Partially fixed Re: Xorg / pkgsrc problems

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Nov 7 03:11:57 PST 2005


On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:21:01AM +0000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I just upgraded my DFly to 1.3.7-PREVIEW and decided to nuke all my
> > packages and install from pkgsrc from scratch.  However, I can't get
> > xorg working: whether I compile from source, or use packages from
> > Joerg's site or gobsd.com, it says
> > (EE) Failed to load module "Keyboard" (module does not exist, 0)
> > (I don't see any obvious packages to install here, what's the fix?)
> 
> This bit is fixed (Joerg, if you still want my logs I'll send them to
> you).  The problem seems to be I followed the advice on the wiki
>    http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/HOWTO/Set_up_and_use_pkgsrc#Installing_pkgsrc
> which advised the following bootstrap line
>    # ./bootstrap --pkgdbdir /var/db/pkgsrc --prefix /usr/pkg
> 
> It turns out this pkgdbdir seems to conflict with Joerg's and
> drhodus's packages.  Using /var/db/pkg (having nuked existing
> pkg install) fixed it.  Should the wiki be fixed?

/me remembers mumbling about it before.

> However, I still get a segfault 
> 
> >"Fatal server error: Caught signal 11.  Server aborting"
> >and quits with a coredump.
> 
> using the radeon driver, though not with vesa driver, as I described
> below.  I tried replacing radeon_drv.o with the one from my Linux
> install (which used to work) and it still segfaults.  vesa works.  If
> I start X without any config file, it uses vesa.  This is annoying
> (eg, no Xvideo extension, etc).

Get me the coredump and the logfiles :-) I might be able to fix it, but
at least I can look at it.

Joerg





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