Bug#524340: Reproducible GUI lockups

2009-05-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 19:51:52 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > In dmesg, I've noticed the following, which may be related: > [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer. Googling for this message led me to http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/

Bug#524340: Reproducible GUI lockups

2009-04-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 13:37:14 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: >> This doesn't seem to work: > That's a surprise. Could you try forcing UXA by adding 'option > "AccelMethod" "uxa"' to the device section of your xorg.conf? With this, a lockup occurs earlier on, roughly halfway through drawing the

Bug#524340: Reproducible GUI lockups

2009-04-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 16:33:03 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > No, you want to start a dumb window manager instead of starting a > complex environment (what you call a GUI) with compiz enabled. > > For instance, start a failsafe session, run twm, some xterms... Things work fine with compiz disable

Bug#524340: Reproducible GUI lockups

2009-04-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Hello David, On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:40:14 -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: >> (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration >> > Could you try upgrading to kernel 2.6.29 and seeing if that helps? Actually, this was with 2.6.29.1 already. I'm bui

Bug#524340: Reproducible GUI lockups

2009-04-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 14:06:54 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > Does the problem occur without Compiz? I will need to test this. Option "Composite" "disable", right? > Note that if the machine locks up, gdb is useless. With the GUI locked up, the system remains usable remotely; the surprising thin

Bug#524340: Reproducible GUI lockups

2009-04-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.7.0-1 Severity: important What am I trying to do: Use the GUI. How am I trying to do it: Log in through xdm into a GNOME environment with compiz set up What behaviour did I expect: GUI to be responsive What behaviour did I get: * After a short whil

Bug#372756: Should include

2006-06-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Package: libxfixes-dev Version: 1:3.0.1.2-4 Severity: normal /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xfixes.h relies on the "Bool" define from X11/Xlib.h but does not include that header (directly or indirectly). This will break testing for the XFIXES extension through AC_CHECK_HEADER(X11/extensions/X

Bug#252561: CAN-2004-0419: opens a chooserFd TCP socket even when DisplayManager.requestPort is 0

2004-06-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Package: xdm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Severity: grave Tags: security upstream patch woody sarge sid [The distro tags are just to be on the safe side - I've only verified that this applies to the sid source] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0419 : CAN-2004-0419 (under review)

Broken xcursor.pc breaking building of code using libxcursor

2004-04-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
retitle 241249 libxcursor-dev: Errorneous xcursor.pc prevents other packages from successful compilation tags 241249 + upstream fixed-upstream severity 241249 grave thanks Justification: "makes the package in question unusable or mostly so". Using a .pc file through pkg-config is the recommended

Bug#225520: Diff of NMU 1.0.2-3.1

2003-12-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
/control] Added build dependency on pkg-config. (Closes: #225433) + * [debian/control] Removed superfluous space from description to silence +lintian. + + -- J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:55:15 +0100 + xcursor (1.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low * Update cop

Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit

2001-10-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:31:08 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Disadvantages of a new "xinit" package: > 2) Anybody who manages to not have the metapackages installed, > and gets xinit but not xbase-clients, may end up wondering > where that stuff is, and will file bugs

Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit

2001-10-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:31:08 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Disadvantages of a new "xinit" package: > 2) Anybody who manages to not have the metapackages installed, > and gets xinit but not xbase-clients, may end up wondering > where that stuff is, and will file bugs