Hi Felix, Thanks for pointing me to the debugging resources.
I tried the following based on your suggestions : - Used Xfce4 instead of Gnome. No luck. - Managed to get the modesetting driver to work with Xfce4 (didn't work with gnome). No luck and X still freezes. Apart from the resources you pointed me to debug X, I came across the following that deals specifically with X freezes : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze I will try out everything else suggested in all of these resources. Fingers crossed. Wonder what Xephyr and Virtualbox (with the Vboxvideo X driver) are doing different from the Xorg drivers that X clients work there but not under Xorg? *pull my hair* Thanks so much for all your help. Regards, Jeetu On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > jeetu.gol...@gmail.com composed on 2016-10-04 10:14 (UTC+0530): > >>> Maybe try the modesetting driver at least on the Intel/Sid installation. > > >> Unfortunately when I use the default modesetting driver my X >> consistently crashes simply by starting gnome-terminal and doing >> something simple like traversing it's menus. This causes the entire X >> server to crash and restart back to the login. > > >> I read others having this problem with Debian Unstable and the >> recommendation was to move back to the Intel driver. > > >> Is there some way for me to gather more debugging information from the >> server so that when ssh over my tunnel causes a freeze I can figure >> out what has happened? > > > I'm no expert on remote troubles. I suggest to focus on Intel/Sid by reading > https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-report-bugs and > https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging/ > if you haven't already, and providing all appropriate information on the > intel-...@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list. If someone there says to > report elsewhere, the response should come with more specific info as to > what to provide, and more importantly, to which list. Surely you'll need to > provide basic info, such as motherboard model (to know which generation > chipset) and output from 'lspci | grep VGA' plus hwinfo and/or inxi and an > Xorg log. > > Maybe first try a different login manager and/or DE. Gnome is surely the > first or second most demanding from the X server of all DEs, so may be the > root problem. > > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
