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flipstik

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Registered: 2010-10-14

Posts: 6

Can't boot or cant startx

I've done three installs of arch all resulting the same way.  Whenever I boot I am instantly greeted with something that looks like this:

[<ffffffff815803f2>] acpi_init +0x71/0x11b
[<ffffffff81002149>] do_one_initcall +0x39/0x1a0
[<ffffffff81558e62>] kernel_init+0x18a/0x214
[<ffffffff8100aca4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff81448cd8>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x214
[<ffffffff8100aca0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10

And it freezes at that last line.

However, setting acpi=off in my kernel line in menu.lst allows me to boot into a command line.  If I try to startx from here though, I get the errors:

(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected.
(EE) Screens(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

(taken from /var/log/Xorg.0.log)

I am assuming this is due to me setting acpi=off as X was working fine for me before I had to set acpi=off to boot.

Any suggestions?

Last edited by flipstik (2010-10-14 08:12:29)

kachelaqa

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Registered: 2010-09-26

Posts: 216

Re: Can't boot or cant startx

the xorg errors are indicating a problem with KMS.

have a look at the guidance here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Int … Setting.29

flipstik

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Registered: 2010-10-14

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Re: Can't boot or cant startx

Now my errors look something like this when trying to startx

WARNING: Error inserting drm_kms_helper (/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_kms_helper.ko): No such device
FATAL: error inserting i915 (/lib/modules/2.6.35-ARCH/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko): No such device
(EE): intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected
(EE): Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Can't boot or cant startx

What graphics card do you have? What drivers are you using?

flipstik

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Registered: 2010-10-14

Posts: 6

Re: Can't boot or cant startx

I'm using xf86-video-intel and I have "Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Seires Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev07)"

kachelaqa

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Registered: 2010-09-26

Posts: 216

Re: Can't boot or cant startx

what boot line are you using? have you tried booting with a different modeset?

flipstik

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Registered: 2010-10-14

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Re: Can't boot or cant startx

my kernel line is:

kernel /vmlinuz26 .... <f7-a107-d7aebad34579 ro acpi=off

Whenever I take out 'acpi=off' I can't boot.  Ive tried adding i915.modeset=1 but I still cannot startx.

kachelaqa

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Registered: 2010-09-26

Posts: 216

Re: Can't boot or cant startx

my kernel line is:

kernel /vmlinuz26 .... <f7-a107-d7aebad34579 ro acpi=off

Whenever I take out 'acpi=off' I can't boot.  Ive tried adding i915.modeset=1 but I still cannot startx.

the xorg errors are stating that the kms driver cannot be found.

have you tried booting with "i915.modeset=0" ?

flipstik

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Registered: 2010-10-14

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Re: Can't boot or cant startx

Just tried it, but I'm getting the same errors.

flipstik

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Registered: 2010-10-14

Posts: 6

Re: Can't boot or cant startx

I downgraded to kernel 2.6.31.6-1 and my system is running fine now, but it would be nice to be able to use the latest kernel.