X not working after upgrade to 3.4

[Justin Sherrill]

I don't see anything in the log that shows an error - it just dies.  I
don't know what's causing it.  As for switching out the driver:

pkg_delete xf86-video-intel

and then

pkg_add -r http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/i386/DragonFly-3.2/pkgsrc-2012Q3/All/xf86-video-intel-2.7.1nb6.tgz

Would remove the newer driver and add back the old intel video driver.
 I'm not 100% sure this will work; pkgsrc might complain about the old
diver having version dependencies that aren't met by the other
software.

If it doesn't help, you can repeat those steps but add this newer
version for 3.4 back in, with a pkg_add -r :

http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/i386/DragonFly-3.4/stable/All/xf86-video-intel-2.7.1nb6.tgz

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Ivan Uemlianin <ivan at llaisdy.com> wrote:
> Dear Justin
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> 2: If switching to the vesa driver is just
>
>   $ diff xorg.conf.intel xorg.conf.vesa
>   69c69
>   <     Driver      "intel"
>   ---
>   >     Driver      "vesa"
>
> and
>
>   # Xorg -config xorg.conf.vesa
>
> Then that was worse: the crash was faster, and the error log was longer.
> config and log here:
>
>   https://gist.github.com/llaisdy/5567294
>
> 1: I downloaded the i386 tarball, and I see
> /usr/pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-intel.  Is there a man page or a tutorial that
> will explain how I should delete the existing driver and install the old
> one?  For the last five years my main machine has been a mac.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ivan
>
>
>
> On 12/05/2013 23:45, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Harald Hellmuth
>> <harald.hellmuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've got an similar problem on a thinkpad X30 with Intel's i830 Chipset
>>> and the "intel" driver.
>>>
>>> On DragonFly 3.2.2 X has worked fine.
>>
>>
>> It's sounding like there's something in x11/xf86-video-intel, or at
>> least that seems to be the common thread.
>>
>> You could:
>>
>> 1: Delete the existing driver and install the old one and see what that
>> does.
>>
>>
>> http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_64/DragonFly-3.2/stable/All/xf86-video-intel-2.7.1nb6.tgz
>>
>> http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/i386/DragonFly-3.2/stable/All/xf86-video-intel-2.7.1nb6.tgz
>>
>> (pick the appropriate link for your architecture, 32 or 64 bit)
>>
>> or, 2:
>>
>> Switch to the vesa driver in xorg.conf and see if the problem goes
>> away (probably an easier test.)
>>
>> If the problem goes away when you switch to vesa, it's the driver.  If
>> it goes away when you switch to the older version of the driver, it's
>> the current version of the driver.  If it doesn't go away, I'm not
>> sure...
>>
>
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