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Hi guys,

I did a quick search here, and have found nothing.

I've been running KDE3 within Hardy Heron Ubuntu for some time. I had initial problems getting it to correctly detect that my laptop (an old Sony Vaio PCG-R505JSP had 1024x768 at 24bpp capability, but with some searching found a solution to that.

Just today, I decided to switch to KDE4.1, having read some of the rave reviews. Unfortunately, KDE4.1 crashes on login, an returns to the login kdm prompt. KDE3 is still running just fine (I'm posting this from KDE3, 1024x768 with no problem).

The syslog from the time of the crash contains:

25/08/08 13:01:33 ubuntu kernel [41854.741359] Xorg[5505]: segfault at 000001a4 eip 0818faaa esp bfb2d5d0 error 4
25/08/08 13:01:34 ubuntu console-kit-daemon[5165] WARNING: Unable to activate console: No such device or address
25/08/08 13:01:34 ubuntu kdm[5463] X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
25/08/08 13:01:43 ubuntu kdm_greet[5801] Cannot open default user face
25/08/08 13:02:17 ubuntu console-kit-daemon[5165] WARNING: Unable to activate console: No such device or address
25/08/08 13:02:17 ubuntu kdm[5463] X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
25/08/08 13:02:22 ubuntu kdm_greet[5999] Cannot open default user face
25/08/08 13:03:21 ubuntu NetworkManager <info> Updating allowed wireless network lists.

The Xorg log from the same time contains:

9: /usr/bin/X(compPaintWindowBackground+0x6d) [0x810530d]
10: /usr/bin/X(miWindowExposures+0xf2) [0x8121282]
11: /usr/bin/X [0x80db995]
12: /usr/bin/X(miHandleValidateExposures+0x78) [0x81373b8]
13: /usr/bin/X(MapWindow+0x3e7) [0x80790d7]
14: /usr/bin/X(ProcMapWindow+0x66) [0x808d0d6]
15: /usr/bin/X [0x815076e]
16: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x2cf) [0x808d8df]
17: /usr/bin/X(main+0x48b) [0x807471b]
18: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7c9d450]
19: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x201) [0x8073a91]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting

(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 1
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 2
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 3

The relevant portion of the kdm log appears to be:

X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2)
Current Operating System: Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 13 June 2008 01:08:21AM

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Aug 24 23:44:18 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
Atom 4, CARD32 4, unsigned long 4
expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
kdmgreet(5598) KLocalePrivate::initEncoding: Cannot resolve system encoding, defaulting to ISO 8859-1.
Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c780e]
1: [0xb7f64420]
2: /usr/bin/X(Xfree+0x21) [0x81b89b1]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb7a9f2ed]
4: /usr/bin/X [0x816fe7f]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so [0xb7b64e6a]
6: /usr/bin/X [0x814572a]
7: /usr/bin/X(dixChangeGC+0xaad) [0x809cb8d]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb7ae397a]
9: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb7ae3dbf]
10: /usr/bin/X [0x81708af]
11: /usr/bin/X(compPaintWindowBackground+0x6d) [0x810530d]
12: /usr/bin/X(miWindowExposures+0xf2) [0x8121282]
13: /usr/bin/X [0x80db995]
14: /usr/bin/X(miHandleValidateExposures+0x78) [0x81373b8]
15: /usr/bin/X(miSlideAndSizeWindow+0xd74) [0x8138d44]
16: /usr/bin/X(compResizeWindow+0xac) [0x810611c]
17: /usr/bin/X(ConfigureWindow+0xbcb) [0x807a43b]
18: /usr/bin/X(ProcConfigureWindow+0x9d) [0x808ceed]
19: /usr/bin/X [0x815076e]
20: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x2cf) [0x808d8df]
21: /usr/bin/X(main+0x48b) [0x807471b]
22: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7cfc450]
23: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x201) [0x8073a91]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting


Can anybody offer any advice here?

Is this looking like a kde4.1 problem or an Xorg problem?

Is there a newer Xorg driver for i810 that I can try?

Any and all help gratefully accepted. For the moment, I guess I'm stuck with KDE3

Thanks in advance,
Paul.

Quoted from "SteveMcQwark"

Go to settings a disable smileys for the message. Either that, or put the text in a code block

Oops - done. Just goes to show I should read my own post after it's submitted!

Paul.

Hi guys,

someone over in the kubuntuforums sent me an xorg.conf using the intel driver rather than the i810, and I've done some experimentation with that, as well as my working KDE 3.5 xorg.conf, and made *some* progress.

Basically, I now have a working system with KDE 4.1 at 1024x768, BUT only at 16bpp.

I can only assume that KDE 4.1 requires DRI, because having done some research, I find the Intel driver doesn't support DRI on the i815 at 24bpp, only 16bpp and below. An excerpt from the man page isn't altogether helpful, and just says:

For the i810/i815 other depths support the True‐
Color and DirectColor visuals. For the i830M and later, only the True‐
Color visual is supported for depths greater than 8. The driver sup‐
ports hardware accelerated 3D via the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
(DRI), but only in depth 16 for the i810/i815

Does anybody know if there's a solution to this that will let me run at 24bpp?

I've attached my working (16bpp) xorg.conf - the only changes I've tried so far are to switch the depth 16 to be depth 24, and to explicitly set Option "DRI" "Disable", but both of these have the same issue, in that the logon splashscreen is fine, but logging in causes the X-server to crash with the errors as shown in Post #1.

Thanks again,
Paul.