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new ati driver 8.29.6 crashes with "PreInitDAL failed"
by Rainer Klier 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

hi, i am using a hp notebook nc8430 which has an ati mobility radeon x1600 built in. the ati-driver 8.28.8 works. (not as fast as expected for this card, but it works....) but the new driver 8.29.6 doesn't work. x stops with the error "PreInitDAL failed". attached is the compressed Xorg.0.log file, where the error can be seen at the bottom. does anybody know about that error? what can i do? -- einen schönen Tag noch DI Rainer Klier Abteilung IT - Entwicklung ECOLOG Logistiksysteme GmbH Bauernstraße 11, A-4600 Wels Tel. ++43/7242/66200 Fax ++43/7242/66200-200 mailto:kra@ecolog.at http://www.ecolog.at

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strange effect while testing 7.2
by walter harms 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

hi list, this is a non-reproduceable bug that i found while testing 7.2-beta. It happened when i was running 2 Xservers in parallel. The problem vanished only after a cold restart (read: power off/on). for people interesting in testing: In the beginning i had to do a chmod +s xorg since my setup did not find the new xserver (/etc/permission contained the wrong path). It seems i had the old permission cached somewhere since the effect was not visible first (what got me confused). i simply started on the CLI with X :1 (and a other already running Xserver) made a few tests, stopped and did it again what caused the error msg. re, wh xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.4661 This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation. It is not supported in any way. Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/. Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release. Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the latest version in the X.Org Foundation CVS repository. See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/CvsPage for CVS access instructions. X Window System Version 7.1.99.2 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.99.2 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.16.16-1.6-smp i686 SUSE LINUX Current Operating System: Linux linux 2.6.16.13-4-default #1 Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006 i686 Build Date: 12 August 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Sep 1 20:55:03 2006 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (EE) I810(0): V_BIOS address 0x0 out of range (EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed. (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

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OpenSuse 10.1 & G6100
by walter harms 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

hi list, i have installed 10.1 on a gigabyte board (GA-M55+ S3G) with build in G6100. it works fine but today the X11-Cursor vanished. When starting KDE you could see the jumping ball then nothing. my first guess was that i found a KDE bug but even with fvwm2 nothing changed. only when i added "HWCursor" "off" i got the cursor back. i could not find a single problem. most mysterious was for me that the cursor was visible when kde started. using google i found these thread: www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-57747-Cannot-see-mouse-cursor-but-it-work… is there any way to manually set the xcursor, test it somehow ? (i did not fill a bug report because i do not see any way to reproduce it) re, wh

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Re: [suse-xfree86] X.Org 7 packages available for SUSE 10.1/10.2 (Alpha)
by Stefan Dirsch 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:07:12PM +0200, Rainer Klier wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 03.08.2006, 17:43 +0200 schrieb Stefan Dirsch: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:29:27PM +0200, Rainer Klier wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, den 03.08.2006, 15:41 +0200 schrieb Stefan Dirsch: > > > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:58:47PM +0200, Rainer Klier wrote: > > > > and i also noticed that compiz/xgl didn't start/work. > > > i have it enabled, but when installed 7.1 system behaeved like it is not > > > installed/switched on. > > > > Hmm. I would need more details here to investigate this issue. But > > since you're already back to 6.9 ... :-( > > i will try again tommorow.... > does xgl/compiz work with 7.1 on your computer? Honestly I didn't test it yet. Still need to figure out how to setup my KDE desktop to use Xgl/compiz. > > > after returning to 6.9 (which was not easy!), it worked again. > > > > > > > Indeed this is annoying. I've added ' Option "RenderAccel" "no" ' to > > > > > > does that cost performance? > > > > As long as you don't have Composite extensions enabled no. See the > > NVIDIA driver README for details. > > isn't xgl/compiz a "Composite extension"? AFAIK Xgl itself provides the Composite extension. Therefore I don't think Xgl/compiz would make use of the NVIDIA Render acceleration. But I might be completely wrong. Matthias probably knows better and might give us some more details, when he's back next week. > > > i think we need a "suse 10.1 upgrading from 6.9 to 7.1 howto" > > > and a "switching back to 6.9 if something fails howto"..... > > > > Yes, this would be something for openSUSE. You need to remove > > > > /usr/lib/X11 > > /usr/include/X11 > > i had to find out this the hard way........ > some minutes ago ;-) > > the hardest issue was, that i had to do all in text-mode coz after some > while even the open-source "nv" driver didn't work, which worked after > installation of 7.1... > strange! Well, nv/nvidia driver don't like each other. :-( > i need some script or similar to switch quickly from 6.9 to 7.1 and vice > versa. > so i can try/test, and go back quickly if somethink doesn't work. > because i also have to do some work here with my computer ...... ;-) It's a pity, that it isn't usable for you yet, but just to give you an idea for such scripts. Uninstall 7.1: - rpm -e $(rpm -qa|grep xorg-x11) --nodeps - rmdir /usr/lib/X11 /usr/include/X11 - let YaST resolve the package dependancies to install again 6.9 X.Org packages Install 7.1: - rpm -Uhv xorg-x11*.rpm Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ------------------------------------------------------

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