[gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[Arnau Bria]

Hi all,

I've updated my system to xorg-server 1.5.3 following the official doc:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml

I have VIDEO_CARDS="vesa intel" as intel driver not worked propertly in
the past with my video card:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

I configured it with hal, so:
# grep INPUT /etc/make.conf
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"

and my layout es for spanish.

# cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Section "InputDevice"
   Driver "evdev"
   Option "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection
-->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
   <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">es</merge>
   </match>
</deviceinfo>

and finally, I removed my xorg.conf file...
This is a tail of my Xorg log file:

(II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0   71.11  1280 1328 1360 1440  800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.4 kHz)
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 32884
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 32884
(II) intel(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
(II) intel(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
(II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0   71.11  1280 1328 1360 1440  800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.4 kHz)
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 32884
exaCopyDirty: Pending damage region empty!

So, my problems:

1.-) I use slim, and when xdm starts, I have to restart X server with
Ctrl+Atl+BackSpace if i don't that I don't see slim.

2.-) From slim to XFCE it takes a couple of minutes.

3.-) My touchpad behaves really strange, don't really know howto
explain this, but if I put the finger in the middle of the pad, cursos
goes to middle, if I put the finger in top righ, cursor goes to top
right, but I can't move the cursor with little movements as I've  ever
done... seems that pad and screen are 1:1 scale ... yes, this
explanation sucks :-) but I don't know how to explain it in Spanish
neither!!! 

TIA,
Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[Daniel da Veiga]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 15:44, Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've updated my system to xorg-server 1.5.3 following the official doc:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml
>
> I have VIDEO_CARDS="vesa intel" as intel driver not worked propertly in
> the past with my video card:
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
>
> I configured it with hal, so:
> # grep INPUT /etc/make.conf
> INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"
>
> and my layout es for spanish.
>
> # cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!--
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver "evdev"
>   Option "XkbLayout" "es"
> EndSection
> -->
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
>      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">es</merge>
>   </match>
> </deviceinfo>
>
> and finally, I removed my xorg.conf file...
> This is a tail of my Xorg log file:
>
> (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
> (II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0   71.11  1280 1328 1360 1440  800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.4 kHz)
> (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 32884
> (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 32884
> (II) intel(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
> (II) intel(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
> (II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
> (II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x800"x0.0   71.11  1280 1328 1360 1440  800 803 809 823 -hsync -vsync (49.4 kHz)
> (II) intel(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 32884
> exaCopyDirty: Pending damage region empty!
>
> So, my problems:
>
> 1.-) I use slim, and when xdm starts, I have to restart X server with
> Ctrl+Atl+BackSpace if i don't that I don't see slim.
>
> 2.-) From slim to XFCE it takes a couple of minutes.
>
> 3.-) My touchpad behaves really strange, don't really know howto
> explain this, but if I put the finger in the middle of the pad, cursos
> goes to middle, if I put the finger in top righ, cursor goes to top
> right, but I can't move the cursor with little movements as I've  ever
> done... seems that pad and screen are 1:1 scale ... yes, this
> explanation sucks :-) but I don't know how to explain it in Spanish
> neither!!!

1) I use slim, and I have no problems with Xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, have
you tried recompiling slim, or enabling logging on it to see what's
going on?
2) Some combinations of intel drivers + intel card + xorg-1.5 + kernel
do not behave properly. My card used to go over 800 fps with glxgears,
and now, with the new drivers and xorg, I'm stuck around 300, general
performance is no better. Its a shame, had to drop compiz-fusion, for
example. I hope for better support on new releases of intel driver.
3) Your touchpad is in absolute mode. You gotta change it to relative
mode, its a configuration problem, check hal fdi configs for your
touchpad.

-- 
Daniel da Veiga

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[Arnau Bria]

On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:55:06 -0300
Daniel da Veiga wrote:

Hi Daniel,

[...]
> 1) I use slim, and I have no problems with Xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, have
> you tried recompiling slim, or enabling logging on it to see what's
> going on?
recompiled... and log show many things :-)

some Xorg ones:

(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)

I'm compiling x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev ...

(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
[...]

do you have that file?


The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Duplicate shape name ""
>                   Using last definition
this warning is shown many times...

any problem with # cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Section "InputDevice"
   Driver "evdev"
   Option "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection
-->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
   <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">es</merge>
   </match>
</deviceinfo>

?¿?¿?¿


and this one that I don't know from where it comes:
exaCopyDirty: Pending damage region empty!

Then I see errro messages from all aplications I use in my XFCE, it is
normal?

> 2) Some combinations of intel drivers + intel card + xorg-1.5 + kernel
> do not behave properly. My card used to go over 800 fps with glxgears,
> and now, with the new drivers and xorg, I'm stuck around 300, general
> performance is no better. Its a shame, had to drop compiz-fusion, for
> example. I hope for better support on new releases of intel driver.

ok, but is it normal that, i.e, wine hangs my entire system until it
opens the application? is xorg and wine related?

> 3) Your touchpad is in absolute mode. You gotta change it to relative
> mode, its a configuration problem, check hal fdi configs for your
> touchpad.
is there any generic fdi file for touchpads? I don't know which one
select... 


thakns for your reply,
Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[Daniel da Veiga]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 13:30, Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:55:06 -0300
> Daniel da Veiga wrote:
>> 1) I use slim, and I have no problems with Xorg-server-1.5.3-r5, have
>> you tried recompiling slim, or enabling logging on it to see what's
>> going on?
> recompiled... and log show many things :-)
>
> some Xorg ones:
>
> (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
>
> I'm compiling x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev ...
>
> (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
> (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
> [...]
>
> do you have that file?
>
>
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>>                   Ignoring extra symbols
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>> Warning:          Duplicate shape name ""
>>                   Using last definition
> this warning is shown many times...
>
> any problem with # cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!--
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver "evdev"
>   Option "XkbLayout" "es"
> EndSection
> -->
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
>      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">es</merge>
>   </match>
> </deviceinfo>
>
> ?¿?¿?¿
>
>
> and this one that I don't know from where it comes:
> exaCopyDirty: Pending damage region empty!
>
> Then I see errro messages from all aplications I use in my XFCE, it is
> normal?
>

Definetly not normal. Have you run revdep-rebuild? What's your kernel
and VIDEO_CARDS variable content? Why are you using fbdev?

>> 2) Some combinations of intel drivers + intel card + xorg-1.5 + kernel
>> do not behave properly. My card used to go over 800 fps with glxgears,
>> and now, with the new drivers and xorg, I'm stuck around 300, general
>> performance is no better. Its a shame, had to drop compiz-fusion, for
>> example. I hope for better support on new releases of intel driver.
>
> ok, but is it normal that, i.e, wine hangs my entire system until it
> opens the application? is xorg and wine related?

Maybe a library problem, or your system is simply hanging at 100% CPU.
Again, revdep-rebuild...

>
>> 3) Your touchpad is in absolute mode. You gotta change it to relative
>> mode, its a configuration problem, check hal fdi configs for your
>> touchpad.
> is there any generic fdi file for touchpads? I don't know which one
> select...
>

Sorry, I don't know of a generic fdi for touchpads, you can search
Google for configs that may fit your hardware.

I would advice you to follow the upgrade guide, if you haven't,
everything I mentioned is right there:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml

-- 
Daniel da Veiga

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[Arnau Bria]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:43:38 -0300
Daniel da Veiga wrote:

[...]
> > Then I see errro messages from all aplications I use in my XFCE, it
> > is normal?
> >
> 
> Definetly not normal. 
Xorg messages? or application ones?

> Have you run revdep-rebuild? What's your kernel
> and VIDEO_CARDS variable content? Why are you using fbdev?
 # grep VIDEO /etc/make.conf
VIDEO_CARDS="vesa intel"

*I keep vesa cause I had many problems with intel driver...

# uname -a
Linux amparo 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #3 SMP Sat Jan 31 23:09:23 Local time zone must be set--see zic  i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5470 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

*I'll ask later about the "Local time zone" message, cause I've it
configured as  Gentoo Linux Localization Guide says... :-(


> >> 2) Some combinations of intel drivers + intel card + xorg-1.5 +
> >> kernel do not behave properly. My card used to go over 800 fps
> >> with glxgears, and now, with the new drivers and xorg, I'm stuck
> >> around 300, general performance is no better. Its a shame, had to
> >> drop compiz-fusion, for example. I hope for better support on new
> >> releases of intel driver.
> >
> > ok, but is it normal that, i.e, wine hangs my entire system until it
> > opens the application? is xorg and wine related?
> 
> Maybe a library problem, or your system is simply hanging at 100% CPU.
> Again, revdep-rebuild...
I did:

# revdep-rebuild -p
 * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

 * Checking reverse dependencies
 * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
 * will be emerged.

 * Collecting system binaries and libraries
 * Generated new 1_files.rr
 * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr
 * Checking dynamic linking consistency
[ 100% ]                 

 * Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. 

> >> 3) Your touchpad is in absolute mode. You gotta change it to
> >> relative mode, its a configuration problem, check hal fdi configs
> >> for your touchpad.
> > is there any generic fdi file for touchpads? I don't know which one
> > select...
> >
> 
> Sorry, I don't know of a generic fdi for touchpads, you can search
> Google for configs that may fit your hardware.
> 
> I would advice you to follow the upgrade guide, if you haven't,
> everything I mentioned is right there:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml
Yes, I followed it ...

one question:
is INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" enough? or do I have to include keyboard and
mouse?

Thanks for your reply,
Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[Daniel da Veiga]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 14:08, Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:43:38 -0300
> Daniel da Veiga wrote:
>
> [...]
>> > Then I see errro messages from all aplications I use in my XFCE, it
>> > is normal?
>> >
>>
>> Definetly not normal.
> Xorg messages? or application ones?
>

All of them, lol.

>> Have you run revdep-rebuild? What's your kernel
>> and VIDEO_CARDS variable content? Why are you using fbdev?
>  # grep VIDEO /etc/make.conf
> VIDEO_CARDS="vesa intel"
>
> *I keep vesa cause I had many problems with intel driver...

Hmm, me too.

>
> # uname -a
> Linux amparo 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #3 SMP Sat Jan 31 23:09:23 Local time zone must be set--see zic  i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5470 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> *I'll ask later about the "Local time zone" message, cause I've it
> configured as  Gentoo Linux Localization Guide says... :-(
>

xf86-video-intel-2.6 and above only worked OK for me with GEM enabled
in the kernel (2.6.28 and aboce)... But that's just my personal
opinion.

>
>> >> 2) Some combinations of intel drivers + intel card + xorg-1.5 +
>> >> kernel do not behave properly. My card used to go over 800 fps
>> >> with glxgears, and now, with the new drivers and xorg, I'm stuck
>> >> around 300, general performance is no better. Its a shame, had to
>> >> drop compiz-fusion, for example. I hope for better support on new
>> >> releases of intel driver.
>> >
>> > ok, but is it normal that, i.e, wine hangs my entire system until it
>> > opens the application? is xorg and wine related?
>>
>> Maybe a library problem, or your system is simply hanging at 100% CPU.
>> Again, revdep-rebuild...
> I did:
>
> # revdep-rebuild -p
>  * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
>
>  * Checking reverse dependencies
>  * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
>  * will be emerged.
>
>  * Collecting system binaries and libraries
>  * Generated new 1_files.rr
>  * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>  * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr
>  * Checking dynamic linking consistency
> [ 100% ]
>
>  * Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
>

Try revdep-rebuild -i (so it will search again). I had to do it...

>> >> 3) Your touchpad is in absolute mode. You gotta change it to
>> >> relative mode, its a configuration problem, check hal fdi configs
>> >> for your touchpad.
>> > is there any generic fdi file for touchpads? I don't know which one
>> > select...
>> >
>>
>> Sorry, I don't know of a generic fdi for touchpads, you can search
>> Google for configs that may fit your hardware.
>>
>> I would advice you to follow the upgrade guide, if you haven't,
>> everything I mentioned is right there:
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml
> Yes, I followed it ...
>
> one question:
> is INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" enough? or do I have to include keyboard and
> mouse?

I have keyboard and mouse as a fallback, but my xorg.conf has no
options or configurations for them...

I don't know if I can help more, as my system never recovered from the
Xorg 1.5 update...

-- 
Daniel da Veiga

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[Arnau Bria]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:34:56 -0300
Daniel da Veiga wrote:

> > Xorg messages? or application ones?
> >
> 
> All of them, lol.
:-)
 
> > *I keep vesa cause I had many problems with intel driver...
> 
> Hmm, me too.
Ok, I upgraded my kernel (2.6.28-r5), rebuild xorg,  and i've copied a
xorg.conf file (generated with Xorg --configure or something similar,
it's in the doc) and if I use vesa driver there, my computer works like
before!!!!! Wine goes fast, slim take a few seconds....
at least I have my old config!

What's going on?
 

> >  * Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
> >
> 
> Try revdep-rebuild -i (so it will search again). I had to do it...
did, but did not rebuild anything.

 
> I have keyboard and mouse as a fallback, but my xorg.conf has no
> options or configurations for them...
going to rebuild xorg with those options.
 
> I don't know if I can help more, as my system never recovered from the
> Xorg 1.5 update...
thanks a lot for your help!!!
You did help,

Cheers,
Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] some issues after upgrading to xorg-server 1.5.3

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net> wrote:
<SNIP>
> one question:
> is INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" enough? or do I have to include keyboard and
> mouse?
>
> Thanks for your reply,
> Arnau

I found that if I use *any* xorg.conf file then evdev seems to be
enough for me. However if I try to run without an xorg.conf file then
I'm getting failures when starting some applications telling me it
cannot find things.

It wasn't important to me to not use an xorg.conf file so I continue
to do it the old way and things are working OK.

- Mark