On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:53:52 +0100 "O. Hartmann" <ohartman_at_mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 03/26/11 14:48, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 01:44:52PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> On 26.03.2011 11:55, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >>> on 26/03/2011 11:10 O. Hartmann said the following: > >>>> Updating ports and source of my FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 host, equipted > >>>> with a > >>>> AMD/ATi HD4830 graphics board driven by X11 xf86-video-ati driver (which > >>>> has > >>>> been recently update as far as I saw), > >>>> resulted this morning in an 'un-login-able' box. > >>>> > >>>> I see the xdm-login requester, but after successfully login, I see for a > >>>> second > >>>> the desktop (windowmaker), but X11 immediately dies and resets to the xdm > >>>> requester again. > >>> > >>> Are you subscribed to our x11 list? It's quite low volume. > >>> Please see recent messages in its archive, perhaps they could help you. > >>> > >> > >> > >> Hello. > >> > >> No, I'm actually not subscribed to that list. Since the problem occured > >> since yesterday's update out of the blue, I thought it could be more > >> FreeBSD related than X11 related. But I will reply to the X11 list as > >> well. I simply forgot in my desperate pain, sorry. > >> > > See > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2011-March/010737.html > > > I downgraded the AMD/ATi driver to version xf86-video-ati-6.14.0_1, I > desperately need my boxes since I have to finish work. > Three different types of AMD/ATi graphics cards out of the same product > class are not working with the new xf86-video-ati-6.14.1 and as the > above mentioned link suggests, the solution is well known. I was > wondering how this port could be so easily slipped into the repository ... > > Since the patch Jun-uk Kim referred to is a GIT patch and it seems to > work, is there a 'simple' way without installing the GIT stuff from > ports to patch the defective port? > Have you looked at the link? The patch is trivial and can easily be applied by hand. -- Gary JennejohnReceived on Sat Mar 26 2011 - 17:19:32 UTC
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