On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:30:16PM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote:
>
> I've been using Xorg 7.2 on my LFS 6.3 system without problems, but
> when I upgrade to Xorg 7.4 I get a black screen and a lockup when I
> start X. My video card is an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI. Looking at the
> xorg.conf.new I see that the server has failed to identify the card
> (yet Xorg 7.2 identifies it without any problems).
>
> Now I've noticed this paragraph from the manual:
>
> Recent versions of xorg-server force the use of the evdev input
> driver, and ignore legacy input devices definded in xorg.conf.
> This will result in an X display that seems to lock up if you are
> using legacy input devices and do not have the proper input
> configuration files in place (added later).
>
> Does this mean that I *must* install the xf86-input-evdev driver for
> Xorg 7.4 to work? If so, must I also enable CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV in my
> kernel configuration? How does all this relate to using HAL and DBUS
> (I use neither) and the --disable-config-hal and --enable-config-dbus
> options to the xserver configure script (neither of which I currently
> specify)? What are the "proper input configuration files" that the
> manual refers to? Are they HAL configuration files or something else?
>
I don't have a keyboard or mouse with 7.4 (although MagicSysRQ
_does_ work). Adding the following to xorg.conf fixed it:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
EndSection
ISTR I got my normal desktop, so you seem to have a problem with
the video driver. Note that I _have_ installed evdev :
xf86-input-evdev-2.0.7 and with 7.4 I'm using xf86-video-ati-6.9.0.
About a year ago I had a lot of problems with different versions of
the ati driver, and several times I saw lockups on one or other of
my radeon boxes.
If you have an xorg.conf from 7.3, try using that in case the
immediate problem is unrelated. I build evdev before the other
drivers, so if your ati version is ok you might need to build evdev
and then rebuild all of the drivers you use.
For me, dbus is a build-time-dependency : it doesn't do anything
useful for me, but it isn't too onerous to build (and I build it
some time _after_ xorg). I do not build hal.
Also, I haven't upgraded to 7.4, I've only built it on recent
systems, with pre-existing xorg.conf files. I don't _think_
gcc-4.1.2 is likely to screw things up (unlike the gcc-4.2-series on
some architectures), but I can't confirm that an old toolchain
builds the current xorg correctly.
> Sorry for the blitz of questions, but at the moment I can't see what I
> should be doing to get this working. I've used the LFS search but
> haven't found anything to clear up my confusion.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Henty
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