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markbb33

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Registered: 2009-01-02

Posts: 4

Xorg 1.6 Causes X Restart on Keypress

Hello,

I searched for this problem, and have found nothing, so hopefully this is not a repeat.

I have upgraded to the xorg-1.6.0-3 server made available over the weekend. Since then, I have found that Gnome intermittently restarts and returns back to the GDM login (and I lose whatever it was I was working on). When I press a key to re-login, X restarts as if I had pressed the CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. The only way back is to use the mouse to select Restart, and then I can use my system again for another half hour or so until the cycle begins again.

When I restore a backup image using xorg-server 1.5.3-5, everything works fine.

Below is my xorg.conf file. It is a little wierd as I have two graphic cards. I have tried disabling InputDevice "Keyboard0" and instead used the server flag autoenable options, but this caused the same problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "dri"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "1"
    Option         "NoZap" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "BenQ FP222W"
    HorizSync       31.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     60.0 - 76.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "BenQ FP93GX"
    HorizSync       31.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     60.0 - 76.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "G94 [GeForce 9600 GT]"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "G94 [GeForce 9600 GT]"
    BusID          "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9600 GT"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9600 GT"
    BusID          "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks,
Mark.

weteold

Member

Registered: 2004-09-13

Posts: 7

Re: Xorg 1.6 Causes X Restart on Keypress

Hi

I have a similar situation. I'm using KDE and when I hold down the backspace button, it
acts as I had pressed ctrl+alt+backspace

How could I change that behaviour ?

markbb33

Member

Registered: 2009-01-02

Posts: 4

Re: Xorg 1.6 Causes X Restart on Keypress

I gave up on xorg 1.6, downgraded to 1.5 and ignored any further xorg related updates in pacman.conf.

I also found another bug when I moved my mouse from screens attached to one GPU to a screen attached to the another. I would end up with two mouse cursors, one on each screen.

I will report these bugs and forget about upgrading xorg for a while as 1.5 works fine.

spidy

Member

Registered: 2009-04-26

Posts: 2

Re: Xorg 1.6 Causes X Restart on Keypress

It seems Xinerama is the problem of this. It took me hours to find out that Option "TwinView" instead of Option "Xinerama" should solve this strange behaviour... Still not a proper solution. Xinerama is superior than TwinView in my eyes.

Last edited by spidy (2009-04-26 20:56:09)

Mc_Lenet

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Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 6

Re: Xorg 1.6 Causes X Restart on Keypress

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69706

Here you can find a solution to use both xorg 1.6 and xinerama. At least it did the trick for me

corstar

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From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 27

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Re: Xorg 1.6 Causes X Restart on Keypress

I gave up on xorg 1.6, downgraded to 1.5 and ignored any further xorg related updates in pacman.conf.

I also found another bug when I moved my mouse from screens attached to one GPU to a screen attached to the another. I would end up with two mouse cursors, one on each screen.

I will report these bugs and forget about upgrading xorg for a while as 1.5 works fine.

Could you please tell us how to downgrade to Xorg 1.5.

This is a MAJOR f*** up on the xorg devs. It really is quite shamefull to release such buggy updates.