On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 01:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > greets ... > > As mentioned lately in another thread I moved to amd64 unstable last week. > > So far OK ... but: > > I see X11 crashing repeatedly but I don't have a clue what component > might be the reason. > > Sometimes my gnome-session (2.28) works for hours, sometimes for minutes. > > It crashes when starting a new program like opera, firefox, thunderbird, > amarok, ... something .... > > I don't have a clear way to reproduce the crash and the logs don't tell > me anything. > > --> > > I rebuilt xorg-server, xorg-drivers, xf86-input-* .... opera, etc > > I re-emerged @system overnight, ran revdep-rebuild, lalefixer etc (yeah, > I know, X11 isn't @system ... but just to do the basement right) > > I use nvidia-drivers here, so I also did "eselect opengl ..." again. > > I erased xorg.conf and redid it via nvidia-xconfig ... and changed it to > use absolute coordinates, as the xorg-server-1.7 seems to have issues > with "LeftOf" ... > > Additional info: > > I use compiz and xinerama ... two monitors ... might add some problems. > The two monitors are the reason for still using xorg.conf with > xorg-server-1.7.x (maybe there's a better solution? I don't know yet). > > bugs.gentoo.org doesn't show anything describing my issues, I hesitate > to file a bug as long as the symptoms are that vague ... > > Some clues, someone? > > There were NO such crashes before moving to full ~amd64, I ran > xorg-server-1.6 before (mixing stable and unstable ...). > > Simply going back to xorg-server-1.6 ? > > Thanks a lot, Stefan. I might have a similar problem, that is definitely related to the second monitor and power management. If you disconnect your 2nd monitor, do the crashes still occur? But maybe this isn't related, because I have a Radeon card... just a lucky guess...
Daniel
