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
