charles f. zeitler wrote: > this sunday my xga monitor started acting up, > the screen goes out & drops me to a login screen. > > i switched to my back-up monitor, and same scene. > > after re-attaching my xga monitor, i find my upper > panel scrambled, "apps" "places" and "system' > are now right-center, launchers to the right, > clock left-center... and the 'move' function > is greyed out... Drop to runlevel 3 or boot into runlevel 3 and run system-config-display --reconfig This should reconfigure your display from scratch and hopefully better. This has to be performed as root user. Another option is to run X -configure which will make a configuration file located in your directory called /root. If it works, you will have to move the created file to /etc/X11 from root and rename it as xorg.conf. You might have to control-alt-backspace to kill the server and there should be instructions at the prompt to test the configuration file. Jim

> > is there some way to restore order to this sitch? > > thanks > > charles zeitler > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

--- "charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: > > --- Jim Cornette <fc-cornette(a)insight.rr.com&gt; wrote: > > > charles f. zeitler wrote: > > > this sunday my xga monitor started acting up, > > > the screen goes out & drops me to a login screen. > > > > > > i switched to my back-up monitor, and same scene. > > > > > > after re-attaching my xga monitor, i find my upper > > > panel scrambled, "apps" "places" and "system' > > > are now right-center, launchers to the right, > > > clock left-center... and the 'move' function > > > is greyed out... > > > > > > Drop to runlevel 3 or boot into runlevel 3 and run > > system-config-display --reconfig > > > > This should reconfigure your display from scratch and hopefully better. > > > > This has to be performed as root user. > > > > Another option is to run > > X -configure > > which will make a configuration file located in your directory called > > /root. If it works, you will have to move the created file to /etc/X11 > > from root and rename it as xorg.conf. > > You might have to control-alt-backspace to kill the server and there > > should be instructions at the prompt to test the configuration file. > > > > Jim > > > > thanks for the tip. > i went single-user & did the system-config-display thing. > the next day or two should tell if this helps. > i found root's panel in good shape, but mine is still scrambled. ugh. > it looks like a shift to the right occurs. > > about one day later & no crash so far... i made a new panel to fix the other issue (duh!) thanks again, Jim. charles zeitler > >

charles f. zeitler wrote: >>> > well, my x session crashed again- i'm thinkin' > my video inteerface on my cheapo mb might be > goin' bad... i'm gonna start lookin for a > video card.... > charles zeitler If you review the /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you do not start X or the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old file if you start another GUI session, thee might be helpful information in the logs which could aid a developer in figuring out and hopefully correcting the flaw with your Integrated video. I guess adding another graphics card would move you off of that version graphics driver, Hopefully the new card will work better for you. Jim -- Obviously I was either onto something, or on something. -- Larry Wall on the creation of Perl --

> > > charles zeitler > > > > If you review the /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you do not start X or the > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old file if you start another GUI session, thee Thia information is valuable I assume to an X maintainer. I see one non X library which might cause the problem. I believe the ldconfig execution might address any linker problems from the equation. Mesa for 3D seems to be referenced for other backtrace entries. > > Backtrace: > 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c2d21] > 1: [0x110420] > 2: >

> [0x4fecf2] > 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so(XMesaResizeBuffers+0x29) > [0x501489] > 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so [0x501810] > 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so [0x1a13ba] > 6: /usr/bin/Xorg(compPositionWindow+0x59) [0x8105599] > 7: /usr/bin/Xorg(ReparentWindow+0x1ac) [0x8077b6c] > 8: /usr/bin/Xorg(ProcReparentWindow+0xd5) [0x8089425] > 9: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x81523c1] > 10: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x1aa) [0x80899fa] > 11: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x495) [0x8071735] > 12: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x4861ef70]ight > 13: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e9) [0x8070a21] > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > (II) SIS(0): Restoring by setting old mode 0x03 This indicates to me that you have a sis video or that the Intel somehow messed up things. If you have the SIS, I found problem correction by increasing the amount of shared memory in BIOS. If you want to get X up and are not too concerned with 3D, you might try to change the "sis" entry to "vesa in /etc/X11/xorg.conf Jim

> > > > > > > > This indicates to me that you have a sis video or that the Intel somehow > > messed up things. > > > > If you have the SIS, I found problem correction by increasing the amount > > of shared memory in BIOS. > > > > If you want to get X up and are not too concerned with 3D, you might try > > to change the "sis" entry to "vesa in /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > > > > > Jim > > > > > interesting advise. but since i've been running f7 since it came out, > & this started on the 22nd, _and_ i noticed that it occurred when > using konqueror, i switched to firefox for a time (~day) no prob. > checked my downloads for k related stuff on th 22nd, found > kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree, rpm -V had a problem with it, > _removed_ same, ( i dont see relevance, but) now testing new > configuration. > > charles zeitler > well my x just crashed again... trying the increased memory shared suggestion... charles zeitler

> > Mesa for 3D seems to be referenced for other backtrace entries. > > > > > > Backtrace: > > 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c2d21] > > 1: [0x110420] > > 2: > > >

> > [0x4fecf2] > > 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so(XMesaResizeBuffers+0x29) > > [0x501489] > > 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so [0x501810] > > 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so [0x1a13ba] > > 6: /usr/bin/Xorg(compPositionWindow+0x59) [0x8105599] > > 7: /usr/bin/Xorg(ReparentWindow+0x1ac) [0x8077b6c] > > 8: /usr/bin/Xorg(ProcReparentWindow+0xd5) [0x8089425] > > 9: /usr/bin/Xorg [0x81523c1] > > 10: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x1aa) [0x80899fa] > > 11: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x495) [0x8071735] > > 12: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0x4861ef70]ight > > 13: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e9) [0x8070a21] > > > > Fatal server error: > > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > > > (II) SIS(0): Restoring by setting old mode 0x03 > >

: >>> Mesa for 3D seems to be referenced for other backtrace entries.

>>> > looking at the log for 'rpm -V' this pops up: > > S.?..... /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 > > from package mesa-libGL > > will try re-installing this bugger & test. > mesa-libGL is re-installed. will now start konqueror & begin testing. charles zeitler

> > I hope the test is positive for a working system. > > Jim > > -- nope. it crashed again. i'll take a fresh look at things tomorrow. charles zeitler

--- Jim Cornette <fc-cornette(a)insight.rr.com&gt; wrote: > charles f. zeitler wrote: > >> > >> I hope the test is positive for a working system. > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> -- > > nope. it crashed again. i'll take a fresh look at things tomorrow. > > > > charles zeitler > > I get the below on checks that I did for package integrity. You might > need to use the --replacepkgs and --replacefiles options for rpm to > replace all files if verify still shows an error. > > I guess my eureka claim did not find gold in them there hills. > > Jim > > locate libGL.so > /usr/lib/libGL.so > /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 > /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 > [jim@HP ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 > mesa-libGL-6.5.2-16.fc8 > [jim@HP- ~]$ rpm -qV mesa-libGL > [jim@HP- ~]$ ls -la /usr/lib/libGL.so* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-07-26 19:20 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> > libGL.so.1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-07-26 19:14 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> > libGL.so.1.2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 454028 2007-07-25 14:46 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 > uh huh. checked them. rpm -V on mesa-libGL now (after rpm -e & rpm -i) gives a null, but: S.?..... /usr/bin/Xorg could this be the culprit? will try re-install of xorg-x11-server-Xorg...

> dam. that didn't help. if i can't figure out something else by friday, > i'll do a fresh install in some spare (backup) partitions, and bring > it up to date.... > > charles zeitler At least an install on the extra space would give you something for comparison. If the fresh install fails also, you can assume it is program level and not corrupted files. (wrong version, incomplete installed rpm)

this sunday my xga monitor started acting up, the screen goes out & drops me to a login screen. i switched to my back-up monitor, and same scene. after re-attaching my xga monitor, i find my upper panel scrambled, "apps" "places" and "system' are now right-center, launchers to the right, clock left-center... and the 'move' function is greyed out...

is there some way to restore order to this sitch?