X grief

dave.fraser · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Scotland

My X server is hanging up semi--regularly. At first I thought it was caused by the applications I was using - waimea window manager, mplayer, realOne alpha, all of which use advanced X features, or are relatively new. I have now reverted to twm, and stopped using mplayer and realone, but still get lockups, so I tend to think it's something to do with the way the X server is set up. Does anyone have any ideas? On a related note, I can't get emerge to compile X with the xv module - why?

XF86Config follows...

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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "xie"
Load "pex5"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "xaa"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "PTS"
ModelName "3e4"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Rage 128 Pro TF"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

klieber · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 1:05 pm Post subject:

Are you getting any error messages in your logs? Any messages on the console after X crashes?

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aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

Do you have an athlon?
adding mem=nopentium to the kernel parameter line in you grub menu.lst might fix your problem.

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

I have Rage 128 SM and RF cards that have problems with X lock ups and system crashes (!) when doing:
- mplayer, Xine
- OpenGL screen savers
- other screen savers (I think)

I believe it is a problem with XFree 4.2 since I previously had RH 7.2 with XF4.1 that worked without any problems. There is a thread on XFree mailing lists about this; you can find it with a google search. Try turing off screensavers too. It may help. Also, check this thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=594

dave.fraser · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Scotland

Thanks. I've tried the grub fix, removed dri and GLcore modules from XF86config - time will tell... A search on google dug up the changelog for the latest Xfree build - it seems to have a lot of fixes to the ati driver, so hopefully everything will be fixed in X4.3

borenson · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 17

Put this in Section "Module"

SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection