Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 16:16 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to put the following in modprobe.conf (which is deprecated): options i915 modeset=1 Now what?? Put it in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (that's where I have it). Jan, All, What has changed with regard to the intel driver?? My box has been dead-in- the-water since the 10/8 updates. Since then, I have set up KMS (both late and early), I have added options i915 modeset=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf I have added the following to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf: MODULES=... intel_agp i915 FILES=... /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf I have rebuilt the initramfs with: mkinitcpio -p kernel26 And still when I boot, the process gets to Entering Runlevel 5, then the screen flashes, the little circular X cursor appears for a second and the BAM X crashes and I'm back to the terminal. I can't think of anything else to try. The salt-in-the-wound is that this box worked perfectly before the Oct. 8 updates. I haven't seen a gui since then. Can anyone think of any reason that X will not keep running after it starts? Latest Xorg.0.log at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/Xorg.0.log Hi, I am no developer and just joined the list and not that experienced with Linux. So, if this is totally off the wall please bear with me. But I think I had a similar problem a few months back with Puppy Linux. I had upgraded to a new version of Puppy with a new kernel and then tried to install the same Nivida graphics driver for my Nvidia card that I had stored on my hard drive, and X failed after I installed the driver. It was because the driver was for an older kernel and caused X to fail. I had to get a new updated driver and reinstall and it. Tom B
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
On Thursday 15 October 2009 05:45:53 am Thomas Bewick wrote: Hi, I am no developer and just joined the list and not that experienced with Linux. So, if this is totally off the wall please bear with me. But I think I had a similar problem a few months back with Puppy Linux. I had upgraded to a new version of Puppy with a new kernel and then tried to install the same Nivida graphics driver for my Nvidia card that I had stored on my hard drive, and X failed after I installed the driver. It was because the driver was for an older kernel and caused X to fail. I had to get a new updated driver and reinstall and it. Tom B Tom, Thanks for the idea. I'll try anything at this point. I'll remove the xf86- video-intel package and reinstall it and see if that help. I'll report back. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to put the following in modprobe.conf (which is deprecated): options i915 modeset=1 Now what?? Put it in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (that's where I have it). Jan, What about modprobe.conf being deprecated?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
On Wed 14 Oct 2009 13:45 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:33:57 am Jan Spakula wrote: Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to put the following in modprobe.conf (which is deprecated): options i915 modeset=1 Now what?? Put it in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (that's where I have it). Jan, What about modprobe.conf being deprecated?? /etc/modprobe.conf is deprecated. /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf is used instead.
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 02:57:58 pm Loui Chang wrote: /etc/modprobe.conf is deprecated. /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf is used instead. Thanks Loui! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: The strange part is that if that is the problem, something changed with the 10/8 update. For many months, this box with the intel card just worked... I'll report back after reading through the wiki and either claim success, or, beg for more help :p UUGH!!, I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to put the following in modprobe.conf (which is deprecated): options i915 modeset=1 Now what?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of So Okt 11 10:16:57 +0200 2009: On Sunday 11 October 2009 03:10:15 am David C. Rankin wrote: I'm back already. The wiki page must be out of date. It says to put the following in modprobe.conf (which is deprecated): options i915 modeset=1 Now what?? Put it in /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (that's where I have it).
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
Is KMS enabled? On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:39 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: On Friday 09 October 2009 06:24:06 am Jan de Groot wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I have that has an onboard intel graphics card. (Dell 280GX sff) The errors are: 02:31 nirvana:/srv/www/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff grep (EE) Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Failed to load module i810 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) this is not important looking at you log file it seems that X did start just fine And it exited fine also, so it's not X related. I must have posted the Xorg from the wrong arch box. Here is what I'm seeing: (WW) intel(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again... (II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected (WW) intel(0): Unable to find initial modes (EE) intel(0): No valid modes. (II) UnloadModule: intel (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I have that has an onboard intel graphics card. (Dell 280GX sff) The errors are: 02:31 nirvana:/srv/www/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff grep (EE) Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Failed to load module i810 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) this is not important looking at you log file it seems that X did start just fine -- damjan
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
On Friday 09 October 2009 06:24:06 am Jan de Groot wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I have that has an onboard intel graphics card. (Dell 280GX sff) The errors are: 02:31 nirvana:/srv/www/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff grep (EE) Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Failed to load module i810 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) this is not important looking at you log file it seems that X did start just fine And it exited fine also, so it's not X related. Aargh! Must be the flu. What I'm saying is that when I boot, the box tries, but cannot get to the graphical login (kdm3) and dumps me at the cli. I then cannot get kde going with startx (it gives the same results). If X is starting, then it is dying as soon as it starts. Strange?? vncserver/vncviewer will not even start kde. I get the error: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation. when I open the vncviewer window. What other logs might help? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update
On Friday 09 October 2009 06:24:06 am Jan de Groot wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote: After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I have that has an onboard intel graphics card. (Dell 280GX sff) The errors are: 02:31 nirvana:/srv/www/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff grep (EE) Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (EE) Failed to load module i810 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) this is not important looking at you log file it seems that X did start just fine And it exited fine also, so it's not X related. I must have posted the Xorg from the wrong arch box. Here is what I'm seeing: (WW) intel(0): No outputs definitely connected, trying again... (II) intel(0): Output VGA disconnected (WW) intel(0): Unable to find initial modes (EE) intel(0): No valid modes. (II) UnloadModule: intel (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
