On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:28:50PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> So I add "nvidiafb" to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, run
> "update-initramfs -u" (this is fun) and now "nvidia" is also listed.
>
> Now I reboot and try "video=nvidiafb:1280x960" and
> "video=nvidiafb:1024x768" and get something sli
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 18:56 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:24:40AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
>
> > There doesn't seem to be a correct vga= parameter for 1280x960.
>
> I was suggesting 791 as it is still better then the default and you can
> see something happening (
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:24:40AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be a correct vga= parameter for 1280x960.
I was suggesting 791 as it is still better then the default and you can
see something happening (I just hate it when I mess with options and I
see no change :))
> I'
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:14PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > Anyway, I tried some other video= lines and nothing makes any
> > difference. I tried vesafb, rivafb, and nvidiafb for the driver and
> > both 1024x768 (vga=791 works fine)
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:14PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> Anyway, I tried some other video= lines and nothing makes any
> difference. I tried vesafb, rivafb, and nvidiafb for the driver and
> both 1024x768 (vga=791 works fine) and 1280x960 for the resolution (all
> combinations for rivafb
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:27 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> _Owen_,
>
> What do you get .. a kernel oops .. a black screen of death .. a vga
> console with oversized fonts ..?
With any video= parameter, I get the default resolution (640x480/80x25,
I suppose), just like there was no vga= or video= para
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:35:57PM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:37AM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I tried:
> > > > > video=rivafb
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:37AM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> >
> > > > I tried:
> > > > video=rivafb:1280x960
> > > > video=vesafb:1280x960
> > > >
> > > > but neither worke
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
>
> > > I tried:
> > > video=rivafb:1280x960
> > > video=vesafb:1280x960
> > >
> > > but neither worked.
> >
> > You do realize that you may need to compile a custom kernel t
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> > I tried:
> > video=rivafb:1280x960
> > video=vesafb:1280x960
> >
> > but neither worked.
>
> You do realize that you may need to compile a custom kernel to enable
> support for a given video card..?
Not necessarily. It should work i
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:25:41PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
[..]
> A list of the available video drivers here (?):
> http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net/driverlist.php
>
> I tried:
> video=rivafb:1280x960
> video=vesafb:1280x960
>
> but neither worked.
You do realize that you may need to compil
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 01:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> >
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 17:25 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:01:18PM EDT, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > Mind if I add snippets of you two posts to Owen to that Vesa Mode Page?
>
> Not in principle naturally.
[snip]
> Oh, if you do decide to add something to your web page, please let m
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:01:18PM EDT, Greg Folkert wrote:
[..}
> Mind if I add snippets of you two posts to Owen to that Vesa Mode Page?
Not in principle naturally.
Just that I'd be a little concerned about the contents of my posts
possibly misleading others .. A clear case of I don't under
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 01:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> >
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 18:33 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> video=<>:xres:<>,yres:<>,depth:<>,left:<>,right:<>,hslen:<>,upper:<>,lower:<>,vslen:<>
>
> It looks like I need something like this:
> Modeline "1280x1024" DCF HR SH1 SH2 HFL VR SV1 SV2 VFL
>
> Is there some way to get that from xorg?
>
>
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
> >
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:09 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
> >
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
> >
> > Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately.
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:24:37PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:18:01PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-core
>
> Sorry for the noise. I thought I'd turn my question into a bug report
> but sent it here instead of bugs by accident.
>
D
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:18:01PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
Sorry for the noise. I thought I'd turn my question into a bug report
but sent it here instead of bugs by accident.
Doug.
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Running up-to-date Etch.
Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory.
I have two computers:
rocky: PII-233 with 64 MB ram running i386
titan: Athlon64 with 1 GB ram running amd64
On my i386, I only have 64 MB of ram so I can only run X for about 45
m
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:51:18AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. On my i386, I only have
> 64 MB of ram so I can only run X for about 45 minutes before the system
> thrashes. Eventually, Xorg dies but doesn't release the screen. If I
> let
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
>
> Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there any
> way to get that?
vbetool is supposed to do it.
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html
Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there any
way to get that?
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On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:58 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> > > > On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Dougla
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> > > On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > >
> > > Try out the VESA driver and see if t
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> > On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >
> > Try out the VESA driver and see if the problem recurs.
> Would if I could. On the i386, dpkg-reconfigur
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under
> >amd64.
> >
> >Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. [...]
>
> I also installed Etch on a computer
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 02:43:15PM +0200, Hervé Piedvache wrote:
> Le dimanche 13 mai 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty a écrit :
> > I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under
> > amd64.
> >
> > Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. On my i386, I only have
> I had
On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under
amd64.
Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. [...]
I also installed Etch on a computer that has only 64MB of RAM, and I
haven't noticed this problem. As Hervé P
I had the same trouble was my video driver which made that ...
Switch to last version of nvidia solved the trouble for me !
regards,
Le dimanche 13 mai 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty a écrit :
> I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under
> amd64.
>
> Over time, xorg takes
I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under
amd64.
Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. On my i386, I only have
64 MB of ram so I can only run X for about 45 minutes before the system
thrashes. Eventually, Xorg dies but doesn't release the screen. If I
let
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:23:09PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Firefox? I haven't seen it in a while, but I used to occasionally see
> my machine get *really* slow and when I would do a top, X was chewing
> everything up. However, if I closed Firefox (or killed it), things
> would return t
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 08:26:03PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> > Every once in a while my desktop machine becomes unresponsive and top
> > shows that Xorg is using all my memory.
> >
>
> Are there any errors in the log files such as /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
> What
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:05:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> This is just a probe to see if anyone else is having problems with
> Xorg eating memory.
>
> Every once in a while my desktop machine becomes unresponsive and top shows
> that Xorg is using all my memory.
>
Firefox? I haven't seen i
Bill Moseley wrote:
> Every once in a while my desktop machine becomes unresponsive and top
> shows that Xorg is using all my memory.
>
Are there any errors in the log files such as /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
What is your video card, what driver are you using?
Are you tracking etch or sid?
raju
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Xorg eating memory.
Every once in a while my desktop machine becomes unresponsive and top shows
that Xorg is using all my memory.
I was out of town and ssh'ing into my machine every day or so and it
was fine, except today I was ru
Whew. Panic time is over.
The drivers from the Matrox site fixed everything. Yea Matrox!
Xorg put my monitors back in the right order and both monitors are
working.
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Pardon me for a second. Shit, shit shit!
Ok, Now after a fresh dist-upgrade and a reboot only one of my
monitors is running.
This really sucks. For one thing when I upgraded to Xorg it decided
to make my "main" monitor (the screen that comes up in text mode
before running the xserver) the "seco
Top reports Xorg using 90% of RAM and processes get killed. All swap
is being used, but vmstat isn't showing that much so and si paging.
Load average every once in a while will shoot up to 25 or so.
I can find a few posts about memory leaks, but not may responses. And
one memory leak bug report
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