XOrg 6.7.99.x / 6.8.0 / 6.8.1 (part 2)

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 475

i'm getting lots of unresolved symbol errors after upgrading xorg from 6.8.0 to 6.8.2 as pre this post:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-311704-highlight-.html

if anyone has any ideas to fix this, i'd be most appreciated. my laptop is now dead in the water.

qeldroma · Guru Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 370

Moinmoin,

i did an "emerge world" on two computers the last days, one with ATI Radeon, another with NVIDIA GF4MX.

BOTH have problems now while running Xorg.

Under ATI, everytime i switch down to the textconsole via <F1> - <F5>, the X-server severely crashes, including all running apps on X.

Under NVIDIA, the X-Server crashes EVERYtime, the screensaver (GL) is on and has to turn off because of an event.

Is that NORMAL with X.org?????

Greets, qeldroma

Goeland86 · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:

qeldroma at least I'm not the only one having that problem.
I'm running on a laptop with ATI chipset, using the OSS radeon driver. It doesn't crash when going to a virtual console, but it crashes when I go back to X, everything freezes. Somone suggested it might be a kernel config problem, but it's not because it keeps recurring, no matter what I try.
No it's not normal, and I hope the folks at Xorg will resolve the issue soon... In the meantime, I use Eterm a lot.
Cheers
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edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

Well, switching to the 8.8.25 ATI drivers seems to hav worked for me, I was getting a freeze after ~2 days uptime but now I've been up for 4 days

shellcode · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 1

Nerdanel · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:04 am Post subject:

qeldroma, what did get updated in your emerge world? (Using genlop -l or genlop suspicious-ebuild can help.) You should be able to downgrade things back to working order if you can pinpoint the problem.

xorg-x11? glibc? Drivers? qt? gtk? The kernel?

dustfinger · Guru Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 449

I am not sure if this is the correct thread for this.

Tudor Popescu · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 4

Thank you kindly. This information is very useful for me. Great site! Thanks again!

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Master of the Darkside · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:15 am Post subject:

Hello guys! I've just emerged xorg-x11-6.8.99.13 and it works great! Even got my via pm800 unichrome graphics to work by using the "insecure-drivers" use flag. No problems here...I fully recommend switching to the latest xorg.
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M@rijn · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject:

Ah an new version, time to test the new version (24 hours, with min. 5 continue open and chaning windows). 6.8.99.5 gave no hang-ups so the newest is fresh for an test
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VinzC · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject:

Hi.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 and I've just upgraded XOrg to [~x86] 6.8.99.14. Now X doesn't start anymore and I get an error message on my graphics terminal instead:

the_enigma · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject:

I've noticed that xf86-video-* (xf86-video-i810 for my laptop) have recently been added to portage, as part of some "modularised" Xorg packages I think. Have we got any details on what version of Xorg is required to use these? I would like to try the upgraded i810 drivers to get 3d acceleration going. Do we need a 6.8.99* version of Xorg, or maybe an even later version?

/dev/random · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:19 pm Post subject:

Schmolch · l33t Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 746 Location: Germany

Hi All,

Im kinda confused about the new Xorg and what performance-increases can be expected regarding this composite-thing (transparent windows).
Im using a radeon 9250 (the entry-entry-level card from ati) with the kernel-dri-drivers.
I can use the window-shadows, but its much too slow for transparent windows.

Ok i thought, you need a much more powerfull video-card for this but then i have seen this video where they demonstrate this opengl-accelerated X (Xgl).
Well on this video you see them running X on a old powerbook and they do much more eyecandy then just window-shadows and transparent windows and its still lightning fast.
I know that was Xgl and not Xorg but on a interview that guy made i had the impression that they also put this stuff into Xorg, Or am i totally wrong?

Anyway, to sum it up, i just installed xorg monolithic from cvs and was hoping for a noticeable speed improvement regarding transparent windows, but its hard to tell if there is any speed-improvement at all.

Is this what i have to expect and is there a chance i can use transparent windows on xorg-7.0?

update: as far as i understand it, there is this new acceleration-thingie called exa that the guy from Xgl ported to Xorg. It is supposed to speed-up composite alot. I guess its not in xorg yet but coming soon :-)

kmare · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject:

EXA is already in xorg, just wait for the up coming RC1 release... most of the drivers will be updated to support exa (the basic drivers should work already)...

Schmolch · l33t Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 746 Location: Germany

kmare · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:00 pm Post subject:

wait a bit longer... not all the patches are applied and there are still bugs all around. The RC1 release will have the support and the fixes afaik (reading the cvs changelog)..