Re: What version of Xorg?

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:07:15 GMT Hactar <ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| In article <fni3b202vtn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> My previous Slackware 11.0 has Xorg version 6.9.0. I can see from the x.org
|> web site the latest version is 7.3 and 7.4 is coming. I upgraded Slackware
|> to version 12.0 and it seems Xorg now reports version 1.3.0 instead of an
|> expected value in the 6.9 to 7.4 range. Anyone know WTF is that?
|
| Run "xdpyinfo". Look for "X.Org version".

xdpyinfo: unable to open display "".

Oh ... did I mention ... X isn't working.


|> Oh, and as usual, it doesn't work. There always seems to be some change to
|> the configuration files, so I have to always start over reconfiguring it.
|> This time I ran "xorgcfg" with the xorg.conf file absent, so it would detect
|> my hardware and set it up in xorg.conf for me (then later I would modify it
|> to get my favorite modeline back). But it doesn't succeed in this case.
|> The screen goes blank and X is running at 100% CPU. Doing strace shows no
|> syscalls are happening after this. This is the exact behaviour I saw when
|> just trying my previous config file. So, something else is broken this
|> time around. FWIW, the video card is Matrox Millennium (mga).
|
| tail -f /var/lox/Xorg.0.log on a text console, switch to it with
| ctrl-alt-number. See where it gets when it stops.

Since X is stuck in a loop, I cannot switch the console. I know it is
VT 10. But it's on VT 10 and the screen is black. It appears that X
goes into a CPU loop sometime after it switches console and starts to
change the video mode. It never finishes. I let the loop run for 2
hours and it's not getting out in any reasonable time frame.

I can SSH in from another computer (that has the same video card but is
running Slackware 11.0 with Xorg 6.9.0 and working OK). Doing strace
shows no syscalls being made or signals being handled by the X process.
It pegs the CPU to 100% (one CPU core out of a pair of dual cores).

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