Hi All,
I have a strange problem with starting Xorg after a boot on my Compaq Presario 1800T laptop. First time I try to startx the screen is corrupted, the mouse moves very slowly (if at all) and sometimes the only way out is to kill the window manager by SSH'ing in from a remote host.
What is odd is that the second time I run startx it works perfectly! Same for all subsequent starts, so only the very first startx after a boot has this problem.
Lookling through the logs I can see that there is a failure to open the device /dev/dri/card0 first time, but it seems to work second time.
I managed to find some references to problems with dri by googling but could not find any resolutions.
I have attached a dump from dmesg after starting X so you can see the boot and drm messages. Also attached are logs from Xorg after both a bad and a good start. I hope attachments are ok. One think I noticed from the dmesg dump is that the graphics card is detected as an ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF, but Linux said it was an M3. Not sure if that is relevant.
I used to have RedHat Linux 7.2 and then 9 running on this machine and never had any problems with X, was even able to play DVD's perfectly using Ogle, so I am sure Xorg should work.
Does anyone know what is going on here? Have I made a mistake somewhere??
I fixed it! It was simply a matter of adding r128_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf.
Another newbie mistake I think. :)
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