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I was having the issue with GDM not starting first time I upgraded to gnome 3.8. This was solved by using the SNA acceleration method (as proposed by several users who had the same issue). However I'm experiencing different issues now. I've tried SNA even before I had the above mentioned issues but always reverted to default (UXA) since SNA caused weird X crashes, multi monitor support not working properly etc. Does anyone know if the GDM not starting issue can be solved differently so I can go back to using UXA acceleration method?
Last edited by Caspian (2013-05-15 08:49:20)
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Disable rc6
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Now that wasn't very helpful from you, was it?
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Now that wasn't very helpful from you, was it?
I didn't know that i have to spell everything out for you.
Add i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 to the kernel line in grub. It will increase power usage though, which may not be ideal for a laptop.
Also, this patch to mesa is said to fix the issue. It has not been merged upstream as yet, but probably would be in the near future. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~anholt/mes … a65859845a
Last edited by Jodell (2013-05-12 22:32:08)
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Thanks for your second reply, however the disabling of rc6 didn't help me at all because my system freezes again once I disable the SNA acceleration method...
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The only other thing I can suggest is you install the git versions of the Intel driver, mesa, mesa-lib, and intel dri. This combination has seem to have fixed some GPU hang issues I was experiencing.
I'll also post a special mesa PKGBUILD that will only build mesa, mesa-lib and Intel dri so that you don't have a long compile time and install a bunch of dependencies that you don't need.
Last edited by Jodell (2013-05-13 23:35:08)
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Thanks for this. I'll try it this morning and report back.
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I'm getting the following error after the mesa git checkout:
ERROR: LICENSE was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.
Is there anything else I need to download along the PKGBUILD you posted?
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Whoops, download the mesa-git taurball from AUR and replace the PKGBUILD with the one I supplied.
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Compiling now
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Ok, this did the trick. Thank you very much! Do you know in which mesa version these changes expected to officially land?
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Ok, this did the trick. Thank you very much! Do you know in which mesa version these changes expected to officially land?
The next point release I guess, or Mesa 10. Whatever comes next.
Last edited by Jodell (2013-05-14 20:27:43)
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Ok, thanks...
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The only other thing I can suggest is you install the git versions of the Intel driver, mesa, mesa-lib, and intel dri. This combination has seem to have fixed some GPU hang issues I was experiencing.
I'll also post a special mesa PKGBUILD that will only build mesa, mesa-lib and Intel dri so that you don't have a long compile time and install a bunch of dependencies that you don't need.
This worked great for me, too. Thank you!
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Hi guys,
I installed the package generated by the PKGBUILD from Jodell. Thanks.
Everything are almost ok, except for the time gdm is taking to load... it takes about a minute before gdm login is shown.
Any tips on pieces I should set?
Edit: Sorry about that guys... it was not driver's fault at this time... it was my CIFS mounts at /etc/fstab that was hanging my system b/c of the mounts attemps befores networkmanager starts my connections. Just in case someone else confuse the cases and reads this... I solved that by creating a script file on /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ which handles my network mounts, instead of leaving the task for fstab.
Cheers,
Condomitti.
Last edited by Condomitti (2013-05-21 21:07:06)
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Hi guys,
I installed the package generated by the PKGBUILD from Jodell. Thanks.
Everything are almost ok, except for the time gdm is taking to load... it takes about a minute before gdm login is shown.
Any tips on pieces I should set?
The 9.1.3 release of mesa has the patch that fixes the problem. I'm not sure when Arch will update but it should be soon.
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