Re: CURRENT+xorg-7.4 on eeePC 900 && X crashes on shutdown

On 4/27/09, Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Friday, April 17, 2009 a las 03:13:06PM +0200, Paul B. Mahol
> escribió:
>
>> Usefull info is missing, what xserver version, which video driver and
>> what version of it
>> are you using.
>>
>> I had same behaviour with intel but issue got fixed for me with latest
>> Mesa and Xorg from ports.
>
> I'm still think what would be the best way to update via CVS & ports to
> the xerver 1.6.0; maybe the cleanest way would be:
>
> # rm /var/db/pkg/*
> # rm -r /usr/local/*
> # rm -r /usr/ports
> # cd /usr
> # cvs checkout ports
> # cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
> # make install
>
> and generate from the than installed ports the packages with pkg_create to
> install them as updates on the smaller EeePC....
>
> while I'm thinking about, it would be nice to get the alpha-console back
> to a usable state; when the X server crashes it let the display in
> nonsense output; all other is still working, i.e. I can use Alt-F2 to go
> to another alpha console, can login and reboot, but all this without
> seeing what I type; is there some tool/command to reset the VGA so that the
> output is visible again? I could insert this into the ~/.xinitrc after
> the call of 'startkde' and all would be fine until updating the X11
> server; any idea?
>

Doesnt starting Xorg again fix problem, doesnt using vesa instead of
intel makes console output more useful l(starting Xorg with vesa
driver after Xorg crash with intel, you can use -layout switch for
that).

If you dont care about acceleration and more CPU usage use vesa until further.

-- 
Paul