On 12/25/11 11:49, Leif Middelschulte wrote: > 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?
No. gdb enlightenment is correct. dh >>> 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. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
