strange problem with X

venkat · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:36 am Post subject: strange problem with X

Hi,

I am using xfree-drm with nvidia agpgart (enabled). Everything loads fine, works fine (though glxgears show poor performance). But when I shutdown or reboot the machine from KDE, the monitor gets turned off and the machine hangs there. Nothing like

Stopping xxxx [ok]

appears on screen and it remains blank (switched off) forever.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Venkat.

gyaikhom · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Edinburgh

Which kernel did you use? Did you enable ACPI? Try setting acpi=off in lilo.

append="acpi=off"

My power shutdown didn't work with 2.4.22-ac-r4. It displayed "Power Down", and I had to switch it off. But, I emerge the vanilla-sources and patched it with the latest ACPI patch from http://acpi.sourceforge.net/. Now, everything works fine.

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Dell Inspiron 8200

venkat · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:13 am Post subject:

thanks for your reply. i have the ck-sources (2.4.22 with ck2). i suspected xfree-drm is doing this. i unmerged xfree-drm and it shuts down fine now! i don't know what in the drm module is causing this. but i am with no dri & 3-d now. i'll try append=acpi off as you said and see what happens.

gizmo.tar.bz23 · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 2:14 am Post subject:

hmm, are u using a nvidia card??
if so, sou should go away from
xfree-drm and use the nvidia-glx
and the nvidia-kernel packages.

that should improve ur glxgears
performance.