[gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems

[gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems

[Wolfgang Liebich]

Hi,
update-eix won't work anymore: If I try to start it, it prints "Reading
Portage settings .." and starts gobbling up memory at an amazing rate. 
At a memory usage of about 770MB (according to top) the process stops
with the message "Aborted" (nothing else).
What now?
Puzzled,
Wolfgang
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Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix has memory problems

[Zac Medico]

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Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
> Hi,
> update-eix won't work anymore: If I try to start it, it prints "Reading
> Portage settings .." and starts gobbling up memory at an amazing rate. 
> At a memory usage of about 770MB (according to top) the process stops
> with the message "Aborted" (nothing else).
> What now?
> Puzzled,
> Wolfgang


You should probably file a bug with the eix developers [1] (unless one has already been filed).  If it doesn't get past "Reading Portage settings .." then I would guess that it is having trouble parsing one or more config files such as make.conf or those in /etc/portage/.

Zac

[1] http://dev.croup.de/proj/eix/
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[gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

[Bruce Burden]

	Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file.
  And, at 24 bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss!

	Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created
  an xterm of output or so. Drat!

	OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is
  a HP ZD8000 with an ATI X600 Mobile Radeon.

	Any ideas what is going on? Clearly it is related to
  X and fglrx, as the xorg.conf "ATI" driver doesn't do this.

Modules:

agpgart
ati_agp
fglrx

						Thanks,
							Bruce
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Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

[Holly Bostick]

Bruce Burden schreef:
> 
> Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file. And, at 24 
> bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss!
> 
> Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created an xterm of
>  output or so. Drat!
> 
> OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is a HP ZD8000 
> with an ATI X600 Mobile Radeon.
> 
> Any ideas what is going on? Clearly it is related to X and fglrx, as 
> the xorg.conf "ATI" driver doesn't do this.
> 
> Modules:
> 
> agpgart
> 
> ati_agp
> 
> fglrx

Hi, Bruce :-).

Number one, please don't hijack threads. This post came as a reply to
the "update-eix has memory problems" thread; apparently you hit "reply"
and changed the subject, rather than sending a new mail to the list
(which would have started a new thread). This is bad mailing-list etiquette.

Number two, as to your actual problem:

a) I don't understand what "nothing was completing if it created
an xterm of output or so" means. What is "nothing"? "(not) completing" how?

I suppose what you're saying is that applications that produce terminal
output are not completing in some fashion, but even if that's a correct
reading, it still doesn't tell me much about what the problem actually
is. Some error messages would be much more useful in this regard.

b) I am wondering about that ati-agp module. Does that mean you're using
the internal fglrx agp module ("UseInternalAGPGart" set to "yes" in
xorg.conf), or that you're using the kernel module for ATI IGP
motherboards? Do you actually have an ATI IGP mobo in your .... laptop,
is it?

c) does the fglrx driver actually now support the X600 series (mobile)?
I know that people with X800s (desktop) don't have support (and, man,
are they P.O'd), and mobile chip support tends to be somewhat choppy, so
it's possible that there's only partial support for the chipset,
resulting in this issue (I have a 9800SE, so while I don't find much to
be grateful for in the ATI drivers, I am at least grateful for an older
model card that is "supported" as well as anything is supported by the
proprietary Linux drivers).


Anyway, hope this helps, sorry for posting to a hijacked thread, but
hopefully Bruce will repost in a new thread and we can go further.

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

[Benoit Joseph]

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Hello All,

I've read that the ati-drivers does not support 2.6.15 kernel yet...

I guess when you say nothing finish it means that your command hangs and
desn't give you the prompt. I have the same problem.
(ati Rf250 M9)

Here are a site that point the problem and a way to patch 2.6.15 kernel...

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_fglrx#X-specific_issues

Regards,

Benoit

2006/2/3, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>:
>
> Bruce Burden schreef:
> >
> > Okay, I have fglrx as the driver in the xorg.conf file. And, at 24
> > bit resolution, xdm starts X. Bliss!
> >
> > Then I realized that nothing was completing if it created an xterm of
> >  output or so. Drat!
> >
> > OS is Gentoo 2.6.15-gentoo-r1. Xorg is 6.8.2. Machine is a HP ZD8000
> > with an ATI X600 Mobile Radeon.
> >
> > Any ideas what is going on? Clearly it is related to X and fglrx, as
> > the xorg.conf "ATI" driver doesn't do this.
> >
> > Modules:
> >
> > agpgart
> >
> > ati_agp
> >
> > fglrx
>
> Hi, Bruce :-).
>
> Number one, please don't hijack threads. This post came as a reply to
> the "update-eix has memory problems" thread; apparently you hit "reply"
> and changed the subject, rather than sending a new mail to the list
> (which would have started a new thread). This is bad mailing-list
> etiquette.
>
> Number two, as to your actual problem:
>
> a) I don't understand what "nothing was completing if it created
> an xterm of output or so" means. What is "nothing"? "(not) completing"
> how?
>
> I suppose what you're saying is that applications that produce terminal
> output are not completing in some fashion, but even if that's a correct
> reading, it still doesn't tell me much about what the problem actually
> is. Some error messages would be much more useful in this regard.
>
> b) I am wondering about that ati-agp module. Does that mean you're using
> the internal fglrx agp module ("UseInternalAGPGart" set to "yes" in
> xorg.conf), or that you're using the kernel module for ATI IGP
> motherboards? Do you actually have an ATI IGP mobo in your .... laptop,
> is it?
>
> c) does the fglrx driver actually now support the X600 series (mobile)?
> I know that people with X800s (desktop) don't have support (and, man,
> are they P.O'd), and mobile chip support tends to be somewhat choppy, so
> it's possible that there's only partial support for the chipset,
> resulting in this issue (I have a 9800SE, so while I don't find much to
> be grateful for in the ATI drivers, I am at least grateful for an older
> model card that is "supported" as well as anything is supported by the
> proprietary Linux drivers).
>
>
> Anyway, hope this helps, sorry for posting to a hijacked thread, but
> hopefully Bruce will repost in a new thread and we can go further.
>
> Holly
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>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

[Holly Bostick]

Benoit Joseph schreef:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've read that the ati-drivers does not support 2.6.15 kernel yet...

Not true; I've been using them together for the last two versions of the
ATI drivers:

motub -> uname -r
2.6.15-gentoo

motub -> fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 SE Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.5582 (8.21.7)

(upgraded from 8.20.8 yesterday).


> 
> I guess when you say nothing finish it means that your command hangs and
> desn't give you the prompt. I have the same problem.
> (ati Rf250 M9)
> 
> Here are a site that point the problem and a way to patch 2.6.15 kernel...

The gentoo ebuild(s) already contains this patch:

# $Header:
/var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/ati-drivers-8.21.7.ebuild,v
1.2 2006/01/21 21:15:52 anarchy Exp $

<snip>

	# fix kernel oops for acpi
	if kernel_is 2 6 15; then
		epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-linux-2.6.15.patch
	fi
}


Holly
(sorry again, but I couldn't let that misinformation stand)

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Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

[Bruce Burden]

	Sigh. It looks like the X600 isn't supported by 
   fglrx. Rechecked ATI's web site.

	Well, it looks like the next video card will be an
   nVidia. At least the support their cards...

	Errr, no holy wars regarding who makes better cards, 
   please.

							Bruce
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Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

[Andrei Slavoiu]

--- Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> wrote:
> 	Sigh. It looks like the X600 isn't supported by 
>    fglrx. Rechecked ATI's web site.
Where did you find that? Here it says it's supported
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.21.7.html

> 	Well, it looks like the next video card will be an
>    nVidia. At least the support their cards...
I'm not happy with fglrx either, it's very buggy, but
now that my card (radeon 9550) is supported by the
free drivers I will be able to get rid of it :)


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Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!

[Richard Fish]

On 2/3/06, Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> wrote:
>
>
>         Sigh. It looks like the X600 isn't supported by
>    fglrx. Rechecked ATI's web site.

The X600 in my Asus was working fine with the latest ATI drivers.

-Richard

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