Friedrich wrote: -autoconfig didn't produce good results for me. I have a dualhead setup and it gave me only a single display. I invoked it by startx -- -autoconfig. Ah, I was wandering, because there were some improvements made to autoconfiguring but as it seems it's not entirely there yet. I also read the readme for mga and I can't really determine what the best config for my G550 is. Currently, I'm using Xinerama and it disables DRI on both heads. I don't know how to configure it for the DualHead Multi-Display - Merged feature the readme refers to. I believe that part of docs is only clarifying that on cards other than G450 and G550 you can't have dual head at all. I don't have an Matrox myself so I can't be of much more help I'm afraid. Dejan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550
Steve Friedrich wrote: I just cvsupped and used portupgrade for XFree86. I portupgraded imake first, then went thru each XFree86 component. I've been using a XFConfig file, but when I got this error, I tried startx -autoconfig When I startx, I get: (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Fatal server error: Some required symbols were unresolved Try this: grab these two files: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-HALlib_bindings.c http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-mga_driver.c Put them both in files directory of XFree86-4-Server port (/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files) and recompile and reinstall XFree86-4-Server port. Your XF86Config file from before should work fine. Are you perhaps using x11-servers/mga_hal? Dejan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:35:42 +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote: Steve Friedrich wrote: I just cvsupped and used portupgrade for XFree86. I portupgraded imake first, then went thru each XFree86 component. I've been using a XFConfig file, but when I got this error, I tried startx -autoconfig When I startx, I get: (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Fatal server error: Some required symbols were unresolved Try this: grab these two files: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-HALlib_bindings.c http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-mga_driver.c Put them both in files directory of XFree86-4-Server port (/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files) and recompile and reinstall XFree86-4-Server port. Your XF86Config file from before should work fine. Are you perhaps using x11-servers/mga_hal? Dejan not exactly. The instructions that I had previously had me using a couple files from Matrox, but to my knowledge, there wasn't a port for a server. Should I be using x11-servers/mga_hal ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550
On Thursday 16 of June 2005 13:30, Steve Friedrich wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:35:42 +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote: Steve Friedrich wrote: I just cvsupped and used portupgrade for XFree86. I portupgraded imake first, then went thru each XFree86 component. I've been using a XFConfig file, but when I got this error, I tried startx -autoconfig When I startx, I get: (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Fatal server error: Some required symbols were unresolved Try this: grab these two files: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-HALlib_bindings.c http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-mga_driver.c Put them both in files directory of XFree86-4-Server port (/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files) and recompile and reinstall XFree86-4-Server port. Your XF86Config file from before should work fine. Are you perhaps using x11-servers/mga_hal? Dejan not exactly. The instructions that I had previously had me using a couple files from Matrox, but to my knowledge, there wasn't a port for a server. Should I be using x11-servers/mga_hal ? x11-servers/mga_hal is most probably just a convenient way to install those files from Matrox, have a look at it. If those files were not binary and needed compilation, you'll have to recompile them after XFree upgrade. You could still need above patches and recompile of XFree-Server though. Dejan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550
On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:35 am, Dejan Lesjak wrote: Steve Friedrich wrote: I just cvsupped and used portupgrade for XFree86. I portupgraded imake first, then went thru each XFree86 component. I've been using a XFConfig file, but when I got this error, I tried startx -autoconfig When I startx, I get: (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Fatal server error: Some required symbols were unresolved Try this: grab these two files: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-HALlib_bindings.c http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-mga_driver.c Put them both in files directory of XFree86-4-Server port (/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files) and recompile and reinstall XFree86-4-Server port. Your XF86Config file from before should work fine. Are you perhaps using x11-servers/mga_hal? Dejan Those two files did the trick. Thanks. -- i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE There are 10 types of people in this world. Ones that understand binary and then, the others. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550
On Thursday 16 of June 2005 13:40, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:35 am, Dejan Lesjak wrote: Steve Friedrich wrote: I just cvsupped and used portupgrade for XFree86. I portupgraded imake first, then went thru each XFree86 component. I've been using a XFConfig file, but when I got this error, I tried startx -autoconfig When I startx, I get: (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Fatal server error: Some required symbols were unresolved Try this: grab these two files: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-HALlib_bindings.c http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-mga_driver.c Put them both in files directory of XFree86-4-Server port (/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files) and recompile and reinstall XFree86-4-Server port. Your XF86Config file from before should work fine. Are you perhaps using x11-servers/mga_hal? Dejan Those two files did the trick. Thanks. Great. I'll add them to port after a bit then. Out of curiosity, did you try -autoconfig again and if so, did it work for you? Thanks for report and testing the patches! Dejan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 port broke for Matrox G550
On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:55 am, Dejan Lesjak wrote: On Thursday 16 of June 2005 13:40, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:35 am, Dejan Lesjak wrote: Steve Friedrich wrote: I just cvsupped and used portupgrade for XFree86. I portupgraded imake first, then went thru each XFree86 component. I've been using a XFConfig file, but when I got this error, I tried startx -autoconfig When I startx, I get: (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Required symbol MGASetDisplayStart from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mg a_drv.o is unresolved! Fatal server error: Some required symbols were unresolved Try this: grab these two files: http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-HALlib_bindings.c http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xfree/mga/patch-mga_driver.c Put them both in files directory of XFree86-4-Server port (/usr/ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server/files) and recompile and reinstall XFree86-4-Server port. Your XF86Config file from before should work fine. Are you perhaps using x11-servers/mga_hal? Dejan Those two files did the trick. Thanks. Great. I'll add them to port after a bit then. Out of curiosity, did you try -autoconfig again and if so, did it work for you? Thanks for report and testing the patches! Dejan -autoconfig didn't produce good results for me. I have a dualhead setup and it gave me only a single display. I invoked it by startx -- -autoconfig. I also read the readme for mga and I can't really determine what the best config for my G550 is. Currently, I'm using Xinerama and it disables DRI on both heads. I don't know how to configure it for the DualHead Multi-Display - Merged feature the readme refers to. -- i386 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE There are 10 types of people in this world. Ones that understand binary and then, the others. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 server crash.
ENVIRONMENT. Compaq Presario sr1053wm. I can't provide log files at this point because freebsd works badly on my machine. DESCRIPTION --- I have installed freebsd 5.2.1 about 20 times with various options on my machine. The result is always the same. The XFree 86 server always crashes. THIS IS PROBABLY NOT DUE TO BAD DISKS. I have tried disks from two different sources, including the boxed set. I have also tried version 5.0. XFREE86 DOES WORK ON MY HARDWARE I also have Openbsd and Suse on the same machine. XFree86 works on both of these systems. (note I am using partition magic) I HAVE HAD SEVERAL PROBLEMS INSTALLING XFREE86. 1.. Xconfig reports and error and asks me if I want to try again. 2 ncursses doesn't work either. It didn't write a config file at all . 3. The script version wrote a config file but xfree86 still crashed. 4. Leaving x alone doesn't work either. 5. The computer hangs when I chose the exit install option. (unplugging first doesn't help). 6 I have tried several different configuration settings including all of the different ones suggested by the Compaq support staff.( they don't really know what is in their boxes ) All of the configuration settings that I have tried have been on the conservative side. WHERE ARE THE LOG FILES? My installation of Freebsd doesn't work well enough for me to send them. Programs like Mozilla don;t work. (probably needs x).. I have not been able to get FreeBSD to mount a foreign file system so I can't use Windows or Linux to send the logs. HOW TO REPEAT THE PROBLEM Try to install FreeBSD on a Presario sr1053wm. Good luck! DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW TO PROCEED? John .. .. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 cut the screen
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:41:36PM +, Dude Dude wrote: I've freebsd running in a box with 5.3, and when i startx, the X gives a big black margin, and cut my 17 screen. Only the default window manager dont do that, what i can do ?? Sounds like X could just be drawing the screen incorrectly for your monitor. That's inconsistent with the window manager having an effect on the phenomenon, though, so I could be way off base here, but I'm going to suggest that you try xvidtune and stretch your screen until it looks right. Afterwards, you can take the numbers shown by xvidtune and make an XFree86 modeline out of them if you need to. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) pgpnSH8hVudzv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86-4 port won't build under 5.3
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:32:16PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the problem: broker# cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 broker# make === XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of XFree86-4. broker# In other words, it prints this message and exits. I checked the port at the ports monitoring system (portsmon.firepipe.net) and this problem isn't listed. Does anyone know why this is happening, and what I can do about it? /usr/ports/UPDATING. Kris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 issue
Sound like it might be a syntax error. Did you edit the file? Make sure each Section has an EndSection. Generate a new file with XFree86 -configure and diff that file with /etc/X11/XF86Config. On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, digish reshamwala wrote: Hey, I installed the Xfree86 KDE desktop in my FreeBSD 5.2.1. But when I give startx command at the root promt to invoke Xfree I get the following message:- - XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.2.1 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 13 February 2004 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Fri Sep 24 15:40:19 2004 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/XF86Config At least one Device section is required. (EE) Problem parsing the config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I have pested my entire log file- Xfree86.0.log above. Please help me out to solve this problem. thanks, digish ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-4 config issue
Don't top-post, please. http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html digish reshamwala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After reducing the secure lever I was able to configure the XFree86 by using #XFree86 -configure then #cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config (Copying it in common location where XFree86 can find it) But afterthat, whenever I tried to start the X11 using #statrx the system simply froze?? Also when I tried to test the existing configuration by giving # XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new It simply frozes the OS??? Any idea whats wrong? Can u please suggest/help asap Look at the log files (in /var/log) that XFree86 is producing to see what *it* thinks is happening. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-4 config issue
digish reshamwala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 using by creating my own installation CD from the freeBSD5.2.1_disc1.iso image from the main ftp site for i386 system. Now, I am having trouble configuring XFree86-4, and: After building the X11 by using following commands- as root user # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 # make install clean When I tried to configure it using: # XFree86 -configure It gives me following error message- (i.e the XFree86.0.log file exculding comments) Fatal Server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended io Looks like you're running at a raised securelevel. If so, that would explain it; you can't open an X server in a raised securelevel (it is left as an exercise to the reader to explain why raw access to system memory and configuration registers are not considered compatible with raised security levels). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-4 config issue
Thanks a lot Lowell, After reducing the secure lever I was able to configure the XFree86 by using #XFree86 -configure then #cp XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config (Copying it in common location where XFree86 can find it) But afterthat, whenever I tried to start the X11 using #statrx the system simply froze?? Also when I tried to test the existing configuration by giving # XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new It simply frozes the OS??? Any idea whats wrong? Can u please suggest/help asap Macuser - Original Message - From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, September 17, 2004 1:24 pm Subject: Re: XFree86-4 config issue digish reshamwala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 using by creating my own installation CD from the freeBSD5.2.1_disc1.iso image from the main ftp site for i386 system. Now, I am having trouble configuring XFree86-4, and: After building the X11 by using following commands- as root user # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 # make install clean When I tried to configure it using: # XFree86 -configure It gives me following error message- (i.e the XFree86.0.log file exculding comments) Fatal Server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended io Looks like you're running at a raised securelevel. If so, that would explain it; you can't open an X server in a raised securelevel (it is left as an exercise to the reader to explain why raw access to system memory and configuration registers are not considered compatible with raised security levels). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Question
Oliver Gould wrote: Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13 HPA screen, Trident Cyberblade i7 video card)and I have not been able to find them anywhere. They are not in the online product manuals and the compaq support people have given me ranges that don't work after telling me the info doesn't exist. I have been guessing away and getting close. Is there some sort of autodetect utility? Is my hardware not supported? Thanks ahead of time, Oliver Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the same problem with my Gateway 200X -- scant information on the video display provided among the company's website documents and more than one call to tech support got me little more than I don't know and redirection to the Windows-based tools for autodetecting settings. In the end I simply used X --config and followed the directions to get a vanilla config. I've occasionally tweaked it when I run into a post somewhere talking about a feature that seems cool or relevant or I'm just feeling particularly brave that day. Start modest and consider it an ongoing project. You may also luck out and find some sample configs for your particular model at Linux For Laptops (google this) since the x configuration differs little between OSes. Hope that helps, EB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 -- next step?
Jay O'Brien wrote: I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that I can type X and get the expected grid and X mouse cursor. That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works. As a learning exercise, which Desktop environment should I install as a first effort, and how do I run it? Entirely up to you. GNOME and KDE are full featured desktop environments, and rather large builds; if you just have the hots to get started immediately, something smaller might be the thing; blackbox, fluxbox. Kind of middle ground might be XFCE or Enlightenment (and there are literally dozens of others...probably some that are quite good, but I've never tried and maybe not even heard of 'em...) Everything (as you're noticing) is highly configurable, so you learn how and where to do this, that, and the other to get things to look and work the way you want. Oh, and be sure and read the friendly manual. Some things there are real helpful when wading into X for the first time. (Or at least they were to me.) I'm referring to the FreeBSD Handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html Desktop Environments I intend to install Mozilla as a browser, in case that makes any difference. Not really. Unless you've slow hardware, etc. Mozilla will eat some resources, and if you're running a big DE (KDE or GNOME) and Mozilla and a few other apps on a Pentium II you might not get a very snappy response from your box... Also, what is the mechanism that interprets the X command to run XFree86? Well, startx(1) is a good one, though other ways exist. Something you might try as a first step. You must be root, of course: %cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/fluxbox %make install clean %cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla %make install clean Then, go to your HOME directory and edit or create .xinitrc. Start out simple, one line is all that's necessary: exec fluxbox Then, from the CLI console: %startx startx(1) reads a few files in your homedir, ending with .xinitrc, and then executes fluxbox (in this example) after starting the X Server. Blackbox/fluxbox, AFAICR, don't do iconification without additional tweaking (more programs). Use the right and middle mouse buttons to access pop up type menus. If you've got time, bandwidth, and machine to burn (CPU/RAM, etc.), you could go straight for one of the big DE's. I've never tried KDE, but I'm liking GNOME o.k. All you'd need in .xinitrc is exec gnome-session. Ports generally install some documentation in /usr/local/share/[portname], /usr/share/[portname], etc. These files are invaluable for learning the basics of getting up and running --- look for README or INSTALL, etc. Plus, most have a man page as well, as do all the system calls, if you will, listed above HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 -- next step?
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:28:13 -0700 Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that I can type X and get the expected grid and X mouse cursor. That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works. As a learning exercise, which Desktop environment should I install as a first effort, and how do I run it? I'm referring to the FreeBSD Handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html Desktop Environments I intend to install Mozilla as a browser, in case that makes any difference. Also, what is the mechanism that interprets the X command to run XFree86? Well any thing in ~/.xinitrc will be started when you run startx. If you are using xdm it will be ~/.xsession. Man xinit for more info. :) Here are a few fun places to start... http://xwinman.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/ports/x11.html browse till you find one that fits you and then install it and try it out. :) BTW if you are new to X and not found it yet X -configure and xf86cfg -textmode are your friend when creating a new config file for X :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Question
it was said: Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13 HPA screen, Trident Cyberblade i7 video card)and I have not been able to find them anywhere. They are not in the online product manuals and the compaq support people have given me ranges that don't work after telling me the info doesn't exist. I have been guessing away and getting close. Is there some sort of autodetect utility? Is my hardware not supported? Thanks ahead of time, Oliver Gould Hello, If you buy on ebay and hurry, this might have the information you need. Of course, you could email the seller and ask http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=6701264713 HTH, Stheg __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Question
it was said: Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13 HPA screen, Trident Cyberblade i7 video card)and I have not been able to find them anywhere. They are not in the online product manuals and the compaq support people have given me ranges that don't work after telling me the info doesn't exist. I have been guessing away and getting close. Is there some sort of autodetect utility? Is my hardware not supported? Thanks ahead of time, Oliver Gould Hi Oliver, I have just got over a similar problem on my first installation of freeBSD. My experience might help you. I reinstalled or started fBSD many many times without solving this horizontal/vertical problem. I wasnt too impressed either :). I think the difficulty came because I selected the first option in the Config X-server list (xf86cfg). I entered many variations of the horiz/vertical options because i could not find the sync rate information anywhere on the net for my kit. Nothing worked. Then i noticed someone recommended using the second option on the Config X-server list, xf86cfg - textmode. Using this method, I got through first time, and I just took a guess at the rates. I used 31.5-64.3 for horizontal and 50-70 for vertical. So for me, I think the real problem was that I was not using something that built the config file properly (or simply), ie I should have used xf86cfg - textmode from the start. I still dont know what the horizontal and vertical rates are for my kit, but it doesnt seem to matter now. Hope this helps Peter ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Question
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:04:43 -0700 Oliver Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13 HPA screen, Trident Cyberblade i7 video card)and I have not been able to find them anywhere. They are not in the online product manuals and the compaq support people have given me ranges that don't work after telling me the info doesn't exist. I have been guessing away and getting close. Is there some sort of autodetect utility? Is my hardware not supported? hello oliver, when i first installed X, i also was not able to locate any documentation covering the refresh rates for the LCD attached to my laptop. however, after much trial and error, i finally hit upon a working combination. i am writing with the hope that we can save you from this tedious process... if i am not mistaken, the xorg release (and even xfree86 4.4, i think) no longer needs an /etc/X11/xorg.conf. if you try to run X without, it should autodetect and load suitable settings. you can then, at your leisure, compile a working xorg.conf from the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log ...and guess what. when i tried this recently, i noticed that xorg detected and specified no horizontal or vertical refresh settings. yep, none. so much for all that time spent on trial and error. =] well, i'm not sure whether this is specific to 'my' hardware or whether it applies to LCD screens in general. regardless, given the minimal effort involved (renaming your .conf file), it is certainly worth a test. hope this helps. cheers, epi Thanks ahead of time, Oliver Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port (for Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics) - timescale?
* Owen.G [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 16:29 GMT]: I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? AFAIK the XFree86 4.4 ports are currently tested. On CURRENT the X.org ports are now the default, they should work with your VIA too. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
Cheers Tilman, I just checked again on Ports for 5.2-CURRENT/i386 and 5.2.1-RELEASE/i386: version = XFree86-4.3.0,1 True, www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/RELNOTES2.html#4 does say: 'Summary of new features in 4.4.0. A new driver for several VIA integrated graphics chipsets has been added.' and offers a source code download. I bought this PC so that, as a newbie, I don't twat the working copy of M$ on my other PC and to always have a working PC with a browser. CVSup and installing from ports is (only just) within my abilities (if nothing complains) - there's no way I'd be able to install from a tarball. Besides, isn't Ports the preferred installation medium for FreeBSD? So my question remains, how long for XFree86-4.4 in ports? 5.3-RELEASE/i386 perhaps? Is it also stupid of me to have a LCD monitor capable of only 1280x768 when the VIA driver documentation at www.xfree86.org says the VIA driver's display resolutions are: Option PanelSize string Specify the size (width x height) of the LCD panel attached to the system. Sizes 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1400x1050 are supported. Owen Tilman Linneweh wrote: * Owen.G [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 16:29 GMT]: I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? AFAIK the XFree86 4.4 ports are currently tested. On CURRENT the X.org ports are now the default, they should work with your VIA too. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:34:29 +0200 Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers Tilman, I just checked again on Ports for 5.2-CURRENT/i386 and 5.2.1-RELEASE/i386: version = XFree86-4.3.0,1 True, www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/RELNOTES2.html#4 does say: 'Summary of new features in 4.4.0. A new driver for several VIA integrated graphics chipsets has been added.' and offers a source code download. I bought this PC so that, as a newbie, I don't twat the working copy of M$ on my other PC and to always have a working PC with a browser. CVSup and installing from ports is (only just) within my abilities (if nothing complains) - there's no way I'd be able to install from a tarball. Besides, isn't Ports the preferred installation medium for FreeBSD? So my question remains, how long for XFree86-4.4 in ports? 5.3-RELEASE/i386 perhaps? Is it also stupid of me to have a LCD monitor capable of only 1280x768 when the VIA driver documentation at www.xfree86.org says the VIA driver's display resolutions are: Option PanelSize string Specify the size (width x height) of the LCD panel attached to the system. Sizes 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1400x1050 are supported. Owen Tilman Linneweh wrote: * Owen.G [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 16:29 GMT]: I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? AFAIK the XFree86 4.4 ports are currently tested. On CURRENT the X.org ports are now the default, they should work with your VIA too. There has been some sort of problem getting XFree86 4.4 into the ports. Not sure what. But Xorg should work if it was supported XFree86 4.4, since for all effective purposes XFree86 4.4 and Xorg whatever the current one is is the same thing... due to when the fork happened... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
OK, On www.x.org they say that the latest version of their X implementation is X11R6.7.0. I don't see it on the Ports page on FreeBSD.org. Is that because the ports page says: Last database update: 2004-07-16 08:54:22 UTC ? Owen Vulpes Velox wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:34:29 +0200 Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers Tilman, I just checked again on Ports for 5.2-CURRENT/i386 and 5.2.1-RELEASE/i386: version = XFree86-4.3.0,1 There has been some sort of problem getting XFree86 4.4 into the ports. Not sure what. But Xorg should work if it was supported XFree86 4.4, since for all effective purposes XFree86 4.4 and Xorg whatever the current one is is the same thing... due to when the fork happened... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
* Owen.G [Do, 29 Jul 2004 at 21:48 GMT]: I don't see it on the Ports page on FreeBSD.org. Is that because the ports page says: Last database update: 2004-07-16 08:54:22 UTC ? xorg metaport was committed on June 19. freshports.org is a very useful resource: http://www.freshports.org/x11/xorg regards tilman P.S. Please don't toppost. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port (for Chipset CLE266/VT8235 Graphics) - timescale?
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:29:31 +0200, Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also bought a EPIA Mini-ITX in early June before seeing the posting that the video wasn't supported by X on FreeBSD (Linux - supposedly yes, BSD not yet). The previous responder (thanks Erik) said, the CLE266 chipset will be supported in the port of XFree86 4.4 I just had a look at the FreeBSD Ports page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi and there's no sign of XFree86 4.4 yet. Questions: 1, Does anybody know the timescale of the port for XFree86 4.4? 2, Will the port of XFree86 4.4 be important enough that it will be announced on the freebsd-announce mailing list? (I did get an X windows manager running on the VGA S server but it was too low resolution to be useful.) Thanks in anticipation, You can also do this by using the driver from XFree86's binary packages for 4.4. Once you have XFree86-4 installed using the port, do a portupgrade of the -Server port using the 4.3.99 snapshot port: portupgrade -f -o x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap XFree86-Server Then you need to grab the via_drv.o file from the XFree86 binary package. I just installed the whole thing to a temp dir, then copied over the driver module. From XFree86.0.log: (II) LoadModule: via (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o (II) Module via: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 4.1.30 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.7 -Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 port - timescale?
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:48:43 +0200 Owen.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, On www.x.org they say that the latest version of their X implementation is X11R6.7.0. I don't see it on the Ports page on FreeBSD.org. That is the lastest version of Xorg, not XFree86. :P ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Config (continued)
Daniela said the following on 6/11/2004 6:39 PM: On Friday 11 June 2004 20:36, LW Ellis wrote: OK thanx to all the help, I think I'm getting close. I have a config file that works fineonly as long as I am signed in as root. KDE-Lite loads and works fine... However If I sign in as a user, I get a grey-green screen with some white windows. I put the config file in etc/X11/XF86Config. There maybe other copies somewhere, but I think I got most of them. Do I have the config file in the right place? Copy the file '.xinitrc' from root's home directory to the respective user's home directory. This is because every user can have his own desktop, so every user will have to specify one in order not to get the default one. It's also possible to set a system-wide default, but I've never done this. Ack.. I knew it was .xsomething ;) G. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 configure question
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:05, LW Ellis wrote: Having some difficulty setting up the XFree86 Server. I did like it said in the handbook, but when I ee XF86Config.new, I get a blank file. If I use the configure tool in the sysinstall, it fails to save the file. I am logged on as 'root' The first thing I would do before trying to configure your XFree86 Server is to find out exactly what Video card( Part 2 ) you are using. You can do this usually by going through your system message buffer from kernel startup. Edit the file /var/run/dmesg.boot and look for information which would indicate your VGA chipset, it usually starts with pci0: In some cases where your Video card is not recognised by the kernel you may need to identify the chipset in another way. Try opening the computer and looking at the chipset on the video card itself. Once you have this information you can then run the command xf86config from the command line, it is usually located in /usr/X11R6/bin. If you lucky your card will be automatically detected otherwise you will manually have to put in the options. After running through the configuration check the XF86Config file it creates and adjust if necessary to your liking. Also, take a look at the FAQ's regarding the X Window System which can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: XFree86 configure question
On Friday 11 June 2004 12:14, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:05, LW Ellis wrote: Having some difficulty setting up the XFree86 Server. I did like it said in the handbook, but when I ee XF86Config.new, I get a blank file. If I use the configure tool in the sysinstall, it fails to save the file. I am logged on as 'root' The first thing I would do before trying to configure your XFree86 Server is to find out exactly what Video card( Part 2 ) you are using. You can do this usually by going through your system message buffer from kernel startup. Edit the file /var/run/dmesg.boot and look for information which would indicate your VGA chipset, it usually starts with pci0: In some cases where your Video card is not recognised by the kernel you may need to identify the chipset in another way. Try opening the computer and looking at the chipset on the video card itself. What he said about the video card, but you also want the specs for your monitor. Specificaly you need the horizontal and vertical synch rranges or the frequencies the monitor can do. Otherwise you risk blowing the monitor. And no one wants that. Really you need to know what video card you're running and, idealy, how much VRAM it's got, and the specs for your monitor. -- We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. -- Dana Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 configure question
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Matt Navarre wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 12:14, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:05, LW Ellis wrote: Having some difficulty setting up the XFree86 Server. I did like it said in the handbook, but when I ee XF86Config.new, I get a blank file. If I use the configure tool in the sysinstall, it fails to save the file. I am logged on as 'root' The first thing I would do before trying to configure your XFree86 Server is to find out exactly what Video card( Part 2 ) you are using. You can do this usually by going through your system message buffer from kernel startup. Edit the file /var/run/dmesg.boot and look for information which would indicate your VGA chipset, it usually starts with pci0: In some cases where your Video card is not recognised by the kernel you may need to identify the chipset in another way. Try opening the computer and looking at the chipset on the video card itself. What he said about the video card, but you also want the specs for your monitor. Specificaly you need the horizontal and vertical synch rranges or the frequencies the monitor can do. Otherwise you risk blowing the monitor. And no one wants that. Really you need to know what video card you're running and, idealy, how much VRAM it's got, and the specs for your monitor. Cant help with the monitor but I use the vesa kernel module and that give VESA: v3.0, 16384k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc0888c62 (122) VESA: NVidia in my dmesg when i boot so you can try kldload vesa and check the output with dmesg. might help. -- We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. -- Dana Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 configure question
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:05:25AM -0600, LW Ellis wrote: Thanx to some great people out there I have FreeBSD runningYea! Having some difficulty setting up the XFree86 Server. I did like it said in the handbook, but when I ee XF86Config.new, I get a blank file. If I use the configure tool in the sysinstall, it fails to save the file. I am logged on as 'root' Part 2 This computer is 3rd handme down... I found the screen resolution, Horizontal and vertical KHZ but nothing on the video adapter chipset or memory. Where do I go from here. Thanx in advance. Later, Leon A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Sir Winston Churchill For the past year or two I have found it much easier to let X create a base config file and then to manually make small changes to it that are necessary. Assuming you are using X v4.x, you can do this by running the command: # XFree86 -configure This command will cause X to try to identify your video card, monitor and possibly the mouse, and will write out a suitable base configuration file to /root/XF86Config.new. It could easily be that this file as is will work for you. Simply copy or move it over to /etc/X11/XF86Config and then try to launch X. Then tweak the file as necessary. You may have to manually set the resolution to something acceptable. Nathan pgpOdLdiNHcfw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86 Config (continued)
OK I copied the .xsession to /home/'username' directory. I still get the greygreen screen with white windows. I looked in the .xsession file and all it says it startkde. If I enter startkde, it tells me in can't start xserver. Leon In ~root look for .xsession or .xstart They're text files--just make sure you have one of those in your user's homedir... G. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Config (continued)
On Friday 11 June 2004 20:36, LW Ellis wrote: OK thanx to all the help, I think I'm getting close. I have a config file that works fineonly as long as I am signed in as root. KDE-Lite loads and works fine... However If I sign in as a user, I get a grey-green screen with some white windows. I put the config file in etc/X11/XF86Config. There maybe other copies somewhere, but I think I got most of them. Do I have the config file in the right place? Copy the file '.xinitrc' from root's home directory to the respective user's home directory. This is because every user can have his own desktop, so every user will have to specify one in order not to get the default one. It's also possible to set a system-wide default, but I've never done this. Daniela ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Config (continued)
On Friday 11 June 2004 20:36, LW Ellis wrote: OK thanx to all the help, I think I'm getting close. I have a config file that works fineonly as long as I am signed in as root. KDE-Lite loads and works fine... However If I sign in as a user, I get a grey-green screen with some white windows. I put the config file in etc/X11/XF86Config. There maybe other copies somewhere, but I think I got most of them. Do I have the config file in the right place? Copy the file '.xinitrc' from root's home directory to the respective user's home directory. This is because every user can have his own desktop, so every user will have to specify one in order not to get the default one. It's also possible to set a system-wide default, but I've never done this. To make it a system-wide default which can be overridden by each user, put a copy of the .xinitrc mentioned above in; /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/ but leave off the leading dot '.' Anyway, if you put it in the above directory, it is the default if the user doesn't make their own. If they make their own and put it in their home directory, their own overrides the default. Something like that anyway. I think you can also put the default in etc/X11/ but I am not sure about that. jerry Daniela ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 help...
Michal Pasternak wrote: hitokiri [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:51:55PM -0500]: Alright, so I recently migrated to FreeBSD and had some trouble configuring the network. I got that problem fixed for the most part now as the internet works, except when I go into X. About a minute after I get into X, my internet stops working, and I have to restart the whole computer to get it back up again. I have absolutely no clue as to what the problem might be, or how to solve it. Any suggestions? Suggestions? Here you go. Perhaps tell us more about your network configuration, tell us how does the internet stops working (can you ping anyone on LAN? what about external interface?), also tell us about your X configuration (eg. which environment / WM do you use), place .xinit and /var/log/XFree86.log.0 somewhere on the web, so we could see it. Also a dmseg and a copy of rc.conf might help. ifconfig will show what is going on with your network card. You should never have to restart your whole computer, sounds like it could be a config, or more likely a hardware problem. Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 help...
hitokiri [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:51:55PM -0500]: Alright, so I recently migrated to FreeBSD and had some trouble configuring the network. I got that problem fixed for the most part now as the internet works, except when I go into X. About a minute after I get into X, my internet stops working, and I have to restart the whole computer to get it back up again. I have absolutely no clue as to what the problem might be, or how to solve it. Any suggestions? Suggestions? Here you go. Perhaps tell us more about your network configuration, tell us how does the internet stops working (can you ping anyone on LAN? what about external interface?), also tell us about your X configuration (eg. which environment / WM do you use), place .xinit and /var/log/XFree86.log.0 somewhere on the web, so we could see it. -- m ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 problem?
Schizik wrote: Hello! This is output from top As you may notice XFree86 ate 331Mb memory. After some time it will die after swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed This happens daily, after about 8-10 hours of work. System is 5.2-CURRENT (as of 14-May), same behaviour was on 5.2.1-R 4.8-R worked fine --- Mem: 87M Active, 6896K Inact, 36M Wired, 6936K Cache, 28M Buf, 43M Free Swap: 384M Total, 362M Used, 22M Free, 94% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 1845 root 960 331M 29524K select 24:27 2.44% 2.44% XFree86 1936 lesha 960 26344K 7884K select 0:27 0.29% 0.29% kdeinit 1912 lesha 960 27864K 11360K select 4:43 0.15% 0.15% kdeinit 610 root 960 1208K68K select 1:41 0.05% 0.05% moused 2640 lesha 960 49588K 18920K select 3:55 0.00% 0.00% firefox-bin --- Any tips will be much appreciated. Alex. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . You might want to consider asking the current folks. Might be a bug in FreeBSD which is causing this. Jorn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Install Monitor and Card for Sony Laptop?
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:15:09 -0400 Craig Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: During the initial SYSINSTALL setup of Xfree86 on my Sony VAIO PCG-FRV27 laptop under FreeBSD 4.9, the setup goes through the configuration menus, then says it failed and do I want to try again. I exited SYSINSTALL and ran the config option on XFree86, finding out that the generated log shows that its erroring out on the Monitor/Video Card initialization. I can't find a monitor in the database that matches my ATI Radion IGP345M PCI monitor, and none of the display settings specifically match my 800/600 60 hz + 1028/768 60 hz setting. One display setting had 800/600 76 hz + 1028/768 60 hz setting, and that was the closest one so I tried it. I also tried VGA as the monitor, but it stilled failed. What monitor, card and display settings should use? Sony should have specification information on their website, note down specifically the vert and horizontal frequencies and the graphic adaptor make and model and you should be OK to go. It is unlikely that you will get the settings correct first time without this exact information. HTH LukeK -- Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 March 2004 20:22, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: Hmm. This is distressing, as I've discovered since posting my original message not long ago that my video card (ATI Mobility FireGL T2) is not supported in 4.3, but is supported in 4.4. Try installing the latest version of the XFree86 server snapshot, which is located in the ports. I am using it (well, not the most current yet, but a slightly older version, I haven't done the upgrade to the most current) with much success with my ATI Radeon 9200. - -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAasdGqUvQmqp7omYRAoReAJ974glkxx/CBdrkQ1cAYeXsoS/gKwCdEhW8 sUTdrt56H1Y6kIqL2/RNlog= =uupA -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:03:19PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm about to install FreeBSD on a new computer, and was looking over the release notes for XFree86 in preparation and discovered that the Current release is 4.4. Though I don't think I actively need any of the features of version 4.4, I do wonder why it hasn't made it into the Ports system yet. It's been out for a month, and there are FreeBSD binaries on the XFree86 site. There doesn't seem to have been much discussion of it here. Are there any specific problems with 4.4, or is it just a big job to port it and deal with dependencies? The latter. Hmm. This is distressing, as I've discovered since posting my original message not long ago that my video card (ATI Mobility FireGL T2) is not supported in 4.3, but is supported in 4.4. How grim a job is it going to be to handle the X setup manually, and how badly will I get screwed every time I try to install a new X-based app? Why are you concerned about 4.3 or 4.4? The most recent release in the 4.xxx track is 4.9. Download it and install (buy the CD set).The most recent release in the 5.xxx track for the more adventurous is 5.2.1 and 5.3 is coming soon. Unless you have some really odd application that can't be updated to run on a more recent version, don't even consider anything older than 4.9 or 5.2.1 (those are effectively different tracks - 4.xxx is the stable track right now and 5.xxx is the development [read experimental] track right now. As 5.xxx finishes cleaning up, it will become the stable track - soon, but not yet). jerry Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
Why are you concerned about 4.3 or 4.4? I think they were discussing XFree86, not FreeBSD. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:46:09AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:03:19PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm about to install FreeBSD on a new computer, and was looking over the release notes for XFree86 in preparation and discovered that the Current release is 4.4. Though I don't think I actively need any of the features of version 4.4, I do wonder why it hasn't made it into the Ports system yet. It's been out for a month, and there are FreeBSD binaries on the XFree86 site. There doesn't seem to have been much discussion of it here. Are there any specific problems with 4.4, or is it just a big job to port it and deal with dependencies? The latter. Hmm. This is distressing, as I've discovered since posting my original message not long ago that my video card (ATI Mobility FireGL T2) is not supported in 4.3, but is supported in 4.4. How grim a job is it going to be to handle the X setup manually, and how badly will I get screwed every time I try to install a new X-based app? Why are you concerned about 4.3 or 4.4? The most recent release in the 4.xxx track is 4.9. Download it and install (buy the CD set).The most recent release in the 5.xxx track for the more adventurous is 5.2.1 and 5.3 is coming soon. The discussion was about the latest release of XFree86, which is indeed 4.4 while XFree86 4.3 is what is included in the FreeBSD ports collection. The FreeBSD version numbers that you mention are irrelevant to this discussion. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
I'm about to install FreeBSD on a new computer, and was looking over the release notes for XFree86 in preparation and discovered that the Current release is 4.4. Though I don't think I actively need any of the features of version 4.4, I do wonder why it hasn't made it into the Ports system yet. It's been out for a month, and there are FreeBSD binaries on the XFree86 site. There doesn't seem to have been much discussion of it here. Are there any specific problems with 4.4, or is it just a big job to port it and deal with dependencies? The latter. Hmm. This is distressing, as I've discovered since posting my original message not long ago that my video card (ATI Mobility FireGL T2) is not supported in 4.3, but is supported in 4.4. How grim a job is it going to be to handle the X setup manually, and how badly will I get screwed every time I try to install a new X-based app? Why are you concerned about 4.3 or 4.4? The most recent release in the 4.xxx track is 4.9. Download it and install (buy the CD set).The most recent release in the 5.xxx track for the more adventurous is 5.2.1 and 5.3 is coming soon. The discussion was about the latest release of XFree86, which is indeed 4.4 while XFree86 4.3 is what is included in the FreeBSD ports collection. The FreeBSD version numbers that you mention are irrelevant to this discussion. Oops. You are right. Sorry. Too early in the morning I guess. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm about to install FreeBSD on a new computer, and was looking over the release notes for XFree86 in preparation and discovered that the Current release is 4.4. Though I don't think I actively need any of the features of version 4.4, I do wonder why it hasn't made it into the Ports system yet. It's been out for a month, and there are FreeBSD binaries on the XFree86 site. There doesn't seem to have been much discussion of it here. Are there any specific problems with 4.4, or is it just a big job to port it and deal with dependencies? The latter. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86 4.4 in FreeBSD?
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:03:19PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 08:59:42PM -0500, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm about to install FreeBSD on a new computer, and was looking over the release notes for XFree86 in preparation and discovered that the Current release is 4.4. Though I don't think I actively need any of the features of version 4.4, I do wonder why it hasn't made it into the Ports system yet. It's been out for a month, and there are FreeBSD binaries on the XFree86 site. There doesn't seem to have been much discussion of it here. Are there any specific problems with 4.4, or is it just a big job to port it and deal with dependencies? The latter. Hmm. This is distressing, as I've discovered since posting my original message not long ago that my video card (ATI Mobility FireGL T2) is not supported in 4.3, but is supported in 4.4. How grim a job is it going to be to handle the X setup manually, and how badly will I get screwed every time I try to install a new X-based app? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:41:08AM +0300, ZaiD Dashti wrote: why when i write startx my computer hangs ? whatis the problem ? I guess your X windows is incorrectly configured. However, my crystal ball is on the blink and I never was very good at extra sensory perception, so I'm not going to be able to tell you much more than that without a great deal more detail about symptoms -- what exactly do you see when the system hangs? What exactly did you do to try and configure things and so forth. Consult this article for guidance: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Some good things to check out: try looking at the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file -- there's usually some indication in there of what has gone wrong. Get hold of the manuals for your monitor and your video card and make sure that the HorizSync and VertRefresh frequency range settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config are within spec for both (look for the 'Section Monitor' stuff). Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:02:10 +, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:41:08AM +0300, ZaiD Dashti wrote: why when i write startx my computer hangs ? whatis the problem ? I guess your X windows is incorrectly configured. I have found this article to be a helpful tutorial: URL: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/21/FreeBSD_Basics.html HTH, Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-Clients port problem
Errr... never mind, figured it out myself. Something screwed XFree86-libraries up and deleted libXftont. Forcing a reinstall of the libs fixed it. On Saturday 20 March 2004 17:14, Matt Navarre wrote: I was trying to upgrade some stuff via portupgrade and the build of XFree86-Clients failed looking for -lXfont, here's the error from make: cc -o bdftopcf -O -pipe -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib bdftopcf.o -lXfont -lfntstubs -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lz -lm -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs/bdftopcf. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade75214.0 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11/XFree86-4-clients (XFree86-clients-4.3.0_1) (linker error) Here's my uname -a: FreeBSD reichlieu.lan 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #1: Sat Mar 6 12:52:18 PST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/REICHLIEU i386 I cvsuped my ports tree earlier today, but this has been broken since at least last night. Any one know how to fix this or should I file a PR about this? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://badstateofgruntledness.blogspot.com it was a hard sell, since he's a database person, and as far as I've seen, once those database worms eat into your brain, it's hard to ever get anything practical done again. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. - jwz ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-4.2.0 ?
* RJ45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-18 07:53]: Hello, where could I find binaries of XFree86-4.2.0 ? actually this is the only one XFree version 4 working on my Alpha architecture (XP1000) but on the FreeBSD main site I Cannot find packages other than 4.3.0 or how can I import in the ports a older 4.2.0 version of XFree instead of newer 4.3.0 ? thanks Rick You can download the source code from http://xfree86.org/downloads.html HTH, -- Joshua No problem is insoluble. -- Dr. Janet Wallace, The Deadly Years, stardate 3479.4 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-4.2.0 ?
I know but it is a pain in the ass. The source code without FreeBSD/alpha specific patches is pretty unusable Rick On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Joshua Lokken wrote: * RJ45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-18 07:53]: Hello, where could I find binaries of XFree86-4.2.0 ? actually this is the only one XFree version 4 working on my Alpha architecture (XP1000) but on the FreeBSD main site I Cannot find packages other than 4.3.0 or how can I import in the ports a older 4.2.0 version of XFree instead of newer 4.3.0 ? thanks Rick You can download the source code from http://xfree86.org/downloads.html HTH, -- Joshua No problem is insoluble. -- Dr. Janet Wallace, The Deadly Years, stardate 3479.4 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-4.2.0 ?
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:42:14 -0700 (MST) RJ45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know but it is a pain in the ass. The source code without FreeBSD/alpha specific patches is pretty unusable No clue about how to go about using it, what about portdowngrade in the sysutil dir? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.4.0 - when
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:34:21PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: I'm not sure if this is the appropriate list to ask or not, but, does anyone have a rough idea when XFree86 4.4.0 will be committed to the ports tree? I've got an nVidia AGP card that is supported in 4.3.99 and 4.4.0 Generally it's best to ask the port maintainer, which in this case is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- or in other words, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. There is a test version of some 4.3.99 server code in ports -- see x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86 4.4.0 - when
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:50:21AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:34:21PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: I'm not sure if this is the appropriate list to ask or not, but, does anyone have a rough idea when XFree86 4.4.0 will be committed to the ports tree? I've got an nVidia AGP card that is supported in 4.3.99 and 4.4.0 Generally it's best to ask the port maintainer, which in this case is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- or in other words, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. There is a test version of some 4.3.99 server code in ports -- see x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap. Thank you very much. -- Regards, Doug ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: XFree86 configuration
I always configure X with the xf86config program. Might be a bit basic, but it gets the job done. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carvalho Paulo Sent: 13 January 2004 09:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XFree86 configuration Hello everyone, I just installed FreeBSD 4.9, and when I try to cofigure X through sysinstall it gives an error message in the end. The messege says that an error has ocurred and asks if I want to try again. I tried several times and then gave up. What I want to know is if there is any way that I can know what went wrong so that I can do it right. The error message does not give any clue as to what hapened. Thanks in advance for taking time to read this message and for a possible reply. Paulo de Carvalho. __ Conheça a nova central de informações anti-spam do Yahoo! Mail: http://www.yahoo.com.br/antispam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: ' Aan de inhoud van dit bericht kunnen alleen rechten ten opzichte van Interpay Nederland B.V. of aan haar gelieerde ondernemingen worden ontleend, indien zij door rechtsgeldig ondertekende stukken worden ondersteund. De informatie in dit e-mailbericht is van vertrouwelijke aard en alleen bedoeld voor gebruik door de geadresseerde. Als u een bericht onbedoeld heeft ontvangen, wordt u verzocht de verzender hiervan in kennis te stellen en het bericht te vernietigen zonder van de inhoud kennis te nemen, deze te vermenigvuldigen of andersoortig te gebruiken.' An English version of this disclaimer is available on http://www.interpay.nl/disclaimerenglish ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 configuration
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 02:31 am, Carvalho Paulo wrote: Hello everyone, I just installed FreeBSD 4.9, and when I try to cofigure X through sysinstall it gives an error message in the end. The messege says that an error has ocurred and asks if I want to try again. I tried several times and then gave up. What I want to know is if there is any way that I can know what went wrong so that I can do it right. The error message does not give any clue as to what hapened. Thanks in advance for taking time to read this message and for a possible reply. Paulo de Carvalho. I stopped using the X configuration utilities in favor of 'XFree86 -configure' to let XFree86 make its best guess at my hardware. It creates a configuration file under /root/ for review and modification. There are directions at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Desktop installation
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) If you have the time, patience and disk space, you could: for gnome: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean for kde: # cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 # make install clean Or just install the packages (will fetch from the ftp servers) # pkg_add -r kde or # pkg_add -r gnome2 hth Gautam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Desktop installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) If you have the time, patience and disk space, you could: for gnome: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean for kde: # cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 # make install clean Or just install the packages (will fetch from the ftp servers) # pkg_add -r kde or # pkg_add -r gnome2 And then, after they're installed put the following in ~/.xinitrc: exec start-kde, if you want KDE or exec gnome-session, if you want Gnome. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Desktop installation
Gautam and Bernard, Thank you for your instant help. I will try that as soon :) Cheers, Mazen On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:04:48AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I already configured the XFree86 on my FreeBSD system and I want to run the KDE or Gnome desktop applications. How is this possible. I appreciate your help. Totally newbie here :) If you have the time, patience and disk space, you could: for gnome: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean for kde: # cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 # make install clean Or just install the packages (will fetch from the ftp servers) # pkg_add -r kde or # pkg_add -r gnome2 And then, after they're installed put the following in ~/.xinitrc: exec start-kde, if you want KDE or exec gnome-session, if you want Gnome. -- Cheers, Bernard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xfree86 install on 5.1
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:18:30 -0500, Chris Neustrup wrote: I recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 on my thinkpad. When this worked OK, I tried to upgrade to the newest XFree86 4.30.x It filed due to patch mismatches. As I tried other earlier flavors of 4.X it never worked cleanly. Does anyone have a suggestion to get a stable 3.X X server running again? All things considered, I think it'd be much more worth your while to determine the reason for your XFree86 4.x problems. When you tried to install X, did you work from an updated ports tree? Also note that 5.2 is due out next month. There's always the chance that, if your problems are actually related to bugs, that they will be fixed in the next release. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xfree86 install on 5.1
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:18:30AM -0500, Chris Neustrup wrote: I recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.1 on my thinkpad. When this worked OK, I tried to upgrade to the newest XFree86 4.30.x It filed due to patch mismatches. As I tried other earlier flavors of 4.X it never worked cleanly. Does anyone have a suggestion to get a stable 3.X X server running again? Any reason why you're not curious about why you saw the problem in the first place? It sounds like you have stale files in your ports collection, probably by upgrading via cvsup without first adopting your ports collection as described in the cvsup FAQ on www.polstra.com. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86
Salut, [EMAIL PROTECTED] est une liste d'expression anglaise. Please use a french-speaking list instead] Bonjour, Je ne parviens pas à faire un startx Si startx marche pour 'root', mais pas pour un autre, il est necessaire d'utiliser Xwrapper-4. Par example: startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper-4 -depth 16 Pb: Ne parviens pas à configurer Xfree86. Le programme /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config genere un ficher XF86Config qu'il faut copier sur /etc/XF86Config Qqn peut-il m'aider ? Pouvez vous specifier le probleme de facon plus precise? Nico -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 from scratch/ports?
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 11:05 am, Minnesota Slinky wrote: Hello again, Where is the appropriate procedure for getting XFree86 installed from ports, with startx and everything working? I didn't install X with my base install, and this is the first time I've tried straight from ports. Please point me in the right direction... If you have a 5.1 CD, you can mount /cdrom cd /cdrom/packages/All pkg_add XFree86-4.3.0,1.tbz pkg_add kde-3.1.2.tbz The meta-ports take care of adding everything for you. You have to xf86cfg and, in my case, add exec startkde to .xinitrc. I didn't consider the xdm enviroment a window and decided to use KDE. I want my login startup to be a cli and I do a startx to fire up kde. There are other choices. I don't remember where I read about the .xinitrc. There is a KDE FAQ that includes how to start KDE but it is mostly in Linux terms. That becomes a bootstrap problem. You have to have KDE running to find out about the FAQ. The www.kde.org probably has something but you have to know about the URL and that is another bootstrap problem. If you want to use gnome, I can't comment. I liked KDE and haven't tried gnome. You could build everything from /usr/ports but I think of that as a follow up project after you get your environment working. I can't imagine doing a initial system install using installkernel and installworld and think of a port make install to be equally slow logic. I usually have a system listening to an Internet radio station and if more than 2 songs play during the install, I think I did something wrong. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 difficulties
Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be useful it you would post the config file... but it sounds like you may have the refresh rates set up improperly. If you mean the XF86Config file, here are the relevant parts on the monitor and card: Section Monitor Identifier Primary Monitor VendorName Unknown ModelName Unknown HorizSync 31.5,35.15,35.5 VertRefresh 55-90 Modeline 1024x768 44.90 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 interlace Modeline 800x60036.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 Modeline 640x48025.18 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 EndSection Section Device Identifier Primary Card VendorName Unknown BoardName ATI Rage 128 (generic) #Option no_accel #Option sw_cursor #Option hw_cursor #Option dac_8_bit #Option dac_6_bit EndSection Any suggestions what to do from here? I've tried several things and I'm pretty much stuck at this point. Does anyone actually have this type of hardware and currently have it up and running with X? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 difficulties
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:38:29 -0500 (EST) LM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out if I can get X running on my system and could use some help. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 128, AGP card with 32MB. I also recently purchased a Sony SDM-X72 TFT LCD Color Monitor with specs of: Horizontol Freq: 28-92kHz Vertical Freq:56-85Hz Max Resolution: 1280x1024 I tried configuring XFree86 through /stand/sysinstall. Found suggestions in the Usenet Newsgroups to set the card as ATI Rage 128 (generic). I tried that setting along with the various default screen types (VGA, Super VGa, Extended Super VGA, etc.). When I try startx, the screen displays the message that I'm out of scan range and displays frequencies 35.5Khz-87Hz. Does anyone know if I can get X Windows running with my current hardware? Any suggestions on setup? I guess I should also mention, I installed FreeBSD from a CD with release version 4.3. Wanted to get some idea of how it would work with my current system, before I go out and buy CDs for version 4.9. It would be useful it you would post the config file... but it sounds like you may have the refresh rates set up improperly. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: XFree86: disabled DRI
Hello list, I have a problem enabling direct rendering on FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. The first messages of my X log seem ok: Hello again, I don't know how, but installing XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6 resolved my problem with DRI cheers, smiha - Hot Mobiil - helinad, logod ja piltsõnumid! http://portal.hot.ee ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 3.3 in 5.1 -RELEASE's ports collection?
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:45:42AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. Newbie question again: This is the first time I try to compile XFree86. Before that I took a look at /usr/ports/x11/XFree86/pkg-descr where it says: XFree86 is a added-value pack for X11R6 that supports several versions of Intel-based Unix and Unix-like operating systems. XFree86-3.0 was part of the X11R6 core distribution. AFAIK the XFree86 package shipped with my FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE cdrom is version 4.3, but why the port say it is 3.0? The x11/XFree86 port is indeed at version 3.something (3.3.6 to be exact). For XFree86 4.x you would want the x11/XFree86-4 port. The reason the old XFree86 port is still in the tree is that some older hardware is not supported by XFree86 4.x so some people still need the 3.x version of XFree86. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-4-clients Build Failing
On Saturday 18 October 2003 06:52 am, billg wrote: Thanks. That fixed it. I'm not sure, though, how libraries' was deleted. Here's what how I did the ports upgrade, after building the portupgrade port: 1. cvsup ./ports-supfile (stock ports-supfile pointing to cvsup3.freebsd.org) 2. make index make readmes 3. portsdb -Uu 4. portsversion -l 5. pkgdb -F (portsversion found stale ORBit; I went with pkgdb default responses) 6. portupgrade -aRr Prior to this, I'd installed the lynx port and the epiphany port, which, of course, brought in Mozilla, XFree86 and Gnome2. Did that not install the libaries port? The Xfont library was installed by the new -libraryies. Then, you updated -server and it deleted them. The new -server didn't reinstall them. So, you have to reinstall -libraries to get Xfont back. The problem came about because Xfont was moved from one piece of XFree86 to the other. This is one type of upgrade that portupgrade can't handle automatically. If you had deleted -server before you ran portupgrade with -arR, you probably wouldn't have had any problems. There is another problem with gettext. You have to force rebuild the codes that have it as a dependancy. Kent On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 00:19, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 08:14 pm, billg wrote: XFree86-4-clients is failing to compile, producing this output: slipstream# make install === Building for XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3 making all in lib/lbxutil/lbx_zlib... making all in lib/lbxutil/delta... making all in lib/lbxutil/image... making all in programs/appres... making all in programs/bdftopcf... rm -f bdftopcf cc -o bdftopcf -O -pipe -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib bdftopcf.o -lXfont -lfntstubs -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lz -lm -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs/bdftopcf. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients. This follows the first ports update on a new 4.8-release machine. The linker can't seem to find Xfont. Neither can I. I'd appreciate a point in the right direction. Thanks. It was caused by you deleting an old version of -server. You have to reinstalled -libraries and everything will be ok. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86-4-clients Build Failing
On Friday 17 October 2003 08:14 pm, billg wrote: XFree86-4-clients is failing to compile, producing this output: slipstream# make install === Building for XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3 making all in lib/lbxutil/lbx_zlib... making all in lib/lbxutil/delta... making all in lib/lbxutil/image... making all in programs/appres... making all in programs/bdftopcf... rm -f bdftopcf cc -o bdftopcf -O -pipe -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib bdftopcf.o -lXfont -lfntstubs -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lz -lm -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs/bdftopcf. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/programs. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients. This follows the first ports update on a new 4.8-release machine. The linker can't seem to find Xfont. Neither can I. I'd appreciate a point in the right direction. Thanks. It was caused by you deleting an old version of -server. You have to reinstalled -libraries and everything will be ok. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 woes
On Thursday 16 October 2003 03:54 am, Matthias Pirstitz wrote: Hi all, I'm new to FreeBSD, so please bear with me :) I have a Fujitsu Amilo-D notebook with a Radeon Mobility M9 card, and when I try to start X, it crashes with Caught signal 11. Server aborting. There are no other error messages, only the following warning: RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum. I tried both FreeBSD 5.1 and 4.8. I'm using a ATI Mobility Radeon on FreeBSD 5.1. I've had no problems at all. What drive are you using in XF86Config, the 'ati' or the 'radeon'. -- Rod @ Home So No Cool Signature http://opensourcebeef.bsd.st ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 woes
This might not be related to your problem but on my Radeon 7000 VE I had to disable DRI in the Modules section of the XF86Config to allow it to work above 15bit Although my error messages where slightly different and my X would lockup rather than error out. Also noted you are using th ati driver. You might want to try the radeon driver as it might be more specific to your card. And what about the svga driver (800x600 max I think) which is my failsafe On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:54, Matthias Pirstitz wrote: Hi all, I'm new to FreeBSD, so please bear with me :) I have a Fujitsu Amilo-D notebook with a Radeon Mobility M9 card, and when I try to start X, it crashes with Caught signal 11. Server aborting. There are no other error messages, only the following warning: RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum. I tried both FreeBSD 5.1 and 4.8. It worked in FreeBSD 4.8 until I portupgraded everything (I also tried xfree86-4-server-snap). I can get X to start if I use the vga driver instead of the ati driver (but then again, I'd like to use a resolution higher than 320x200 :). Before, I had debian on the notebook and used the experimental XFree 4.3 packages without problems, so I guess it should somehow work... These are the last lines of the XFree86 log file: (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module vgahw (II) LoadModule: vgahw (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) RADEON(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp-IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp-PIOOffset is 0x (II) RADEON(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0 (**) RADEON(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 16 bits stored in 2 bytes (16 bpp pixmaps) (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 565 (II) RADEON(0): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC) (II) Loading sub module int10 (II) LoadModule: int10 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10 (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xa,0x2) was already clear (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc,0x4) was already clear (WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lf (AGP) (ChipID = 0x4c66) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xd000 (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xffcf (--) RADEON(0): BIOS at 0xffcc (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xffcf,0x8) was already clear (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM) (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xffcf,0x8) was already clear (II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect (II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2 (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: \xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535 *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting TIA for any help, Matthias ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 woes
Hi, I've already tried the radeon driver and to disable dri and glx, to no avail(sorry, I failed to mention that in my first post). I don't seem to have a driver named svga, or did you mean vesa?(I have already tried the vesa driver as well, but it made X crash in a way where no more keyboard input is accepted - I had to reboot by logging in from another machine). Thanks for your help, Matthias On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:38, Mailing Lists Catcher wrote: This might not be related to your problem but on my Radeon 7000 VE I had to disable DRI in the Modules section of the XF86Config to allow it to work above 15bit Although my error messages where slightly different and my X would lockup rather than error out. Also noted you are using th ati driver. You might want to try the radeon driver as it might be more specific to your card. And what about the svga driver (800x600 max I think) which is my failsafe On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:54, Matthias Pirstitz wrote: Hi all, I'm new to FreeBSD, so please bear with me :) I have a Fujitsu Amilo-D notebook with a Radeon Mobility M9 card, and when I try to start X, it crashes with Caught signal 11. Server aborting. There are no other error messages, only the following warning: RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum. I tried both FreeBSD 5.1 and 4.8. It worked in FreeBSD 4.8 until I portupgraded everything (I also tried xfree86-4-server-snap). I can get X to start if I use the vga driver instead of the ati driver (but then again, I'd like to use a resolution higher than 320x200 :). Before, I had debian on the notebook and used the experimental XFree 4.3 packages without problems, so I guess it should somehow work... These are the last lines of the XFree86 log file: (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module vgahw (II) LoadModule: vgahw (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) RADEON(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp-IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp-PIOOffset is 0x (II) RADEON(0): PCI bus 1 card 0 func 0 (**) RADEON(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 16 bits stored in 2 bytes (16 bpp pixmaps) (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 565 (II) RADEON(0): Using 6 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC) (II) Loading sub module int10 (II) LoadModule: int10 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) RADEON(0): initializing int10 (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xa,0x2) was already clear (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc,0x4) was already clear (WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon Mobility M9 Lf (AGP) (ChipID = 0x4c66) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xd000 (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xffcf (--) RADEON(0): BIOS at 0xffcc (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xffcf,0x8) was already clear (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM) (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xffcf,0x8) was already clear (II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect (II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2 (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: \xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535 *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting TIA for any help, Matthias ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 woes
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 22:01, Rod Person wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 03:54 am, Matthias Pirstitz wrote: Hi all, I'm new to FreeBSD, so please bear with me :) I have a Fujitsu Amilo-D notebook with a Radeon Mobility M9 card, and when I try to start X, it crashes with Caught signal 11. Server aborting. There are no other error messages, only the following warning: RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum. I tried both FreeBSD 5.1 and 4.8. I'm using a ATI Mobility Radeon on FreeBSD 5.1. I've had no problems at all. What drive are you using in XF86Config, the 'ati' or the 'radeon'. I tried both, but it doesn't seem to make any difference... It just segfaults at startup, with both, the ati and radeon driver, with and without dri or glx, with the normal xfree86 port and -snap, with FreeBSD 5.1 and 4.8 - it's really scary :) It only worked with 4.8 before I portupgraded everything - was that xfree86 4.2? Thanks for your help, Matthias ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 and /dev/agpgart
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:53:36AM -0700, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! Can't start XFree86 ver 4.3.0 on FreeBSD 4.6. Get error: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (Device not configured). What can I do? The file /dev/agpgart exists, on trying to open by midc (F3) get the same Cannot open agpgart. Device not configured. Add agp support to your kernel. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: XFree86 and /dev/agpgart
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:03:42 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:53:36AM -0700, Olga Zenkova wrote: Hi! Can't start XFree86 ver 4.3.0 on FreeBSD 4.6. Get error: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (Device not configured). What can I do? The file /dev/agpgart exists, on trying to open by midc (F3) get the same Cannot open agpgart. Device not configured. Add agp support to your kernel. Another way would be to add this line to /boot/loader.conf agp_load=YES ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 and Cirrus 5446
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:57:33PM -0500, Eduardo Huertas wrote: Where can I look for some documentation for this driver to operate decently? Visit www.xfree86.org for XFree86 support. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: XFree86 changes resolution per keypress
On Thu May 1 10:36:09 PDT 2003, in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-May/004563.html William Palfreman wrote: I've just upgraded from XFree86 4.2.0 to 4.3.0 using portupgrade. It was working fine as 4.2.0, but now it cycles though the different resolutions every time I press a key - any key. How on earth did this happen? It is the same with the old configuration file or with a new one made by XFree86 -configure. Folks, I just encountered this same thing this morning. I found no posted answer to Williams problem, so I'm posting this: Check to see if: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB Exists. In my case, it did not. I manually copied it from the ports source tree: cp /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-documents/work/xc/lib/X11/XKeysymDB \ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ And the next time I started X, the keyboard behaved! I found the idea here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06702.html Note that I used portupgrade to upgrade to 4.3.0. I don't know why this file didn't get installed. I'm not subscribed to questions@, so please cc: me on any replies. ...david --- david raistrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 configuration process
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:28, Fredrik Carlén wrote: Hello! I would like one of two things (inclusive OR, down below!): - A pointer such as an URL to a resource where the details of the X server and configuration is explained in an understandable way, Or - An explanation as to how to use the xf86cfg tool so the end product is a usable graphic interface. I have installed FreeBSD now for about 5 years on different machines, and I find that later it has become increasingly difficult to configurate X. For me, it's more or less a trial-and-error process (if this doesn't work, then does *this*?, etc...) I admit that I don't understand X very well. I don't see why I would have to, either. Unfortunately, knowing how XFree86 works is still pretty much required knowledge for anybody setting up a UNIXish machine. Rather than mess with fussy GUI configuration apps (which have almost never worked for me), I highly recommend learning the XF86Config so you can simply modify it by hand. There are good references all around that explain in detail the format of XF86Config that can be found for free on the net or bought in dead-tree format. The good news is that the XF86Config file isn't terribly difficult to understand once you've got the hang of it. Your best bet is to take a generic XF86Config file that shipped with the OS (or have a fancy GUI configuration tool create one) and then hack that one by hand until everything works. Now, I $ startx and, fine, my fluxbox Window Mangler came up once. Then it didn't want to start. *When* it started, I had 1600xSomething in screen resolution. *Not* what I wanted...I don't know, I am about to give up in favour maybe of something as pusillanimous as Red Hat :) /Fredrik Carlén, Stockholm, Sweden. Sounds like you've got some additional issues with your system. However, simply swithing to another OS isn't likely to solve all of your problems since Red Hat and other mainstream Linux distros use XFree86 too. If you go to another OS, do so because you want a different feature set than FreeBSD provides (such as ease of setup) rather than because you can't get XFree86 to work. Whatever path you take, good luck! C. Ulrich -- http://bityard.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 configuration process
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 06:28, Fredrik Carlén wrote: Hello! I would like one of two things (inclusive OR, down below!): - A pointer such as an URL to a resource where the details of the X server and configuration is explained in an understandable way, Or - An explanation as to how to use the xf86cfg tool so the end product is a usable graphic interface. I have installed FreeBSD now for about 5 years on different machines, and I find that later it has become increasingly difficult to configurate X. For me, it's more or less a trial-and-error process (if this doesn't work, then does *this*?, etc...) I admit that I don't understand X very well. I don't see why I would have to, either. Unfortunately, knowing how XFree86 works is still pretty much required knowledge for anybody setting up a UNIXish machine. Rather than mess with fussy GUI configuration apps (which have almost never worked for me), I highly recommend learning the XF86Config so you can simply modify it by hand. There are good references all around that explain in detail the format of XF86Config that can be found for free on the net or bought in dead-tree format. The good news is that the XF86Config file isn't terribly difficult to understand once you've got the hang of it. Your best bet is to take a generic XF86Config file that shipped with the OS (or have a fancy GUI configuration tool create one) and then hack that one by hand until everything works. Now, I $ startx and, fine, my fluxbox Window Mangler came up once. Then it didn't want to start. *When* it started, I had 1600xSomething in screen resolution. *Not* what I wanted...I don't know, I am about to give up in favour maybe of something as pusillanimous as Red Hat :) /Fredrik Carlén, Stockholm, Sweden. Sounds like you've got some additional issues with your system. However, simply swithing to another OS isn't likely to solve all of your problems since Red Hat and other mainstream Linux distros use XFree86 too. If you go to another OS, do so because you want a different feature set than FreeBSD provides (such as ease of setup) rather than because you can't get XFree86 to work. Whatever path you take, good luck! C. Ulrich -- http://bityard.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 -- Gamma Correction
On Thursday, 18 September 2003 21:34, Michael Vondung wrote: Hello, all, I successfully managed to install the FreeBSD nVidia video drivers, but ran into a problem that is apparently X related: How does one tune the gamma correction? man XFree86 suggests the command line option -gamma value, where value is a number between 0.1 and 10.0, 1.0 being the default. I tried to start X with startx -gamma 2.0, but right after displaying the nVidia logo, X drops back to the command line. The error message says, /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: bad command line option '-gamma'. The XFree86 version is 4.3.0 (compiled from ports). What am I doing wrong, and where would I look for more information? Also, if a working option can be found, is there a place where I can put this so that it is automatically used and I don't have to type it in manually every time X is started? Hmm looking at man startx I think that you need to add -- to the command line to inform startx that the following switchs/options are for the X server and not startx. Try startx -- -gamma 2.0 (At this point I actually miss the nice GUI-interface to tweak the card that comes with nVidia's XP drivers. :) /usr/ports/sysutils/nvclock might be interesting. Build it, install it and run nvclock_gtk Thanks! No worries. Hope all that was helpfull -Alastair ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 -- Gamma Correction
Michael Vondung wrote: Hello, all, I successfully managed to install the FreeBSD nVidia video drivers, but ran into a problem that is apparently X related: How does one tune the gamma correction? man XFree86 suggests the command line option -gamma value, where value is a number between 0.1 and 10.0, 1.0 being the default. I tried to start X with startx -gamma 2.0, but right after displaying the nVidia logo, X drops back to the command line. The error message says, /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: bad command line option '-gamma'. The XFree86 version is 4.3.0 (compiled from ports). Use xgamma instead. It allows you to change gamma on a running X. man xgamma will tell you more. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 Configuration
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote: In section 5.4.2 it says to run XFree86 -configure as root to build the initial configuration. Unfortunately this command has completely locked up the system's primary console and I am unable to switch to a virtual terminal to kill the offending process. First of all, what has gone wrong? (my framebuffer is supported by XFree86-4). Second, how do I break out of the crashed console? Is there a magic key combination I can use? The system seems to be alive (it responds to pings) but I have not enabled telnet/ssh or any other remote admin tools. Umm, I can't offer much help, but I found that my system behaved in the exact same manner when I installed XFree86 4.3. It works fine, however, with XFree86 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. It seems to be a problem with the video card driver recognizing the chipset correctly. Since I could get it to work with 4.2.x, I didn't bother investigating further. What's your video card? Mine is an ATI Radeon 7500. I've looked at www.xfree86.org, but haven't seen any indication that this has been reported as a problem. As far as recovering control of the system, I think you may have to power-cycle it. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 question
Try the generic VGA driver for X . -Ryan Kelly Brown wrote: I had already tried this, that's how I got the config file that I had. I decided to try again. I was using the VESA driver because I had read that might help. This time I tried the s3 driver, which is supposed to be the driver that I really need and I get an error saying that the driver can't be found when I run startx. I tried XFree86 -configure as well and that core dumps and tells me... Symbol XAAPattern ROP_PM from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nsc_drv.0 is unresolved. Let me know if anybody has any other ideas. I'm really at my wits end... Thanks. -K From: Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/08/23 Sat AM 03:08:46 EDT To: 'Kelly Brown' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XFree86 question Did you configure any screens? Try /stand/sysinstall. Subhro Sankha Kar Indian Institute of Information Technology State Book Board Sector V,Salt Lake City Calcutta West Bengal India -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Brown Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 11:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XFree86 question Hello All: I'm trying to get XFree86 setup. I think that I have a driver problem but I don't know what to do to fix it. Here's the log file... XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 24 May 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Fri Aug 22 22:09:28 2003 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config (==) ServerLayout Simple Layout (**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor My Monitor (**) | |--Device * Generic VESA compatible (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc101 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/). (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/us r/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr /X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X 11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) (--) using VT number 9 (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,3099 card 1106, rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,b099 card , rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:05:0: chip 1317,0985 card 1317,0574 rev 11 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:06:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1102,0002 card 1102,8064 rev 07 class 04,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1102,7002 card 1102,0020 rev 07 class 09,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 1106,3147 card 1106, rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:11:1: chip 1106,0571 card 1106,0571 rev 06 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:2: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 23 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:3: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 23 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:00:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:01:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:02:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:03:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:04:0: chip 5333,8811 card , rev 00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:05:0: chip
Re: XFree86 question
Kelly Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (!!) More than one primary device found Do you have some unusual configuration, like two video cards? Send me please your /etc/X11/XF86Config file offlist. -- Alexander Pohoyda [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
