2009/2/12 Lars Eighner <portsu...@larseighner.com>: > > Summary of experiences upgrading xorg -> 7.4 with nvidia-driver without hal > > I have had many misadventures in upgrading to xorg 7.4 with nvidia-driver. > This is a summary of what worked. Most of these things are not original > but have been derived of things posted here and to the ports mailing list. > I have however tried to eliminate some of the stuff that seemed unnecessary > or did not help. > > This assumes you have been more or less sucessfully been running xorg 7.3 > with the nvidia driver with or without hal and want to upgrade to xorg 7.4 > without hal. > > 1. If you have previously built xorg with hal, beware of manually changing > /var/db/ports/xorg/options manually unless you know what you are doing. In > general the *value* of config flags is never tested, but only the existence > of the flags. So changing WITH_HAL=true is *not* likely to work. Instead, > this flag needs to be replaced by WITHOUT_HAL=true (that is *not* by > WITH_HAL=false). > > 2. If you did not rebuild libxcb and all its dependancies as advised in > UPGRADING 20090123 do not do so until you are ready to upgrade xorg. This > is merely a time-saving measure. The dependencies of libxcb include pretty > much everything x-related, so there is no point in doing it with the old > ports tree, if you are immediately going to build xorg with a newer ports > tree. > > 3. Upgrade xorg. If you do this immediately after 2, there won't be much > to it. > > 4. Rebuild nvidia-driver. > > 5. Now the problem is, the nvidia-driver version of libwfb.so is broken. > When nvidia-driver built, it should have preserved the xorg lib as > XXX-libwfb... If you have done things in exactly this order, so you know the > backed up xorg lib is the right one, you can simply change the symbolic link > which is libwfb.so to the backed up (XXX-etc.) xorg lib. However, if you > have any doubts about the backed up lib being the right one do this: > a. force reinstallation of xorg-server, and > b. replace libglx.so in /usr/local/xorg/modules with a symbolic > link to libglx.so.1 (which is nvidia verson of this lib). > > 6. Add the line > option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > to the server layout section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The whole section > should then look something like: > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > EndSection > > Some reports suggest that this really belongs in a ServerFlags section, > but this seems to work. > > 7. Verify that > > moused_enable="YES" > > is effective in /etc/rd.conf. Remember that rd.conf cascades on itself and > the default rd.conf, so that the *last* option entered wins. You can use > the configure option of /usr/sbin/sysinstall to be sure that moused works > and that a winning entry is in /etc/rd.conf, but just checking and editing > manually will also work.
Good guide. Just a little note : "rd.conf" must be "rc.conf". > > 8. reboot. > > Reports are that you cannot load the new nvidia kernel module manually > with kldload (although this may have worked in the past). > > 9. If the keyboard in X still does not work, you may have to force > reinstallation of xf86-input-keyboard. This worked for me after I had done > everything else and the mouse was working. > > > > -- > Lars Eighner > http://www.larseighner.com/index.html > 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: oliv...@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas." _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
