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keujin

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Registered: 2021-02-10

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[SOLVED] Xorg shows black or grey screen only

Using Arch for a long time, but just today a problem arose that I can't solve on my own. I ask for help, because at first glance the errors (despite their presence) are not obvious.

I use xinit to login. And when I run startx, screen become black (4 times out of 5) or gray (1 time out of 5). And that's all, and nothing more. It even didn't start i3 that is defined in .xinitrc. The problem occurred after a reboot shortly after updating the system. I've been rolling back packages to a week ago, but that didn't help.

I am using an old Acer laptop with two video chips (integrated and discrete from ATI).

I attach the Xorg log and lspci below.

Xorg:

https://bin.snopyta.org/?46838dae6a2b96 … zYaGSkHvFW

lspci:

https://bin.snopyta.org/?b68abb5f0a545f … sCnagYzXJq

What else should I send with my problem?

Last edited by keujin (2021-02-10 14:15:23)

keujin

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg shows black or grey screen only

Maybe this topic is related: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263480 but I tried to downgrade packages and nothing. And I haven't any nvidia in laptop, only ATI and Intel. So I run Xorg with xf86-video-intel driver and also have xf86-video-ati driver to run some programs with DRI_PRIME=1 variable.

Also, VGA in tty works so I think that it's not broken video chipset problem.

Last edited by keujin (2021-02-10 13:00:27)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg shows black or grey screen only

post your ~/.xinitrc and full journalctl -b output (run the latter as root) .

The problem occurred after a reboot shortly after updating the system.

pacman log from the update ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2021-02-10 13:35:41)

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg shows black or grey screen only

Also: do you run a compositor? Can you run "xterm -display :0" from a different TTY and that shows up on the server?

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keujin

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Registered: 2021-02-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Xorg shows black or grey screen only

Haha, somehow entr command in .xprofile stopped work and broke xorg. So it's not xorg-related problem. I don't know why it worked for months and now stopped, but yes — this line was cause of this error. Solved.