Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Hunt 
Well I think I fixed the problem by upgrading the kernel to
vanilla-sources-2.6.31-rc7 and xf86-video-intel-2.8.0 (and recompiling
against  the new kernel), and switching to the i915 module in the
kernel. I did this because of the suggestions at
http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver (I already had xorg-server
1.6.3). However, now firefox is significantly slower and I'm wondering
if that is a problem with the newer driver or the framebuffer or
something. Is that possible? Or should I rebuild firefox? Another
thing is that in menuconfig, there was no longer an option for the
framebuffer driver for my chipset, but after openrc starts the boot
process, the frame is suddenly buffered. How does that happen?

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-25 Thread Willie Wong 
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked:
 Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM
 loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank, 
 and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected from the 
 computer.
 The computer is still on, but I think it is frozen, because I can't use ssh
 to access it. I've diffed the Xorg logs from a normal server and a frozen 
 server
 and they are the same besides dates and other trivial lines, unless perhaps
 the frozen server doesn't even write to a log. If you think I should try that
 again, tell me. I could have done something wrong.

How about the system/kernel logs? 

Have you built a video driver against a wrong kernel?

W

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Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Hunt 
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:03:21PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked:
  Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM
  loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes 
  blank, 
  and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected from the 
  computer.
  The computer is still on, but I think it is frozen, because I can't use ssh
  to access it. I've diffed the Xorg logs from a normal server and a frozen 
  server
  and they are the same besides dates and other trivial lines, unless perhaps
  the frozen server doesn't even write to a log. If you think I should try 
  that
  again, tell me. I could have done something wrong.
 
 How about the system/kernel logs? 
 
 Have you built a video driver against a wrong kernel?

Here are the relevant lines from /var/log/messages:

Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop sudo: skrapasor : TTY=pts/0 ; 
PWD=/home/skrapasor ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/reboot
Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for 
user root by skrapasor(uid=0)
Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for 
user root
Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop shutdown[25368]: shutting down for system reboot
Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Aug 25 23:38:09 gentoo-desktop gdm[2404]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session closed 
for user skrapasor
Aug 25 23:40:11 gentoo-desktop syslog-ng[3058]: syslog-ng starting up; 
version='2.1.4'
Aug 25 23:40:11 gentoo-desktop Linux version 2.6.30-gentoo-r4
(r...@gentoo-desktop) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Gentoo 4.3.2-r3 p1.6, pie-10.1.5) ) 
#8 Wed Aug 19 23:09:14 EDT 2009

Init switches to runlevel 6, then GDM closes the session for
skrapasor, and then nothing else is written until I manually reboot by
holding the power button. I also attached the Xorg.0.log.old log, which
looks to be written to at around the same time the machine froze. Any
other logs I should check? And what kernel should I build my driver
against? Actually, I doubt that's the problem because it's done this
with every kernel I've had. My video card is in the Xorg log. I'm new to
mailing lists so please tell me if I am doing something wrong. I wasn't
sure how to post the messages log because screen, or more likely vim, was 
automatically
adding newlines where I didn't want them, so sorry if it's too wide. I love
this line by the way:

 On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked:


Xorg.0.log.old
Description: application/trash

[gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-24 Thread Simon Hunt 
Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM
loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank, 
and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected from the 
computer.
The computer is still on, but I think it is frozen, because I can't use ssh
to access it. I've diffed the Xorg logs from a normal server and a frozen server
and they are the same besides dates and other trivial lines, unless perhaps
the frozen server doesn't even write to a log. If you think I should try that
again, tell me. I could have done something wrong.