xorg-server-1.20.0 not working for me -- RESOLVED

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Fred Krogh · Post by **Fred Krogh** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:21 pm

xorg-server-1.19.5-r2 does work. With xorg-server-1.20.0, the computer freezes with a blank screen, and I can't even get to a console with <cntl><alt>F1. I don't have time to work on this now, but thought if someone else is having this problem they might want to know that at least one other person is having this problem. I'm running kernel 4.17.1, but earlier versions of the kernel also fail with xorg-server-1.20.0.

SlashBeast · Post by **SlashBeast** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:24 pm

I can confirm the same issue here.

amadeo · Post by **amadeo** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:03 pm

Same problem

SlashBeast · Post by **SlashBeast** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:33 pm

FWIW reported bug for it at https://bugs.gentoo.org/658130

bobbymcgee · Post by **bobbymcgee** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:56 pm

Xorg.0.log and emerge --info would help. I have no issues.

chithanh · Post by **chithanh** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:01 pm

Information about hardware and driver would be useful.

Also how hard does the system lock up? Does it still respond to Magic SysRq, or ssh/ping over the network?

bobbymcgee · Post by **bobbymcgee** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:27 pm

since one is using intel and one is using nvidia. it is probably input related

try to remove keyboard and mouse from INPUT_DEVICES, you probably do not need them. that is the common denominator from what i see too. evdev+synaptics or evdev alone or libinput alone

Jaglover · Post by **Jaglover** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:31 pm

FWIW I have no mouse in dosbox with new xorg, I tried with evdev and libinput. I'm going to try the legacy mouse driver now.

bobbymcgee · Post by **bobbymcgee** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:38 pm

jaglover, someone probably needs to bug report xorg-server people, it's a different problem.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=900717
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=237587

lukki · Post by **lukki** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:19 pm

Hi,

I have the same problem but my screen turns white.
The conflict seems to be with the compositor of XFCE. When I disable display compositing it starts without problems.
I think there was a bug about this but I couldn't find it. I'm sorry.

bobbymcgee · Post by **bobbymcgee** » Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:30 pm

Hi,

I have the same problem but my screen turns white.
The conflict seems to be with the compositor of XFCE. When I disable display compositing it starts without problems.
I think there was a bug about this but I couldn't find it. I'm sorry.

here's the fix for your issue. maybe their's too?
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserv ... b147436e6c

lukki · Post by **lukki** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 10:42 pm

bobbymcgee wrote: here's the fix for your issue. maybe their's too?
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserv ... b147436e6c

Thanks, i put the patch but didnt work.
This is the bug i was talking about.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/650228
Saludos.

bobbymcgee · Post by **bobbymcgee** » Sun Jun 17, 2018 11:08 pm

worked for me....

SlashBeast · Post by **SlashBeast** » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:20 pm

The bugzilla that I've linked does have fix for this issue.

bobbymcgee · Post by **bobbymcgee** » Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:16 pm

SlashBeast wrote:The bugzilla that I've linked does have fix for this issue.

....i said that 4 days ago at the drop of a hat....great job! how much time did you guys waste because of your contagious "i'm better than you" attitude?

Fred Krogh · Post by **Fred Krogh** » Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:00 am

Patch at https://bugs.gentoo.org/658130 works for me.

yagaev · Post by **yagaev** » Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:09 pm

i did not use xf86-input-mouse but have the same problem. Will that patch be useful for me?

Fred Krogh · Post by **Fred Krogh** » Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:20 pm

Probably not. But xorg-server-1.20.0 has fixed the problem, and might also fix yours.