On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:08:08 -1000, Joel wrote in message <20171107220808.GA18903@sprite>:
> 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 ..in my messy case (Devuan Jessie with (experimental) vdev-0.1.2 and nouveau on a Dell Precision M4400 (G96GLM [Quadro FX 770M] video)), it first tries to load nvidia and fails, dumping me into a vga style console. I "usually" 'modprobe -vr nvidia ;sleep 2 ;modprobe -v \ nouveau' and then restart kdm, if I don't see Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75 and X/kdm @ 1920x1200x32@59.*Hz, I just kill X and do a 'modprobe -vr nouveau ;sleep 2 ;modprobe -v \ nouveau', 2 may be a little short sleep time, but has failed me only once the last 5 years. ..I may be a wee bit old fashion, I "usually" ;o) reboot only on kernel upgrades and power grid downtime out-lasting my battery. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng