X Freezes with i810 driver

alkos333 · 01-19-2007, 12:48 PM

I use Slackware 11 and Kernel 2.6.19.1. I believe I complied everything I could for my Intel 950 GMA. I thought everything worked because the log looked good and all the tests like glxgears, Celestia, and even 3DMark2001 worked. Later, however, I noticed that X would freeze randomly. At first I thought it was the whole system freezing, but then I found out that if I had sshd running and it would freeze, I could still ssh in and turn off X, which means that X is the only thing that actually freezes. I haven't used any of the stuff from the intellinuxgraphics.org website because I thought everything was ok. I tried disabling GLX and DRI modules in the xorg.conf, but it still didn't help. Do the modules from intellinuxgraphics.org solve this issue? What's the problem?

You can find my xorg.conf here: http://alkos333.net/xorg.conf
My lsmod output: http://pastebin.ca/321640

Crobat · 01-19-2007, 01:33 PM

Is there something in particular that you do that causes the freeze to happen, or is it random?

alkos333 · 01-19-2007, 07:43 PM

Pretty random..

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-19-2007, 10:42 PM

The

Code:

VideoRam    65535

is a bit troubling ... it works out to 63.9990234 megabytes ... shouldn't it be 65536 ? It probably doesn't matter too much tho.

Also, why are there no modes ?

Code:

SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

They seem not to be necessary since xserver does start.

Other than that I have no more ideas.

alkos333 · 01-20-2007, 12:05 AM

I'm not quite sure what VideoRam means and all .. but ... This is bad.. it freaks me out because if there isn't another computer next to me to ssh in, I have to reboot...

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-20-2007, 12:08 PM

VideoRam is the amount of RAM your video card has.

Your card/chipset seems to have a variable amount of Video RAM available ... so if you don't know how much VRAM it has, I would comment out or delete the VideoRam line in your xorg.conf.

duryodhan · 01-20-2007, 12:17 PM

I think you should run xorgconfig again. and add the

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

lines xorg.conf after its done.

alkos333 · 01-20-2007, 02:39 PM

I ran xorgsetup again it didn't help and also got rid of the VideoRam option. I'm running x11 6.9.0 if this helps.

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-20-2007, 06:15 PM

Maybe the driver is just unstable ? Can you go back to the original vesa config /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa ? Does it crash if you use that ?

spes_hominis · 01-21-2007, 07:11 AM

I have to add that I had exactly the same problem. I used the official driver,Xorg's and vesa but it still froze. Never found out why,either

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H_TeXMeX_H · 01-21-2007, 11:39 AM

Well, then it might be a hardware problem. Once my desktop computer did the same thing with both the nvidia drivers and the regular xorg drivers. Then I figured it might be a hardware problem. When I checked the card there was much dust in the fan ... after I cleaned it off it stopped crashing.

If it's crashing with both drivers then I think the problem might be with hardware or some other external problem (dust).

alkos333 · 01-21-2007, 12:02 PM

Everything works fine in Windows, on the same machine, so it isn't a hardware problem.

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-21-2007, 12:31 PM

Then both drivers must be faulty ... which I think is unlikely, but still possible.