Hi Mike, sorry for this late reply, but am kept busy with rl. Find comments in their respective context.
2011/12/24 mh <[email protected]>: > >>>> On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Leif Middelschulte wrote: >>>> >>>>> 2011/12/23 mh <[email protected]>: >>>>>> Salute: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm having the same issue using two different distros on the same >>>>>> hardware (two drives). >>>>>> >>>>>> When I'm running Arch, I'm running xorg-server 1.11.3-1 , using >>>>>> xf86-video-ati 6.14.3-1 >>>>>> >>>>>> On Debian, sid, I have xserver-xorg-core 1.11.2.902-1, using >>>>>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon 6.14.3-2 >>>>>> >>>>> I'd like you to start e via gdb (compile e with debugging symbols, see >>>>> our wiki). Then break on _e_randr_crtc_info_set and step through that >>>>> function until bad things (crash) happens. >>>> >>>> Will do and let you know what I find here. >>> >>> Ok, I installed gdb, downloaded the latest 66482 from svn. Followed the wiki >>> and rebuilt the EFLs after export CFLAG=-g. Now I'm stuck. From the wiki it >>> seems that I should start e, then when it crashes start gdb and break on >>> _e_randr_crtc_info_set. Not sure how to do that. Help appreciated. >> >> On Dec 23, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> >> you're going to need to start an xserver raw without any "gdm". >> >> Xorg -ac :1 & >> >> run that in a text console somewhere. >> in another text console do: >> >> export E_START=1 >> gdb enlightenment Thanks to raster for helping out here :-) But shouldn't this be gdb enlightenment_start instead? >> br _e_randr_crtc_info_set >> r >> >>> But, e never crashes though. What happens is that I'll run startx from vt1, >> >> it won't - you have to make it STOP when it hits that function with a >> breakpoint (br). you have to set it up before e starts like above. >> > > Thanks! Attached are three sequential console shots, after hitting the > breakpoint three times . These seem to look exactly the messages I saw > earlier. Sadly you did something wrong when trying to run e via gdb. Ecore_X fails to initialize, which is way before e_randr initialization. > > >>> and then in vt1 there are a series of messages like I included earlier in >>> the >>> file called "start-results". The messages say "Enlightenment relocation >>> handling", then many ESTART messages, then "Enlighenment relocation >>> handling" >>> again, followed by the same ESTART messages, then "<Enlightenment Error> A >>> previous instance of Enlightenment is still active on this screen. Aborting >>> startup." And then it repeats this process over and over until there's a >>> final error and X shuts down. >>> >>> So there doesn't seem to be a PID of enlightenment to run gdb on. I guess. >>> I've never really run gdb before. >>> >>> Any suggestions/hints would be appreciated, I'm willing to try and help >>> track >>> down the problem with this damn ATI hardware. >>> >>> >>>> mike >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Dec 23, 2011, at 3:52 AM, Andrea Suisani wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> sorry for not being able to join >>>>>>> the irc debug session last evening... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> though it seems we have have narrowed >>>>>>> the problem down to a peculiar comibination >>>>>>> of HW (ATI HD 5770/5750), e17 ver, >>>>>>> xorg version and x org drivere version. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> just trying get a more clear picture >>>>>>> I'm running X.Org X Server 1.10.4 >>>>>>> with fglrx used as video driver (defined >>>>>>> in xorg.conf) installed using >>>>>>> >>>>>>> apt-get install fglrx-updates >>>>>>> >>>>>>> on an ubuntu box ver 11.10, that's >>>>>>> the output of uname -a: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Linux suino 3.0.0-14-server #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 20:49:05 UTC 2011 >>>>>>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Mike what's your xorg version and >>>>>>> which driver are you using for your >>>>>>> 5770? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm going to try to configure my Xorg >>>>>>> dropping the binary only driver and using >>>>>>> instead the one provided by: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon >>>>>>> >>>>>>> i.e. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'll report back >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Andrea >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 12/22/2011 08:49 PM, mh wrote: >>>>>>>> Leif, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Following up on our irc session today: I >>>>>>>> deleted /opt/e17/lib/enlightenment/conf_randr and restarted e. Still >>>>>>>> had the black screen with gkrellm. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Decided to try something else: I took the 5770 video card out of the >>>>>>>> box and tried the onboard video, which is a Radeon HD 4200. Restarted >>>>>>>> e, and the display worked properly. Recompiled e to rev 66466, and it >>>>>>>> worked fine. Shutdown, the reinstalled the Radeon HD 5770 based video >>>>>>>> card and restarted, back to a black display with gkrellm still working. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So, from there I went back to the vt and recompiled e from v. 66218 and >>>>>>>> restarted e. Display and system worked fine. So that's where I'm at >>>>>>>> right now. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> mike > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. 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