Re: xorg dies. Modules loaded in wrong order?
This should really be a follow-up to another message I posted, which hasn't arrived back yet.
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:21:37PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:
>
> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:30:15PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > > After upgrading my etch to xorg7.0 and making everything up-to-date
> > > yesterday, (except for a few package aptitude didn't want to
> > > update) things went fine for a reboot or two. But today when
> > > I was out of the room, the screen went black. When I pressed shift,
> > > though it remained black except for about ten or so characters of
> > > gibberish in the top left of the screen. Pressing ctl-alt-F* didn't
> > > help, didn't even get me to a text console. Remote login via ssh
> > > worked, so I used the ssh connexion to enter a reboot command.
> > >
> > > Rebooting worked fine until it was time to start gdm. Again the
> > > screen went black and everything becane unresponsive.
> > >
> > > Now I have a dual boot system, sarge or etch. Sarge works fine.
> > > So I figure I eliminated hardware problems.
> > >
> > > After a while I managed to get it into a state where I could use
> > > a text console after the crash, and examined some log files. (I used an
> > > old 2.6.11 kernel I had lying around to accomplish this -- but I
> > > suspect I was just lucky. Each reboot failed in a similar, but slightly
> > > different way, so random chance seems to be a factor)
> > >
> > > The following messages in xorg.1.log seem relevant:
> > >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> > > (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available
> > > (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI.
> > > (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module
> > > is loaded before the radeon kernel module.
> > > (**) RADEON(0): RADEONDRICloseScreen
> > >
> > > Very good. I imagine X *might* have trouble reaching the video card
> > > if the driver for the AGP slot is missing. Now how *do* I "make sure
> > > the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module."?
> > > And why isn't it already happening? Or is the problem somewhere else?
> > > Where should I look? After the crash (i.e., now), lsmod tells me that
> > > agpgart *is* loaded.
> > >
> > > -- hendrik
> > >
> >
> > Well, managed to install and boot to a new kernel -- 2.6.15.
> > With the new kernel, have booted successfully to X and gdm twice in a row.
> > Might be fixed, or am I just lucky? The problem was intermittent, after all.
> >
> > -- hendrik
> >
>
> Have you seen;
> http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7
>
> Regards
>
Actually, the fix they have for gdm not starting is applicable if the symlink /usr/X11R6/bin->../bin
hasn't been established by x11-common. Mine is there.
-- hendrik
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