Re: strange crash

From: Randall Stewart <rrs_at_cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:29:11 -0500
Vlad Galu wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Randall Stewart <rrs_at_cisco.com> wrote:
>> Anton Berezin wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:18:12PM -0500, Randall Stewart wrote:
>> >
>> >> My "vacation" project was to reload the 80Gig disk that
>> >> came with my Thinkpad T43 with the latest version of
>> >> current...
>> >
>> > ...
>> >
>> >> I just decided to rebuild and reload my latest kernel changes I am
>> >> working on for SCTP.. and for the first time I did the logout button.
>> >>
>> >> Bam.. black-screen.. and reboot.
>> >
>> > I have the same experience with my T-43, but only when there is a
>> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf present.  If I just start X without configuration,
>> > everything's fine and dandy.  With configuration, ANY configuration 
>> (I had
>> > to build some to work with external monitor, with presentation 
>> projector,
>> > that sort of thing), I get exactly the symptoms you describe.
>> >
>> > It's been like that since I got the machine in the beginning of August.
>> > It's been running moderately recent -current (never older than a 
>> month or
>> > so).  I did not got around reporting this.
>> >
>> > So, just for the sake of it: move /etc/X11/xorg.conf out of the way, 
>> sync
>> > and wait, do your reboot magic, then see whether it works.
>> >
>> > \Anton.
>> Hmm..
>>
>> Do you mean /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf
>>
>> I don't have anything in the /etc/X11 directory...
>>
>> And I thought that is where X11 got its know-how on how
>> to initialize....
>>
>> I will try moving the one I have out of the way.. in fact
>> thinking about it.. I did not regenerate this (with the
>> config program) but copied it from my old disk.. but of
>> course even if its bad it should not crash the kernel.
> 
>   FWIW, I experience the same symptoms on a Radeon Mobility X300.
> They go away when I disable DRI. I think that by not using a
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, X switches to either vesa(4) or ati(4) drivers
> instead of using radeon(4).
> 
>> R
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Randall Stewart
>> NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc.
>> 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)
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> 
Ok.. I now have a work around :-)

with a bit of playing.. I find that if you go into the
xorg.conf file and comment out the line:
Section "Module"
#       Load  "dri" <----

Then everything is fine.. no more crashes :-)

R




-- 
Randall Stewart
NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc.
803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)
Received on Thu Jan 04 2007 - 10:29:39 UTC

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