Xfce4 hangs opening terminal, etc.

jorgg · 2008-05-23 07:57:11

Hi!

I'm having a _very_ strange problem with Arch + Xfce4 + old Compaq (Intel 82810 DC-100 CGC Chipset)

I have searched a lot of forums and it seems that people are having similar problems, just the solution is missing

So, the situation is:

I got the Xfce4 up and running with i810 driver. Everything seems to work fine until I try to open the terminal emulator, the one with an icon on the default xfce panel. Screen goes "rainbow" and it totally hangs, can't kill X by ctrl+alt+bspace. So I need to reboot from ssh or power button (is there a better way, not having to reboot?)

Now, the real strangeness begins:

I try and open xfce again. Sometimes it starts ok, some other time not. Gives an error: "Fatal server error: Active ring not flushed"
or in Xorg.0.log:
"(WW) I810(0): xf86UnMapVidMem: cannot find region for [0xb3a94000,0x3000000]"

Also yesterday I noticed that as root, I can use both startx and startxfce4.
Normal user gets xfce but not plain x... :S

Vesa driver works ok, but I can't get the resolution and refresh rate high enough.

I think there might be several problems because of different error messages etc...
One thing I found was a faulty memory module, gave ~20 errors in memtest before it was even 50% finished...
Removed it, no go still.

Or is it just the direction of wind and the position of the moon

End of the Xorg.0.log:

(==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0x44000000,0x4000000)
(II) I810(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
pgetbl_ctl: 0x7200001 pgetbl_err: 0x1ffff000
ipeir: 0 iphdr: ffffffff
LP ring tail: 60 head: 2c len: f001 start 300000
eir: 0 esr: 1 emr: 3d
instdone: ff7a instpm: 0
memmode: 4 instps: 10
hwstam: 9ac7 ier: 0 imr: 9ac7 iir: 0

Fatal server error:
Active ring not flushed

xorg.conf:

        Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"

EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
       Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by mkxcfg

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Monitor0"
        Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by mkxcfg

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "i810"
        VendorName  "All"
        BoardName   "All"
        Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
        Option "DRI" "false"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultColorDepth 16
        SubSection "Display"

        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     32
                Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Last edited by jorgg (2008-05-23 08:35:55)

jorgg · 2008-05-23 10:21:03

actually, it's quite the same problem as here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48635

jmrbcu · 2008-05-23 14:31:08

yea, I got the same problem wth xfce4 and Terminal, see this problem in the address above!!!

Last edited by jmrbcu (2008-05-23 14:32:05)

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#1 2008-05-23 07:57:11

Xfce4 hangs opening terminal, etc.

#2 2008-05-23 10:21:03

Re: Xfce4 hangs opening terminal, etc.

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Re: Xfce4 hangs opening terminal, etc.

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