Random blackout atfer upgrading to xorg 1.6?

Question

OK, I'm not very sure if this is related to xorg, here is the situation:
After upgrading to xorg 1.6, I restart X and start firefox to surf the internet,
atfer a few hours of usage, my screen suddenly blackouts, and it seems like a hard crash,
I can't use crtl-alt-backspace to kill X nor use crtl-alt-Fn to switch between virtual consoles,
this is very frustrating since I'm always very proud of my super-rock-solid Arch,
I have NEVER had issue like this, since it happens after upgrading to xorg 1.6,
I suspect the incident is related to it,
does anyone have a similiar situation?
any suggests or thoughts would be very appriciated.
Sean

Answer 1

You have to add the 2 patches given by mlee and recompile xorg-server
Here's my modified xorg-server PKGBUILD
# $Id$
# Maintainer: Alexander Baldeck <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Jan de Groot <[email protected]>
pkgname=xorg-server
pkgver=1.6.0
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="X.Org X servers"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('custom')
url="http://xorg.freedesktop.org"
depends=('hal>=0.5.11' 'libgl' 'libxfont>=1.4.0' 'openssl>=0.9.8j' 'libpciaccess>=0.10.5' 'libxv>=1.0.4' 'pixman>=0.14.0' 'xcursor-themes' 'xkeyboard-config>=1.5' 'xorg-server-utils' 'xorg-fonts-misc' 'xbitmaps' 'diffutils' 'xf86-input-evdev>=2.1.3')
makedepends=('libx11>=1.2' 'mesa>=7.4' 'xf86driproto>=2.0.4' 'xtrans>=1.2.3' 'libxkbfile>=1.0.5' 'randrproto>=1.3.0' 'renderproto>=0.9.3' 'xcmiscproto>=1.1.2' 'bigreqsproto>=1.0.2' 'resourceproto>=1.0.2' 'videoproto>=2.2.2' 'compositeproto>=0.4' 'scrnsaverproto>=1.1.0' 'resourceproto>=1.0.2' 'libxinerama>=1.0.3' 'xf86dgaproto>=2.0.3' 'recordproto>=1.13.2' 'libgl>=7.4' 'glproto>=1.4.9')
conflicts=('catalyst-utils<=9.2')
options=('!libtool')
provides=('x-server')
groups=('xorg')
install=xorg-server.install
source=(${url}/releases/individual/xserver/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
xorg-redhat-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch
server-1.6.patch
hal-wait.patch
xserver-1.6.0-xinerama-crashes.patch
xserver-1.6.0-xinerama-cursors.patch)
md5sums=('aafe73f5807ce8bb534727ecb72467c7'
'1a336eb22e27cbf443ec5a2ecddfa93c'
'064559385557ad02432a1e800b92b14e'
'f16d2caef84e1a9c4075b6c5e145512d'
'fdb4fb466459c32c897ee3b405b6f849'
'a30429f7c2114e7170d62858472ec102')
build() {
cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
# Get rid of the ugly pattern
patch -Np3 -i "${srcdir}/xorg-redhat-die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die.patch" || return 1
# Upstream fixes from server-1.6 branch
patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/server-1.6.patch" || return 1
# Revert waiting for hal, assume hal won't show up when initial connect fails
patch -R -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/hal-wait.patch" || return 1
# Avoid Crashes when Xinerama is enabled
patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/xserver-1.6.0-xinerama-crashes.patch" || return 1
# Avoid Cursors problem with xinerama
patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/xserver-1.6.0-xinerama-cursors.patch" || return 1
# Fix dbus config path
sed -i -e 's/\$(sysconfdir)/\/etc/' config/Makefile.* || return 1
libtoolize --force || return 1
aclocal || return 1
autoconf || return 1
automake --add-missing || return 1
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-ipv6 \
--enable-dri \
--disable-dmx \
--enable-xvfb \
--enable-xnest \
--enable-composite \
--enable-xcsecurity \
--enable-xorg \
--enable-xephyr \
--enable-glx-tls \
--enable-kdrive \
--enable-install-setuid \
--enable-config-hal \
--enable-config-dbus \
--enable-record \
--disable-xfbdev \
--disable-xfake \
--disable-xsdl \
--disable-static \
--sysconfdir=/etc/X11 \
--localstatedir=/var \
--with-default-font-path=/usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1 \
--with-xkb-path=/usr/share/X11/xkb \
--with-xkb-output=/var/lib/xkb \
--with-dri-driver-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri || return 1
make || return 1
make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1
rm -rf "${pkgdir}/var/log" || return 1
install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/etc/X11" || return 1
install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/var/lib/xkb" || return 1
# Needed for non-mesa drivers, libgl will restore it
mv "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.xorg" || return 1
install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
install -m644 COPYING "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/" || return 1
For now the cursor is ok and I don't experience crashed when I hold keys.