Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:18:10PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: Luke Dean wrote: The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386 7-STABLE My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise. Everything appears to be great. My applications launch much faster than they did before the upgrade. Shutting down and restarting X is the only problem I'm having. This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new Xorg. This is a desktop system. I launch X with "startx" from the console. I can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg server with ctrl+alt+backspace. There appear to be some failure messages on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or if they're important. I'm attaching a log below. I don't see any stuck processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking for. If I later restart X with "startx", some corrupted graphical junk appears on the screen and the system freezes solid. Keyboard and mouse are completely unresponsive. NumLock light won't change. I can't ssh into the system either. I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Do I need to switch to hal? Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? Well.. yeah... See my second paragraph above. Is there something in there that I'm not seeing that explains why restarting X would hang the whole system? ___ You by any chance don't have dual-headed X configured? I had a similar problem and after removing my second ServerLayout section + RgbPath + 'AllowEmptyInput' in xorg.conf, everything seems to work again (even my dual display ???) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "PANEL" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" EndSection # Removed after upgrade xorg... #Section "ServerLayout" # Identifier "X.org Configured" # Screen 0 "PANEL" 0 0 # Screen 1 "VGA_1" RightOf "PANEL" # InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" # InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" #Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" # Option "Xinerama" "true" #EndSection No, just one monitor and just one ServerLayout section. I just discovered that switching from "radeon" to "vesa" makes the problem go away for me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:18:10PM -0800, Luke Dean wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: > > >Luke Dean wrote: > >> > >>The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source > >>today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386 > >>7-STABLE > >> > >>My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added > >>Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" > >>to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not > >>running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise. > >> > >>Everything appears to be great. My applications launch much faster than > >>they did before the upgrade. Shutting down and restarting X is the only > >>problem I'm having. This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new > >>Xorg. > >> > >>This is a desktop system. I launch X with "startx" from the console. I > >>can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg > >>server with ctrl+alt+backspace. There appear to be some failure messages > >>on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or > >>if they're important. I'm attaching a log below. I don't see any stuck > >>processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking > >>for. > >> > >>If I later restart X with "startx", some corrupted graphical junk appears > >>on the screen and the system freezes solid. Keyboard and mouse are > >>completely unresponsive. NumLock light won't change. I can't ssh into > >>the system either. > >>I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it. > >> > >>Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? > >>Do I need to switch to hal? > >> > > > >Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? > > > > Well.. yeah... See my second paragraph above. > Is there something in there that I'm not seeing that explains why > restarting X would hang the whole system? > ___ You by any chance don't have dual-headed X configured? I had a similar problem and after removing my second ServerLayout section + RgbPath + 'AllowEmptyInput' in xorg.conf, everything seems to work again (even my dual display ???) Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "PANEL" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" EndSection # Removed after upgrade xorg... #Section "ServerLayout" # Identifier "X.org Configured" # Screen 0 "PANEL" 0 0 # Screen 1 "VGA_1" RightOf "PANEL" # InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" # InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" #Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" # Option "Xinerama" "true" #EndSection > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Glen Barber wrote: Luke Dean wrote: The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386 7-STABLE My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise. Everything appears to be great. My applications launch much faster than they did before the upgrade. Shutting down and restarting X is the only problem I'm having. This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new Xorg. This is a desktop system. I launch X with "startx" from the console. I can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg server with ctrl+alt+backspace. There appear to be some failure messages on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or if they're important. I'm attaching a log below. I don't see any stuck processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking for. If I later restart X with "startx", some corrupted graphical junk appears on the screen and the system freezes solid. Keyboard and mouse are completely unresponsive. NumLock light won't change. I can't ssh into the system either. I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Do I need to switch to hal? Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? Well.. yeah... See my second paragraph above. Is there something in there that I'm not seeing that explains why restarting X would hang the whole system? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Restarting new Xorg freezes system
Luke Dean wrote: The operating system and ports were all cvsupped and built from source today. I'm running Xorg + windowmaker + the "radeon" driver on i386 7-STABLE My xorg.conf was built from scratch by "Xorg -configure", plus I added Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" to the "ServerLayout" section, per /usr/ports/UPDATING, since I'm not running hal and I can't get keyboard or mouse otherwise. Everything appears to be great. My applications launch much faster than they did before the upgrade. Shutting down and restarting X is the only problem I'm having. This was not a problem before I upgraded to the new Xorg. This is a desktop system. I launch X with "startx" from the console. I can shut down X either by exiting windowmaker or by killing the Xorg server with ctrl+alt+backspace. There appear to be some failure messages on the console when I shut down X, but I don't know what they mean or if they're important. I'm attaching a log below. I don't see any stuck processes after the shutdown, but perhaps I don't know what I'm looking for. If I later restart X with "startx", some corrupted graphical junk appears on the screen and the system freezes solid. Keyboard and mouse are completely unresponsive. NumLock light won't change. I can't ssh into the system either. I can reproduce this at will, but my hard drives don't like it. Any ideas how to troubleshoot this? Do I need to switch to hal? Have you read /usr/ports/UPDATING? -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
