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fu-fu

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Registered: 2011-06-24

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Odd behaviour. [Solved]

I have an old compaq computer with a "PHY Technologies Inc. Geforce FX5500 DDR 128MB PCI (PUD11G+BC4AVA)" Graphics card  lpsci calls it: "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]"

Now, The odd bit: I can get an X-server working if I run xinit from ssh, but running it on the terminal will not work.
Compairing the two Xorg logs I see this:

works:
"[  1611.084] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c2
[  1611.085] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[  1611.085] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/dri/card0 226:0 fd 8 paused 0
[  1611.085] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1)
[  1611.086] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/dri/card1 226:1 fd 9 paused 0
"
Doesn't:
"[  1390.784] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c5
[  1390.785] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[  1390.785] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to take device /dev/dri/card0: Operation not permitted
[  1390.786] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1)
[  1390.786] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to take device /dev/dri/card1: Operation not permitted
"
And sometime later: 
works:
"[  1390.803] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[  1390.804] (--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV34"
[  1390.804] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
        "Screen0" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
"
Doesn't:
"[  1611.104] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[  1611.104] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version.
[  1611.104] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] error opening the drm
[  1611.104] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): 892: 
[  1611.105] (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau""
and will eventually error out saying no screens found.

Which to me is beyond strange. Any ideas?

Last edited by fu-fu (2015-04-17 14:24:06)