An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

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WhiteSpade · Post by **WhiteSpade** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 6:02 am

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 · Post by **legine** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 4:44 pm

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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vesafb: mode 720x576-16 not found
vesafb: mode 768x576-16 not found

What do cause these?
They come at the end of the bootup and I do not know which programm drops these (quingy??). I have set a a file with mode = ... but no result. Any other Ideas?
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Cheers
Legine
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(why is this thread at 27 pages? Other threads get cut at 14 pg. Maybe this one should be cut too in order to enhance the performance of our Forum

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s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:44 am

legine wrote: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)

What do you mean by crash? It reverts to text, mode, hangs your machine, restarts, or what?

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:49 am

WhiteSpade wrote:

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qingy-DirectFB --verbose
(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2005-06-14 09:14)
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using libs memcpy()
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'VT Switcher' (CRITICAL, 5754)...
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'PS/2 Input' (INPUT, 5757)...
 (!!!)  *** UNIMPLEMENTED [fusion_reactor_set_lock] *** [reactor.c:802]
(*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse 1.0 (Convergence GmbH)
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'Keyboard Input' (INPUT, 5758)...
(*) DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH)
(*) DirectFB/Graphics: Generic Software Rasterizer 0.6 (convergencec integrated media GmbH)
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: No supported modes found in /etc/fb.modes and current mode is not supported!
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Current mode's pixelformat: rgba 8/0, 8/0, 8/0, 0/0 (8bit)
(!) DirectFB/Core/layers: Failed to initialize layer 0!
    --> Initialization error!
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'layers' core!
    --> Initialization error!
Unrecoverable error: reverting to text mode!

Hello WhiteSpade, sorry for the late reply.
It appears that you are having issues with DirectFB here, apparently it does not like your video card/framebuffer setup. You could try posting this at the DirectFB mailing lists (http://www.directfb.org)...

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:52 am

rcs wrote:is the splash black, then graphic initialization (with nasty colors) necessary? It happens when qingy first starts up, or when switching between consoles.

Yep. qingy uses DirectFB, with does its own graphic initialization, so I cannot do anything about this.

rcs wrote:I have a 1400x1050 framebuffer on beginning in very early boot, and I want to continue that all the way through.

Sorry? You are writing that after qingy runs, your display is no longer using framebuffer, or what?

rpb · Post by **rpb** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:24 am

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 · Post by **Nuteater** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:12 am

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?

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:46 pm

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 · Post by **toocO.ol** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:42 pm

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 · Post by **Chickpea** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:00 pm

toocO.ol wrote: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

You need to look in the theme file to change font sizes. As far as what font you want, you just place the font that you want in the theme file and voila! A different font

rpb · Post by **rpb** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:29 am

rpb wrote:I have a similar problem as legine.
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.

I have since fixed the xdm problem which was a missing line in my rc.conf

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XSESSION="icewm"

So xdm now works but still same problem with qingy.

Did you guys find a solution yet legine and Nuteater?

_loki_ · Post by **_loki_** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:25 am

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 · Post by **legine** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:25 am

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

s4t4n wrote: What do you mean by crash? It reverts to text, mode, hangs your machine, restarts, or what?

Umm cant say it reverts to text mode. I would say it hangs. I only see the textmode curser and refuses to react on anything. I think I found out that from time to time quingy stoped simply at 99% CPU.

If I rember right I did or did not load something in the kernel. I have a nvidia card. So if rpb has one too I think it maay be right.

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Ohh my I was wrong. I came back because I have the same problem with my updated kernel. So because I solved it its no bug in quingy but hell I wished I answered my post back the when I updated to 2.6.12

Update on the Crash. When I switch the screen reconfigures to a wrong resolution and crashes. I can only press the hardware reboot button. (Which is general not a good Idea

)
(Thats why I thought that the resolution messages caused the failures.) I think I check first some kernel option. Maybe I have forgotten something

(But I do not think so.)

Cheers
Legine
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legine · Post by **legine** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:51 pm

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

legine · Post by **legine** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:00 pm

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...

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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

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mode "1024x768-85"
    # D: 94.384 MHz, H: 68.593 kHz, V: 84.998 Hz
    geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8
    timings 10595 176 66 35 1 110 3
    vsync high
    rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
endmode

investigating...
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(Updated qingy to latest version wich did have no effect)
Aha. One step forward.
Changed inittab the commandline for qingy in order to start verbous mode (added -v option)
Quingy says:

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DirectFB/linux_input: could not grab device    ---> Device or resource busy
[12780:     0.000] --> cought signal 11 (at (nil)), invalid adress

Hmm, found some infos on the mailing list:
http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/dire ... 00029.html
It seems that my problem that I have now is related to grabbed input devices. (I had something missconfigured. I restart first if that does not work then I think I recompile directfb without that module...
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[EDIT SOLVED !!!!]
Heya!
Okey I solved the problem!
I updated to the DirectFB Version 0.9.24 and qingy 0.6
Another solution is to deactivate linuxinput if you do not need the keyboard

So I believe it has something to do with the trouble describted in the mail I posted above.
And I believe that there is another solution since I am pretty sure I did not use this in order to solve this. I think that everybody who wish to stay with the version 0.9.22 of DirectFB should play with the Kernel confogs. Somewhere is the solution I had back then...
Happy solving

[/EDIT SOLVED !!!!]

basquiat · Post by **basquiat** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 5:15 pm

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 · Post by **legine** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:24 am

If you enter your password. Qingy opens a new seesion or the old one?

basquiat · Post by **basquiat** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:48 pm

legine wrote:If you enter your password. Qingy opens a new seesion or the old one?

It opens a new Session. Looking at the output of 'ps', all the processes from the former session disappeared completely.

legine · Post by **legine** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:13 pm

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

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c1:12345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/qingy tty1 -v
c2:12345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/qingy tty2 -v
c3:12345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/qingy tty3 -v
c4:12345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/qingy tty4 -v
c5:12345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/qingy tty5 -v
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

maybe you can redirect the output to a file for later examination.

baldeante · Post by **baldeante** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:56 pm

Adamal wrote:I just set up a new system running the x86 stable branch. I have tried to get qingy working but right now I am recieving the following error:
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init: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
I'm pretty sure directfb is working since when I type in "fbtruetype test" Test is displayed correctly.

Please help

I had that problem right after

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emerge --depclean

It removed my devfsd package without i see it ..... re-emerging the package solve my problem.

s4t4n · Post by **s4t4n** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:03 am

Chickpea wrote:
toocO.ol wrote: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
You need to look in the theme file to change font sizes. As far as what font you want, you just place the font that you want in the theme file and voila! A different font

Also, recent qingy versions added the capability to specify font sizes 'smaller' and 'tiny'...

Bolli · Post by **Bolli** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:16 pm

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 · Post by **s4t4n** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:56 am

Bolli wrote: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?

Well, either you passed qingy the -t command line arg (which tells it to do text-only login), or you have something ill configured in your machine. Try passing qingy the --verbose arg, and see if it tells you something useful.

Bolli · Post by **Bolli** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:18 pm

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 · Post by **s4t4n** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:31 am

Bolli wrote: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

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An awesome app called Qingy (Part 1)

0.6.0

Re: Qingy issues

Crappy fonts

Re: Crappy fonts

Switching from Xorg to qingy and back

Re: Crappy fonts