[rhn-users] X lock up

[Brian R Smith]

David,

What type of video card do you have on your machine?  What
does /sbin/lspci say is your VGA controller?  The fact that you use the
VESA driver indicates to me that you are using (as it's a dell) an
NVIDIA card, though I'd like to be sure.

-Brian

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:18 -0600, David Armstrong wrote:
> Brian R Smith wrote:
> 
> >If you don't mind, forward us a copy of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >
> >-Brian
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 09:18 -0600, David Armstrong wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>After the latest OpenOffice upgrades I have been having trouble with X 
> >>locking up, anyone else out there having this problem? 
> >>
> >>I can reproduce to consistently by opening a spreadsheet and selecting 
> >>several rows or columns using the control key and mouse.
> >>
> >>System Dell Precision 470 running RHEL 4.0 64 bit
> >>
> >>
> >>Borg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.1-23.EL.x86_64.rpm
> >>
> >>openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4
> >>openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4
> >>openoffice.org-1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4
> >>
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> >>
> 
> plain text document attachment (xorg.conf)
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "single head configuration"
> 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> 
> # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the 
> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
> # no need to change the default.
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
> 	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> 	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> 	Load  "dbe"
> 	Load  "extmod"
> 	Load  "fbdevhw"
> 	Load  "glx"
> 	Load  "record"
> 	Load  "freetype"
> 	Load  "type1"
> 	Load  "dri"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> #	Option	"Xleds"		"1 2 3"
> # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
> #	Option	"XkbDisable"
> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
> # lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
> # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
> #	Option	"XkbModel"	"pc102"
> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> #	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
> #
> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
> #	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
> # or:
> #	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
> #	Option	"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
> #
> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
> # control keys, use:
> #	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"
> # Or if you just want both to be control, use:
> #	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:nocaps"
> #
> 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> 	Driver      "kbd"
> 	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
> 	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 	Driver      "mouse"
> 	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> 	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
> 	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
> 	ModelName    "ViewSonic PF790"
> 	HorizSync    30.0 - 97.0
> 	VertRefresh  50.0 - 180.0
> 	Option	    "dpms"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier  "Videocard0"
> 	Driver      "vesa"
> 	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> 	BoardName   "VESA driver (generic)"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier "Screen0"
> 	Device     "Videocard0"
> 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
> 	DefaultDepth     24
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     16
> 		Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Viewport   0 0
> 		Depth     24
> 		Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
> 	Group        0
> 	Mode         0666
> EndSection
> 
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