Hi everyone.

X server deadly hangs after exiting - whatever,
after exiting KDE, XFCE, or plainly after
CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.
CTRL-ALT-DEL is working, which means kernel is ok.
There are NO errors in X server log.


Fresh installation of Slackware 12.
512Mb of memory, ATI Radeon 7000, P4 CPU.
Kernel 2.6 canonical.
DRI enabled or disabled. All screensavers are disabled.

I did not have such problem with Slack 11

Thank you, guys

what tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log or tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old says?

Sorry, I'm on different machine. I've looked in there already.
Nothing criminal. At least no lines with (EE).

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c5404]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so(RADEONDisplayPowerManagementSet+0x132) [0xb7bad912]
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7b9b809]
4: X [0x8162afe]
5: X [0x80cdbac]
6: X [0x80c9c0f]
7: X [0x813c3c6]
8: X [0x8160345]
9: X(main+0x4fe) [0x807029e]
10: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7d61df8]
11: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e1) [0x806f561]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

This piece of log appears in Xorg.0.log after attempt to quit X server.
Is this problem DRI - related? My videocard is pretty old: Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

I'm guessing you are using the "ati" or "radeon" drivers in xorg.conf? If this be the case, upgrade your the ati driver package with the one found in /extra on the install dvd (xf86-video-ati-6.6.3)

That's the driver I'm currently using, as the default one had all sorts of weird bugs for me. I dunno if it will help, but it's worth a try :-) (I'm on an 9600XT, for reference.)

Good luck!

2 thegoofeedude

Thank you a lot! Will try it. The funny thing is that after 'X -configure' X server puts the 'ati' as a driver in xorg.cong,
but in hardware-howto driver must be 'radeon'.

2 thegoofeedude:

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!! It works