walt writes:
On 10/11/2009 02:30 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
I wrote:
And then... we will see. Come on, Gentoo, surprise me, and give me a
running KDE 4.3 desktop with X and OpenGL and mouse and keyboard. That
would be great.
And what I got may possibly be all of that, but I cannot see it, as the
display is just blank...
What I do when faced with an X problem is to type X at a console prompt
and see if the bare X server starts up normally, i.e. with the black-and-
white background pattern and the x-cursor. That at least will separate
the kde bugs from the xorg bugs.
Yeah, that's what I did.
I use startx, so doing this trick is easy for me. If you use a display
manager like xdm,kdm, etc then you'll need to disable that temporarily
so you can boot to a console prompt.
I am also not using KDM the moment, because after my last attempt with ati-
drivers, KDE4 did not start from KDM. Using startkde worked fine, though.
Although I think that even with the display manager running, X -- :1 should
just start a second server.
I am not sure how the KDE upgrade went, all I can say yet is that using
kontact on that machine right now via vnc works.
BTW, did you generate a new xorg.conf after the upgrade?
Not really. There's not too much stuff customized there, so I just kept it,
replacing only the Driver entry with radeonhd, vesa and such. I used to
create fresh configs with X -configure, but this stopped working long ago, X
always crashes when I do this:
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Mon Oct 12 11:58:17 2009
List of video drivers:
radeonhd
radeon
ati
fglrx
fbdev
vesa
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:17:0)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:18:0)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:18:1)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:18:2)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:19:0)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:19:1)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:19:2)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:20:0)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:20:1)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:20:2)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:20:3)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:20:4)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@0:20:5)
found
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0...@1:5:1)
found
Backtrace:
0: X(xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0x8136a67]
1: X(xf86CallDriverProbe+0xe8) [0x80ada48]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
I also tried without an xorg.conf, but then X does not start. Turns out I
had fbdev in my VIDEO_CARDS a while ago, and did not depclean, so xf86-
video-fbdev was still installed. Removing it, X starts, but of course I also
get the blank screen, and no apparent errors.
http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/Xorg.log.2.6.28-tuxonice-r3
Okay, what next. This is driving me nuts, I never got great performance from
my Radeon HD 3200, but at least I always got a display finally, not a blank
screen. And I always had some X errors I could investigate in order to solve
the problem, but now I do not really know what to do. File a bug? Plug in a
PCI card and see what happens then? Try a third monitor?
Wonko
