Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-19 Thread peter stern
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:23:09 -0800 (AKDT) From: peter stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an ugly way to have to deal with X. So this definitely means the mga driver is broken? I would appreciate a copy of your xorg.conf Thanks for your suggestions.

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:23:09 -0800 (AKDT) From: peter stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an ugly way to have to deal with X. So this definitely means the mga driver is broken? I would appreciate a copy of your xorg.conf Thanks for your suggestions. peter Peter, Here is the

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-18 Thread sam sirlin
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:23:09 -0800 (AKDT) peter stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:36:23 +0100 From: Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, peter stern wrote: The initial install was done by sysinstall under the predefined xdeveloper selection. I tried reinstalling xorg from ports by running make deinstall and make reinstall but with no change in behavior. Where is your dmesg, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and X config

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Brad Pitney
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, peter stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty

RE: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Robert Chalmers
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Pitney Sent: Monday, 17 March 2008 4:39 PM To: peter stern Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, peter stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Pete French
G550's are very old cards, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that someone doing RC testing would have one installed. I missed the original posting, but I had a G550 (I think - may have been a 450, but I am fairly sure it was a 550) in my workstation here until a couple of weeks ago, and

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 17 March 2008, Robert Chalmers wrote: Well, I suppose this will eventually get to the original poster. I too have just gone through this nightmare. But, I short circuited it all. I went to a clean install of 7.0-RELEASE. Ah ha. Easy. Nope. The gremlins were waiting. So

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:36:23 +0100 From: Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much trouble with it until the 6

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread NAKAJI Hiroyuki
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G550's are very old cards, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that someone doing RC testing would have one installed. I missed the original posting, but I had a G550 (I think - may have been a 450, but I am fairly sure it

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread peter stern
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Brad Pitney wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:29 AM, peter stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much trouble with it until the 6 branch

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread peter stern
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:36:23 +0100 From: Kurt Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. [...] Basically, the problem is with the matrox board. I have run the Matrox G550 under both 6 and 7. I had some problems, but not too many. I do need to use xrandr to set up the proper

recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-16 Thread peter stern
I'd appreciate suggestions on how to get a working xorg from the mess 6.3 shipped with. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2 and have never had much trouble with it until the 6 branch was released. My hardware is pretty generic Intel brand D865 motherboard, matrox g550 video. I don't customize