Kernel 2,6,32-5-686 wrecks xorg
in [Debian]
|
From: Anthony Campbell on 14 Jul 2010 01:10 I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.32-5-686 and now X starts and works for a bit but then starts flickering and is unusable. This is on a Thinkpad Z61M. The text terminals now have small text but that is a minor issue. I found some advice here to blacklist nouveau and put a file in /etc/modprobe.d with "options nouveau modeset=0" but no help. Is there any solution to this? Any way to find a slightly earlier kernel? (unfortunately I deleted the others) -- Anthony Campbell - ac(a)acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100714050408.GA2383(a)ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
From: Andrei Popescu on 14 Jul 2010 01:50 On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:04:08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.32-5-686 and now X starts and works for a > bit but then starts flickering and is unusable. This is on a Thinkpad > Z61M. > > The text terminals now have small text but that is a minor issue. > > I found some advice here to blacklist nouveau and put a file in > /etc/modprobe.d with "options nouveau modeset=0" but no help. > > Is there any solution to this? Any way to find a slightly earlier kernel? > (unfortunately I deleted the others) What driver are you using for Xorg? You might also want to post the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From: Andrei Popescu on 14 Jul 2010 03:00 On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:58:24, Anthony Campbell wrote: > At the moment I have a blank xorg.conf but I've also used one which has > ati as the driver. > > Here is the log: > (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: You need not mess with nouveau, because you have an ATI card and are using the radeon driver ;) > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon" > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM > [dri] Disabling DRI. This looks interesting. Do you have any errors in dmesg related to radeon and/or KMS? Please post also the output of 'dpkg -l *radeon*' Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From: Anthony Campbell on 14 Jul 2010 06:50 On 14 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 14 iul 10, 06:58:24, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > At the moment I have a blank xorg.conf but I've also used one which has > > ati as the driver. > > > > Here is the log: > > > (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: > > You need not mess with nouveau, because you have an ATI card and are > using the radeon driver ;) > > > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > > [drm] failed to load kernel module "radeon" > > (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM > > [dri] Disabling DRI. > > This looks interesting. Do you have any errors in dmesg related to > radeon and/or KMS? Please post also the output of 'dpkg -l *radeon*' > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic After some more experimenting, I've found that it also happens even without X! So I don't think the problem is with xorg. I'm now using an installed version of stable and that has no crashes, so it seems to be something about how the latest kernel interacts with my system. There are no other linux-images around to try so perhaps I shall have to compile a kernel myself. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - ac(a)acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100714103929.GC3039(a)ithaca.acampbell.org.uk
From: Stephen Powell on 14 Jul 2010 09:00
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:39:29 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After some more experimenting, I've found that it also happens even > without X! So I don't think the problem is with xorg. I'm now using an > installed version of stable and that has no crashes, so it seems to be > something about how the latest kernel interacts with my system. There > are no other linux-images around to try so perhaps I shall have to > compile a kernel myself. I'm no expert, but this sounds like a KMS issue to me. You might try http://snapshot.debian.org to recover an older stock kernel package, such as linux-image-2.6.32-3-686. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1777891800.182991.1279112283239.JavaMail.root(a)md01.wow.synacor.com |