Re: misc/compat6x port no longer sufficient for DRI under head?

On Thursday 17 September 2009 19:29:10 Robert Noland wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 08:32 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, David Wolfskill 
<david_at_catwhisker.org>wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:04:31PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > > Maybe you need to install misc/compat7x also for things to work with
> > > > head?  Don't forget options COMPAT_FREEBSD7 in your kernconf for
> > > > head.
> > > >
> > > :-)  As I was writing the previous message, that thought occurred, so I
> > >
> > > did install it, re-tried, and the symptoms persisted: with DRI enabled,
> > > the keyboard & mouse were non-functional; with DRI disabled, Xorg
> > > worked.
> > >
> > > (I had intended to install misc/compat7x under head as soon as it had
> > > been committed, but it slipped what passes for my mind.  And the file
> > > system where /usr/ports lives is not one I normally even mount when
> > > running head....)
> > >
> > > But thanks for the thought!
> >
> > Have you tried re-enabling hald and dbus and configuring X to use those?
> 
> So, the DRI option has absolutely nothing to do with kbd/mouse.  I
> expect that what you are actually seeing is a hard lockup, quite
> possibly a gpu crash.

If that's the case, having a root vty open before starting X and upon gpu 
crash, blind type (no cookies for typos!) shutdown -r NOW<enter> should result 
in some /var/log/messages entries at the very least and quite possible reboot, 
right?

-- 
Mel