An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

WhiteSpade · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 89

And I just emerged to 0.6.0. Didn't help. Same issue. Grr :-/ I'll keep working at it, but anyone with a suggestion or willing to help would be most appreciated.

legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

Hello,
I have a big Problem with qingy.

I like the loginmanager a lot, but today I updated to the latest stable version of gentoo-sources and qingy is broke. It crashes as soon as I switch to another Terminal (from tty1 to tty6)
If I do nothing qingy needs 20% of my athlon 2000 XP which is a bit unusual too.
Any Ideas?

I am trieing to get fbsplash working with no result atm. could that be causing my troubles?
[EDIT]
Okey I have a tty backround now. But still no splash ^^
But I think I found the problem:
I get 2 failures in dmesg:

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rpb · n00b Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 25

I have a similar problem as legine.

running:
qingy-0.5.3

I've just updated to:

* sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10
Install date: Sat Sep 3 18:05:46 2005
USE=" -ultra1"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe "

* sys-apps/qingy-0.5.3
Install date: Sun Sep 4 01:42:02 2005
USE="gpm pam -emacs -static"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe "

and after that qingy 'hangs' if I try and switch terminals. The mouse pointer and everything freezes.
Only way out is 'Ctl+Alt+Delete' which still works - and then reboots.
If I change to different agetty emediately after bootup without touching mouse or typing. I can log in with agetty.

I don't know if I can log into my X through qingy, cause i've got another (seperate) problem since upgrading to qingy-0.5.2 (and upgrading 100drs of other stuff), if I login with qingy i just get thrown back to the black login. I get similar results trying xdm so its not qingy's fault but my setup somewhere. so i'm startx'ing now. But with qingy-0.5.2 my qingy did not freeze my system.

Nuteater · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:12 am Post subject:

I'm having a similar problem as rpb and legine, with similar
setup to rpb's, except with qingy-0.6.0. Switching back to a TTY that
is already in use causes qingy to hang, leaving me no option but to reboot
with the magic sysrq key. I'll try to catch a error message or something to
know what is causing this. Any advice on catching this bug?
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i92guboj · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject:

Hi people.

Does anyone know if there is any simple way to make kde aware of Qingy as session manager? I mean, to put the relevant options in the k menu like if kdm or gdm was running? I'm looking some way to script this a bit or something but havent find anything still. I'll keep looking... In the while, any answer is appreciated.

- Cheers.

toocO.ol · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 16

hi,

Is there a way to use better cooler and smaller FONTS other than those crappy examples at the Qingy page? I mea they are like hugeeee...

thx

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

rpb · n00b Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 25

_loki_ · l33t Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 680 Location: in the shell

after updating to the lastest DirectFB (DirectFB-0.9.24) I have a wired problem with qingy.. it keeps on tring to shutdown (official way with 5 sec countdown) my computer when I do something..- means type a key or move the mouse. Also that's somehow randomly- my feeling is that as faster I type or move, the higher is the possibility for a shutdown. I f I type very slow (my password) it usually works.

legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

oO. I solved my problem shortly after my post and forgot to post here. probably I forgot to monitor the thread.
sry s4t4n.

legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

Okey. This is very odd.
(I tell the hole story again so no one is confused)
Some time back I had the problem that after a kernelupdate quingy needed 20% of my CPU to run and 100% for switching. I think it crashed. The effect was that top said quingy is useing 100% of CPU capacity. The screen was like quingy displayed the wrong resolution.
I solved it somehow and forgot to post it here.

Now I updated to the next kernel (2.6.12->.13) and heya got the same error again. I am now after checking the kernel not sure if qingy realy crashes. Maybe it just seems like it needs a lot of CPU power to calculate the buffer.
Hmm I think its best that I reinstall directfb and take a look on the results
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legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

lol. Okey. I have some more news.

When I switch screens qingy does not cleanly manage to switch. It hangs at first but after around a minute or two it reverts to textmode.

Do not know what happens there. After I let it happen it seems it starts in text mode at once...

I am investigating further...

[EDIT]
This is realy odd if I strat qingy from commandline it says the device is busy (which should be allrighte since qingy already running)
But then no else error messages
Still atm in text mode without any clue why
fbset is working

basquiat

Switching from an Xorg-Session to a qingy and back seems to terminate my Xorg-Sessions, since I'm getting back to the qingy-login-screen.

Nonetheless, I can switch from Xorg to qinqy to start another Xorg-Session - as long as I'm switching only between those two sessions, everything is fine. As soon as I switch to another qingy-tty and back to Xorg, Xorg has been terminated again - I get the qingy-login-screen instead of KDE or fluxbox.

I'm using qingy 0.6.0, Xorg 6.8.2 and Gentoo's ~x86-tree. "lock_sessions" is set on in my qingy-settings-file.

Any hints where my problem could be located? I don't want to miss qingy anymore, but I have to be able to switch from Xorg to another TTY from time to time...

PS: Update This also effects Console beeing logged in using qingy. With "lock_sessions" off, everything works correctly, but I especially like this feature when using Suspend/Resume...

legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

If you enter your password. Qingy opens a new seesion or the old one?
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basquiat · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject:

legine · Guru Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 555 Location: Germany

oO

My guess is that no one is looking in this monster anymore. Maybe pm s4t4n is a good Idea.

Sorry that I cant be more of help but quingy is not very talkative.

of course you could enable the -v option in order to get some infos.
Doing this you need to change /etc/inittab

baldeante · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:

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Bolli · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 28

does anyone know how to get graphic login in qingy?

i emerged ansd edited like the wiki said, but i don't get any graphic. just the textmode login with wingy instead of agetty.

i really done it like the wiki.

has anyone an idea please?

s4t4n · Retired Dev Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 433 Location: Italy

Bolli · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 28

merci i didn't found an --verbose switch
just -v and that lead me to the same than without it.

i got my solution i hadn't set up the directfbrc correctly i just have done like the wiki but with my mode, and i fails course i couldn't be red by qingy.

i removed this file and it worked

merci

s4t4n · Retired Dev Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 433 Location: Italy