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I got caught by this upgrade (though I am not using ati-drivers) and had |
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oops's that at first seemed to be xorgs fault. While -hal helped a lot |
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(what a fiasco!), there seems to be a bug in 2.6.29 and updates to |
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reiserfs (yes, reiserfs is still maintained and being updated - look for |
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slowpath bug in kernel) that only manifested itself to me after |
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upgrading xorg-server. Last message I saw was 2.6.30 will probably have |
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a fix for it, but in the meantime, downgrade to 2.6.28 and see if that |
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helps. |
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The ati system is definitely affected by this (oops in reiserfs on |
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screen), whilst an intel i915 laptop (also reiserfs) was also much more |
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stable on 2.6.28 and upgraded xorg-server - however this one doesnt give |
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any indication except for a hard hang with nothing logged (which implies |
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its the filesystem so no log is written) when running on 2.6.29 for a |
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few hours. |
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BillK |
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On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 16:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> >> David Relson wrote: |
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> >>> |
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> >>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 |
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> >>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> >>> |
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> >>>> Summary: X is hosed. |
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> >>>> |
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> >>> |
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> >>> A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions |
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> >>> of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message |
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> >>> subject. I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was |
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> >>> good. If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and, |
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> >>> after correcting that, fonts weren't being found. All is now working |
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> >>> fine. Below is my xorg.conf. Hope it helps. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Regards, |
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> >>> |
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> >>> David |
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> >>> |
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> >>> ### Begin xorg.conf ### |
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> >>> |
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> i |
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> >>> ### End xorg.conf ### |
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> >> |
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> >> This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably |
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> >> running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run |
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> >> "aticonfig --initial" as root first. |
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> > Or he might have it in autoload already and it gets loaded at boot time? |
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> > - Mark |
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> When I tried aticonfig with my original xorg.conf, it got a seg fault. |
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> The same thing happens when I use David's. |
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> Things are not going well. |
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> ++ kevin |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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