Hi Mike, thanks your effort. The backtraces look promising.
I'll have a look soon and hope to be able to fix this issue. Am 27.12.2011 um 14:42 schrieb mh <mhe...@member.fsf.org>: > I learned how to record the gdb session. The attached gdb sessions > may provide more useful information. One gdb session run as root, > the other as user. Ran to break, then stepped through. Hope this > helps. > > mike > > <e-log-root.txt> > <e-log.txt> > > > > >> On Dec 25, 2011, at 11:49 AM, 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 <mhe...@member.fsf.org>: >>>> >>>>>>> On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Leif Middelschulte wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 2011/12/23 mh <mhe...@member.fsf.org>: >>>>>>>>> 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. Explore >>>> the >>>> Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> enlightenment-devel mailing list >>>> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Leif >>> >>> --- >>> --- >>> --- >>> --- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> 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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