On Saturday 26 February 2005 21:24, Jim Cornette wrote: >Tor Harald Thorland wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When i start my computer and logs in to kde, everything is fine, >> and I can switch to consoles (alt+ctl+f2 etc.) >> >> If I then try to start totem, or try to acces streaming video in >> firefox (with mplayer) or similar, kde logs out, and i need to >> login again. Now after the login it is not possile to go to the >> consoles. When i try the screen freezes until i go back to kde. >> >> Also, when i try to shutdown after this I can see a title bar of a >> window with Totem... as the heading. (I cannot se the normal >> shutdown, (the messages when it shuts down things) >> >> Computer: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A7600 >> Videocard ATI Radeon M320 (Detected and setup as Ati Mobility U1) >> Kernel 2.6.9-1.667 (since the no. .10 kernel hangs at boot) >> Have booted with ACPI=off noapic >> >> [tortho@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci >> 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGP Bridge [IGP 320M] >> (rev 13) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP >> 320M] (rev 01) 00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 >> Controller (rev 03) 00:03.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 >> Modem Controller 00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE >> (rev c4) 00:06.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management >> Controller [PMU] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to >> ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi >> Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) >> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. >> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) >> 00:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 >> Host Controller (rev 46) >> 00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1420 Cardbus >> Controller (rev 01) >> 00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1420 Cardbus >> Controller (rev 01) >> 00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev >> 03) 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon >> Mobility U1 >> >> THT > >At least you are able to change back to X and run KDE. With a > similar card type. I can change from GNOME to a terminal, use the > terminal. My problem happens when I change back to the GUI, the > upper portion of the screen has residual information. The residual > display takes up about the same screen real estate as is occupied > by the upper GNOME panel. I need to power off uncleanly in order to > escape the resulting lockup. > >I run in runlevel 3. Are you starting in graphics mode or to initial >terminals? My question is mainly so I can figure which component is > most likely causing the malfunction. With you running KDE and > having locked terminals, but could return to KDE and I can exit > from Gnome to terminal, but not return successfully to the GUI are > sort of opposite symptoms for users of similar video cards. > >I don't have the problem with totem though as you described. > >01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon > Mobility U1 > >Jim > >-- >We are experiencing system trouble -- do not adjust your terminal. Generally speaking, such problems have been brought about here by using the wrong framebuffer when I built the kernel. I suspect thats the problem here also. Since its an ati, although not the same as mine, here are the 'FB' options from my working kernel .config for 2.6.11-rc5: CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=m CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y Now, as to the actual correctness, damnedifiknow. But its been working here for about a year with no glitches when I switch in and out of X. X is currently the 6.8.1 release from x.org, locally built and has been bulletproof so far. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
