Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

I got caught by this upgrade (though I am not using ati-drivers) and had
oops's that at first seemed to be xorgs fault.  While -hal helped a lot
(what a fiasco!), there seems to be a bug in 2.6.29 and updates to
reiserfs (yes, reiserfs is still maintained and being updated - look for
slowpath bug in kernel) that only manifested itself to me after
upgrading xorg-server.  Last message I saw was 2.6.30 will probably have
a fix for it, but in the meantime, downgrade to 2.6.28 and see if that
helps.

The ati system is definitely affected by this (oops in reiserfs on
screen), whilst an intel i915 laptop (also reiserfs) was also much more
stable on 2.6.28 and upgraded xorg-server - however this one doesnt give
any indication except for a hard hang with nothing logged (which implies
its the filesystem so no log is written) when running on 2.6.29 for a
few hours.

BillK


On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 16:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> >> David Relson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700
> >>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Summary: X is hosed.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions
> >>> of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message
> >>> subject.  I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was
> >>> good.  If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and,
> >>> after correcting that, fonts weren't being found.  All is now working
> >>> fine.  Below is my xorg.conf.  Hope it helps.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> David
> >>>
> >>> ### Begin xorg.conf ###
> >>>
> i
> >>> ### End xorg.conf ###
> >>
> >> This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all.  If it works, it is probably
> >> running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps).  You need to run
> >> "aticonfig --initial" as root first.
> >
> > Or he might have it in autoload already and it gets loaded at boot time?
> >
> > - Mark
> 
> When I tried aticonfig with my original xorg.conf, it got a seg fault.
>  The same thing happens when I use David's.
> 
> Things are not going well.
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
> 
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
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