Re: Potentially **DANGEROUS** bug in 5.0 - 5.1

2003-06-10 Thread Ben Calvert 
Remington L. said:
 I have a Sony VAIO GRX-570 laptop. When 5.0-R came out I noticed VERY
 unusual symptoms on startx. This is very hard to describe(I'm gonna get a
 picture and post). When I launch startx the screen goes blank, and imagine
 this ocean wave type thing sweep across my screen. Its not like just some
 a
 screensaver, you can tell by looking at it that its not good. The symptom
 lasts about 4 seconds and then it stops, and my system is frozen, no
 error,
 no kernel panic. This also happens in 5.1, but NOT in 4.8

 As I said its very hard to describe, I will attempt to grab a picture and
 Ill repost. What should I do about this bug?


This sounds like a problem with X and your monitor.  do you have the same
XF86Config in 5x as in 4x?

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Ben Calvert
Stonehenge NetWorks
www.stonehenge-net.com
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RE: Potentially **DANGEROUS** bug in 5.0 - 5.1

2003-06-10 Thread Remington L. 
Take a look at Picture5.jpg for what I'm referring too.

 And now for extensive information. Heres my XF86config
Section ServerLayout
Identifier XFree86 Configured
Screen  0  Screen0 0 0
InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer
InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard
EndSection

Section Files
RgbPath  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
ModulePath   /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
EndSection

Section Module
Load  extmod
Load  glx
Load  dri
Load  dbe
Load  record
Load  xtrap
Load  speedo
Load  type1
Load  freetype
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Keyboard0
Driver  keyboard
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Mouse0
Driver  mouse
Option  Protocol auto
Option  Device /dev/sysmouse
EndSection

Section Monitor
Identifier   Monitor0
VendorName   Monitor Vendor
ModelNameMonitor Model
EndSection

Section Device
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False,
### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option NoAccel   # [bool]
#Option SWcursor  # [bool]
#Option Dac6Bit   # [bool]
#Option Dac8Bit   # [bool]
#Option ForcePCIMode  # [bool]
#Option CPPIOMode # [bool]
#Option CPusecTimeout # i
#Option AGPMode   # i
#Option AGPFastWrite  # [bool]
#Option AGPSize   # i
#Option RingSize  # i
#Option BufferSize# i
#Option EnableDepthMoves  # [bool]
#Option EnablePageFlip# [bool]
#Option NoBackBuffer  # [bool]
#Option PanelOff  # [bool]
#Option DDCMode   # [bool]
#Option CloneDisplay  # i
#Option CloneMode # [str]
#Option CloneHSync# [str]
#Option CloneVRefresh # [str]
#Option UseFBDev  # [bool]
#Option VideoKey  # i
Identifier  Card0
Driver  ati
VendorName  ATI Technologies Inc
BoardName   Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
BusID   PCI:1:0:0
EndSection

Section Screen
Identifier Screen0
Device Card0
MonitorMonitor0
DefaultDepth24
SubSection Display
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 24
Modes   1600x1200
EndSubSection
EndSection

#
###   dmesg
#
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #1: Tue Jun 10 01:16:10 PDT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP
Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc0539000.
Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko at 0xc0539294.
Timecounter i8254  frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter TSC  frequency 1590817532 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz (1590.82-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0xf24  Stepping = 4
 
Features=0x3febf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV
,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM
real memory  = 536346624 (511 MB)
avail memory = 515182592 (491 MB)
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
VESA: v2.0, 32768k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc04526c2 (122)
VESA: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500
npx0: math processor on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: SONY B0 on motherboard
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdf50
ACPI-0351: *** Error: Could not install PciConfig handler for PCI0,
AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
ACPI-0351: *** Error: Could not install PciConfig handler for PCI0,
AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
ACPI-0351: *** Error: Could not install PciConfig handler for PCI0,
AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
Timecounter ACPI-fast  frequency 3579545 Hz
ACPI-0351: *** Error: Could not install PciConfig handler for PCI0,
AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
acpi_cpu0: CPU port 0x530-0x537 on

Re: Potentially **DANGEROUS** bug in 5.0 - 5.1

2003-06-10 Thread Kevin Oberman 
What you are seeing is probably the most literal demonstration of bit
rot I can imagine. It sounds like the effect one gets from turning off
the drive to the LCD panel, but leaving the back-light on. It's very
odd looking.

Most likely something in XFree86 is telling the video card to do
something it does not like and, rather than drive the screen with
potentially damaging signals, it just turns off.

When you went from 4.8 to 5, did you hange versions of XFree86? Is the
XF86Config file changed? Sounds like something must have changed in
the XFree86 stuff that really upset the graphics system to the point it
simply turned off.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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Re: [SPAM] RE: Potentially **DANGEROUS** bug in 5.0 - 5.1

2003-06-10 Thread Ben Calvert 
I think I see what's wrong:


Remington L. said:

  And now for extensive information. Heres my XF86config
snip

 Section Monitor
   Identifier   Monitor0
   VendorName   Monitor Vendor
   ModelNameMonitor Model
 EndSection
snip

you have no information at all specified for your monitor.  for
comparision, here's the monitor section for my dell latitude C600:

Section Monitor
Identifier  lcd
HorizSync   30.0 - 57.0
VertRefresh 43-72
DisplaySize 240 178
  Gamma   0.90  0.95  0.85  # generated by KGamma
EndSection


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Re: [SPAM] RE: Potentially **DANGEROUS** bug in 5.0 - 5.1

2003-06-10 Thread Robert Huff 

Ben Calvert writes:

  I think I see what's wrong:

My apologies - the XF86Config was edited to remove stuff not
directly related to the mouse.  To clarify: X works fine _except_
for the mouse.


Robert Huff


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