[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#583312: since update to initscripts, sysv... to version 2.88.dfs-5 -- kdm "fails" to load!
Hans-J. Ullrich
hans.ullrich at loop.de
Sat Jul 24 06:28:45 UTC 2010
Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2010 schrieben Sie:
Hello Andreas,
> Hi Hans,
>
> On 2010-07-21 23:02, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> > I do not think, the problem is caused by by nvidia-glx-driver. I checked
> > it out, and got the same results by using gdm, xdm or kdm, and as well
> > as with the vesa driver and xserver-xorg-nv. In all cases I got the same
> > efect: the login-manager did not start, the x-server did not start,
> > exactly as the first bugreport described this behaviour.
>
> since you can reproduce the problem without the proprietary nvidia
> driver, can you "solve" it by increasing the timeouts used by
> kdm/gdm/xdm? What values do you need for reliable operation?
> What about gdm3?
>
Changing the timings in kdmrc works for me. But maybe I can help, too. What
did I do?
First of all, I made sure, the bug is still reproducable. So I changed the
entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf from "nvidia" to "vesa". Result: same as I
described in bug #583613. So I could verify, nvidia-driver is not involved.
Then I increased /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc
[X-*-Core]
to ServerTimeout=120
It was formerly commented out, so that the default parameter was set (which is
"15"). After I did this, I restarted several times (reboot, halt, with power
on, with power complete unplugged) and every time it started correctly.
After this, I reactivated "nvidia" in xorg.conf again, and did the same tests
again. Now everything is working fine (with ServerTimeout set to 120).
At last I stepped back to the original of "15", to seee, if the bug is
returned back. Yes, it is!
It is as well using vesa or nvidia. Please see #583613. During my testings, I
could exclude gdm, kdm and xdm, nvidia, vesa, xserver-xorg-nv. The only thing,
which stayed, is the xserver-xorg driver. I think, here might be the main
problem.
> Can you give a short list of the components in your system (CPU, RAM,
> disks, ...), eventually someone can identify something particular "slow"
> in your machine - the reason why this problem is so hard to reproduce on
> other systems. Do you use anything "exotic" in hard- or software?
>
Yeah, no problem. I am using an Acer Aspire 7520G, 2GB RAM (677MHz), dual-core
AMD64 X2 (with 2 x 2.4 GHz clock). Graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce 8600GS
with 512MB RAM. Drives are 2 x sata , each 160 GB, whilst /home, /var, /usr
are encrypted (dm-crypt). keys are loaded at boot from usb-stick.
I have a good friend, which uses the same package configuration like mine, but
she has NO problems at boot. She owns two notebboks, one with a nvidia G-210
graphics card (and no problems), the other one with an ATI graphics card
(using xserver-xorg-ati) which she reports of similar problems we are
discussing.
I am using a second computer (packages identically to my notebook) with the
same behaviour. On both computers (the other one is a little bit older, AMD
Athlon single cpu 2GHz, 512MB RAM (266MHz), Nvidia GeForce 7300 Ultra) I could
reproduce and solve our problem.
Last but not least, here is the output of lspci:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Co-processor (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev
a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev
a2)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev
a2)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev
a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev
05)
01:04.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
Adapter (rev 22)
01:04.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
01:04.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
(rev 12)
01:04.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8600M GS]
(rev a1)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless
Network Adapter (rev 01)
My xorg.conf will be sent below.
Please feel free, to ask for more information, like logfiles, strace output or
similar.
Best regards!
Hans
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (randy at juliet2) Fri Sep 5 15:03:39 PDT 2008
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
# Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
# EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
# Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
# Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
Option "RightEdge" "5300"
Option "TopEdge" "1700"
Option "BottomEdge" "4200"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "175"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
# Option "MinSpeed" "0.06"
# Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12"
# Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
# Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "armada"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Standardbildschirm"
HorizSync 28.0 - 72.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
# Option "NvAGP" "1"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Option "SLI" "1"
# Option "Coolbits" "1"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card"
Monitor "Standardbildschirm"
DefaultDepth 24
# Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
# Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
# Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
# Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "Stereo" "1"
Option "AllowDFPStereo" "1"
# Option "MultiGPU" "1"
Option "TwinView" "True"
# Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
# Section "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "enable"
# EndSection
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