Bug 16780

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:05:13 -0700, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote:

> Any way the Xorg.log is attached
> 
where?

Created attachment 17766 [details]
Xorg log

Hm, there are a few of these intermittent crasher bugs open... Can you try to reproduce with the ExaNoComposite option set to true?

Oh and please try with DRI disabled as well, this could be the 3D driver misprogramming the chip, causing the 2D driver to hang.

(In reply to comment #4)
> Oh and please try with DRI disabled as well, this could be the 3D driver
> misprogramming the chip, causing the 2D driver to hang.
> 

i've added Option          "ExaNoComposite" "true"

for some reason i'm not able to disable dri
//
(II) "dri" will be loaded by default.
//

Also i don't know when the problem will be reproduced, since it's very rare.
Anyway i'll post if i have any news.

Many thanks.

(In reply to comment #5)
> for some reason i'm not able to disable dri

You can disable it adding the following option:

Option "DRI" "false"

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Oh and please try with DRI disabled as well, this could be the 3D driver
> > misprogramming the chip, causing the 2D driver to hang.
> > 
> 
> i've added Option          "ExaNoComposite" "true"
> 
> for some reason i'm not able to disable dri
> //
> (II) "dri" will be loaded by default.
> //
> 
> Also i don't know when the problem will be reproduced, since it's very rare.
> Anyway i'll post if i have any news.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 

Ali, did you run into this issue again after turning EXANoComposite on?

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (In reply to comment #4)
> > > Oh and please try with DRI disabled as well, this could be the 3D driver
> > > misprogramming the chip, causing the 2D driver to hang.
> > > 
> > 
> > i've added Option          "ExaNoComposite" "true"
> > 
> > for some reason i'm not able to disable dri
> > //
> > (II) "dri" will be loaded by default.
> > //
> > 
> > Also i don't know when the problem will be reproduced, since it's very rare.
> > Anyway i'll post if i have any news.
> > 
> > Many thanks.
> > 
> 
> Ali, did you run into this issue again after turning EXANoComposite on?
> 

I feel like the Xserver is not crashing anymore, it used to happen once in a week but know i didn't notice any crash. do you think the "ExaNoComposite" "true" makes the difference! 

Created attachment 18083 [details]
Xorg log

Created attachment 18084 [details]
xorg conf

(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > (In reply to comment #5)
> > > (In reply to comment #4)
> > > > Oh and please try with DRI disabled as well, this could be the 3D driver
> > > > misprogramming the chip, causing the 2D driver to hang.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > i've added Option          "ExaNoComposite" "true"
> > > 
> > > for some reason i'm not able to disable dri
> > > //
> > > (II) "dri" will be loaded by default.
> > > //
> > > 
> > > Also i don't know when the problem will be reproduced, since it's very rare.
> > > Anyway i'll post if i have any news.
> > > 
> > > Many thanks.
> > > 
> > 
> > Ali, did you run into this issue again after turning EXANoComposite on?
> > 
> 
> I feel like the Xserver is not crashing anymore, it used to happen once in a
> week but know i didn't notice any crash. do you think the "ExaNoComposite"
> "true" makes the difference! 
> 

Hi again, seems when i post the Xorg.conf and the Xorg.0.log the message for some reason didn't get posted, anyway here's my results.

i turned on EXANoComposite on, dri enabled, and i figured out that i can reproduce the problem using any 3d game, i've attached the Xorg.0.log.

if i disable dri is very hard to me to reproduce the problem since i can't run any 3d game.

Also please note that i've tried the above procedure using xf86-video-intel-2.3.2 and 2.3.1, and seems there is difference between the old and the new one, with the new one the X server tries to start 3 times and gives me the error that the server has crashed 3 times and i go the to tty, but with the old one i got only black screen and i can't use the keyboard.

Reassigning to the dri driver guys, can you provide specific steps for reproducing this?

(In reply to comment #12)
> Reassigning to the dri driver guys, can you provide specific steps for
> reproducing this?
> 

Yes, actually recently i discovered that the server crashes with GIMP, scaling or rotating a layer on an image for example, or the image itself. 

A game called sauerbraten, crashes the server, with some heavy maps in the game.

Please if you can provide me how can i start the X server without having to reboot the machine, when the server crashes i can't start it again, if i try to do it tries to load but it doesn't.

reassigning this 3d bug to Haihao.

(In reply to comment #14)
> reassigning this 3d bug to Haihao.
> 

Hopefully that i can get a solution for this annoying problem.

Could you try mesa_7_0_branch ?

(In reply to comment #16)
> Could you try mesa_7_0_branch ?
> 

I have mesa 7.0.3, is this good enough !

*** Bug 16613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #18)
> *** Bug 16613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> 

I'm very happy to see other people having the same problem, i believe also there is a lot, but they didn't report here.

Anyway as the number of affected persons increases the chance of getting a solution increases also, so i hope to get a patch or something before the end life of my laptop.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 17638 ***