hello all
I'm having trouble with my 4.2.0 setup. I have a FreeBSD 4.6 box running
XFree86 4.2.0 and functioning (among other things) as a central X manager
for a couple of old NCD xterms. things worked great with 3.3.6; when i upgraded earlier this week,
things went haywire. I believe its a mouse problem, although i cant really
understand why that should matter to the server. the symptoms begin with a
start into X complete with the stippled background and moving "X" cursor, which
hangs for a couple of seconds and then cycles through, going blank and
then bringing up the X background temporarily ad nauseum. The
process is running, and xdmcp is listening on udp 177, but since the
server cant connect to the local display, theres nothing happening on the
network end of things. I can also "startx" by hand from the command line,
and there seems to be no problem with launching X, or a desktop, or
whatever other X apps i might choose to run. regardless of whether i
"startx" or run "xdm", the XFree86.0.log shows a warning about fcntl:
inappropriate ioclt for device. puzzling, since its definitely not enough
to cause X started manually from the command line to break, only xdm.
if its relevant, moused works fine, and im using a ps/2 mouse. /dev/mouse
is linked to /dev/psm0. if started while moused is running, the xserver
complains that the device is busy and cant be opened (makes sense, i
guess). I've tried changing the mouse protocol in the XF86Config to "PS/2"
from "auto" which doesnt make a difference.
heres a snip from dmesg:
FreeBSD 4.6-RC #4: Tue Jun 4 11:57:43 PDT 2002
jeff@filer:/usr/src/sys/compile/FILER
...
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
and the output from xdm-errors:
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 18 January 2002
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.6-RC i386 [ELF]
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Jun 7 16:50:14 2002
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
Resource id in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 59
Current serial number in output stream: 59
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GetGeometry)
Resource id in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 59
Current serial number in output stream: 59
xdm error (pid 2149): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
xdm error (pid 1962): Display :0 cannot be opened
and finally, XF86Config-4:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "PciRetry" # [<bool>]
#Option "rgbbits" # <i>
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "TurboQueue" # [<bool>]
#Option "SetMClk" # <freq>
#Option "FastVram" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceCRT2Type" # [<str>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "NoXvideo" # [<bool>]
#Option "Vesa" # [<bool>]
#Option "MaxXFBMem" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "sis"
VendorName "SiS"
BoardName "530"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
thanks for whatever help is out there.
jeff
