Re: Xwindows unusable after Zapping
On 19 October 2012 00:29, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ville, I do believe after a few Xwindows restarts the machine seems to hang, but I'll retest to verify this and check the Xorg.log more closely. cheers, --patrick Now when you said that, I remember how to reproduce it: system freezes after many suspend/resume loops and therefore symptoms are equal. -- Ville
Re: Xwindows unusable after Zapping
On 18 October 2012 05:53, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just ran across something interesting. I installed Oct 15th amd64 snapshot on my lenovo X120e. While in Xwindows, building some ports, the screen went, what I can best describe as fuzzy. So I did the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Zap) to have it restarted. It came back with the xdm login prompt, but the display showed the left edge of the root window starting at about the middle of the screen, wrapping across the display until the two window edges met back up in the middle. So what to do? Zap again. This time the screen just remains black. more Zapping doesn't improve the situation any. So I ssh into the thinkpad and restart xdm. That doesn't help either. Rebooting is the only solution. After rebooting back to a much, much older snapshot (circa May 2012) the behavior is present there as well. I start X, Zap and it goes through the cycle outlined above. Not sure if anyone interested in this issue or not. Truth be told, I wouldn't have noticed if the display didn't got fuzzy in the middle of usage. I have not had that experience before, hence the reason I never knew the issue existed with the May snapshot. dmesg, Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf pasted below. Best, --patrick Hi Patrick, This message might be completely irrelevant so ignore the message in that case. I had a bit similar behaviour with Intel GM45. If I recall right, Xorg log said GPU hung before it finally got blank and hung the whole machine. This happens/happened rarely and is therefore hard to reproduce. Secondly, this haven't happened lately so it might got fixed already. -- Ville
Re: Xwindows unusable after Zapping
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 19:53, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, Just ran across something interesting. I installed Oct 15th amd64 snapshot on my lenovo X120e. While in Xwindows, building some ports, the screen went, what I can best describe as fuzzy. So I did the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Zap) to have it restarted. It came back with the xdm login prompt, but the display showed the left edge of the root window starting at about the middle of the screen, wrapping across the display until the two window edges met back up in the middle. So what to do? Zap again. This time the screen just remains black. more Zapping doesn't improve the situation any. So I ssh into the thinkpad and restart xdm. That doesn't help either. Rebooting is the only solution. Does this happen if you exit X normally? Sounds like the same problem that affects lots of newer machines. yes. I'd imagine it would, and just verified that it does do the same thing. sounds like this is a known issue, so i'll move along, unless someone wants me to test/try things. Thanks for the quick replies! --patrick
Re: Xwindows unusable after Zapping
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Ville Valkonen weezeld...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 October 2012 05:53, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just ran across something interesting. I installed Oct 15th amd64 snapshot on my lenovo X120e. While in Xwindows, building some ports, the screen went, what I can best describe as fuzzy. So I did the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Zap) to have it restarted. It came back with the xdm login prompt, but the display showed the left edge of the root window starting at about the middle of the screen, wrapping across the display until the two window edges met back up in the middle. So what to do? Zap again. This time the screen just remains black. more Zapping doesn't improve the situation any. So I ssh into the thinkpad and restart xdm. That doesn't help either. Rebooting is the only solution. After rebooting back to a much, much older snapshot (circa May 2012) the behavior is present there as well. I start X, Zap and it goes through the cycle outlined above. Not sure if anyone interested in this issue or not. Truth be told, I wouldn't have noticed if the display didn't got fuzzy in the middle of usage. I have not had that experience before, hence the reason I never knew the issue existed with the May snapshot. dmesg, Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf pasted below. Best, --patrick Hi Patrick, This message might be completely irrelevant so ignore the message in that case. I had a bit similar behaviour with Intel GM45. If I recall right, Xorg log said GPU hung before it finally got blank and hung the whole machine. This happens/happened rarely and is therefore hard to reproduce. Secondly, this haven't happened lately so it might got fixed already. Hi Ville, I do believe after a few Xwindows restarts the machine seems to hang, but I'll retest to verify this and check the Xorg.log more closely. cheers, --patrick
Re: Xwindows unusable after Zapping
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 19:53, patrick keshishian wrote: Hi, Just ran across something interesting. I installed Oct 15th amd64 snapshot on my lenovo X120e. While in Xwindows, building some ports, the screen went, what I can best describe as fuzzy. So I did the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Zap) to have it restarted. It came back with the xdm login prompt, but the display showed the left edge of the root window starting at about the middle of the screen, wrapping across the display until the two window edges met back up in the middle. So what to do? Zap again. This time the screen just remains black. more Zapping doesn't improve the situation any. So I ssh into the thinkpad and restart xdm. That doesn't help either. Rebooting is the only solution. Does this happen if you exit X normally? Sounds like the same problem that affects lots of newer machines.
