On Wednesday 10 March 2004 02:47 am, Richard Rauch wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:35:10AM +0000, Andreas Kahari wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:08:28AM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > > Is anyone else having trouble with X and recent kernels?
> >
> > I'm running a GENERIC kernel compiled on Sunday and XFree-4.4.0
>
> Maybe I should try building a newer X.  But what could have changed
> here?
>
>
>  [...]
>
> > > I consider this more of a -current issue than an X issue, since
> > > the server was working with -current from January 29 of this.
> >
> > I have a Radeon card that isn't supported by the older XFree86,
> > so I didn't run X on the 29th of January.
>
> I'm using a 9200SE.  This worked well with the "vesa" driver
> in November.  Using the 4.4RC2(?) snapshot from December 18,
> and some advice from another NetBSD user, I lied about the
> chipset in my /etc/XF86Config file and got it to work.  (Though
> it still is not up to the old "plain" 4.3 vesa driver's performance.)

Hello,

1) 9200se will be supported under radeon driver under 4.4 I believe.
2) I had seen some similar problems (sig11) due to the failure of module 
loading.  You may want to check for this.
3) I'm still having more success with make snapshot in xsrc than I am with
the x11 tree under ./buid.sh

skd

>
>
>  [...]
>
> > > GENERIC is unchanged since January 14, and the diff from it to my
> > > kernel config is still just the two MPBIOS lines and the one ioapic
> > > line.
> >
> > The configuration file might be unchanged, but do you know for a
> > fact that the rest of the kernel sources are unchanged as well?
>
> I'm sure that the sources *have* changed!  (^&
>
> If they hadn't, there wouldn't be much point in building a new
> kernel.  And the new kernel would presumably run the old X
> server just as well as the old kernel.
>
> My point about GENERIC was simply that I do not believe that
> the problem is caused by having an "old" kernel config.  At the
> same time, it is exactly the same config that I used to build a
> working system on January 29.
>
> I'm a bit reluctant to jump up and build a new X server when
> the last time I tried that I caused myself a couple of weeks
> of "no X" grief.
>
>
> Thanks for your help.  I'm still adrift, though.