On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 02:29:57PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Apparently, the box was out of memory - or out of sufficient memory > to allocate whatever qemu was requesting. Of course, I did not use > top or free. Sounds like something in xorg was not freeing memory. > I'll need to keep an eye on this. >
tldr: xorg-server is ok, the modesetting driver works for -vga cirrus in qemu, the vmware driver works as before in qemu (i.e. ok in X, but console discoloured afterwards). After taking a long break from this machine, I'm back using qemu. I've been watching the output of 'free -m' and I guess that the main memory hog was probably firefox rather than either xorg or qemu. Anyway, when I came back to it (64-bit guest) the xorg-server was using the two seds. With -vga cirrus and the modesetting driver, it worked ok (well, I used xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x800 so that my rather big rxvt-unicode terms would fit into the window, 1024x768 is not big enough). Then I tried -vga vmware - for this, I do have the vmware driver. Because I us a 12x22 console font in qemu (8x16 in a window is a little small), I booted with vga=790 as in the past. Not pleasant, the qemu window goes black and stays that way [ for the console, I did not try to login and startx ] Using sendkey ctrl-alt-delete rebooted it, this time I let the normal version come up. From there, startx gave me the red window, then greeny-blue at the top, black for the rest, and then an 800x600 desktop. After managing to scroll the output from xrandr, I got a sensible desktop with 'xrandr --output default --mode 1152x864' : as previously reported, logging out of X gave me the reddish console background. I then rebuilt xorg-server using the patch which Pierre added. Did not try vga=790, but everything else works unchanged for me. Summary: the patched version of xorg-server seems fine, the modesetting driver works with -vga cirrus, the vmware driver works in qemu with the pre-existing oddities. I don't think I'm interested in using anything except -vga std for my normal qemu use, and the black console window with vga=790 seems to be a kernel issue which I am not interested in exploring. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
