I have experienced some flaky behaviour from xorg-server-1.0.2-r4 which I did not experience with 1.0.2-r3. This may or may not be related to the fact that I am using ati-drivers-8.23.7. The first problem I had, just after I had emerged it the first time, was that it produced a display that was not legible. the mouse pointer appeared as it should, but the underlying windows and background were smeared horizontally, a bit like when you try to run an older monitor at a resolution it can't cope with in that there were several shadows of the windows that should have been there visible. This meant that I could, for instance, focus on an xterm, type commands into it and run them, but all I could see of my typing was a couple of pixels changing in each of the shadowy windows. I then, in desperation, upgraded to 1.0.99-whatever, and then downgraded back to 1.0.2-r4 and found that it now displayed properly. However I have since experienced other problems. One thing that does work, which didn't work in 1.0.2-r3, is that I can, once again, use ctrl-alt-function combinations to switch consoles. However I found that the consoles were garbled. For instance once I got a black screen with flashing red columns where the middle lines would be and a one-pixel blue line in place of the text that should have been there. Every typed character appeared as another pixel, and the line wrapped itself so that it became a blue area at the bottom. Terminating the x-session has twice resulted in a total system freeze. I can't remember how I terminated the session the first time it happened, but the second time I forced it to terminate by issuing a halt command from a remote console. The network connection became disabled and the screen froze somewhere in the middle of shutting down the windows. The only message in /var/log/messages was about switching to runlevel 0. I should probably mention that I start my xsessions with startx rather than a session manager (because I can't get gdm to work). Today I have restarted the machine and I have found that I can now do console switching without the garbled display. I am not aware of having done anything to alter my system between my previous boot and now, beyond emerging some audio apps and re-emerging some audio-related libraries. zebedee robert # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre10-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-reiser4-suspend2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-reiser4-suspend2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_CA.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/proaudio /usr/local/zugaina-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow 3dnowext X X509 a52 aac acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avahi avi bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar cdparanoia cli crypt cups curl dba dbus dga divx4linux djvu doc dri dssi dv dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode erandom esd ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icc ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib innodb insecure-drivers isdnlog ithreads jack jack-tmpfs java jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kerberos kqemu krb4 ladcca ladspa ldap libg++ libnotify libwww lm_sensors lzo mad maildir matroska md5sum memlimit mikmod mime ming mmx mono motif mp3 mpeg multitarget mysql nautilus ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png portaudio povray ppds pppd python qt quicktime radeon rdesktop readline real reflection rrdtool rtc samba scanner sdk sdl session slp sndfile softmmu speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vhosts vorbis vst wmf x86 xanim xine xinerama xml2 xmms xorg xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Can you reproduce any of your issues with the radeon or vesa driver?
I'll need some time to get back to you on this. I'll continue working a while longer with fglrx and see what else happens. There has just been an ati-drivers update and it's possible that that has changed things. If bad things keep happening I'll try the radeon driver for a few days. Remind me if I haven't added anything to this report within the next week or so.
Alright, I'll mark it NEEDINFO for the time being.
