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X has been crashing about once a day, but today it crashed about 3 times in a 10 minute time span. I'm running openbox. I think I may of configured the graphics driver wrong, because it is the only thing I can think of. I have integrated graphics in my computer (i can't find the exact type... I have a hp m7067c (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu … uct=464112). I have xf86-video-intel installed and that is what I configured according to the beginners guide. Please help because this is a urgent issue.
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The only way I was able to get X working was with the vesa driver.
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How would I change that in xorg.conf?
Right now here is the section of my xorg.conf containing my device information (and drivers):
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
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Change the value for Driver from "intel" to "vesa".
But before, try the old driver "i810" (dont forget to install it first with pacman -S xf86-video-i810).
For the new driver, you can also add the following to the Device Section and see if it makes a difference:
Option "AccelMethod" "xaa"
or
Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
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Thanks for all the help, thats exactly what I think I need.
is there a way to test if it works other than waiting and seeing if my computer crashes?... I really wouldn't like it to crash again
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i doubt it. save your work regularly.
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I just tried i810 and vesa. I did not adjust anything except the driver names to "i810" and "vesa" after installing the respective packages (and uninstalling xf86-video-intel). For i810, everything was blurry and wasn't clear and for vesa my monitor said "Please change resolution to a supported resolution" (or something similar to that)... What should I do now... Which options that you posted above should I try?
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Hello!
If xorg crash, you should have some info in the xorg's logs.
Try this command and paste it here:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Good luck.
Shaika-Dzari
http://www.4nakama.net
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Hello!
If xorg crash, you should have some info in the xorg's logs.
Try this command and paste it here:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Good luck.
[eric@eric-arch ~]$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Current Operating System: Linux eric-arch 2.6.24-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 5 12:07:52 UTC 2008 i686
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Edit: It seems to me that there aren't any errors... what else could it be then? What happens is that my screen just turns black, and control-alt-backspace does not work, but control-alt-F4 does work... So I think it has something to do with X... Also, it seems to only happen when I am running a lot in firefox3, if I'm just chatting in pidgin it usually does not crash.
Edit2: can it have anything to do with my login manager (slim)? I'm going to try to disable a login manager and just startx automatically on boot using the wiki methods... I'll see if that helps.
Edit3: I think it is slim because my screen just turned back again and I looked at /var/log/slim.log and I found something that looks unusual:
FatalError re-entered, aborting
lockupXIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 183055 requests (183047 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 10798 requests (10797 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
pidgin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
Last edited by ep2011 (2008-03-21 13:16:34)
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Okay now I need even more urgent help.. X won't start at all now. All i changed was in /etc/inittab from 3 to 5 to try to start x automatically... That didn't work so I changed under it to use slim instead of that xdm thing... It still wouldn't work so I undid everything I changed but now when I log in using slim or when I log in from the cli and start x there is just a black screen with a cursor... nothing else...
edit: figured out exactly what happened... For some reason SCIM was using 80% of ram WITHOUT me using X (well after it crashed I control-alt-F4 so i went back to cli and did top)... So I took scim out of .xinitrc and now it loaded perfectly. But I need scim, so now I need help with that...
edit2: what happens with scim is it starts at 6% ram, then goes to 20, then 40, then 60, etc until It maxes my ram... I reinstalled it and it still doesn't work... Scim worked perfectly a few days ago. (Should I make a new thread for this? - its only a scim issue)
Oh and I used the last wiki method to auto log in to x and it worked perfectly
Last edited by ep2011 (2008-03-21 14:42:09)
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Maybe you should make a bug report for scim.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/
Try to explain your problem and provide scim version as well.
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Shaika-Dzari
http://www.4nakama.net
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Maybe you should make a bug report for scim.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/Try to explain your problem and provide scim version as well.
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Thanks, will do. I figured out that it is not scim that is making the problem, but it is the scim-pinyin package (the one that I need...) I'll submit the bug report now.
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And back to the original issue... My computer crashed again. We can rule out slim and scim, because both of those are disabled/uninstalled currently... Any help?
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Did you try xf86-video-intel with one of the additional options from the post above? (for me this is the only way to get X stable)
Maybe a bit into the blue, but you could eliminate bad ram as cause by running memtest86+ (in the repositories).
Otherwise, check all your log files and see if you can find something....
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If you are running the xorg-server-1.4.0.90-8 and you are using a keyboard layout other than the default basic ones (like pc101) you should take a look at this Debian bug report. It seems the latest xorg-server has problems with non-default keyboard models in xorg.conf. I normally use the "latitude" keyboard model and was having crashes. I switched it to "pc101" and now all is well.
Regards,
j
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hokasch: I just edited it and I will try the second option now. I don't think its ram, because This isn't a new computer and i've been running Ubuntu and Windows on it fine... Arch is the only one thats been giving problems relating to crashing... Thanks
jbromley: I'm running the default keyboard layout... Thanks though
Last edited by ep2011 (2008-03-22 13:16:40)
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Are you running an opengl application with vsync enabled? If so, it might be this bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9830.
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Are you running an opengl application with vsync enabled? If so, it might be this bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9830.
I don't think so... Thanks though.
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Thanks for that, seems close to what i am experiencing.
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ep2011, try to change to version 2.1.1 (it doesn't get crashes with this version) of the driver.
I can send you my PKGBUILD to build that version.
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ep2011, try to change to version 2.1.1 (it doesn't get crashes with this version) of the driver.
I can send you my PKGBUILD to build that version.
I don't think I need it, I think those changes mentioned above may have fixed it. If i do i'll be sure to get that PKGBUILD. Thanks
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If you are running the xorg-server-1.4.0.90-8 and you are using a keyboard layout other than the default basic ones (like pc101) you should take a look at this Debian bug report. It seems the latest xorg-server has problems with non-default keyboard models in xorg.conf. I normally use the "latitude" keyboard model and was having crashes. I switched it to "pc101" and now all is well.
Regards,
j
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. xorg-server 1.4.0.90-9 contains a patch for this bug.
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Hmm, will upgrade to new xorg-server, use new intel driver and see if it is fixed.
EDIT: It is NOT fixed. Back to 2.1.1 driver.
Last edited by alexmgarcia (2008-03-23 16:45:56)
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