Re: blank Xorg on Etch
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:44:09PM +0000, Nuno Magalh??es wrote:
> Greetings earthlings.
> There doesn't seem to be an X-related list, or i couldn't find it.
>
>
> I had issues booting the Etch netinst for AMD64. I tried Knoppix 5.0.1
> - worked like a charm, X and all, except for sound. Tried live Ubuntu
> 5.04 for Inter x86, complained about X. Tried Ubuntu 5.04 for AMD64,
> complained about acpi; then about X. LFS 6.2.3 booted fine (has no X).
>
> So after booting the Debian installer with noacpi i finally installed
> Etch through netinst. Until then it would freeze after "io scheduler
> cfq registered" and the only suggestion i got from the lists was to
> burn another disc... Anynway, now i'm complaining about X. The sound i
> dealt with, added "options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack"
> to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
>
> Which is better, ALSA or OSS?
ALSA
> The system boots fine, actually it flies. As usual a Debian "basic"
> install always adds unnecessary things - why the hell is there a
> Bittorrent tracker?! Once X starts the screen blanks, beeps once, and
> the monitor LED keeps blinking. It responds to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
> (does the same again) and i can switch to console. This is ps -A from
> the first graphics-related PID:
> 3018 ? 00:00:00 gdm
> 3024 ? 00:00:00 gdm
> 3029 tty7 00:00:00 Xorg
> 3030 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
> 3031 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
> 3062 ? 00:00:00 atd
> 3069 ? 00:00:00 cron
> 3104 tty1 00:00:00 login
> 3105 tty8 00:00:00 getty
> 3114 ? 00:00:00 gdmgreeter
> How come there are two gdm? Eventually i'll switch to xdm and xfce4.
>
> The motherboard is an ASUS M2NPV-VM. Details can be found here:
> http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=296&l4=0&model=1138&modelmenu=2
> Basically:
> - AMD Athlon 64 3500+
> - graphics card is a nVidia GeForce 6150, i think
> - 2GB of RAM (DDR2 667 DualChannel, 128bit)
> - phoenix Award BIOS v6.00PG
>
> X is running the nv driver. I tried installing the nvidia driver from
> their site (file NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2.run) but it
> complains about libc - mine's 6 and i assume it's current. Gcc is ver
> 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21). Once i've comented out
> loading of dri and glx modules, i find no errors in X's log. Oddly
> enough issuing "gcc -v > file" or similar for xorg won't redirect but
> that's irrelevant for now. I don't really care about 3D - if i can get
> it then all the better. If i can get X to work without closed drivers,
> even sweeter.
Running 3rd party installers is always a very bad idea. The nvidia
installer overwrites files that belong to dpkg, which will overwrite
them on a future upgrade with no notice and things will nicely break on
you. I have a howto on how to install nvidia drivers the debian way (as
well as any other type of kernel module package) at
http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/
> Here are the usual suspects:
>
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~i000283/deb64/dmesg.txt
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~i000283/deb64/nvidia-installer.log
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~i000283/deb64/Xorg.0.log
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~i000283/deb64/xorg.conf
>
> uname -a gives:
> Linux deb64 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu May 31 23:51:05 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but found nothing noteworthy. It
> detected the same resolutions as XP Pro x64 currently does: 800x600,
> 960x600, 1024x768 at 32bit. The monitor is a Samtron 55E. My other box
> is and old Pentium 2 i'm LAMPing up with Debian Etch for i386 and X
> works (almost) fine. I had to comment out dri and glx as well, the
> window manager won't start up properly but it's working. Here's its
> xconf:
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~i000283/deb64/i386-xorg.conf
> I use the same monitor for both machines, although now i managed to
> remote an X session to the old box.
>
> After running dpkg-reconfigure i got these errors in Xorg.0.log
> (EE) Unable to find a valid framebuffer device
> (EE) NV(0): Failed to open framebuffer device, consult warnings and/or
> errors above for possible reasons
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> Full log:
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~i000283/deb64/r-Xorg.0.log
> Resulting xconf:
> http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~i000283/deb64/r-xorg.conf
>
> ...so i reverted to the old config files and got back where i started.
> When i had Sarge the only issue i had with X under Debian was changing
> the /dev for the mouse and everything worked fine (on that old box,
> still XFree86), but now...
>
>
> Hopefully this is enough information. And, according to Murphy, it's
> probably a very easy and silly thing to solve.
>
> Thanks in advance.
Well I would have expected the nv driver to work fine with the 6150
although I have never actualyl used on of those low end onboard chips.
The nvidia driver on the other hand tends to work very well for me on
all the nvidia cards I have used, when installed the debian way and not
using the nvidia method.
--
Len Sorensen
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