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#1 2007-11-16 01:21:29

Tomkin
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Registered: 2007-11-15
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[semi-solved] Composite issues

I just recently installed Arch Linux, and was quite impressed except for the following problems:

[These two solved thanks to FizDev]
Problem 1: KMail hangs as soon as I start it. As in, no response from anything, completely inoperative. It worked the first time I used it, then after that it just died. It works fine in Kontact, though.

Problem 2: When I try to open certain applications (Kontact, Kate, KWrite, maybe others) they will load for about 5 seconds, appear to stop, and open about a minute later.

EDIT: These are fixed, and Arch is now stunning me with its speed.

[This one not solved]
Problem 3: When I try to enable Xorg's "composite" extension, I am greeted with an empty black screen at KDM startup, which does not respond to anything. I think this stems from a xorg.conf error, but having little experience with Xorg composite I don't really know what's wrong.

This is my xorg.conf, with the entries which might be causing problems commented out. I checked my Xorg.0.log, which seemed to be going fine until the very end until it spouted out a bunch of DRI-related stuff and then "Backtrace:". I have an Acer Aspire 3100-1450 with an AMD Sempron 64 3500+ (1.8 GHz) and an ATI Radeon X1100.

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#    Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "record"
#    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
#    Load  "drm"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "QDS"
    ModelName    "41"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
#    Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"    "true"
#    Option      "DRI"            "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
#    Group  0
#    Mode   0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
#    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

If anyone could tell me which of these entries is causing problems and how to fix it, I would be grateful.

Problem 4: As I type this Konqueror has started hiccuping.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
- Tomkin

Last edited by Tomkin (2007-11-22 03:03:11)

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#2 2007-11-16 02:46:24

FizDev
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Re: [semi-solved] Composite issues

For the problems 1 & 2 it might just be that your loopback is not enabled and that your hostname isn't set up correctly.
Check this : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FAQ … be_fast.21

Also, just to be sure, what version of KDE are you using? (3.5 or a beta of KDE 4)

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#3 2007-11-16 03:28:03

Tomkin
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Re: [semi-solved] Composite issues

Thanks FizDev, I didn't realize I had to do that. Arch is now blazingly fast - most apps open before Katapult fades out smile. The difference is about a factor of 100 from previously, and a factor of 10 from Windows. Go Arch!

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#4 2007-11-16 04:21:17

FizDev
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Re: [semi-solved] Composite issues

For your problem #3, could you post the output of the command?

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

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#5 2007-11-16 06:50:39

kishd
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Re: [semi-solved] Composite issues

found on the forums: How about

grep "EE\|WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log


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#6 2007-11-17 03:36:11

Tomkin
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Re: [semi-solved] Composite issues

Xorg.0.log wrote:

Current Operating System: Linux offenbach 2.6.22-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 26 21:45:47 CEST 2007 x86_64
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering for RN50/RC410/RS485 forced on -- This is NOT officially supported at the hardware level and may cause instability or lockups
(WW) RADEON(0): LCD DDC Info Table found!
(WW) RADEON(0): LVDS Info:
(WW) RADEON(0): No crtc mode list for crtc 1,continuing with desired mode
(WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ...
(WW) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION  was: 0x3fff3000 is: 0x3fff3000
(WW) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffffffc0 is: 0x41ff4000

Wow. Cryptic-tacular. This is with all commented lines in the above xorg.conf uncommented. I have no idea what half of these mean, but the full Xorg.0.log ended rather distressingly with this:

Xorg.0.log wrote:

drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:05.0
drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
drmOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK)
drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 9
drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:05.0

Backtrace:

Again, no experience with Xorg troubleshooting, so this is as transparent as a lead sheet. Any help would be awesome.

Thanks,
- Tomkin

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#7 2007-11-17 04:29:25

FizDev
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Re: [semi-solved] Composite issues

Tomkin wrote:

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering for RN50/RC410/RS485 forced on -- This is NOT officially supported at the hardware level and may cause instability or lockups

Hmm... well first I'd remove the "type1" from the font paths and modules, unless you want it (pacman -Sy xorg-fonts-type1)
Then I'd try to install acpid

pacman -Sy acpid

That's (probably) 2 less warnings. Now, I'm not sure but seeing that there are no errors : the problem is probably somewhere else... maybe KDM itself. Could you try GDM to see?

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#8 2007-11-18 20:20:41

Tomkin
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Re: [semi-solved] Composite issues

I tried gdm, and the results were:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log wrote:

Current Operating System: Linux offenbach 2.6.22-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 26 21:45:47 CEST 2007 x86_64
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering for RN50/RC410/RS485 forced on -- This is NOT officially supported at the hardware level and may cause instability or lockups
(WW) RADEON(0): LCD DDC Info Table found!
(WW) RADEON(0): LVDS Info:
(WW) RADEON(0): No crtc mode list for crtc 1,continuing with desired mode
(WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ...
(WW) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION  was: 0x3fff3000 is: 0x3fff3000
(WW) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffffffc0 is: 0x41ff4000

Pretty much the same as the first, but without the type1 error. Speaking of fonts, do you know how to turn on font anti-aliasing?
EDIT: Wow, why not try looking in the Control Panel! D'oh. roll

Thanks for your help. I'm sorry my responses haven't exactly been prompt - I keep telling myself Real Life is for wimps but somehow I get dragged in anyway.

Last edited by Tomkin (2007-11-18 23:05:38)

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#9 2007-11-22 03:02:48

Tomkin
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Registered: 2007-11-15
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Re: [semi-solved] Composite issues

OK, I'm making progress. I found that if I set DefaultDepth 24 in my "Screen" section, it worked OK. I now (theoretically) have AIGLX with Composite. However, I get an error "[dri] radeondrigetversion failed to open the drm [dri] disabling DRI" and dri is not working. The only other warning I got said something to the effect of "DRI forced on, this is not officially supported at the hardware level and may cause instability or lockups." Am I screwed as far as Composite goes?

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