Yeah, I'm guessing the segfault had something to do with my general cluelessness about installing new builds of XFree86.
I did throw the coredump into gdb, but since the thing wasn't built in debug mode, there were no symbols for the backtrace. I didn't think you'd have any use for it in that case.
If you'd like to tell me how to build it with debug symbols, I'm happy to repeat the experiment.
- Christian
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
I'm not sure what's up with that. I don't know any reason why it would segfault. I'm thinking that segfault probably doesn't have anything to do with the driver. Do you have a core dump? Do you know how to use gdb to get a backtrace out of it?
I'll see if I can get access to one of these.
Mark.
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Christian Convey wrote:
Hi Mark.
I build from thee head of the CVS tree, and installed it over my Mandrake 9.1 stuff using "make install" after blowing away /usr/X11R6/*
The building and installation went OK, but when I rebooted (the only way I know of to restart X, cuz I'm a newbie), the server crashed. (See attached log file.)
That makes me think I didn't really test your hypothesis, because I didn't actually get X to run.
Any suggestions?
I'm happy to continue working on this, but perhaps I should just suck up the problem until people have more experience with P25's?
Also, I'm willing to undergo some measure of pain with my laptop if you want, since you've been so helpful. If you want, I can be your (or your delegate's) guinea pig for hammering out Toshiba P25 issues for a few weeks.
Thanks, Christian
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
I think the vesa driver is limited to the modes that are
in the bios. Sounds like that mode is not in there, but I don't know much about the vesa driver.
As for the "nv" driver not restoring the console correctly, perhaps CVS works better. I don't have access to one of those laptops at the moment so I can't check it out.
Mark.
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Christian Convey wrote:
Hey Mark,
As you suggested, I switched to using the "vesa" driver rather than the "nv" driver (simply by changing the Device-->Driver entry).
The results: I no longer have that problem where the last line of my terminals runs off the end of the screen. The terminals look great.
However, X won't start.
I've attached the config and log files, in case you're willing to take a look.
I didn't quite understand why I got the error I got:
(II) VESA(0): Not using mode "1440x900" (no mode of this name)
because in my config file I do seem to have a Monitor-->ModeLine defined with that name.
Thanks for any ideas you have. I really appreciate it.
- Christian
Subject: Re: [XFree86] Odd problem with terminals Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:55:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Christian Convey wrote:
Hi guys,
I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a new Toshiba P25 laptop (1440x900 screen resolution).
With some generous help, I got the regular X server behaving perfectly: My real and virtual desktops are both 1440x900, and it looks great.
However, when I hit ctrl+alt+F1, to go to the console (is that the right word for it?), I have a little problem...
The last half of the last line of text on the console runs off the bottom of the display.
Can anyone point me in the right direction regarding how to fix this? Is this even an X-related issue?
It could be the "nv" driver not restoring the console correctly. I'm not aware of any such cases, but I haven't seen one of the GeForceFX laptops yet. Does the "vesa" driver work now that you've got the mode correct? Does it have that problem?
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