xorg corruption
Eric Anholt
eta at lclark.edu
Tue Feb 22 08:37:00 GMT 2005
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 13:36 -0500, Shaun Mickey wrote:
> First off i have FreeBSD 5.3 stable on a dell latitude c600 (p3 750 512mb ram)
> i have xorg installed and have had both Gnome and KDE installed (not at the
> same time though).
>
> Every time i go to start kde or gnome after a shutdown, (using halt, shutdown,
> or reboot) the screen that's supposed to be black and white checkered with
> the X cursor is a corrupted version of a screenshot, or horizontal pink and
> gray bars. I believe the processor is spiked as well because i can move the
> mouse but there is a 1-2 second delay before it moves and it jumps, it
> doesn't refresh smoothly.
>
> About 5 minutes after i started xorg i am logged into gnome and can slowly
> logout. After about another 3-5 minutes i'm logged out. Now i can go startx
> again and it starts perfectly and i'm logged in in < 2 minutes.
>
> I've installed freebsd several times, always with the same options (first two
> times i installed gnome, last time i installed kde) It never fails to happen
> after a reboot.
>
> Here are the vitals, let me know if anything else is needed.
Does the situation change if you disable the DRI by commenting out 'Load
"dri"' in the config? If I was guessing, I'd say that the card is
hanging, and your /va/rlog/Xorg.0.log is repeatedly saying that it's
resetting the card. Either way, the log file is key here.
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Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
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