| 1 |
Chad Christopher Giffin wrote: |
| 2 |
> I have been having problems with X freezing as well. |
| 3 |
> I however feel it has little to do with DRI or AGART |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> I am noticing it has to do with the keyboard driver. |
| 6 |
> As when my keyboard driver looses synchronization with the keyboard's |
| 7 |
> controller, very odd things start happening within the X server. |
| 8 |
> Usually this leads to lock ups. It even freezes the mouse. |
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
This is exactly consistent with the way my machine locks up. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
I have tried shifing back to xorg-6.7 but that didn't fix my problem. |
| 13 |
|
| 14 |
For me the problem happens after running Wine applications almost 100% |
| 15 |
of the time. All I see in /var/log/Xorg.0.log is a message about losing |
| 16 |
connection withthe server which i consistent with anormal exit. |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
When I kill the remotely shelled instance of X then the F7 console loses |
| 19 |
graphics, but the keyboard still works. In that case I Can use |
| 20 |
Alt-Ctrl-F1 to get back to my normal first console and start X again. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
> |
| 23 |
> This freezing can often be re-enacted by switching fast between console |
| 24 |
> and X mode. It appears that if I make a switch TO X mode at the wrong |
| 25 |
> time, some lock somwhere (or lack of?) results in a loss of |
| 26 |
> synchronization with the keyboard and seemingly spurrious characters |
| 27 |
> spew out magically from the keyboard input layer -- effectively causing |
| 28 |
> a sudden freeze in the X server. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
I am not able to duplicate this so far, but I'm using a non-gentoo |
| 31 |
kernel with low latency patches which might effect this. |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
> |
| 34 |
> I have witnessed the output of the desync in console a few times. This |
| 35 |
> is how I became aware that it was a keyboard issue. |
| 36 |
> |
| 37 |
> The underlying system is not affected by the issue. I have my acpic |
| 38 |
> daemon monitoring my power button so I can shut down cleanly. Since it |
| 39 |
> responds and performs a clean shutdown, it is clear the freeze is simply |
| 40 |
> within the X server itself. |
| 41 |
> |
| 42 |
> |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
I tend to agree, although I cannot shut down with my power switch. |
| 45 |
That's just a hard power off for me... |
| 46 |
|
| 47 |
-- |
| 48 |
gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list |
Archives