Bug#503004: RandR: crashes if monitor is disconnected
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 09:38:48 Brice Goglin wrote: > These are experimental packages :) We are working on making the upgrade > smooth before everything enters unstable. Yes, they are in experimental... My comment on the configuration problems upon upgrade is intended to give some useful feedback, not to complain! Despite the posts, I do not understand the input-hotplug interaction. My system correctly finds the keyboard, mouse and touchpad by HAL... However, the xserver does as well so everything is duplicated. Removing Input entries from xorg.conf doesn't help: (==) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout. Using the first mouse device. (==) The core keyboard device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout. Using the first keyboard device. and specifying one with Driver "evdev" (why not try?) was no better. Only adding Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" got the configuration working. Seems that the problem is that somehow evdev is not blocking input to the standard devices as it is supposed to do? Must be simple to sort out. I just don't know enough. Would be nice to be able to use multiple keyboards... > Does your original crash still happen now? With the new driver, I uncommented the Option "Above" "LVDS" Section "Monitor" Identifier "VGA-0" Option "PreferredMode" "1600x1200" Option "Above" "LVDS" EndSection (and commented "#xrandr --output VGA-0 --above LVDS" in my .xsessionrc). This now works and does not produce a crash if the external monitor is unplugged. I suppose that this means that you can now close the present bug report! The two means of adding an external screen differ in their consequences: - The xorg.conf solution requires restarting the xserver to properly take into account plugging/unplugging the external monitor - The .xsessionrc solution resets on login. Of course, in all cases one can type "xrandr --output VGA-0 --above LVDS" at any time upon plugging/unplugging. Should this be automatic? Maybe the second head should automatically come up as a clone upon plugin, unless configured otherwise in xorg.conf. Finally, the new server fixes a few other bugs: Under KDE4/plasma, the bottom pixels of the LVDS screen appeared wrapped onto the bottom of the external monitor. This is no longer the case. Also, dragging windows from the LVDS screen to the external screen had a hic (under KDE4/plasma) of getting blocked on the external screen; Trying to drag them back to the LVDS screen would not go any further than when the window title decorations hit the bottom of the external screen. This is also no longer the case. Bravo! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#503004: RandR: crashes if monitor is disconnected
Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Monday 02 February 2009 23:26:06 Brice Goglin wrote: > >> X11 from experimental works very well. Your input device config in >> xorg.conf is probably >> wrong. You should switch to input-hotplug as described in >> http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/ >> You will have to switch to it after Lenny is released anyway. >> > > There is a (policy?) problem with the upgrade > as this new input scheme breaks one's configuration. > I tried upgrading to the xserver-xorg packages > from the experimental section and then even > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > which produces a broken xorg.conf... > > I tried removing all InputDevice references, > but still got double keyboard input. > Adding > Option "AutoAddDevices""false" > finally leads to a workable X11, but this is hardly > the correct solution. > These are experimental packages :) We are working on making the upgrade smooth before everything enters unstable. Does your original crash still happen now? Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#503004: RandR: crashes if monitor is disconnected
On Monday 02 February 2009 23:26:06 Brice Goglin wrote: > X11 from experimental works very well. Your input device config in > xorg.conf is probably > wrong. You should switch to input-hotplug as described in > http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/ > You will have to switch to it after Lenny is released anyway. There is a (policy?) problem with the upgrade as this new input scheme breaks one's configuration. I tried upgrading to the xserver-xorg packages from the experimental section and then even dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg which produces a broken xorg.conf... I tried removing all InputDevice references, but still got double keyboard input. Adding Option "AutoAddDevices""false" finally leads to a workable X11, but this is hardly the correct solution. Now that the upgrade is at least working, I will look a bit further to understand the new scheme... Alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#503004: RandR: crashes if monitor is disconnected
I'm sorry, installing xserver-xorg from the experimental branch results in a broken X11 environment and is thus unusable. The problem seems to be with the keyboard handling as typing appears to be echoed as doubled. It is thus untestable, unless this is a trival, identified problem. Alan On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:57:12 Brice Goglin wrote: > Alan Braslau wrote: > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > > Version: 1:6.9.0+git20081012.c0e6cb6d-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Using RandR, crashes upon startup if the external monitor is disconnected > > when /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains an external Monitor section with a > > placement option uncommented, such as: > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "VGA-0" > > Option "Above" "LVDS" > > EndSection > > > > If this still happens with latest packages from experimental, could you > please try to catch a debugging backtrace of the crash with gdb? > > thanks, > Brice > > -- Alan Braslau CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC CNRS URA 2464 Orme des Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex FRANCE tel: +33 1 69 08 73 15 fax: +33 1 69 08 87 86 mailto:alan.bras...@cea.fr http://www-dna2009.cea.fr/ .''`. : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#503004: RandR: crashes if monitor is disconnected
Alan BRASLAU wrote: > I'm sorry, installing xserver-xorg from the experimental branch > results in a broken X11 environment and is thus unusable. > The problem seems to be with the keyboard handling > as typing appears to be echoed as doubled. > It is thus untestable, unless this is a trival, identified problem. > X11 from experimental works very well. Your input device config in xorg.conf is probably wrong. You should switch to input-hotplug as described in http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/ You will have to switch to it after Lenny is released anyway... Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#503004: RandR: crashes if monitor is disconnected
Alan Braslau wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > Version: 1:6.9.0+git20081012.c0e6cb6d-1 > Severity: normal > > > Using RandR, crashes upon startup if the external monitor is disconnected > when /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains an external Monitor section with a > placement option uncommented, such as: > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "VGA-0" > Option "Above" "LVDS" > EndSection > If this still happens with latest packages from experimental, could you please try to catch a debugging backtrace of the crash with gdb? thanks, Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
