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heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

System Hangs on X-kill, reboot, or shutdown [an fglrx problem].

I'm pretty sure this is linked with my new monitor somehow. I got a new monitor, its hooked up with the DVI cable. Whenever I try to:

exit openbox
ctrl-alt-backspace to kill x
restart (shutdown -r now)
or shutdown (shutdown - now)

my system hangs. My screen shuts off, and starts blinking the power button, and its not responding.

Last edited by heleos (2007-06-16 18:03:04)

KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 162

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Re: System Hangs on X-kill, reboot, or shutdown [an fglrx problem].

I'm pretty sure this is linked with my new monitor somehow. I got a new monitor, its hooked up with the DVI cable. Whenever I try to:

exit openbox
ctrl-alt-backspace to kill x
restart (shutdown -r now)
or shutdown (shutdown - now)

my system hangs. My screen shuts off, and starts blinking the power button, and its not responding.

I've no idea whether it's possible for a new monitor to somehow cause this... are you running ATI or nVidia drivers? Is direct rendering working, do you know?

Try doing

$ sudo chown -r yourNonRootUser /path/to/yourNonRootUsersHome

and seeing whether that remedies the problem with exiting openbox.

Also, look in /var/log/ for your Xorg.#.log files (I forget whether they're in a subdirectory in there... maybe under /var/log/x11/  ). See whether the most recent log file has any warnings or errors (EE or WW in brackets) that may indicate the source of the problem.

heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: System Hangs on X-kill, reboot, or shutdown [an fglrx problem].

Here's the warnings and errors from my xorg log file:

(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

(WW) fglrx(0): Only one display is connnected,so single mode is enabled

(WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name "glesx.so"

(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used

(EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...

doing the chown didn't help my exiting openbox problem, I think they're all linked to the monitor somehow. I never had this problem before I switched to a DVI LCD

Last edited by heleos (2007-06-16 16:19:22)

heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: System Hangs on X-kill, reboot, or shutdown [an fglrx problem].

Strange.....

Changing from the fglrx drivers to the radeon drivers fixed all the problems I had. I can boot with vga=795 via grub, I can ctrl-alt-backspace to exit x, exit openbox, and shutdown/restart correctly.

Now that I know the problem is fglrx, I need to fix it