[SM-Discuss] Bugs and X input freezes (Was Re: Developer Role Call)
Arwed von Merkatz
v.merkatz at gmx.net
Fri Jan 30 14:23:11 EST 2009
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:53:27AM -0600, David Kowis wrote:
> Quoting "Eric Sandall" <eric at sandall.us>:
>
> >Thomas Orgis wrote:
> >>I'm alive. Always busy.
> >>Gotta do some commit bomb some time to push all the stuff I
> >>actually needed to setup some systems from scratch.
> >>(There is this dream about SMGL just working -- stuff building
> >>correctly, I mean -- out of the box... a dream, sadly.)
> >>
> >>Alrighy then,
> >
> >File bugs to help track these, if you want. :) I fix what I find as I
> >find it, as many others do.
> >
> >>Thomas.
> >>
> >>PS: And I got this other dream to be able to use my SMGL system
> >>over extended periods of time without X11 inputs freezing on me.
> >>eekee and myself are investigating this one... my part currently
> >>being to run my laptop with only one core active to rule out an SMP
> >>issue.
> >
> >Vlad noticed my latest update to xf86-input-evdev caused his X to crash
> >(not just freeze) and reverted, but it worked for me (at least
> >overnight). Perhaps the evdev driver, in general, is buggy? I used to
> >have those freezes all the time, but over the last six months it's
> >disappeared (I still use evdev on this machine,
> >http://www.sourcemage.org/Hardware/Dell/Latitude/D630, where I kept
> >getting X freezes). It may also be due to Composite. I notice if I have
> >Composite enabled (in XFCE4) my Firefox crashes easily. Granted, without
> >Composite, my firefox still seems to crash, but not quite as often (I
> >can get it reproduced by uploading an attachment to our wiki, but it
> >doesn't always occur), so this machine may have other issues. ;)
> >
>
> I'm using the latest version of xf86-input-evdev, and it works great.
> No crashing or anything. So I'd say this could be committed. I was
> about to commit it, but noticed the revert. Is the latest version of
> the evdev the upstream stable? If so, we should have it committed.
>
> The only issues with X I've run into are my fiddling with trying to
> turn on OMFG graphics with intel, and suspend/resume.
I have a regularly crashing X, but I think that started before I
switched to using evdev. I'll still try if disabling it helps.
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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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