Xorg Crashes ... Ryan Daly
Tim McConnell
timothy.mcconnell at comcast.net
Wed Jan 6 11:49:21 PST 2010
Thanks,
Tim McConnell
<timothy.mcconnell at comcast.net>
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:27 -0800, xorg-request at lists.freedesktop.org
wrote:
What is the model of the Nvidia card? Also what do you have installed as
far as software versions (xorg, that sort of thing)?
I know in Fedora there are different versions of the Nvidia drivers that
you have to get from a separate repo ( I think Debian calls them non
free contribs, wouldn't know about any version of Unbuntu), to me it
sounds like you have the wrong drivers installed.
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:31:14 -0800
> From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Xorg crashes...
> To: Ryan Daly <daly at ctc.com>
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Message-ID: <4B44D6F2.2040007 at gmail.com>
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>
> On 01/06/10 08:56, Ryan Daly wrote:
> > On 01/06/2010 10:53 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> >> On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:50, Ryan Daly wrote:
> >>
> >>>> not sure whats going on, but by
> >>>> looking at the log I see some userspace tools
> >>>> erroring out(which should not keep the screen from
> >>>> going forward), but I also see something about
> >>>> fglrx not found.. could either mean that you
> >>>> haven't the xorg module, as well as the kernel module,
> >>>> or the fglrx module is crapping out with the
> >>>> xserver version(had this a while ago with fglrx,
> >>>> ended up switching to radeon);
> >>>>
> >>>> hope this helps.
> >>>>
> >>>> Justin P. Mattock
> >>>>
> >>> Justin - thanks for your reply.
> >>>
> >>> Is fglrx ATI specific? I have a nVidia card. I'm not sure how they all
> >>> play together, though.
> >>
> >> fglrx is the closed-source ATI driver
> >>
> >
> > OK. That rules that out then...
> >
> > The backtrace is pretty consistent with the following few lines:
> >
> > Program received signal SIGTERM, Terminated.
> > 0x00007f146bab8110 in __close_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
> > (gdb) backtrace r full
> > #0 0x00007f146bab8110 in __close_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #1 0x00007f1466f61516 in ?? () from
> > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #2 0x0000000000447723 in DisableDevice (dev=0x18a33a0) at
> > ../../dix/devices.c:407
> >
> > Are those lines pointing to a device or to the card possibly?
> >
> > I'm running the same version of Ubuntu on three different machines, and
> > I'm only experiencing the Xorg restarts on one system. I'm at a loss...
> >
>
> yeah.. fglrx is specific to
> ati chipsets(but could be wrong).
>
> In your case If you have nvidia
> you probably should be using
> nv, nouveau, or the proprietary module.
>
> if you can does changing your xorg.conf
> to use vesa/vga have the xserver start properly?
>
>
> Justin P. Mattock
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:47:14 -0500
> From: Ryan Daly <daly at ctc.com>
> Subject: Re: Xorg crashes...
> To: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock at gmail.com>
> Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
> Message-ID: <4B44DAB2.3090102 at ctc.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On 01/06/2010 01:31 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> >>> fglrx is the closed-source ATI driver
> >>>
> >>
> >> OK. That rules that out then...
> >>
> >> The backtrace is pretty consistent with the following few lines:
> >>
> >> Program received signal SIGTERM, Terminated.
> >> 0x00007f146bab8110 in __close_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
> >> (gdb) backtrace r full
> >> #0 0x00007f146bab8110 in __close_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
> >> No symbol table info available.
> >> #1 0x00007f1466f61516 in ?? () from
> >> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so
> >> No symbol table info available.
> >> #2 0x0000000000447723 in DisableDevice (dev=0x18a33a0) at
> >> ../../dix/devices.c:407
> >>
> >> Are those lines pointing to a device or to the card possibly?
> >>
> >> I'm running the same version of Ubuntu on three different machines, and
> >> I'm only experiencing the Xorg restarts on one system. I'm at a loss...
> >>
> >
> > yeah.. fglrx is specific to
> > ati chipsets(but could be wrong).
> >
> > In your case If you have nvidia
> > you probably should be using
> > nv, nouveau, or the proprietary module.
> >
> > if you can does changing your xorg.conf
> > to use vesa/vga have the xserver start properly?
>
> Well, my xorg.conf is set up to use the nVidia proprietary module:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Device0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
> BoardName "Quadro FX 570"
> EndSection
>
> The X server will start properly and it allows me to log in. Sometimes
> my session will last hours, other times it will restart 3 or 4 times in
> 15 minutes. I have left it logged in without it restarting on its own,
> so it definitely appears to be triggered by something. I can say this,
> I'm typing 100% of the time it ups and restarts on me.
>
> I have left the proprietary driver out and still received a restart, too.
>
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