Perhaps there is an installer image for Beowulf somewhere and this can be solved with a fresh re-installation? Sunday, I did an in-place upgrade from Ascii to Beowulf on amd64. I have only partial graphics since and must get past some problems with (I think) X11.
When I allow slim, lightdm, or xdm one at a time (removing the others) to start, the keyboard and mouse do not respond not even to switch to a console even though they cause the display to show the graphical login screen. However, when I disable / remove these display managers then startx gives some lip about modules not existing. When I run startx manually from a console, something similar happens though I get a blank graphical display with the unmovable mouse pointer centered on the screen. But the window manager seems not to be running nor the desktop environment and, again, both the keyboard and the mouse are unresponsive so timeout is a way to get it to drop back to the shell. $ timeout 15 startx X.Org X Server 1.20.0 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 x86_64 Debian Current Operating System: Linux slimbook 4.17.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.17.8-1 (2018-07-20) x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.17.0-1-amd64 root=UUID=3f66d242-f064-4f6e-a110-6974886fb9a4 ro quiet Build Date: 01 July 2018 05:07:24PM xorg-server 2:1.20.0-3 (https://www.debian.org/support) Current version of pixman: 0.34.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/home/lars/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Aug 21 14:36:43 2018 (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted) (II) modeset(0): Initializing kms color map for depth 24, 8 bpc. $ grep '(EE)' ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 22631.982] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0) [ 22631.984] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0) [ 22631.985] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0) [ 22631.989] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for (null): -2 [ 22632.296] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) $ lspci -nn | grep -E -i 'vga|3d' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:5916] (rev 02) 01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940MX] [10de:134d] (rev a2) $ sudo lshw -sanitize -class display *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 02 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:128 memory:dd000000-ddffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff *-display description: 3D controller product: GM108M [GeForce 940MX] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a2 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:de000000-deffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:df000000-df07ffff _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
