Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 538346] Re: Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 10:45:41 you wrote: Hi Simon, so everything is working properly now? Great. :) Maybe it was an issue with those old NVIDIA files in the first place. If the issue is resolved for you, please mark this bug as Invalid (since it was probably a configuration problem). Thanks! David, Yes, the original symptoms have disappeared, but new ones have appeared in their place. Presumably all due to the 'configuration' or 'bug'. What would be causing the screen to display a mosaic on loading? I have also noted that the screen takes ~1-2 seconds longer to repaint in certain instances. For example, when the panels appear at startup - this takes 2 or so seconds where previously it was 1/2 a second. Although the screen appears to be working the desktop does not appear quite right. After implementing your fix I have had the computer crash due what appeared to be screen related problems. What happened was ... - I went to log off and the desktop noted that an unknown program was still open. - I waited but it did not finish. - I looked in the system monitor and could not see it. - Eventually I tried again and told the logout routine to force a shutdown. - What happened then was the screen became totally jumbled (looking suspiciously like the screen when starting up - i.e. confused) - I forced a hardware reboot and the problem has not reoccurred; yet In another instance (again showing how things are not quite right) ... - I logged off as a user and the dialog box listing the available users on the desktop behaved in an unusual manner. - instead of appearing in the centre of the screen as usual the dialog box repainted so the height occupied the entire screen, then stepped down until eventually reaching 'normal size'. The process took 1-2 seconds, which seemed like an eternity. I was able to log back on. - its like ubuntu is getting confused, or the driver is not really working properly. The fact that things eventually settle down - DURING A PARTICULAR SESSION - suggests that either the 'bug' is only triggered at certain times or ubuntu is falling back to generic drivers as the appropriate one does not work correctly. So David, in your mind is this 'bug' actually fixed? To me, something is still not quite right. The system was more stable originally, just a pain to have to setup the dual screens on startup. Now I don't have to do this but a range of new symptoms have appeared. Superficially the aberrations are not deal breakers but that assumes (a) the symptoms are not indicative of something more serious, or (b) the system does not leave my 'blind' while doing some mission critical task resulting in data loss or corruption. If you can help resolve these questions, it would be greatly appreciated, as my confidence in the stability of the system is undermined everytime I see a screen that would normally just appear; flicker, repaint slowly or not appear to behave in the same way as normal. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020 P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437 W: http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538346 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 538346] Re: Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly
On Thursday 24 June 2010 11:57:35 you wrote: falling back to generic drivers as the appropriate one does not work correctly David, Related? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1478489 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1449032 -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020 P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437 W: http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538346 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 538346] Re: Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 09:44:44 you wrote: Hi Simon, thanks for the update. In the future, please submit such large texts as attachments to make them easier to read. (You can give them different descriptions to differentiate with your old log.) It seems like your configuration is pretty weird. The default nouveau driver is failing to load because you have some proprietary NVIDIA leftovers on your system. Could you make sure the packages nvidia- current, nvidia-173, and nvidia-96 are not installed? sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current nvidia-173 nvidia-96 Then try again without an xorg.conf and we'll see how it does. Thanks for your patience. David, The short response is that appeared to work, thanks! Now a bit more detail to outline what was done. As requested I have attached my comments and associated files as text files. What I did and the results are outlined in the sequence file. Note that although the dual screen issue appears to be resolved my screens appear to get confused on boot with the primary monitor flashing a mosaic of 2x2 cm grids all over the bottom half of the screen. Once the log-on screen appears everything appears OK and works OK. -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020 P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437 W: http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au ** Attachment added: Sequence http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50713299/Sequence ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50713300/Xorg.0.log -- Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538346 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nv in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 538346] Re: Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly
On Friday 18 June 2010 01:09:42 you wrote: Yes please, do reboot. 1) Rename xorg.conf. 2) Reboot. 3) Configure monitors with g-d-p. 4) Reboot (or logout/login should work) to reproduce the issue. If it's still broken, please attach the new /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt. Thank you! David, What you suggested did not work. My notes and the file you requested are attached. I renamed xorg.conf to something else. Rebooted. 1. After logging on I note 'Unknown' marked in top left of the primary monitor. Second monitor blank. 2. If I try and use gnome-display-manager, a dialog box appears with the text It appears that your graphics driver does not support the necessary extensions to use this tool. Do you want to use your graphics driver vendor's tool instead? 3. If I choose No. Can't change any configuration. 4. If I choose Yes the dialog opens nVidia X Server Settings Tool but a dialog that appears states You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server. 5. I note that a new xorg.conf has not been created. 6. The details from the xorg.0.log are below. I have reinstated the previous version of xorg.conf without trying to recreate a new xorg.conf or anything else. Please advise me what you would like me to do. X.Org X Server 1.7.6 Release Date: 2010-03-17 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-27-server i686 Ubuntu Current Operating System: Linux simon2010 2.6.32-22-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 23:14:23 UTC 2010 i686 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic-pae root=UUID=696928bb-2b70-4582-bafb-67d8553a1f22 ro splash quiet quiet splash Build Date: 09 June 2010 10:55:28AM xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7.1 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support) Current version of pixman: 0.16.4 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Mon Jun 21 09:02:04 2010 (==) Using config directory: /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section. (==) No screen section available. Using defaults. (**) |--Screen Default Screen Section (0) (**) | |--Monitor default monitor (==) No monitor specified for screen Default Screen Section. Using a default monitor configuration. (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (==) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, built-ins (==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules,/usr/lib/xorg/modules (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices. (II) Loader magic: 0x81f0e80 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 6.0 X.Org XInput driver : 7.0 X.Org Server Extension : 2.0 (++) using VT number 7 (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:0402:1043:8253 nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] rev 161, Mem @ 0xe200/16777216, 0xd000/268435456, 0xe000/33554432, I/O @ 0x3000/128 (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) LoadModule: extmod (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: dbe (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so (II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: glx (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 173.14.22 Sun Nov 8 21:42:44 PST 2009 (II)
Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 538346] Re: Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly
On Wednesday 16 June 2010 22:51:02 you wrote: then using gnome-display-properties to setup your dual monitor configuration? David, Done this previously with no effect. I will try again but please give exact instructions on how you want me to do this -- e.g. do you want me to reboot between renaming xorg.conf file and using gnome-display-manager? -- Cheer Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020 P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437 W: http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au -- Display manager in Ubuntu 9.10 not working with dual displays properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538346 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
