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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: X - 1.5.0 fails to start - no devices detected |
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I updated to X Server 1.5.0 a few days ago, and just got around to restarting X today. Unfortunately now it doesn't want to start.
From the log:
| Code: | (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ,
965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33,
Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset,
Intel Integrated Graphics Device, G45/G43, Q45/Q43
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
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this is my xorg.conf
here is the full xorg log
After the update, I did re-emerge xf86-video-i810 as well as vesa in addition to evdev keyboard mouse and synaptics.
I tried using the vesa driver which resulted in almost the same error | Code: | (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found |
my graphics chip is intel 945gm and the i810 driver has always worked in the past
during that update a few other things got updated as well, mesa, libdrm, xinit, and various other X11 apps and libraries
etc-update performed a 'trivial' change in an xinit file as well
Googling so far has yielded no solutions as of yet.
Thanks for any assistance. |
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szczerb
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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You should have the "intel" driver in xorg.conf and not the old "i810".
Running 'Xorg -configure' and reviewing the defaults with a new version of xorg is usually helpfull  |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Okay, thanks, I switched that, and also used a generated config from 'xorgcfg' combined into this and X now starts. However, when using my normal xfce4 desktop, the desktop begins to load, then the display gets garbled and X restarts. However blackbox and fluxbox both work fine, so i am assuming it's compiz...apparently something broke somewhere...again
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szczerb
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Try with a more generic config. Comment all acceleration options in the device section. Also note that AIGLX is on by default - there is no need to state that. And comment all the extensions besides composite - just to start with.
Also run 'Xorg -configure'. It will create a /root/xorg.conf.new. Make sure that the module section is the same and the device section. If you have a laptop then I suggest also assigning proper monitor sections to hw outputs. Like in my xorg which is in this bug report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17491
Once you get it going start tweaking with the options you need/want. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| szczerb wrote: | Try with a more generic config. Comment all acceleration options in the device section. Also note that AIGLX is on by default - there is no need to state that. And comment all the extensions besides composite - just to start with.
Also run 'Xorg -configure'. It will create a /root/xorg.conf.new. Make sure that the module section is the same and the device section. If you have a laptop then I suggest also assigning proper monitor sections to hw outputs. Like in my xorg which is in this bug report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17491
Once you get it going start tweaking with the options you need/want. |
Turns out it was the magnify plugin that was causing the corrupted display. I know I have a bunch of unnecessary options in xorg.conf that I've read of using, but looking at logs I see they aren't valid options.
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