Re: IBM T22 S3 Savage Video Sarge to Etch Upgrade

[jtl <jtl@johntlapp.com>]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:10:22 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es> wrote:


> You seem to have two problems:
> 
> 1) graphics card
> 
> Try to comment out the "VideoRam 4000" line from xorg.conf. If this does
> not make the error go away then you have to reduce your resolution
> and/or DefaultDepth. I think this error is not the reason for X to fail
> completely, but your graphics rendering will be significantly faster and
> use less CPU cycles if you get the DRI (direct rendering infrastructure)
> going.
> 
> 2) mouse and touchpad
> 
> There is a problem with the device node for mouse and touchpad. Try to
> do "modprobe psmouse" as root and check if you can start X after that.
> If this does not help then we need the output of these two commands:
> 
> ls -l /dev/input/by-id
> awk '/Section "InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 
> Another thing to try is to add 
> 
> Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
> 
> to the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (see "man xorg.conf"). This
> will at least tell you if it is really the mouse issue that keeps X from
> starting.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,     | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>    Florian   |


1. Commenting out VideoRam 4000 line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:  No change.
   Reducing screen default depth from 24 to 16 to 8: No change.


2. modprobe psmouse as root then type X to start X: No change.
   ls -l /dev/input/by-id reports no such file name. 
   ls -l /dev/input/ reports the following:
   total 0
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 64 2005-02-26 00:43 event0
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 65 2005-02-26 00:43 event1
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 66 2005-02-26 00:43 event2
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 67 2005-02-26 00:43 event3
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  0 2005-02-26 00:43 js0
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  1 2005-02-26 00:43 js1
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  2 2005-02-26 00:43 js2
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13,  3 2005-02-26 00:43 js3
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2005-02-26 00:43 mice
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 2005-02-26 00:43 mouse0
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 33 2005-02-26 00:43 mouse1
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 34 2005-02-26 00:43 mouse2
   crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 35 2005-02-26 00:43 mouse3

   awk '/Section "InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf reports the following:
   Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc102"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
   EndSection
   Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"PS/2"
   EndSection
   Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
  EndSection

Added to xorg.config ServerFlags Section:
   Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
   X fails on first resolution attempted. Boots to gray background with X crosshairs, no mouse, no menu on second attempt.

John
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