Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer
On Jun 26, 2015, at 3:16 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 26, 2015, at 12:25 AM, Dan DeVoto <dand1972@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Maybe something about the nouveau driver that doesn’t like the combination of 64-bit and bigendian?
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> Rick
Here’s what I get when I use simply “ nomodeset “, which at least gives me a working text console. I have deliberately disabled the display manager, so it doesn’t try to start-up X.
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal kernel: bootconsole [udbg0] enabled
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal kernel: console [tty0] enabled
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal kernel: bootconsole [udbg0] disabled
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal kernel: Using unsupported 1680x1050 NVDA,Display-B at 98020000, depth=8, pitch=2048
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 210x65
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal kernel: fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@0,f0000000/NVDA,Parent@0/NVDA,Display-B@1
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.103
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal systemd-default-display-manager-generator[162]: /lib/systemd/system/false.service is not a systemd unit, w
> e disable the systemd enabled display manager
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal systemd[1]: display-manager.service: Cannot add dependency job, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service is
> masked.
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
> Jun 26 03:32:16 bigal systemd[1]: Starting Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
> Jun 26 03:32:19 bigal systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Prepare console...
> Jun 26 03:32:19 bigal kbd[346]: Setting console screen modes.
> Jun 26 03:32:19 bigal kbd[346]: setterm: $TERM is not defined.
> Jun 26 03:32:19 bigal systemd[1]: Started LSB: Prepare console.
> Jun 26 03:32:19 bigal systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Set console font and keymap...
> Jun 26 03:32:20 bigal console-setup[403]: Setting up console font and keymap...done.
> Jun 26 03:32:20 bigal systemd[1]: Started LSB: Set console font and keymap.
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