From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OTkqd-0000Gv-De for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:08:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86E421C011; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5A61C011 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OTkpt-0001UM-4O for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:07:30 -0400 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o5U07TsA012022 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:07:29 -0400 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o5U07TRw012019 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:07:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:07:28 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability Message-ID: <20100630000728.GA11662@math.princeton.edu> References: <4C28D22E.50005@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <20100629114836.GA10781@math.princeton.edu> <4C2A4042.80205@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C2A4042.80205@f_philipp.fastmail.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: bd3bc013-e9ca-4db9-a18b-4bf7c08f7380 X-Archives-Hash: dda2d47784f307537c0134623694ae59 On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:49:38PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > What, you mean after going blank? Not that I would have noticed. If you > mean after the xserver crash, see three sentences below ;) Oh, my bad. So I assumed that you also checked the kernel logs then. Are you sure there's no kernel trouble _very early_ in the boot process? I don't know about the Dell model you have, is it a laptop? Some motherboard BIOS/ACPI are known to have a bug where they mis-report the lid status of the laptop, and so on boot the computer "thinks" the lid is closed and turns off the screen. Though the kernel would usually complain about not finding an active screen attached to the video card or something like that. > > >> > >> 2. Once the XServer runs, it is extremely unstable. It gets killed and > >> restarted by XDM every few minutes. dmesg and Xorg.0.log haven't shown > >> anything suspicious. Is this with a window manager or is this also with the vaniila TWM + xterm? I mean, if something crashes, somebody somewhere ought of have a log, right? Best of luck, W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton