Guest gamito Posted May 4, 2003 Report Share Posted May 4, 2003 Hi, i have a HP Omnibook XE3 laptop with an Intel i830 graphics card. Well everything is ok, except that when i logout of X, the machine crashes completely. All i get is a black screen, not even returning to the terminal prompt. I have to turn off and on the machine again to reset Mandrake. If i compile a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel, the problem disappears, but then again i *really* need some patches from the original Mandrake's kernel, like MPPE for instance. I have a DELL with an Intel i845 that doesn't sufffer from this problem. I'm considering buying the complete Mandrake 9.1 package, but not until i solve this issue. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your attention. Mário Gamito Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 4, 2003 Report Share Posted May 4, 2003 Welcome! Have you looked through the logs? /var/log/messages and others and ~/.xsession-errors in your HOME dir. I ask because the cause needs to be determined. If the video chip is the cause and causes this prob on both laptops and desktops then it's in the rt section. If it's a laptop issue then it needs to be moved to Laptops. See if you can find anything in the logs and with google so we can try and resolve the prob. regards, bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gamito Posted May 4, 2003 Report Share Posted May 4, 2003 Hi, Thank you for your answer. Here is my .xsession-error Warm regards, Mário Gamito startkde: Starting up... kbuildsycoca running... kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file Networking/Instant messaging/kmess.desktop has Type=Internet instead of "Application" or "Service" kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : Networking/Instant messaging/kmess.desktop mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) x08 Major opcode: * Id '1' was already in done-list! Id '4' was already in done-list! WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) x08 Major opcode: * Id '5' was already in done-list! Id '6' was already in done-list! Id '7' was already in done-list! Id '8' was already in done-list! Id '9' was already in done-list! Id '3.1-update-identities' was already in done-list! Id '3.1-use-identity-uoids' was already in done-list! Id '3.1-new-mail-notification' was already in done-list! mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) x09 Major opcode: x0e WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) x09 Major opcode: x0e WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) x09 Major opcode: x0e WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) x09 Major opcode: x0e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gamito Posted May 4, 2003 Report Share Posted May 4, 2003 I also did "tail -f /var/log/XFree86.0.log > /root/X_custom.log and reproduced the error. The result is as follows: (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" (**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7 (**) Mouse1: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 4 (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0 (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 2 (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 3 (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted May 4, 2003 Report Share Posted May 4, 2003 Hi gamito, U should look into /var/log/XFree86.0.log (the default X log file) (which u have already done). After the freeze, can u connect to ur machine remotely (ssh/telnet ..)? The intel i830 and i845 have been a big pain for sometime but XFree 4.3.0 supports them now. What version of mandrake linux are u using ? Anyway, since u say a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel solves ur problem, it must certainly be an issue with the way the i830 agpgart is being handled. Its likely that the version lf mandrake has an older kernel that is creating the problem. U can look up http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html where a variety of fixes are available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gamito Posted May 4, 2003 Report Share Posted May 4, 2003 Hi, thank you for your answer. I'm using Mandrake 9.1 Also if i recompile mandrake's standard kernel (2.4.21) and get rid of all the things i don't need in kernel's configuration, the problem is solved too, which makes me think of a conflict between two things in the original kernel. Don't know what though :-( I searched the web and newsgroups and several other people have exactly the same problem with the same laptop model. Warm regards, Mário Gamito Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted May 5, 2003 Report Share Posted May 5, 2003 gamito, So it seems that mandrake's patched kernel 2.4.21 is the source of the problem. U should report this as a bug in https://qa.mandrakesoft.com . Since removing kernel features solves the problem, it is most likely that one/some of mandrake's patches are not working. If u look at http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/Status17.html#17 , it says that The 830M and later can be used without AGP GART support so I am wondering if ur custom kernel has removed AGP GART support and has avoided the problem (assuming that the problem is related to the use of AGP GART). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gamito Posted May 5, 2003 Report Share Posted May 5, 2003 so I am wondering if ur custom kernel has removed AGP GART support and has avoided the problem (assuming that the problem is related to the use of AGP GART). No, i didn't remove AGP GART's support. Best regards, Mário Gamito Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lachapette Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Hi gamito Have you updated your Omnibook XE3 bios version to 1.14 ? It might be resolved lot of problems with i830 chipset on this laptop. Got the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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