Hi,

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:35:38 PDT, Garen <garen.p at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With 2009.06, I could not set my Display Preferences to disable the
> default [x] Mirror Screens.  If I hit apply, it did nothing.  Also
possibly
> related--I would sometimes see xscreensaver max out one of the CPUs on
my
> system.
> 

Does the high CPU usage still occur in /dev?

> Yesterday I upgraded to the latest /dev release (snv_125) and now still
> have problems:
> 
> 1) When trying to de-mirror my two monitors with the resolution set to
> 1280x1024 for each (17" Dell LCDs - 1704FPTs) via -> System ->
Preferences
> -> Display Preferences I now get a GUI error message that says:
> 
> The selected configuration for displays could not be applied
> required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=(2560,
1024),
> minimum=(320, 200), maximum=(1280, 1280)
> 

You're hitting a limitation in the display driver, which has to reserve
space for the largest possible framebuffer size (the virtual screen size)
when X starts. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 explains how to
increase the reserved size.

> 2) After some period of inactivity, my monitors go blank and after some
> mouse/keyboard input won't come back alive for a _really_ long time
> (10,15,20 minutes it seems.)
> 
> scanpci shows:
> ...
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2e12
>  Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
> 
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x01: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2e13
>  Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
> ...
> 

This is a serious problem... does this have the same symptoms as the bug
linked from:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=115840&tstart=0

> I also have some new warnings in dmesg that may be related and weren't
> present in 2009.06:
> 
> e1) gnome-session[775]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING:
> IceListenForConnections returned 2 non-local listeners:
> inet/csearch:55056,inet6/csearch:39958
> 

Might be some odd behaviour by the session management code, should be
harmless but you could file a bug to get rid of the warning.

> e2) genunix: [ID 127566 kern.info] device pci8086,2e12 at 2(display#0)
keeps
> up device scsiclass,05 at 1,0(cdrom#2), but the former is not power managed
> 

This is due to a default power.conf entry which has no effect on this
system.

> e3) csearch gnome-session[775]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING:
Could
> not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not get owner of name
> 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name
> 

I believe ConsoleKit is not yet installed by default, so is probably also
harmless.

> Any ideas?

-Albert

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