Odd xorg behaviour.

guriinii · 2011-02-27 22:35:07

Hi all.

I've been having some issues with xorg that I cannot resolve. After boot everything works fine, then, after an unspecified amount of time (which varies) the screen goes into standby and immediately comes back on. My wallpaper has gone strange, my mouse pointer doesn't change, Chromium is unreadable and Abiword unusable.

Screenshots:

Before:

After:

It's quite a new install so I reviewed the wiki in case I did something wrong and found nothing. I'm completely stuck.

Haptic · 2011-02-27 23:52:56

I think its your graphics card/driver that is causing this. What card/driver are you using?

guriinii · 2011-02-28 00:21:48

This is my graphics card :Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device and I'm using the generic "xf86-video-intel" driver from the repos. I noticed the "xf86-video-vesa" driver is also installed, will this cause some conflict?

Gusar · 2011-02-28 10:38:50

Nope, the vesa driver will not conflict, it unloads when the intel driver loads. You problem is that intel doesn't care about such old graphics chips anymore, so they tend to work extremely badly with newest drivers. You're pretty much screwed. You can try to find a magic combination of kernel/X/intel that works and stick with it.
Or, if the issue persistently appears after the screen goes into standby... don't put the screen into standby then

guriinii · 2011-02-28 10:54:39

Gusar wrote:

You're pretty much screwed.

Damn.

Gusar wrote:

You can try to find a magic combination of kernel/X/intel that works and stick with it.

That is beyond my knowledge and capability. I really hope to resolve this issue, Arch is the best distro I've used and I don't want to have to change. Any ideas?

stqn · 2011-02-28 12:20:40

You could try another distro's live CD/USB, maybe a relatively old one, and see if it works there, and if it does look at the version numbers...

guriinii · 2011-02-28 13:41:55

I feel like I've just been dumped. Ok, thanks for the help.

Gusar · 2011-02-28 18:54:25

Like I said, not letting the display go into standby might help. I think this should do it:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "old intel stuff"
  Driver "intel"
  Option "DPMS" "off"
EndSection

What could also help is disabling 3D acceleration:

Option "DRI" "false"

Otherwise, figure out the last intel driver version that has userspace modesetting and install it. You'll need to downgrade xorg-server too in that case. Old packages available here: http://arm.konnichi.com/search/

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#1 2011-02-27 22:35:07

Odd xorg behaviour.

#2 2011-02-27 23:52:56

Re: Odd xorg behaviour.

#3 2011-02-28 00:21:48

Re: Odd xorg behaviour.

#4 2011-02-28 10:38:50

Re: Odd xorg behaviour.

#5 2011-02-28 10:54:39

Re: Odd xorg behaviour.

#6 2011-02-28 12:20:40

Re: Odd xorg behaviour.

#7 2011-02-28 13:41:55

Re: Odd xorg behaviour.

#8 2011-02-28 18:54:25

Re: Odd xorg behaviour.

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