scrambled panel & x-session loss: update

[charles f. zeitler]

--- Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
uh huh. lotsa stuff there, but this sticks out:



Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c2d21]
1: [0x110420]
2:
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libGLcore.so(xmesa_check_and_update_buffer_size+0x32)
[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]
13: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e9) [0x8070a21]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

(II) SIS(0): Restoring by setting old mode 0x03

these random? crashes started the 22nd (this month)
so i checked my updates of/near that date.. nothing
there looks helpful....

thanks again...

charles zeitler
> 


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