2nd Monitor rotate crashes OS and puts me on log-in screen

RobinHood · 2017-01-23 20:05:17

I rotated my second monitor yesterday and now I get random crashes and dont know how to fix it, I had a search and added a 20-intel.conf:

ian@Arch:~$ more /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" "false"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
EndSection

But it did not hep, in-fact it made is worse. My mesa drivers are upto date

I have no issues when monitor is set to normal orientation, any pointers appreciated.

Thanks

Arch Linux
Cinnamon 3.2.8
Linux Kernel 4.8.13-1-ARCH

RobinHood · 2017-01-23 20:52:19

I started playing with xrandr rather than using Cinnamon's display preferences will see if it fixes it.

RobinHood · 2017-01-23 21:33:05

Unfortunately that didn't work either, although it did last much longer this time!

V1del · 2017-01-23 21:41:12

Remove that conf and xf86-video-intel , this driver is known to have issues and is barely maintained. See if you can reprodruce after removing both. The Xorg built-in modesetting driver tends to work better these days

seth · 2017-01-23 21:58:27

you should have a backtrace in the xorg log which might be worth inspection.

RobinHood · 2017-01-24 13:34:22

I tried removing xf86-video-intel but it would not start X so I have kept it but have set the driver to modesetting in the xorg.config.

So far so good, bit of a mess I guess - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … 2017&num=1

RobinHood · 2017-01-24 13:34:52

Thanks for the pointers!

RobinHood · 2017-01-24 20:13:52

So no crashing today after switching drivers which is good BUT now I have this weird anomaly on my 43 inch 4K monitor where is momentary shifts to the the right and back again, very quickly but I do see it.

Any ideas on how to fix that ?

Arch Linux

#1 2017-01-23 20:05:17

2nd Monitor rotate crashes OS and puts me on log-in screen

#2 2017-01-23 20:52:19

Re: 2nd Monitor rotate crashes OS and puts me on log-in screen

#3 2017-01-23 21:33:05

Re: 2nd Monitor rotate crashes OS and puts me on log-in screen

#4 2017-01-23 21:41:12

Re: 2nd Monitor rotate crashes OS and puts me on log-in screen

#5 2017-01-23 21:58:27

Re: 2nd Monitor rotate crashes OS and puts me on log-in screen

#6 2017-01-24 13:34:22

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#7 2017-01-24 13:34:52

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#8 2017-01-24 20:13:52

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