Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly
On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 22:38:27 -0400, Manu Hack wrote:
> > On 8/23/07, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:25:47 -0400, Manu Hack wrote:
> > > > On 8/21/07, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:29:53 -0400, Manu Hack wrote:
> > > > > > I finally have the chance to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log in recovery
> > > > > > mode but it didn't have anything with "(EE)" or "(WW)".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And in recovery mode, I can shutdown properly with shutdown -h now.
> > > > >
> > > > > That suggests to me that the shutdown problem might be related to the
> > > > > video driver that you use for Xorg.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Any more suggestion?
> > > > >
> > > > > Did you try the "vesa" driver already? (as I suggested earlier)
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it turns out that similar problem is still there.
> > > >
> > > > > Which video card do you have and which driver do you normally use?
> > > >
> > > > I have been using i810 for a while and before it had no problem until
> > > > an update months ago.
> > >
> > > Which Intel card is it? How is the driver configured? Are there any
> > > warnings or errors in xorg's log? Run the following commands and post
> > > the output:
> > >
> > > lspci | egrep -i 'vga|graphic|display|video'
> >
> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
> > 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
>
> I have the exact same hardware on my laptop and I don't have any
> problems with shutting down or restarting X.
>
> > > awk '/Section "(Device|Monitor)"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated
> > Graphics Device"
> > Driver "i810"
> > BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
>
> I use "intel" instead of "i810". This should not matter if you have the
> newest version of the driver since the "i810" is only a legacy symlink
> nowadays which points to the "intel" module. What is your output for:
>
> dpkg -l xserver-xorg-video-{intel,i810} | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
ii xserver-xorg-video-i810 2:2.1.0-2
ii xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.1.0-2
>
> > > > > Also, are there any interesting entries in /var/log/syslog around the
> > > > > time of the crashes/freezes?
> > > > I don't think so.
> > >
> > > I think the next thing to try is if X blocks the shutdown or if
> > > something else in runlevel 2 is responsible. Shut down X and/or stop the
> > > graphical login manager with
> > >
> > > invoke-rc.d gdm stop
> >
> > Maybe a more detailed way to do so is helpful to me for if I run the
> > above command the screen goes black and I lose control of everything.
>
> This still looks like a crash of the graphics driver during mode
> switching to me. (Did you also try this with the "vesa" driver?) If you
> are at the graphical login screen, can you switch to a terminal with
> CTRL + ALT + F1 (or F2, ..., F6)?
>
I tried vesa, but the screen is not very stable and I can logoff once
and then when I login again, I couldn't log off like I was using i810.
> Unless you can find a related message in either the syslog or the xorg
> log I don't know how to track this down. The only other thing I can
> think of right now is having a look at your loaded modules; what is
> your output for
>
> lsmod | egrep 'i(810|830|915)|drm|agp|i2c'
>
> ?
i915 21280 3
drm 73908 4 i915
intel_agp 23004 1
agpgart 32168 3 drm,intel_agp
Manu
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