Re: X displays a blank screen on my Dell Latitude
I?m a newbie in Linux so excuse me if I?m asking stupid questions.
I'm having the same problem installing Xfree86-4.1.0-16 on a Dell Latitude
CPi D266XT as described by Brian Kendig (see below). As I see, the problem
lies alone in the Xserver and not in GNOME since I have not installed any
window manager yet.
The two errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log only concern the mouse but the
"AllowMouseOpenFail" option does not seem to help (I?m wondering if Brian
got it to work).
I also tried the two options:
Option "XaaNoScanlineWriteRect"
Option "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill"
in the Device section as was recommended for Xfree86-4.1.0-15 at a RedHat
list:
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xfree86-list/2002q1/000334.html
Nothing seems to help.
At boot I need to start in text-console since the system stalls when loading
XDM. I managed to stop loading XDM by commenting out the one line in
/etc/X11/default-display-manager. When testing the Xserver I just do startx.
I don?t know if this is a problem. Would there be a more elegant way of
doing this?
If anyone would like to help me fix the problem, what information do you
need? The hardware specification, the /etc/X11/Xf86Config-4 file, the
/var/log/XFree86.0.log or anything else?
Best regards
Peter Brauer
>Hi Brian
>
>If the only thing you see in your X config log are some "EE" (errors)
>about your mouse then try to put the following lines into your
>XF86Config-4
>.
>.
>.
>Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
>EndSection
>.
>.
>.
> Even though you may have misconfigured your mouse settings, X should
>come up. If this doesn't help you need to provide some more info about
>the problem ;-)
>
>On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 01:30, Brian Kendig wrote:
>> I'm trying to get X Windows to work with a fresh Debian 3.0
>> installation on my Dell Latitude CPi D266XT. My problem is that when
>> the system boots up and starts gdm to bring up the GNOME login panel,
>> the screen goes dark and nothing I do brings it back.
>>
>> I've tried editing my XF86Config-4 to use a 1024x768 display at 16
>> bits, and also to use an 800x600 display at 16 bits, but neither has
>> any effect. Text scrolls by just fine as the computer is booting; it's
>> only when it tries to bring up X that the display goes dark, and then
>> Alt-F<n> doesn't work to bring up any virtual terminals.
>>
>> /var/log/XFree86.0.log shows nothing unusual. The last few lines
>> contain the only '(EE)' errors, which are an inability to open
>> /dev/input/mice and a failure to PreInit the mouse, but then I get two
>> '(II)' lines where it unloads the mouse module then adds 'Configured
>> Mouse', and that's it. There are no other errors, and I don't see how
>> mouse problems could cause X to give me a black screen and fail to go
>> any further...
>>
>> Can anyone give me any clues as to why this isn't working?
>>
>
>With kind regards
>
> Igor Boehm
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