I posted about this issue on the devel list and it was recommended that I try here. That conversation can be found at: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/185305.html
Here's a description of the issue:
I have a ThinkPad T60 that I recently upgraded to Fedora 19 from CentOS 6. With CentOS 6, I could connect to the dock with an extra monitor connected to the VGA port just fine, but with Fedora 19 it has issues.
It used to crash when I connected it to the dock with the monitor connected: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/142339/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982442
I've updated using yum and now it doesn't crash, but I can't start any programs. When I click on a program icon to launch it, nothing happens.
Based on feedback on the devel list, I tried the following:
The keyboard works and I can hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and then login and run commands on the console. I also tried creating a new account and it has the same issue. I also tried pressing the Windows Key and the Activities Overview doesn't pop up like it's supposed to and the only thing that I can get to do anything is right clicking on the desktop and then about a minute later the setting context menu will pop up.
What can I do to help diagnose this issue and hopefully fix it?
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Dave Johansen davejohansen@gmail.com wrote:
I posted about this issue on the devel list and it was recommended that I try here. That conversation can be found at: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/185305.html
Here's a description of the issue:
I have a ThinkPad T60 that I recently upgraded to Fedora 19 from CentOS 6. With CentOS 6, I could connect to the dock with an extra monitor connected to the VGA port just fine, but with Fedora 19 it has issues.
It used to crash when I connected it to the dock with the monitor connected: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/142339/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982442
I've updated using yum and now it doesn't crash, but I can't start any programs. When I click on a program icon to launch it, nothing happens.
Based on feedback on the devel list, I tried the following:
The keyboard works and I can hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and then login and run commands on the console. I also tried creating a new account and it has the same issue. I also tried pressing the Windows Key and the Activities Overview doesn't pop up like it's supposed to and the only thing that I can get to do anything is right clicking on the desktop and then about a minute later the setting context menu will pop up.
What can I do to help diagnose this issue and hopefully fix it?
I took a look in /var/log/messages and saw these two outputs right after connecting to the dock with second monitor connected: Jul 16 19:35:15 JohansenDev /etc/gdm/Xsession[1241]: (gnome-settings-daemon:1425): GnomeDesktop-CRITICAL **: gnome_rr_output_info_get_geometry: assertion `GNOME_IS_RR_OUTPUT_INFO (self)' failed Jul 16 19:35:15 JohansenDev /etc/gdm/Xsession[1241]: (gnome-settings-daemon:1425): GnomeDesktop-CRITICAL **: gnome_rr_output_info_get_geometry: assertion `GNOME_IS_RR_OUTPUT_INFO (self)' failed
Are there any other logs I can take a look at? Or anything else I can do to help diagnose the cause of this issue?
Thanks, Dave
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Dave Johansen davejohansen@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Dave Johansen davejohansen@gmail.com wrote:
I posted about this issue on the devel list and it was recommended that I try here. That conversation can be found at: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/185305.html
Here's a description of the issue:
I have a ThinkPad T60 that I recently upgraded to Fedora 19 from CentOS 6. With CentOS 6, I could connect to the dock with an extra monitor connected to the VGA port just fine, but with Fedora 19 it has issues.
It used to crash when I connected it to the dock with the monitor connected: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/142339/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982442
I've updated using yum and now it doesn't crash, but I can't start any programs. When I click on a program icon to launch it, nothing happens.
Based on feedback on the devel list, I tried the following:
The keyboard works and I can hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and then login and run commands on the console. I also tried creating a new account and it has the same issue. I also tried pressing the Windows Key and the Activities Overview doesn't pop up like it's supposed to and the only thing that I can get to do anything is right clicking on the desktop and then about a minute later the setting context menu will pop up.
What can I do to help diagnose this issue and hopefully fix it?
I took a look in /var/log/messages and saw these two outputs right after connecting to the dock with second monitor connected: Jul 16 19:35:15 JohansenDev /etc/gdm/Xsession[1241]: (gnome-settings-daemon:1425): GnomeDesktop-CRITICAL **: gnome_rr_output_info_get_geometry: assertion `GNOME_IS_RR_OUTPUT_INFO (self)' failed Jul 16 19:35:15 JohansenDev /etc/gdm/Xsession[1241]: (gnome-settings-daemon:1425): GnomeDesktop-CRITICAL **: gnome_rr_output_info_get_geometry: assertion `GNOME_IS_RR_OUTPUT_INFO (self)' failed
Are there any other logs I can take a look at? Or anything else I can do to help diagnose the cause of this issue?
Thanks, Dave
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-July/msg00045.html I found out from the above conversation on the gnome mailing list that the issue is with how X/gnome_shell handles the texture allocation and it not playing nice with the limitations of Intel gen3 video hardware: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699705
I haven't been able to get any response there, so I was hoping that maybe someone on here could help. It appears that the per-crtc pixmaps have been added, but is that functionality not being used by X/gnome_shell yet? Or is there some way I have to manually turn that on?
Thanks, Dave