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On Saturday 30 October 2004 1:58 am, Stuart Stegall wrote: |
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> From a ssh session you would definitely need to set the DISPLAY variable |
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> because you are using a pty instead of a tty device. |
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I'm quite sure this is not the case. DISPLAY is set based on args to startx or |
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X. It is the port number (minus 6000) used for TCP connections, not the |
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virtual terminal. |
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> But as you previously mentioned the radeon and ati binary drivers both have |
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> major issues with X crashing. |
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Only with DRI enabled. My 9200 SE is 100% stable with it disabled. Thus, I run |
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DISPLAY :5 on vt11 for games/3d. |
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> When any driver crashes, you most likely need to restart the system. And on |
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> some systems, you may need a hard reset to reinitialize PCI devices (buggy |
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> BIOS implementation) |
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I've had a few instances where removing a module and reloading it fixes a |
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problem... Other times, it completely screws up the system too, though. |
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rmmod -f is handy on occasion, though dangerous.... |
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> |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: Luke-Jr [mailto:luke-jr@×××××××.org] |
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> > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:43 PM |
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> > To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing? |
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> > |
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> > On Friday 29 October 2004 7:57 pm, Robert Zwerus wrote: |
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> > > Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > > > My crashes are not complete. I am ssh'ed into the |
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> > |
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> > machine and can |
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> > > > actually reboot it cleanly. The crash is apparently only X for me. |
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> > > |
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> > > Try entering these commands in the SSH session: |
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> > > export DISPLAY=:0 |
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> > > startx |
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> > > |
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> > > Maybe your graphics chip just needs to be reset, startx |
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> > will take care |
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> > |
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> > > of that. |
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> > startx will take care of the DISPLAY variable also. In normal |
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> > situations, it's |
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> > fairly rare that you ever need to set it manually. |
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> > Anyway, if it's the same issue I've encountered (which it |
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> > seems to be), and |
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> > IIRC, this won't help anything. |
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> > -- |
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> > Luke-Jr |
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> > Developer, Utopios |
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> > http://utopios.org/ |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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