On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Jim Seymour <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > About three weeks ago my kde desktop started to get distorted and slow > reacting. I decided to go ahead and reboot the computer. That was the last > time I have been logged in graphically. I have since removed KDE and the > nvidia-drivers and am now just trying to get it working with the nv drivers > and xdm/twm. I do get a log in screen, however upon trying to log in the > screen goes blank and eventually comes back to the login screen. Since I seem > to be the only one having this issue, I assume I missed an important entry in > the elog. I have the modeline (no X at all without a xorg.conf) set to the > parameters parsed by the video driver. I am using evdev for the keyboard and > mouse (they work fine). I have googled and searched the mail archives to see > if anyone else has had the same issue recently and how it was resolved. For > the past three weeks I have come up empty. There are no EE entries in the > Xorg.0.log at this point. I am running the stable version amd64 > that is completely up to date package wise. The hardware does not seem to be > the issue as a gentoo live dvd works perfectly. Any ideas on how I can get > this working again? The only worthwhile errors I can find is in the xdm.log > are below. This is with a clean xdm.log, reboot, login attempt and then > killing X with ctrl_alt_bkspc. > > XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" > after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard > xdm error (pid 5477): fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) > XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" > after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > error setting MTRR (base = 0xb0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid > argument (22) > XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" > after 167 requests (167 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > xdm error (pid 5496): fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) > xdm error (pid 4814): Server crash rate too high: removing display :0 > error setting MTRR (base = 0xb0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid > argument (22) > > Thanks for any help, > Jim
Weird report. You might try booting with DRM debugging turned on and looking at dmesg to see what's going on. I presume that you have a second machine that you can shell in on. To turn on debug in grub.conf do something like this, of course dropping the modeset part if you don't need it: title 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 MS=1, DRM=0x06 root (hd0,6) kernel (hd0,6)/boot/bzImage-2.6.32-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/sda2 i915.modeset=1 drm.debug=0x06 This will create a lot of output in dmesg so you may not want to run with it long term, but it's helped me find a few things over the last couple of weeks. Hope this helps, Mark
