Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing?

[Wei Li]

Mark,

So far I don't see a problem, but would give give me the output of
"lspci | grep AGP".



On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:24:45 -0800, Mark Knecht <mknecht@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Wei Li wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> > I'd like to know a bit details of your system:
> > - what's the kernel version?
>
> flash mark $ uname -a
> Linux flash 2.6.9-rc2-mm4-VP-S7-UMP-noACPI #8 Tue Oct 19 18:51:12 PDT
> 2004 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux
> flash mark $
>
> This kernel was customized for low-latency audio work.
>
> > - what's your ATI card model?
>
> 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV250 5c61
> [Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
> Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 16
> Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
> Memory at e8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
>
> > - do you use XFree86 or Xorg?
>
> Xorg - as I stated earlier, these freeze problems only started when I
> upgraded to xorg-6.8. Prior to that I ran xorg-6.7.X for 4-5 months and
> never had a single problem.
>
> flash root # emerge -pv xorg-x11
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1  -3dfx -3dnow +bitmap-fonts
> -cjk -debug -dlloader -dmx -doc -hardened -insecure-drivers -ipv6 +mmx
> +nls +pam -sdk +sse -static -xprint* 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> flash root #
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:42:05 -0800, Mark Knecht <mknecht@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Wei Li,
> >>    Actually I think you are probably right, but in terms of knowing
> >>*how* to check my options it seems to be beyond me. Don't even begin to
> >>know where to really look and don't know how to consider what's right
> >>and what's wrong. Here are a few things I see:
> >>
> >> From Device Drivers->Graphics Support:
> >>
> >>  [*] Support for frame buffer devices
> >><SNIP>
> >><M>   VGA 16-color graphics support
> >>[*]   VESA VGA graphics support
> >><SNIP>
> >><M>   ATI Radeon display support
> >>[*]     DDC/I2C for ATI Radeon support
> >>
> >> From Character Devices:
> >>
> >><*> /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
> >><*>   ATI chipset support
> >>
> >>[*] Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support)
> >><M>   ATI Radeon
> >>
> >>Those are the obvious ones. They could be wrong. I find the instructions
> >>for all of this stuff pretty confusing.
> >>
> >>flash linux # qpkg -I | grep ati
> >>app-emulation/dosemu *
> >>media-video/ati-drivers *
> >>media-video/ati-drivers-extra *
> >>net-print/foomatic *
> >>net-print/foomatic-db *
> >>net-print/foomatic-db-engine *
> >>net-print/foomatic-filters *
> >>flash linux #
> >>
> >>flash linux # qpkg -I | grep radeon
> >>flash linux #
> >>
> >>If you can see obvious messed up stuff here please let my know. I've had
> >>three crashes this morning. (Messing around with Wine makes the crash
> >>way more likely to occur.)
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Mark
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Wei Li wrote:
> >>
> >>>I used to have the X freezing problem and it turned out that the
> >>>problem was caused by inproper configuration of AGP options inthe
> >>>kernel. Check your AGP options.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:51:36 -0800, Mark Knecht <mknecht@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Luke-Jr wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Friday 29 October 2004 7:57 pm, Robert Zwerus wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> My crashes are not complete. I am ssh'ed into the machine and can
> >>>>>>>actually reboot it cleanly. The crash is apparently only X for me.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Try entering these commands in the SSH session:
> >>>>>>export DISPLAY=:0
> >>>>>>startx
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Maybe your graphics chip just needs to be reset, startx will take care
> >>>>>>of that.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>startx will take care of the DISPLAY variable also. In normal situations, it's
> >>>>>fairly rare that you ever need to set it manually.
> >>>>>Anyway, if it's the same issue I've encountered (which it seems to be), and
> >>>>>IIRC, this won't help anything.
> >>>>
> >>>>I had another crash this morning. Screen, keyboard and mouse were hung.
> >>>>(DRI is still installed - possibly incorrectly)
> >>>>
> >>>>I was able to log in remotely, su to root, rmmod radeon, modprobe radeon
> >>>>and startx as root. The screen came back up. I then killed my new X
> >>>>environment and the system came back alive.
> >>>>
> >>>>This isn't a good solution as I do not always have a remote system to do
> >>>>this from, but at least it gets me back in control without a power cycle
> >>>>and fsck.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks,
> >>>>Mark
> >>>>
> >>>>--
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>


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Wei

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