Hi Jack, On Sat, Oct 15, 2016, jack wrote: > I have been stumped by a problem with Devuan 1-beta running on 6th > generation Intel processors [i5-6200u, celeron n3050]. I am using openbox > as a window manager/desktop [but same happens with XFCE4], starting from a > tty with: > > startx > > which brings up openbox and an lxterminal. All is fine until I attempt to > exit xorg and return to the tty: the following errors are issued and the > screen freezes, unresponsive to anything other than a power cycle: > > xinit: connection to X server lost > waiting for X server to shut down XIO: fatal error 4 > (Interrupted system call) on X server ":0" > after 614 requests (614 known processed) with 0 events > remaining > .error setting MTRR (base = 0x..., size=0x..., type=1) > invalid argument (22) > (EE) server terminated succesfully (0). Closing log file. > > The /var/log/Xorg.0.log file is corrupted. > > my .xinitrc is a simple > > lxterminal& > exec openbox > > From the error messages, you would think think xorg completed fine, but I > put "echo" messages in "startx" before and after the "xinit" command, and > the second does not appear. > > I am using Void Linux [4.5.2 kernel] on the 6200u laptop without problems, > but I also installed Slitaz Linux, which has a 3-series kernel. > > I would appreciate any help that others here can give.
I can offer a couple ideas. There is a choice of a couple of video drivers for X, notably, the VESA driver is the most generic. and may be worth trying out. You can specify that in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, as detailed here: http://kimbriggs.com/computer/x11-xorg-conf-vesa-driver Of course you may want to see what video module is loaded. I see that cat /proc/modules should work. I'm used to using 'lsmod' for that. You can set various video modes at boot time: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/71231/grub2-and-kernel-vga-parameter This could also make a difference. hth, joel > Jack > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
