Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Jun 26, 2015, at 12:25 AM, Dan DeVoto <dand1972@yahoo.com> wrote:

> About the messed up colors with "nomodeset", what happens when you try it with "video=offb:off"?  Can you at least get 8 bit colors?

When I try that, the rolling boot messages freeze after a couple of screens-full.  I can login with ssh and this is what I find in the journal.


> Jun 26 02:47:19 bigal kernel: bootconsole [udbg0] enabled
> Jun 26 02:47:19 bigal kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Jun 26 02:47:19 bigal kernel: console [tty0] enabled
> Jun 26 02:47:19 bigal kernel: bootconsole [udbg0] disabled
> Jun 26 02:47:20 bigal kernel: nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x043200a4
> Jun 26 02:47:20 bigal kernel: nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] Chipset: NV43 (NV43)
> Jun 26 02:47:20 bigal kernel: nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] Family : NV40
> Jun 26 02:47:20 bigal kernel: nouveau 0000:0b:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
> Jun 26 02:47:20 bigal kernel: nouveau ![   VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] unable to locate usable image
> Jun 26 02:47:21 bigal kernel: nouveau E[  DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] failed to create 0x10000001, -22
> Jun 26 02:47:21 bigal kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] failed to create 0x00000080, -22
> Jun 26 02:47:21 bigal kernel: nouveau: probe of 0000:0b:00.0 failed with error -22
> Jun 26 02:47:23 bigal kbd[348]: Setting console screen modes.
> Jun 26 02:47:23 bigal kbd[348]: setterm: $TERM is not defined.
> Jun 26 02:47:23 bigal systemd[1]: Started LSB: Prepare console.
> Jun 26 02:47:23 bigal systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Set console font and keymap...
> Jun 26 02:47:23 bigal console-setup[402]: Setting up console font and keymap...done.
> Jun 26 02:47:23 bigal systemd[1]: Started LSB: Set console font and keymap.


Maybe something about the nouveau driver that doesn’t like the combination of 64-bit and bigendian?

Rick