[opensuse] Xorg crashes randomly
Hi, I have several problems with X11 on Opensuse 11.4. There were several problems from the beginning but last week Xorg started to crash randomly and the system got unusable. I have an ThinkPad T43 with the following graphics card: Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 5460 (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5460) The problems were: 1. I have a display attached with 1920x1200 pixels. However Opensuse always starts with 1400x1050 even if I start in a docking station with closed lcd display. To switch to 1920x1200 I have to switch off the LCD with the following command: xrandr --output LVDS --off; xrandr --size 1920x1200 2. After switching to 1920x1200 motif application show strange artifacts when they are big enough. I do not know when the problems start but I see problems with windows that are smaller than 1400x1050. The new problem is: 3. The Xorg server crashes randomly. It happens for example when I press Alt+F2, or when I start an application from a remote site, or when I open a drop down menu in amaraok. I see no pattern here. I think this is a software problem with Opensuse 11.4 because: - Opensuse 11.3 showed no problem on the same hardware - I borrowed a T43 from my coworker, switched the hard disks and got the same crashes on his hardware. Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong and what I could do to resolve the problems? Thanks Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 14/05/11 01:47, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
Hi,
I have several problems with X11 on Opensuse 11.4. There were several problems from the beginning but last week Xorg started to crash randomly and the system got unusable.
I have an ThinkPad T43 with the following graphics card:
Chipset: "ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 5460 (PCIE)" (ChipID = 0x5460)
The problems were:
1. I have a display attached with 1920x1200 pixels. However Opensuse always starts with 1400x1050 even if I start in a docking station with closed lcd display. To switch to 1920x1200 I have to switch off the LCD with the following command:
xrandr --output LVDS --off; xrandr --size 1920x1200
2. After switching to 1920x1200 motif application show strange artifacts when they are big enough. I do not know when the problems start but I see problems with windows that are smaller than 1400x1050.
The new problem is:
3. The Xorg server crashes randomly. It happens for example when I press Alt+F2, or when I start an application from a remote site, or when I open a drop down menu in amaraok. I see no pattern here.
I think this is a software problem with Opensuse 11.4 because:
- Opensuse 11.3 showed no problem on the same hardware - I borrowed a T43 from my coworker, switched the hard disks and got the same crashes on his hardware.
Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong and what I could do to resolve the problems?
Thanks Christoph
Not sure if this is of help, but yesterday I installed 11.4 KDE on my wife's desktop and tried (and eventually succeeded) in getting it to 'work' properly. The monitor's resolution is 1680X1050 but 11.4 would not go past 1280X1024. Setting "nomodeset" in the kernel boot command line allowed this as the highest to be selected as the highest resolution. (Running "x -configure" didn't really help although it got the monitor model right but this was after lots of fiddling so maybe it could have worked OK if I used it to begin with.....dunno.) The problem was that the system would lock-up solid with the keyboard and mouse locked. This would happen randomly- at one stage the lock-up occurred after 2 minutes after a reboot, another time we went for 28 minutes before a lock-up. After some thinking, I concluded that it must be video. The video card used is a nVidia GeForce 5500 and uses the legacy 173 nVidia driver. So what I did was in YaST2's Software Management I uninstalled anything nVidia driver and then WITHOUT rebooting, of course, I immediately re-installed them. After rebooting I had the correct resolution and the monitor brand was also correctly recognised. From this I concluded that on installation the process did not get the monitor/video settings correctly but did the second time 'round. BC -- "The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die," "Macbeth", Shakespeare -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am 15.05.2011 03:47, schrieb Basil Chupin:
Not sure if this is of help, but yesterday I installed 11.4 KDE on my wife's desktop and tried (and eventually succeeded) in getting it to 'work' properly. The monitor's resolution is 1680X1050 but 11.4 would not go past 1280X1024. Setting "nomodeset" in the kernel boot command line allowed this as the highest to be selected as the highest resolution. (Running "x -configure" didn't really help although it got the monitor model right but this was after lots of fiddling so maybe it could have worked OK if I used it to begin with.....dunno.)
The problem was that the system would lock-up solid with the keyboard and mouse locked. This would happen randomly- at one stage the lock-up occurred after 2 minutes after a reboot, another time we went for 28 minutes before a lock-up. After some thinking, I concluded that it must be video.
The video card used is a nVidia GeForce 5500 and uses the legacy 173 nVidia driver. So what I did was in YaST2's Software Management I uninstalled anything nVidia driver and then WITHOUT rebooting, of course, I immediately re-installed them. After rebooting I had the correct resolution and the monitor brand was also correctly recognised. From this I concluded that on installation the process did not get the monitor/video settings correctly but did the second time 'round.
BC
The notebook has an ATI card and the problem shows with the radeonhd and ati driver. The configuration file is empty and therefore I think that there can be no misconfiguration. nomodeset by the way does not help at all. Xorg then crashes deterministically at startup before it shows anything. Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 15/05/11 19:24, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
Am 15.05.2011 03:47, schrieb Basil Chupin:
Not sure if this is of help, but yesterday I installed 11.4 KDE on my wife's desktop and tried (and eventually succeeded) in getting it to 'work' properly. The monitor's resolution is 1680X1050 but 11.4 would not go past 1280X1024. Setting "nomodeset" in the kernel boot command line allowed this as the highest to be selected as the highest resolution. (Running "x -configure" didn't really help although it got the monitor model right but this was after lots of fiddling so maybe it could have worked OK if I used it to begin with.....dunno.)
The problem was that the system would lock-up solid with the keyboard and mouse locked. This would happen randomly- at one stage the lock-up occurred after 2 minutes after a reboot, another time we went for 28 minutes before a lock-up. After some thinking, I concluded that it must be video.
The video card used is a nVidia GeForce 5500 and uses the legacy 173 nVidia driver. So what I did was in YaST2's Software Management I uninstalled anything nVidia driver and then WITHOUT rebooting, of course, I immediately re-installed them. After rebooting I had the correct resolution and the monitor brand was also correctly recognised. From this I concluded that on installation the process did not get the monitor/video settings correctly but did the second time 'round.
BC
The notebook has an ATI card and the problem shows with the radeonhd and ati driver. The configuration file is empty and therefore I think that there can be no misconfiguration.
From what I understand from what I have read is that there is no longer a configuration file (like xorg.conf); the monitor/video configuration is configured "on the fly" when one boots the computer. However, if one does create or have an xorg.conf file then it is used. Which is why I mentioned "x -configure" to create this file. OK, just because I have a nVidia card does not mean that what I stated does not apply to Radeon. I read earlier (in another distro thread) that Linux does not always get the details correct when scanning the hardware during an installation - probably which is why I got the wrong results.
nomodeset by the way does not help at all. Xorg then crashes deterministically at startup before it shows anything.
Didn't really help here either :-( .... However, did you try and boot in Failsafe mode? BC -- "The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die," "Macbeth", Shakespeare -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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