[Mailinglist] Help needed(X server issue)

[justin joseph]

--- Santhosh Joseph <santhoshatwork at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Justin,
> 
> As suggested by someone on this list, I am tempted
> to
> believe that you have ran out of "space". It could
> be
> your HDD partition or memory. Have you checked how
> much free RAM you have when you run X? Do a "free
> -m".

Thank you for your temptation.  I were trying to debug
a program all the while when this X issue was
happening.  free -m show that I have only near to
about 
22mb of RAM remaining on a 1gb machine.  There is
definitely a memory leaksome where.  Will start a new
thread regarding this.


Make sure you have sufficient swap space
> enabled,
> might just help.
> 
> Good Luck.
> Santhosh Joseph
> 
> 
> --- justin joseph <justin_joseph007 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > The xserver on my machine crashes with the
> follwing
> > message:
> > 
> > localhost login: root
> > Password: [drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* space:
> 131024
> > wanted 131064
> > [drm:i830_wait_ring] *ERROR* lockup
> > 
> > This was two days back and used to happen as soon
> as
> > I try clt+atl+F1 from the GUI and try to login. 
> For
> > some reasons this never happens anymore but
> instead
> > the monitor turns blank intermittently while in
> the
> > text mode.  To get back display I need to do a
> > clt+alt+F7 and then the GUI is displayed and then
> I
> > get back to text mode.
> >                                                   
>  
> >                                                   
>  
> >                    
> >                                                   
>  
> >                                                   
>  
> >                    
> > lspci  ouput: 
> >                                                   
>  
> >                                                   
>  
> >                    
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P
> > Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.
> > 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB USB
> (rev
> > 02)
> >                                                   
>  
> >                                                   
>  
> >                    
> > uname output is as below:
> >                                                   
>  
> >                                                   
>  
> >                    
> > [root at localhost root]# uname -a
> > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.21-4.ELsmp #1 SMP
> > Fri Oct 3 17:52:56 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> >                                                   
>  
> >                                                   
>  
> >                    
> > The monitor is an HP L1706.
> > 
> > dmesg ouput:
> > 
> > lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> > lp0: console ready
> > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp
> memory:
> > 933M
> > agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 865G Chipset.
> > agpgart: Detected 8060K stolen memory.
> > agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
> > memory : f723a580
> > memory : f723a600
> > memory : f563c480
> > memory : f563c400
> > [drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xf0000000 128MB
> > [drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0
> > mtrr: base(0xf0000000) is not aligned on a
> > size(0x300000) boundary
> > memory : f563c300
> > memory : f563c280
> > memory : f563c200
> > memory : f563c180
> > memory : f563c100
> > K: ERROR  : fp: error reading in patch instruction
> > for /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3 ret : 0.
> > ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> > hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
> > hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 96kB Cache, DMA
> > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
> > cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I
> > recognize!
> > 
> > XF86 is the X server being used.
> > 
> > Would like to get this annoying issue sorted out,
> > please help. 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Justin
> >                                                   
>  
> >                                                   
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> >                                                   
>  
> >  ;                                                
>  
> >                                       
> > 
> > 
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