I very recently decided to move from fbsd-8-stable i386 to amd64 (by reinstalling everything from scratch, eventually). I had a few issues with window managers, so I installed a few of them (I use xfce4, normally). What I realized was the following:
- on fvwm and xfce4, when I use CTRL+ALT+Fi to access terminal i, it is impossible to go back to my windows manager, because when I do so, the screen is not being refreshed, the keyboard is not functioning, and the mouse is flickering on some edge of the screen.
- on fluxbox, this does not happen.
If I am not mistaken, this also happened to me once, when the screensaver came into play and I moved the mouse to exit it.
Does anybody know how I can fix this problem, and/or which is the actual cause of it?
my config is:
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My video card is nvidia 9800M GS and I run a split display on two screens (no xinerama).
The message I got on Xorg0.log was:
I didn't have this problem on i386, at least not recently (I remember having it in the past, but after I while it "healed" itself due to some system updating), and the strange thing is that it does not appear when I run fluxbox...
My xorg.conf is the same since more than a year, and I will include it if someone asks me to.
Thank you all for your time in advance.
- on fvwm and xfce4, when I use CTRL+ALT+Fi to access terminal i, it is impossible to go back to my windows manager, because when I do so, the screen is not being refreshed, the keyboard is not functioning, and the mouse is flickering on some edge of the screen.
- on fluxbox, this does not happen.
If I am not mistaken, this also happened to me once, when the screensaver came into play and I moved the mouse to exit it.
Does anybody know how I can fix this problem, and/or which is the actual cause of it?
my config is:
Code:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD mybox 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Fri Nov 5 17:27:37 EET 2010 root@:/mnt/obj/mnt/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
and
Code:
$ ls -lrta /var/db/pkg | grep -i xfce4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:43 xfce4-wm-themes-4.6.0/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 libxfce4gui-4.6.4/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 libxfce4menu-4.6.2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 libxfce4util-4.6.2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-appfinder-4.6.2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-conf-4.6.2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-desktop-4.6.2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-mixer-4.6.1_6/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-panel-4.6.4/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-print-4.6.1_6/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-session-4.6.2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-settings-4.6.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-utils-4.6.2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xfce4-wm-4.6.2/
$ ls -lrta /var/db/pkg | grep -i xorg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 8 Îοε 13:06 xorg-fonts-truetype-7.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 8 Îοε 13:47 xorg-docs-1.4,1/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 8 Îοε 13:48 xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 8 Îοε 13:51 xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 8 Îοε 13:51 xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 8 Îοε 13:52 xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 8 Îοε 13:53 xorg-apps-7.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 8 8 Îοε 15:25 xorg-libraries-7.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 8 Îοε 16:14 linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 8 Îοε 18:28 xorg-cf-files-1.0.3/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 16 Îοε 11:45 xorg-drivers-7.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 16 Îοε 11:45 xorg-server-1.7.5,1/
$ ls -lrta /var/db/pkg | grep -i nvidia
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 7 8 Îοε 13:19 nvidia-driver-256.53/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 6 16 Îοε 11:45 nvidia-settings-256.53/
My video card is nvidia 9800M GS and I run a split display on two screens (no xinerama).
The message I got on Xorg0.log was:
Code:
(II) Nov 17 10:01:33 NVIDIA(1): Setting mode "CRT:nvidia-auto-select+0+0"
(**) Option "BaudRate" "1200"
(**) Option "StopBits" "2"
(**) Option "DataBits" "8"
(**) Option "Parity" "None"
(**) Option "Vmin" "1"
(**) Option "Vtime" "0"
(**) Option "FlowControl" "None"
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
I didn't have this problem on i386, at least not recently (I remember having it in the past, but after I while it "healed" itself due to some system updating), and the strange thing is that it does not appear when I run fluxbox...
My xorg.conf is the same since more than a year, and I will include it if someone asks me to.
Thank you all for your time in advance.