Two X-Servers?

[adamk]

This is very odd. Are you guys sure it's not something your distribution is doing?

I've used fglrx 8.40 and higher on both Ubuntu Gutsy, Hardy, and opensuse 10.2 and have never seen this.

Adam

[Zhick]

Since when I'm replacing Driver "fglrx" with "radeon" there's only one X Server beeing started I'm pretty sure it's got something to do with fglrx.

[adamk]

What's the output of 'ps ax | grep Xorg' when you have both x servers running?

Adam

[Zhick]

What's the output of 'ps ax | grep Xorg' when you have both x servers running?

Adam

 7182 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --colour=auto Xorg

I guess this is quite meaningless as the grep only finds itself.

maybe a ps ax | grep /usr/bin/X would be more useful?

 5405 tty7     Ss+    7:50 /usr/bin/X -br -novtswitch -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-NziwZT
 5472 tty7     S+     0:00 /usr/bin/X -br -novtswitch -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-NziwZT
 7208 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --colour=auto /usr/bin/X

[biasquez]

i have some bug using fglrx instead of radeon driver. i'm using ubuntu hardy.

[Porter]

maybe a ps ax | grep /usr/bin/X would be more useful?

I don't have two X servers running... I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and Catalyst 8.5.

Odd, maybe it's a distribution-specific thing?

Results from mine:

 5779 tty7     Ss+    8:02 /usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
28336 pts/0    R+     0:00 grep /usr/bin/X

[edit] I'M COMPLETELY WRONG. DISREGARD THE ABOVE. I DO HAVE TWO INSTANCES OF X RUNNING. ID-10-T ERROR ON THE ABOVE POST.

[NeoBrain]

Just wanted to confirm that I have the same problem using Gentoo and Fedora 8.
Very nasty indeed, especially when I see the memory consumption of both servers (70 MB!).

[hoho]

Archlinux here, also 2 identical X processes running.

[Vighy]

what surprises me, is that this issue surprises!

it's much that this is a known issue... and what surprises me even more, is that at ATi, they didn't know it!!!

but look, what top says using 'M':

top - 18:48:32 up  2:33,  0 users,  load average: 0.19, 0.12, 0.07
Tasks:  98 total,   2 running,  96 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  8.3%us,  1.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 89.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.2%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2058348k total,   770484k used,  1287864k free,    70444k buffers
Swap:  4192924k total,        0k used,  4192924k free,   318472k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND        
 3150 ben       20   0  139m  51m 5604 R    1  2.6   1:51.83 wish               
 2098 root      20   0  201m  48m  16m S   11  2.4   3:50.39 X                  
 2269 root      20   0  201m  48m  16m S    0  2.4   0:00.00 X                  
16145 ben       20   0  138m  44m  15m S    0  2.2   0:07.78 firefox-bin        
 2282 ben       20   0  355m  37m  16m S    9  1.8   7:14.88 enlightenment      
12980 ben       20   0  110m  36m 5288 S    1  1.8   0:45.42 wish

nice, ain't it? :-)

[bridgman]

Interesting. I think there is a bugzilla ticket open on this already bug didn't realize how many people are seeing it.

OK, looks like #702 - would you folks be able to add your system specifics to the ticket ?

http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702