X.Org 7-4 -> X.Org 7.5 upgrade -- issues and questions

johnedstone · May 7, 2010

I will get back w/ you in about 8 hours, when I get home. Thanks for picking up on this

phoenix · May 7, 2010

Beastie said:
It has been black for quite some time. They made the change in 7.4, maybe even before I don't remember.

This is the first time I've run X by itself, and not seen the checkerboard pattern. And running X by itself is the first thing I do after an upgrade, to make sure my existing xorg.conf works with the new server.

However, regardless of when the change was made, it's still a brain-dead, stupid, @&#*%^%%@#4 change.

Even Apache gives you an "It works" page to let you know the bare server is running. Just think how many issues it would cause if, instead, Apache just kept the connection open, and your browser just showed a blank page for 2 minutes.

phoenix · May 7, 2010

johnedstone said:
Reboot:
upon startx, just a black screen

What happens if you run: xinit /usr/local/bin/xterm -maximized

jb_fvwm2 · May 7, 2010

BTW this upgrade bumps xinit which likely overwrote one's
xinitrc ... if that is relevant. I always backup xinitrc
after any editing of the default/or/used one.

jrm@ · May 7, 2010

.Xmodmap problems after upgrading to Xorg 7.5

Hi,

My .Xmodmap is included below, which worked under Xorg 7.4. Now, when I run

%xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

the output is:

Code:

xmodmap:  .Xmodmap:13:  bad keysym in remove modifier list
'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes
xmodmap:  .Xmodmap:14:  bad keysym target keysym 'Caps_Lock', no
corresponding keycodes
xmodmap:  .Xmodmap:18:  bad keysym target keysym 'apostrophe', no
corresponding keycodes
xmodmap:  .Xmodmap:26:  bad keysym target keysym 'semicolon', no
corresponding keycodes
xmodmap:  4 errors encountered, aborting.

/usr/local/include/X11/keysymdef.h still shows these keysyms.

Does anyone know why the keysyms aren't mapping to the keycodes?

TIA,

Joey Mingrone

-------------------------------

Code:

% less ~/.Xmodmap

..... my notes here, the first line below is line 12

! make caps lock left control
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Control = Control_L

! make apostrophe right control
keysym apostrophe = Control_R
add Control = Control_R

!remove Control = Control_R
!keysym Control_R = apostrophe quotedbl
!keysym apostrophe = Control_R
!add Control = Control_R

keysym semicolon = dead_horn colon

! accents and symbols
! format of keycode lines: keycode <x> = <1> <2> <3> <4>
! where <1> <key>, <2> <shift-key>, <3> <"Mode_switch"-key>, <4>
<shift-"Mode_switch"-key>

keycode 117 = Mode_switch
clear Mod3
add Mod3 = Mode_switch
!add Mod3 = Mode_switch ISO_Level3_Shift Mode_switch Mode_switch

! keycode  13 = 4 dollar EuroSign sterling
! keycode  30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis
! keycode  32 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis
! keycode  38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis
! keycode  39 = s S ssharp

! Greek characters
keysym a = a A Greek_alpha
keysym b = b B Greek_beta
keysym g = g G Greek_gamma Greek_GAMMA
keysym d = d D Greek_delta Greek_DELTA
keysym e = e E Greek_epsilon
keysym z = z Z Greek_zeta Greek_ZETA
keysym h = h H Greek_eta Greek_ETA
keysym o = o O Greek_theta Greek_theta
keysym k = k K Greek_kappa
keysym l = l L Greek_lamda Greek_LAMDA
keysym m = m M mu
keysym n = n N Greek_nu Greek_NU
keysym f = f F Greek_xi Greek_XI
keysym p = p P Greek_pi Greek_PI
keysym r = r R Greek_rho
keysym s = s S Greek_sigma Greek_SIGMA
keysym t = t T Greek_tau
keysym u = u U Greek_upsilon Greek_UPSILON
keysym v = v V Greek_phi Greek_PHI
keysym x = x X Greek_chi Greek_CHI
keysym y = y Y Greek_psi Greek_PSI
keysym w = w W Greek_omega Greek_OMEGA

keycode  13 = 4 dollar EuroSign sterling
keycode  13 = 4 dollar EuroSign sterling

! math characters
.
.
.

johnedstone · May 8, 2010

Reply to: adamk & phoenix - no difference - log part 1

Reply to: adamk & phoenix

I tried these following commands, with and without /etc/X11/xorg.conf (cp from /root/xorg.conf.new)

Code:

    xinit /usr/local/bin/xterm
    xinit /usr/local/bin/xterm -maximized
    xinit /usr/local/bin/xterm +maximized

Nothing in the log showed anything different except the time stamp and whether or not it read from the static file.
And nothing on the tty, when I came back from the X session (the black screen on tty9 (F9)) to give any idea what is wrong.

Still just a black screen, with an X, which disappears when I type on the keyboard.

I wonder if I'm missing something, obvious. My choices seem to be
a) put a different video card in and see if I get something
b) I have the partitions mirrored, /, /var, /usr, ... I could break off the mirror, and install FreeBSD again, and then install X, as I did originally, and see if a fresh install makes a difference - I don't really want to do this .. arggg

I will post my /var/log/Xorg.0.log here in case I am missing something obvious:

Code:

X.Org X Server 1.7.5
Release Date: 2010-02-16
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64 
Current Operating System: FreeBSD potter34.johnedstone.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Mar 30 07:56:28 EDT 2010     
[email]root@ejstone34.johnedstone.net[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Build Date: 06 May 2010  09:26:56PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.16.6
        Before reporting problems, check [url]http://wiki.x.org[/url]
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
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/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri May  7 23:05:21 2010
(II) Loader magic: 0x692320
(II) Module ABI versions:
        X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
        X.Org Video Driver: 6.0
        X.Org XInput driver : 7.0
        X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
(--) using VT number 9

(--) PCI:*(0:2:0:0) 10de:0614:1458:34d0 nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] rev 162, Mem @ 0xd2000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/268435456, 
0xd0000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00003000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(==) --- Start of built-in configuration ---
        Section "Device"
                Identifier      "Builtin Default nv Device 0"
                Driver  "nv"
        EndSection
        Section "Screen"
                Identifier      "Builtin Default nv Screen 0"
                Device  "Builtin Default nv Device 0"
        EndSection
        Section "Device"
                Identifier      "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
                Driver  "vesa"
        EndSection
        Section "Screen"
                Identifier      "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
                Device  "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
        EndSection
        Section "Device"
                Identifier      "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
                Driver  "fbdev"
        EndSection
        Section "Screen"
                Identifier      "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
                Device  "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
        EndSection
        Section "ServerLayout"
                Identifier      "Builtin Default Layout"
                Screen  "Builtin Default nv Screen 0"
                Screen  "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
                Screen  "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
        EndSection
(==) --- End of built-in configuration ---
(==) ServerLayout "Builtin Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default nv Screen 0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
(**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default nv Device 0"
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default nv Screen 0".
        Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0" (1)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
(**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0".
        Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0" (2)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
(**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0".
        Using a default monitor configuration.
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(==) FontPath set to:
        /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
        /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,
        /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,
        /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
        /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
        /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
        If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices.
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 1.0.0
        Module class: X.Org Server Extension
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 1.0.0
        Module class: X.Org Server Extension
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(==) AIGLX disabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
(II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 1.13.0
        Module class: X.Org Server Extension
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "dri2"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 1.1.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(II) LoadModule: "nv"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
(II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 2.1.16
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) LoadModule: "vesa"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
(II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 2.3.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
(II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)

johnedstone · May 8, 2010

Part two of log

Code:

II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
        Unknown TNT2, Vanta, RIVA TNT2 Ultra, RIVA TNT2 Model 64,
        Aladdin TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 MX/MX 400,
        GeForce2 MX 100/200, GeForce2 Go, Quadro2 MXR/EX/Go,
        GeForce2 Integrated GPU, GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Ti, GeForce2 Ultra,
        Quadro2 Pro, GeForce4 MX 460, GeForce4 MX 440, GeForce4 MX 420,
        GeForce4 MX 440-SE, GeForce4 440 Go, GeForce4 420 Go,
        GeForce4 420 Go 32M, GeForce4 460 Go, Quadro4 550 XGL,
        GeForce4 440 Go 64M, Quadro NVS, Quadro4 500 GoGL,
        GeForce4 410 Go 16M, GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X,
        GeForce4 MX 440SE with AGP8X, GeForce4 MX 420 with AGP8X,
        GeForce4 MX 4000, GeForce4 448 Go, GeForce4 488 Go, Quadro4 580 XGL,
        Quadro4 NVS 280 SD, Quadro4 380 XGL, Quadro NVS 50 PCI,
        GeForce4 448 Go, GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU, GeForce3,
        GeForce3 Ti 200, GeForce3 Ti 500, Quadro DCC, GeForce4 Ti 4600,
        GeForce4 Ti 4400, GeForce4 Ti 4200, Quadro4 900 XGL, Quadro4 750 XGL,
        Quadro4 700 XGL, GeForce4 Ti 4800, GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X,
        GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE, GeForce4 4200 Go, Quadro4 700 GoGL,
        Quadro4 980 XGL, Quadro4 780 XGL, GeForce FX 5800 Ultra,
        GeForce FX 5800, Quadro FX 2000, Quadro FX 1000,
        GeForce FX 5600 Ultra, GeForce FX 5600, GeForce FX 5600XT,
        GeForce FX Go5600, GeForce FX Go5650, Quadro FX Go700,
        GeForce FX 5200, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, GeForce FX 5200,
        GeForce FX 5200LE, GeForce FX Go5200, GeForce FX Go5250,
        GeForce FX 5500, GeForce FX 5100, GeForce FX Go5200 32M/64M,
        Quadro NVS 55/280 PCI, Quadro FX 500/600 PCI,
        GeForce FX Go53xx Series, GeForce FX Go5100, GeForce FX 5900 Ultra,
        GeForce FX 5900, GeForce FX 5900XT, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra,
        GeForce FX 5900ZT, Quadro FX 3000, Quadro FX 700,
        GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, GeForce FX 5700, GeForce FX 5700LE,
        GeForce FX 5700VE, GeForce FX Go5700, GeForce FX Go5700,
        Quadro FX Go1000, Quadro FX 1100, GeForce 6800 Ultra, GeForce 6800,
        GeForce 6800 LE, GeForce 6800 XE, GeForce 6800 XT, GeForce 6800 GT,
        GeForce 6800 GT, GeForce 6800 GS, GeForce 6800 XT, Quadro FX 4000,
        GeForce 6800 GS, GeForce 6800, GeForce 6800 LE, GeForce 6800 XT,
        GeForce Go 6800, GeForce Go 6800 Ultra, Quadro FX Go1400,
        Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI, Quadro FX 1400, GeForce 6600 GT,
        GeForce 6600, GeForce 6600 LE, GeForce 6600 VE, GeForce Go 6600,
        GeForce 6610 XL, GeForce Go 6600 TE/6200 TE, GeForce 6700 XL,
        GeForce Go 6600, GeForce Go 6600 GT, Quadro NVS 440, Quadro FX 550,
        Quadro FX 550, Quadro FX 540, GeForce 6200, GeForce 6500,
        GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM), GeForce 6200SE TurboCache(TM),
        GeForce 6200 LE, GeForce Go 6200, Quadro NVS 285, GeForce Go 6400,
        GeForce Go 6200, GeForce Go 6400, GeForce 6250, GeForce 7100 GS,
        GeForce 6800, GeForce 6800 LE, GeForce 6800 GT, GeForce 6800 XT,
        GeForce 6200, GeForce 6200 A-LE, GeForce 7800 GTX, GeForce 7800 GTX,
        GeForce 7800 GT, GeForce 7800 GS, GeForce 7800 SLI, GeForce Go 7800,
        GeForce Go 7800 GTX, Quadro FX 4500, GeForce 7350 LE,
        GeForce 7300 LE, GeForce 7300 SE, GeForce Go 7200, GeForce Go 7300,
        GeForce Go 7400, GeForce Go 7400 GS, Quadro NVS 110M,
        Quadro NVS 120M, Quadro FX 350M, GeForce 7500 LE, Quadro FX 350,
        GeForce 7300 GS, GeForce 7650 GS, GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7600 GS,
        GeForce 7300 GT, GeForce 7600 LE, GeForce 7300 GT, GeForce Go 7700,
        GeForce Go 7600, GeForce Go 7600 GT, Quadro NVS 300M,
        GeForce Go 7900 SE, Quadro FX 550M, Quadro FX 560, GeForce 7900 GTX,
        GeForce 7900 GT, GeForce 7900 GS, GeForce 7950 GX2, GeForce 7950 GX2,
        GeForce 7950 GT, GeForce Go 7950 GTX, GeForce Go 7900 GS,
        GeForce Go 7900 GTX, Quadro FX 2500M, Quadro FX 1500M,
        Quadro FX 5500, Quadro FX 3500, Quadro FX 1500, Quadro FX 4500 X2,
        GeForce 6150, GeForce 6150 LE, GeForce 6100, GeForce Go 6150,
        Quadro NVS 210S / NVIDIA GeForce 6150LE, GeForce Go 6100,
        GeForce 6150SE, GeForce 6100 nForce 405, GeForce 6100 nForce 400,
        GeForce 6100 nForce 420, GeForce 8800 GTX, GeForce 8800 GTS,
        GeForce 8800 Ultra, Quadro FX 5600, Quadro FX 4600, GeForce 8600 GTS,
        GeForce 8600 GT, GeForce 8600 GT, GeForce 8600 GS, GeForce 8400 GS,
        GeForce 9500M GS, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce 9650M GS,
        GeForce 8700M GT, Quadro FX 370, Quadro NVS 320M, Quadro FX 570M,
        Quadro FX 1600M, Quadro FX 570, Quadro FX 1700, GeForce 8400 SE,
        GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8400 GS, GeForce 8300 GS, GeForce 8400 GS,
        GeForce 8600M GS, GeForce 8400M GT, GeForce 8400M GS,
        GeForce 8400M G, Quadro NVS 140M, Quadro NVS 130M, Quadro NVS 135M,
        GeForce 9400 GT, Quadro FX 360M, GeForce 9300M G, Quadro NVS 290,
        GeForce GTX 295, GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce GTX 285,
        GeForce GTX 275, GeForce GTX 295, Quadro CX, Quadro FX 5800,
        Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 3800, GeForce 8800 GTS 512,
        GeForce 9800 GT, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GT,
        GeForce 8800 GS, GeForce GTS 240, GeForce 9800M GTX,
        GeForce 8800M GTS, GeForce GTX 280M, GeForce 9800M GT,
        GeForce 8800M GTX, GeForce 8800 GS, GeForce 9600 GSO,
        GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce 9800 GTX+,
        GeForce 9800 GT, GeForce GTS 250, GeForce 9800M GTX,
        GeForce GTX 260M, Quadro FX 3700, Quadro FX 3600M, Quadro FX 2800M,
        Quadro FX 3700M, Quadro FX 3800M, GeForce 9600 GT, GeForce 9600 GS,
        GeForce 9600 GSO 512, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GT 140,
        GeForce 9800M GTS, GeForce 9700M GTS, GeForce 9800M GS,
        GeForce 9800M GTS, Quadro FX 1800, Quadro FX 2700M, GeForce 9500 GT,
        GeForce 9400 GT, GeForce 9500 GT, GeForce 9500 GS, GeForce GT 120,
        GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 9600M GS, GeForce 9600M GT,
        GeForce 9700M GT, GeForce 9500M G, GeForce 9650M GT, GeForce GT 130M,
        GeForce 9500 GT, Quadro FX 380, Quadro FX 580, Quadro FX 1700M,
        Quadro FX 770M, GeForce 9300 GE, GeForce 9300 GS, GeForce 8400 GS,
        GeForce 9300M GS, GeForce G100, GeForce 9200M GS, GeForce 9300M GS,
        Quadro NVS 150M, Quadro NVS 160M, GeForce G 105M, GeForce G 103M,
        Quadro NVS 420, Quadro FX 370 LP, Quadro NVS 450, Quadro NVS 295,
        GeForce GT 220, GeForce 210, GeForce GT 230M, GeForce GT 240M,
        GeForce G210, GeForce 205, GeForce 310, GeForce 210, GeForce 310,
        GeForce G210M, Quadro FX 380 LP, GeForce GT 240, GeForce GTS 260M,
        GeForce GTS 250M
(II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 02@00:00:0
(--) NV: Found NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT at 02@00:00:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so
(II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0

johnedstone · May 8, 2010

Sorry for the log file .. I'll stop here, .. I meant to make it a child of the first.

adamk · May 8, 2010

The only thing that comes to mind is that this might be a bug with the 'nv' driver. You could try the nvidia one to see if you have any more luck.

Adam

johnedstone · May 8, 2010

Eureka - nvidia problem solved!!
Thanks to adamk, and the 07:53 post
The nvidia driver solved my problem, i.e. FreeBSD 8, xorg-7.5, amd64, GeForce 9800 GT - blank screen after xorg upgrade.

I had never read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html
Up until now I had been using the nv driver which is a part of the default Xorg install, x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv

So after reading the above link, which included installing the port x11/nvidia-driver and adding a line to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting ...

Then, I took the default xorg.conf.new, placed it in /etc/X11, and replaced Driver 'nv' with Driver 'nvidia' it all worked as before!! (I left the rest of xorg.conf as is, and let hald/dbus handle the rest dynamically)

Thank you so much!!

Learning point for me:
nv driver (x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv) prior to the xorg-7.5 upgrade worked fine for my hardware, but after the xorg 7.5 upgrade, I needed to use the nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver)

Additional learning point: I had never used xinit /usr/local/bin/xterm -maximized before - cool!

Thanks again

johnedstone · May 8, 2010

Fixed: This problem, which I described above (hopefully this will be a child post of my initial May 7th post at 8:37) was fixed and described in my post here of May 8th 16:27.

Thanks to adamk and phoenix for helping me think about it.

DutchDaemon · May 9, 2010

It's usually best to refer to post numbers (#). Times are different depending on users' time zone settings...

hglee · May 9, 2010

johnedstone said:
Eureka - nvidia problem solved!!
Thanks to adamk, and the 07:53 post
The nvidia driver solved my problem, i.e. FreeBSD 8, xorg-7.5, amd64, GeForce 9800 GT - blank screen after xorg upgrade.

I had never read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html
Up until now I had been using the nv driver which is a part of the default Xorg install, x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv

So after reading the above link, which included installing the port x11/nvidia-driver and adding a line to /boot/loader.conf and rebooting ...

Then, I took the default xorg.conf.new, placed it in /etc/X11, and replaced Driver 'nv' with Driver 'nvidia' it all worked as before!! (I left the rest of xorg.conf as is, and let hald/dbus handle the rest dynamically)

Thank you so much!!

Learning point for me:
nv driver (x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv) prior to the xorg-7.5 upgrade worked fine for my hardware, but after the xorg 7.5 upgrade, I needed to use the nvidia driver (x11/nvidia-driver)

Additional learning point: I had never used xinit /usr/local/bin/xterm -maximized before - cool!

Thanks again

Same problem here, system hang for x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv and x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau

The official nvidia driver works fine.

miniqq · May 9, 2010

xorg 7.5 extensions problem on 8stable

I upgrade xorg 7.4 to 7.5 use # portupgrad -arR
and i use xcompmgr after start X, but it crash when i move window or run command in xterm ...
log:

Code:

...
(==) Using config file: "etc/X11/xorg.conf"
xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL
xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL
Setting master
record: RECORD extension enable at configure time.
record: This exension is known to be broken, disabling extension now..
record: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500
Segmentation fault: 11 at address 0x4c2db

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault: 11). Server aborting

...

if i disable xcompmgr , that no problem.
That's no infomation about this error in xorg.0.log because it happend after i use xcompgr ,exactly use X extensions!

zeiz · May 9, 2010

I would rather use portupgrade -af to rebuild even up-to-date stuff against new (and quite critical) xorg7.5 components.
In case of such a major upgrade like xorg I prefer to reinstall everything from scratch (cleaner and faster) than use upgrade.
However some others were successful with upgrade.

johnedstone · May 9, 2010

Fixed in post 81833
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=81833#poststop

johnedstone · May 10, 2010

Problem: so, I ran my desktop, amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 p2, xorg7.5 Nvidia GT6800 video card for about a day now, using the nvidia driver as described above

Later today, I went to start up VirtualBox, and the whole system hung.
No response on the keyboard, no other virtual terminals available, no sshing into the box.
So, I had to power it off.
This happened twice in a row.

I don't believe it is Virtual Box, because today I upgrade my laptop to xorg 7.5 and started Virtual Box, and that's running fine. The laptop is using radeon ati driver.

I am very suspicious now, that it's the nvidia card.
Maybe there is some configuration I can try, with xorg.

In the meantime, while my 500GB and 1TB data disks are fsck-ing and gmirror getting back together, I'm ordering an ATI card. This one is on sale today, so it's coming in a few days - newegg

I don't do gaming, so I just need something to work. I mostly do VirtualBox, with 2vm's, editing with kdenlive, and django developing. I have the hardware from ixsystems with the Intel i7 so this is all possible. I've only had trouble since the xorg 7.5 upgrade. I will update this if I figure anything else out.

Suggestions, from anyone, are welcome. Thank you

johnedstone · May 10, 2010

Stable now, nvidia driver with amd64, xorg 7.5 FreeBSD 8.0 p2

I have commented out some lines in the xorg.conf, and X's been up now for several hours, running two VM's with Virtual Box, Firefox3 and Opera open, kdenlive open, capturing file.dv with dvrecv, and running a cd rip program asunder.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"

    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "glx"
    ## Load  "record"
    ## Load  "dri"
    ## Load  "dri2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtcNumber"             # <i>
        #Option     "FPScale"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"                # <i>
        #Option     "DualHead"               # [<bool>]
    ## Driver      "nv"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "G92 [GeForce 9800 GT]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    ## Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

## Section "Extensions"
##     Option         "Composite" "Enable"
## EndSection

tom-pele · May 10, 2010

New driver released; PORTNAME xf86-video-nv

Ran a new cvsup. And new portupgrade.
Updated above mentioned nv to 2.1.17 (not nvidia)
X seems normalized, (no more mixed up color)

PORTNAME= xf86-video-nv
PORTVERSION= 2.1.17

Thank You all
Tom-Pele

Ghirai · May 10, 2010

DutchDaemon said:
Well, progress after all. I fired up nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig, told it to 'rework' my xorg.conf (which was written by them anyway, and worked fine in any other way), and Pidgin starts. This must have been something weird

Do you know what it changed by chance?
I just upgraded Xorg, and pidgin bombs it x(

DutchDaemon · May 10, 2010

No idea!

Erratus · May 11, 2010

record extension broken on xorg 1.7.5?

Code:

# grep record: /var/log/Xorg.0.log

record: RECORD extension enabled at configure time.
record: This extension is known to be broken, disabling extension now..
record: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500

Is this still true, cause status shows RESOLVED FIXED? Or is it broken again?

adamk · May 11, 2010

Where do you see RESOLVED FIXED? Bear in mind that just because it may be fixed upstream (from the freedesktop folks) doesn't mean the fix is in the ports tree.

Adam

richs-lxh · May 12, 2010

I finally got my working sis driver 10.2_1 and then the upgrade to 7.5 via portsnap+portmaster killed my synaptics touchpad. I have just spent the day reading the forums and using trial and error. All fixed now. I'll be posting a "my working synaptics xorg7.5" thread for those who may need it as a reference. I know I would've needed it.

Now have a very fast FreeBSD.

gelraen · May 17, 2010

xorg-server-1.7.5 was terribly slow with my Mobility Radeon X1350 and ate 100% cpu.
Adding

Code:

Option "AccelMethod" "exa"

didn't helped. Now I'm still using xorg-server-1.6.5

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