On Wed, 2018-09-19 at 06:53 +0100, John Talbut wrote: > OK Adam, thanks for the suggestion about ssh, which I have now got working. > > So, I boot to runlevel 3, log into tty1 as root and run 'X -retro' the > UI locks up. The keyboard is completely unresponsive. > > However, I can see using ssh that the system is still running but I > cannot see any sign of X running. There are no message in journalctl > during the attempt to start X. ps -C Xorg shows nothing.
'ps -C X' might. > Xorg.0.log attached. This bit of the log is pretty wild: (II) modeset(0): glamor X acceleration enabled on llvmpipe (LLVM 6.0, 128 bits) I'm really struggling to think of a world in which that would be a good thing, fb's almost certainly going to be faster, and as the llvmpipe- on-gbm support is pretty new I can easily imagine it being buggy. What happens if you run with this in (or as) your /etc/X11/xorg.conf: --- Section "Device" Identifier "modesetting" Driver "modesetting" Option "AccelMethod" "none" EndSection --- - ajax _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s