Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing?

[Mark Knecht]

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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