Re: Alt-F7 fails
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> X crashing when switching back from the console is most
> commonly caused by a problem with the video driver. There
> should be some related error messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or
> in /var/log/syslog. (Switching back and forth between X and
> console works fine for me; up-to-date Sid/amd64, intel driver.)
There was a "backtrace" in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x813265b]
1: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x51) [0x80c5c71]
2: [0xb7fd3400]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7956417]
4: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86CrtcSetModeTransform+0x4b4) [0x80eee14]
5: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SetDesiredModes+0x124) [0x80ef1e4]
6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb793527d]
7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb7706f08]
8: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80dd9e1]
9: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x80ccdf4]
10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so [0xb79f0864]
11: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86Wakeup+0x3c3) [0x80c6393]
12: /usr/bin/X11/X(WakeupHandler+0x52) [0x8090512]
13: /usr/bin/X11/X(WaitForSomething+0x1bb) [0x812ffeb]
14: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x7e) [0x808c61e]
15: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x3bd) [0x8071a5d]
16: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7c72775]
17: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8070f11]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
It seems quite a lot happened to Debian Sid recently without me
being aware of it.
I did 2 experiments:
1-Deleted (well, renamed of course) /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Made sure
that the keyboard description in /etc/defaults/console-setup
was OK.
Result: X works, OK it seems, without xorg.conf, and Alt-F7
works also!
2-Feeling a little bit guilty about running X without xorg.conf,
ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I expected to get the well-
know litany of questions. No such thing. Instead I got:
dpkg: warning: obsolete option
'--print-installation-architecture', please use
'--print-architecture' instead.
(repeated 3 times) Now what does this mean? Where is this
"obsolete option" set?
Should users now just simply ditch /etc/X11/xorg.conf? On the
other hand it says in the "Input Hotplug Guide":
First and foremost is that the xorg.conf is still absolutely
necessary to set one's keymap when you're not using the default
'us' map.
But it seems to work OK even with non-standard keyboard setup,
provided it is set in console-setup.
Confused, Jan
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