[100526] xorg-server-1.8.0 final: udev kills hal

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

To those with freezing X (such as me) it could also be a kernel issue as seems to be the verdict in here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-821387.html)

Me, I'm now back on xorg-server-9999. Several fixes have entered the xorg git repository since 1.8.0 release that might address issues experienced here - or not. CkoTuHa, it would be interesting to see whether that fixes anything on your system too.

CkoTuHa · n00b Joined: 27 Mar 2009 Posts: 74

genstorm

you know, in the thread you gave a link to there is a poor guy who says it freezes in every kernel .34-rcx also. The only stable thing according to him is .31 which I am not going to.

went back to 1.7.6 - it is perfect so far. Ricing packages ? there is gcc 4.5 coming oO

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

There were also reports of freezes with 1.7.6 by some, so it could either be two different bugs being mixed here or a certain combination of kernel and X being problematic.

No word on 2.6.32 yet, so right now I'm trying that again (also because it's the last kernel which had 100% working cpufreq behaviour

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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:55 pm Post subject:

Rion · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:09 pm Post subject:

keenblade · Veteran Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 1087

I am impressed with xorg-server-1.8.0. I compiled kernel 2.6.33-zen2 and they get along great. I disabled hal globally. My ~amd64 gentoo is now much more responsive than ever. No lockups with nvidia-drivers-195.36.15.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:19 am Post subject:

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

in my eeepc with a :

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

@Anon-E-moose: You're right of course.

@gringo: Do you use any kind of compositing? So much I can say now, that xrandr only ever crashes under composting. As soon as I hit Shift+Alt+F12 to suspend KWin compositing, I can switch resolutions back and forth as I please.

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brynstntn · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 9

Ok, I can confirm that the kernel is still crashing with 2.6.34-rc4-git6. The only git I'm using is the kernel. Everything else is Gentoo with the ~amd64 keyword. This is with Xorg 1.8, and intel 2.11.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

Try out xorg-server-9999, my system has been stable with it (+2.6.33) for two days now.

d2_racing · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject:

For my concern, my laptop crash only when my kscreensaver starts and only if it's a OpenGL.

So basically, my intel driver crash because of that.

brynstntn · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 9

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

Yes, I also unmasked xf86-video-intel-9999. (and three *randr* packages that shouldn't be related to the freezes though)

brynstntn · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 9

Alright, none of this is working. These are the packages that I am unmasking
=x11-base/xorg-server-9999
=x11-base/xorg-drivers-9999
=x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-9999
=x11-libs/libdrm-9999
=x11-proto/dri2proto-9999
=x11-apps/xinit-9999

I was going through the x11 git, and there appears to have been no updates related to our problems. http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/x11.git;a=summary

Genstorm, would you be willing to run tux racer? It will usually crash my kernel in less then 5 minutes. Compiz is not crashing my kernel. Full screen flash apps, 3d games, and logging out is.

Thanks

Rion · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 4:55 am Post subject:

x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau 0.0.15_pre20100329
x11-base/nouveau-drm 20100316
libdrm 2.4.20
mesa 7.8.1
2.6.34-rc3-zen1 (w/o drm of course)
metacity compisiting

everything seems to work fine. i tried compiz as well but it doesn't work with this configuration.
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gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

ok, i enabled compositing in metacity and also tried gnome-shell and apart from being a bit slowish it didn´t crash ( yet ...)
i plug in several different monitors every day and xrandr seems to be working fine even with all this fancy crap enabled.

cheers
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Shining Arcanine · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 1110

Removing hal seems to kill KDE's battery monitor application, so if anyone is having issues with that following the xorg-server upgrade, I suggest adding hal back to the default run-level.

Edit: I filed a bug report with upstream on this issue:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234881

I hope that they fix it in KDE 4.4.3, although I doubt a fix will come until KDE 4.5.0.

d2_racing · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:57 am Post subject:

keenblade · Veteran Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 1087

pigeon768, thanks for the info. It seems the default config inserted into xorg.conf works fine with you.
Btw, I've finally given a go to nouveau driver and it works great with xorg-server-1.8.0. Also surprisingly xrandr works for the first time. I can rotate screen (ex: xrandr -o left), cheers! I can read in the bed.
Even I played tremfusion (tremulous) perfectly. Nothing I can complain so far except touchpad with evdev. Anyway synaptics driver works fine, as it was with hal.
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