I got caught by this upgrade (though I am not using ati-drivers) and had oops's that at first seemed to be xorgs fault. While -hal helped a lot (what a fiasco!), there seems to be a bug in 2.6.29 and updates to reiserfs (yes, reiserfs is still maintained and being updated - look for slowpath bug in kernel) that only manifested itself to me after upgrading xorg-server. Last message I saw was 2.6.30 will probably have a fix for it, but in the meantime, downgrade to 2.6.28 and see if that helps.
The ati system is definitely affected by this (oops in reiserfs on screen), whilst an intel i915 laptop (also reiserfs) was also much more stable on 2.6.28 and upgraded xorg-server - however this one doesnt give any indication except for a hard hang with nothing logged (which implies its the filesystem so no log is written) when running on 2.6.29 for a few hours. BillK On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 16:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > >> David Relson wrote: > >>> > >>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 > >>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >>> > >>>> Summary: X is hosed. > >>>> > >>> > >>> A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions > >>> of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message > >>> subject. I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was > >>> good. If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and, > >>> after correcting that, fonts weren't being found. All is now working > >>> fine. Below is my xorg.conf. Hope it helps. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> David > >>> > >>> ### Begin xorg.conf ### > >>> > i > >>> ### End xorg.conf ### > >> > >> This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably > >> running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run > >> "aticonfig --initial" as root first. > > > > Or he might have it in autoload already and it gets loaded at boot time? > > > > - Mark > > When I tried aticonfig with my original xorg.conf, it got a seg fault. > The same thing happens when I use David's. > > Things are not going well. > > ++ kevin > > > -- William Kenworthy <[email protected]> Home in Perth!
