On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Salvador Peralta wrote: >I am accessing this list from xfree86-list@redhat.com > >The version of Xfree86 which ships with redhat v. 7.3 and on Mandrake >8.2 is highly unstable with my All-in-Wonder Rage128 Pro 32mb. Since I >have switched from Mandrake 8.0 with xfree86 4.0 to Redhat 7.3 w/xfree86 >4.2, I experience unrecoverable hangs in X windows. The problem is >repeated in mandrake 8.2 and continues even when updating to newest >Mandrake xfree86 4.2 rpms. > >I have switched back to redhat7.3 for debugging purposes. > >The symptom is basically that I lose all mouse and keyboard events in >gnome and kde 2.2 ( e.g,., clicks and keystrokes ) but the environment >still recognizes movement of the mouse cursor. In KDE 3 on Mandrake >with the newest qt and kde libraries, 20% of the time, if I catch the >problem early enough, I can still use apps running in the main window >for a little while before it completely hangs, and if I do a >ctrl-alt-backspace before the windowing system completely hangs. >Otherwise recovery necessitates a hard reboot which invariably damages >my file system. > >I am reasonably certain that this is an XFree86 issue since I have an >various occasions deleted any and all gtk and gnome project libraries >and run only in kde 2. Deleted any and all kde 2 and qt libraries and >run only in kde 3. Deleted any and all kde 3 and qt libraries and run >only in gtk and gnome. In all 3 environments, I experience >unrecoverable system hangs. This sounds very much like a bad memory problem or similar flaky hardware, perhaps overheating or bad power supply. What motherboard chipset do you have? >Looking on the supported hardware list, I see that my card is supported, >and indeed, I have never had a problem with my card from xfree86 3.3.x >through xfree86 4.0. The card itself is not broken since the system is >dual boot and my wife is experiencing no card-related problems in windows. All ATI Rage 128 hardware is supported and quite stable. >I have located the 4.2.0-57.i386 libraries provided by Mike Harris and >will install them today to see if they resolve the problems on my system >but I am skeptical since looking at the xfree86 newbie, xpert and >redhat xfree86 list I see no mention of any incompatibilities with the >ATI All in Wonder Rage 128 card. They are not for RHL 7.3, and most probably will not work. They're compiled with gcc 3.2beta >I apologize for the long-winded post and for not providing more hard >data. I am sending this from work where Xfree86 4.2 on RH 7.3 is stable >and happy. I will send the /proc/iomem, /proc/ioports, and lspci -v >data along with anything else that you might find useful for debugging >when I get home tonight. It would be helpful if someone could recommend >any additional debugging information that I might provide. Also, should > I provide debugging info on the existing system before attempting to >upgrade to Mike's newest rpm's? What kernel are you using? Are you using your own custom kernel, or are you using the official Red Hat Linux kernel? Do you use VMware? Please provide the output of "lsmod" while XFree86 is running, as well as "uname -a". -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
