X11 crashing loop

[cyberjunkie]

I experienced a very strange thing:

Installed Darwine (i had it up and running in a past Tiger installation, and i wanted to give it a try with Leo)

When i launched the Darwine helper app, X11 started to crash one time after the other, in a loop, even without choosing to restart it after the error dialog showed up. Close the Darwine helper didn't fix the problem, and the only choice left was to shutdown (very quickly…the X11 error windows were popping up frantically, and i had a very short time frame to do anything else!)

I knew that the X11 package available on Leo4Allv3 was hacked to work well with both Intel and AMD cpus, but i had to try something to fix it!

So i downloaded the updated X11-2.2.1.pkg package developed independently by xquartz.macosforge.org. This new version is launched by a daemon.

After reboot the system was practically unusable, clicking on anything on the bar caused a restart of the Finder, and X11 was crashing and relaunching in a loop, much worse than before!

The only solution i could devise was to trash the X11 app and reboot (not easy, as the system was very unresponsive).

That fixed the problem, but i don't have X11 now!

Is there a chance that the culprit is my PCI-E video card (Ati X550)?

I had no other video card around, and the onboard video (GMA900) isn't supported as well (with Tiger was working fine).

There are no video kexts loaded, and of course there is no hardware support for QE/CI.

Many application don't work or even crash, like for example Toast Titanium.

What do you think?

Is there a chance that the lack of QE/CI hardware support could crash X11?

Any suggestion?

 

What about a very cheap PCI-E card with full hardware acceleration support and easy driver installation,

without reinstalling Leo4Allv3?

 

Thanks

 

C.J.

[fdboy]

I met the same problem: my graphic card is not recognized and sys profiler reports as no kext loaded, no qe/ci, only native 1024x768 display resolution is supported. In this case, X11 cannot run properly.

 

My solution is : you indeed have to download the newest X11-2.2.1.pkg and install it. Then the problem is the display mode is not passed to startx properly: run from a prompt and it showed that the depth -1 is not supported. So, you can modify your x property list to add a depth entry:

1) use property list editor, open ~/Library/Preferences/org.x.X11.plist<br />

2) add an entry named depth, as a number (integer), put the value as 8, 15, or 24. <br />

3) save it. <br />

4) open X11, it worked for me. <br />

5) you can also modify the property list file for all users, somewhere in /Library/Preferences/org.x. ...., either use property list editor, or directly edit it by adding

<key>depth</key>

<integer>24</integer>

 

Hope this will also solve your problem.

 

Notes added: you may also try a X11user.pkg from tiger, find a guide somewhere in this forum. It also worked for me, but in a strange way(two X11 icons in dock, quartz-wm only works in full-screen mode).