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archuser23322

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Registered: 2018-02-26

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[SOLVED] Xorg server: (EE) no screens found(EE)

Hi! I have a problem that I believe it's related to Xorg. I'm not able to log in to my accounts using any DE that uses Xorg. I can still use Gnome on Wayland, Sway or weston. Gnome doesn't work with my usual user neither, but I don't know whether it's a related issue or not. This issue started when I updated my system, but as I had over 400 packages to update since the last time I updated (i know, i know...) I can't trace the problem back to any of them.

Output from

journalctl

https://pastebin.com/e7d8iQKE

Output from

sudo journalctl

https://pastebin.com/u8Y8qKy0

~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log

contains basically the same.

Last edited by archuser23322 (2018-02-26 22:12:17)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg server: (EE) no screens found(EE)

Welcome to the arch linux forums archuser23322.

Feb 26 13:23:54 laptop /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[738]: (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

So what is the contents of that config file?

archuser23322

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Registered: 2018-02-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg server: (EE) no screens found(EE)

Solving the problem at first try is probably one of the best ways to welcome somebody to the forum :) Thank you so much.
I tried renaming the file to xorg.conf.bak to see what happened when this file wasn't loaded during the startup process and it worked flawlessly.
This are the contents of the file:

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver      "intel_backlight"
Option      "Backlight"  "/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"
EndSection

I actually can't remember if I created this file myself. Do you have any idea of what its purpose might be?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,022

Re: [SOLVED] Xorg server: (EE) no screens found(EE)

Apparently you tried to configure the backlight device.
Other than this, the section is complete bonkers. It makes no sense and the entries are illegal (there's no "intel_backlight" device driver)

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