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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

X crashing a lot

My X seems to be crashing a lot.. It does so when I start cheese to take a picture with my webcam, when I play video fullscreen (vlc) and press the left mouse button to get a menu, when I play video with mplayer and try the same, sometimes while using fast user switch, ...

I've got an intel card GM965 with the newest intel driver and xorg from extra, Xorg.conf:

 Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier     "Server[0]"
  Screen         "Screen[0]" 0 0
  Option         "BlankTime"    "0"
  Option         "StandbyTime"    "0"
  Option         "SuspendTime"    "0"
  Option         "OffTime"        "180"
 EndSection
 
 Section "ServerFlags"
  Option "DontZap"  "False"
  Option "AIGLX"    "off"
 EndSection

 Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Device[0]"
  Driver      "intel"
  Option      "DRI"  "false"
 EndSection

 Section "Monitor"
  Identifier  "Monitor[0]"
  Option  "DPMS"  "on"
 EndSection
 
 Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen[0]"
  Device     "Device[0]"
  DefaultDepth     24
  SubSection "Display"
   Depth     24
   Modes "1440x900" "800x600"
#   Virtual  2720  1024
#   Virtual 2464 1668 # a3 beamer below
   Virtual  1440  900
  EndSubSection
 EndSection

This is realy annoying and I have no idea where to look, Xorg.0.log doesn't show anything about the crash. I'm not sure whether X crashes completely neither, it just goes straight to the gdm login prompt.

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Re: X crashing a lot

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

doesn't return anything at all?

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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: X crashing a lot

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

doesn't return anything at all?

No, nothing..

demian

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From: Frankfurt, Germany

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 709

Re: X crashing a lot

Hello Ramses de Norre,

delete your login manager, start in runlevel 3 and use startx to run the X-Server. When it crashes, you will get rather detailed information on why.
I couldn't really make sense of the information but switching from GNOME to OpenBox reduced the crashes to once in a few hours.
I will collect some more information and look for bug reports. If there are none related to this issue, I will create one, but right now I'm happy I can work for hours without crashing.
I got the feeling it is DBUS related. You may want to test if dbus is running properly or maybe delete it at all for testing purpose.
Try adding rm /var/run/dbus.pid to start up process, if dbus is failing to start.

Regards,

demian.

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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: X crashing a lot

hi! i'm following this error a lot, and i post in a few threads about it, some of them are...

Frequent freezes, intel driver bug, searching workaround; tips welcome
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 57#p555357

X crashes at every second startup
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 75#p559075

wanna reinstall 2007.08 and upgrade without xorg + intel drivers
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 82#p558582

Graphics corruption on Intel 945GM
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 64#p558864

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