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Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace



On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Florian Kulzer
<florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 23:20:14 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>>   Giving up on this one... I cannot understand what is going wrong
>> with my xorg setup. If I reboot my computer I am loosing X. Looking at
>> the log I cannot see anything wrong:
>>
>> http://gdcm.sourceforge.net/thingies/Xorg.0.log
>>
>>   There is no 'EE' entry
>
> It cannot save a backtrace, does the computer lock up?
>
> Comparing the end of your Xorg log to mine, it seems that your system is
> crashing the moment it tries to do drmOpenDevice. Maybe the problem is
> related to the kernel part of the direct rendering infrastructure (DRI).
> Looking at your log with that in mind:
>
> (II) "dri" will be loaded by default.
>
> [...]
>
> (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
> (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>        compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 1.0.0
>        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
> (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>        compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
>        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>
> IIRC, the Xorg DRI module has to be disabled if you use the nvidia
> driver. Try to add
>
> Disable  "dri"
>
> to the modules section of your xorg.conf and make sure that there are no
> load directives for this module anywhere else in the configuration file.

Florian, you are *really* good !
Indeed that was the solution, commenting out glx/dri is not enough -at
least for me- .

BTW I had to do both:

Disable "glx"
Disable "dri"

to get xorg to work.

Ref:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-September/028326.html


Thanks a bunch !
-- 
Mathieu


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