Screenshot freezes system with no error.

by PunDit@work on 02/07/2007 19:23, 9 messages, last message: 02/09/2007 20:16, 1284 views, last view: 04/11/2024 01:17

Everytime I hit f12 or /screenshot my system freezes. The game works fine any other time. There are no errors in the logfile /var/log/messages, and this is where my kern messages are output to.

System : Dell Lattitude 810 / SuSE Linux 10.1
Video Card : ATI Radeon X600
Misc : SDL 1.2.10 / SDL_IMAGE 1.2.5

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#1: ..

by Drakas on 02/07/2007 22:19

Check your disk space? Try making a file yourself? Maybe your drivers are bad/old?

Are you sure that the system freezes?
Did you try compiling Sauer from source?

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#2: ..

by PunDit@work on 02/07/2007 22:30

Thanks for the reply Drakas.My comments are embedded.

Check your disk space? Try making a file yourself?

-- Checked the Disk space and making a file and it is working fine.

Maybe your drivers are bad/old?

-- All Drivers are updated to the latest including the Video Card..


Are you sure that the system freezes?

-- Yes I am sure it is frozen. I try to access another terminal with ctrl-alt-f3 and nothing.Normally for a hung process this is availiable but not for a hung system.


Did you try compiling Sauer from source?

-- Yes it compiled with no error and it still freezes.

I even tried to upgrade SDL and SDL_Image since it looks like SDL_image is an integral part of the screen cap process, and no luck.

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#3: Re: ..

by rancor on 02/07/2007 22:33, refers to #2

Have you tried logging in via SSH? CTRL-ALT-FN often stops working when X hangs.

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#4: ..

by PunDit@work on 02/07/2007 23:01

Good point! I will check it when I get home.

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#5: Re: ..

by Drakas on 02/07/2007 23:03, refers to #3

Wanted to suggest that :)

Usually if going through SSH works, it's an X problem.

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#6: Latest

by PunDit@work on 02/08/2007 21:06

Ok here is the latest.

SSH does work when it freezes so I am assuming it is X that is frozen.

I reinstalled the driver and recreated my xorg.conf and it still persists.

I checked the log and there are no new entrys in any log after the freeze occurs.

I get this message when the ati kernel module is loaded

fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.

Here is my xorg log output when X is loaded this is specific to the fglrx driver.


(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.0
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x2000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] mapped SAREA 0x2000 to 0xb7d13000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0x3000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): DRIScreenInit done
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Name: fglrx
(II) fglrx(0): Version: 8.33.6
(II) fglrx(0): Date: Jan 8 2007
(II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver.
(II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information:
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE: 2.6.16.21-0.25-default
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS: yes
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel __SMP__: yes
(II) fglrx(0): Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE: 0x1000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] register handle = 0x00004000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] ringbuffer size = 0x00100000 bytes
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM buffer queue setup: nbufs = 100 bufsize = 65536
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] texture shared area handle = 0x00008000
(II) fglrx(0): shared FSAAScale=1
(II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xd0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x00acb000
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1920,1473)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1920,1200) (front color buffer - assumption)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1920 x 273
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION
(II) Loading extension ATITVOUT
(**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Solid Lines
Dashed Lines
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
30 128x128 slots
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
(II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x1
(II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
(==) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor
(II) fglrx(0): Interrupt handler installed at IRQ 169.
(II) fglrx(0): Exposed events to the /proc interface


Here is an entry from /var/log/messages during boot.


Feb 8 14:46:44 charles-laptop kernel: fglrx: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
Feb 8 14:46:44 charles-laptop kernel: fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
Feb 8 14:46:44 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 1900 MBytes.
Feb 8 14:46:44 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.33.6 [Jan 8 2007] on minor 0
Feb 8 14:46:44 charles-laptop kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] total GART = 130023424
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] free GART = 114032640
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] max single GART = 114032640
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] total LFB = 134086656
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] free LFB = 104214528
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] max single LFB = 104214528
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] total Inv = 0
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] free Inv = 0
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] max single Inv = 0
Feb 8 14:46:47 charles-laptop kernel: [fglrx] total TIM = 0

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#7: ..

by Drakas on 02/09/2007 10:19

Problem with ATI drivers then - http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Fglrx might help you? You could try google or anything?

ATI blows!:(

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#8: FIXED!!!!!

by PunDit@work on 02/09/2007 20:06

I owe you a 12 pack Drakas. I followed the link and made a few changes as per their reccommendations.

The frst was for 'locking openGL apps'

Added the last to options in this section.

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
Option "KernelModuleParm" "locked-userpages=0"
EndSection

Then on the page they say you HAVE to have at a minmum in the Module section,

Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"

I was missing 'load "GLcore"'

So I dont know which one specifically fixed it but it works perfect. Thanks everyone for you input and help!!!!!

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#9: Two birds with one stone

by PunDit@work on 02/09/2007 20:16

This also fixed my screen resizing issue after exiting the game. When I use to exit the game it would not return X to the original resolution. This is fixed now so no more resizing, yeah!!

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