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tommytumult
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 Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:30 pm Post subject: [sollved]Help getting X to start |
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I've been trying to get this to work on my own for the past few weeks but nothin I find in the forums gives me a resolution, so I'm hoping to find something today. I can usually get these things figured out on my own, but I've failed. I'm using onboard video, ATI Radeon 4290, nothing all that new, but I don't believe exotic. I've followed the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml to try to configure my kernel correctly but it's gotten me nowhere. Whenever I startx or try to get into gdm, I just get a black screen with thin colored lines at the top. Reading over previous threads, I think my /var/log/Xorg.0.log might be relevant: http://bpaste.net/show/36304/ If you've any advice or need anything more to get this along, I'll do it. Thank you.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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tommytumult,
It was all going well until | Code: | | [ 111.532] Segmentation fault at address 0x9c |
Thats not supposed to happen, it suggests that xorg-server or ther drivers may have built incorrectly ... possibly due to hardware problems like overheating or bad RAM.
Try rebuilding xorg-server and xorg-drivers with MAKEOPTS="-j1" in your /etc/make.conf
This will keep the memory and CPU load down.
The log says | Code: | | [ 111.158] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" |
which is correct for your video card.
What sort of system do you have, netbook? laptop? desktop?
I see your display was made in the middle of 2006. Is the box six years old too ?
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tommytumult
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Te box in question is just over a year old. It's a desktop with an 890gxm-g65 motherboard and 16GB of RAM. Everything works fin in Windows. The display was salvaged from work.
I've changed my /etc/make.conf to MAKEOPTS="-j1" and recompiled xorg-server and drivers. No noticeable change at all. |
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BillWho
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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I noticed you starting to have problems here:
| Code: | [ 111.476] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 9
[ 111.476] drmOpenByBusid: Interface 1.4 failed, trying 1.1
[ 111.476] drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:05.0
[ 111.478] (EE) AIGLX error: r600 does not export required DRI extension
[ 111.478] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
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You might wan to check these settings and check that sys-kernel/linux-firmware is installed.
<M> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) ---> │ │
--- Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) │ │
│ │ < > 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3+ │ │
│ │ < > ATI Rage 128 │ │
│ │ <M> ATI Radeon │ │
│ │ [*] Enable modesetting on radeon by default - NEW DRIVER │ │
│ │ < > Matrox g200/g400 │ │
│ │ < > Via unichrome video cards │ │
│ │ < > Savage video cards │ │
│ │ < > DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU │ │
│ │ < > Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer │ │
│ │
│ --- Support for frame buffer devices │ │
│ │ [ ] Enable firmware EDID │ │
│ │ [ ] Framebuffer foreign endianness support ---> │ │
│ │ -*- Enable Video Mode Handling Helpers │ │
│ │ [*] Enable Tile Blitting Support │ │
│ │ *** Frame buffer hardware drivers *** │ │
│ │ < > Cirrus Logic support │ │
│ │ < > Permedia2 support │ │
│ │ < > CyberPro 2000/2010/5000 support │ │
│ │ < > Arc Monochrome LCD board support │ │
│ │ < > VGA 16-color graphics support │ │
│ │ < > Userspace VESA VGA graphics support │ │
│ │ < > N411 Apollo/Hecuba devkit support │ │
│ │ < > Hercules mono graphics support │ │
│ │ < > Epson S1D13XXX framebuffer support │ │
│ │ < > nVidia Framebuffer Support │ │
│ │ < > nVidia Riva support │ │
│ │ < > Intel LE80578 (Vermilion) support │ │
│ │ < > Matrox acceleration │ │
│ │ <M> ATI Radeon display support │ │
│ │ [*] DDC/I2C for ATI Radeon support │ │
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│ Generic Driver Options ---> │ │
│ │ (/sbin/hotplug) path to uevent helper │ │
│ │ [*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev │ │
│ │ [*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs │ │
│ │ [*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware │ │
│ │ [*] Prevent firmware from being built │ │
│ │ -*- Userspace firmware loading support │ │
│ │ [*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary │ │
│ │ () External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary │ │
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tommytumult
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I appreciate everyone's help. I've gotten things to work again by recompiling the kernel for about the 937th time in the past few weeks. I can't pin it down to what I did to fic it, what I did differently this time, but it was something. Thanks again! |
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