Black screen on startup and extracting files

seth · 2025-05-26 15:36:27

@cgm999, remove that package - you've been running on software emulation so far…
@itsspelled*llama* , yes, looks like a generic bug that prefers zink over llvmpipe, so whenever that would have been called (vmware, the unintentional software rasterizer or apparently nouveau at least on hybrid systems) you got hit with this.

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cgm999 · 2025-05-26 16:02:09

@seth:
So if is not going to use the intel driver,what pkg for video should I have in my case with just Intel vga card ?

Scimmia · 2025-05-26 16:09:39

On that old of a system, you *can* use the intel ddx, but you'll likely need mesa-amber to make it work right. You're usually better off with the modesetting ddx that comes with xorg server.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics

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cgm999 · 2025-05-26 16:10:40

I tried to remove the pkg (-intel) and reinstalled mesa , no change, X does not start, I need to killall -9 Xorg from some other session
I downgrade mesa to prev 1:25.0.5-1 as a workaround..

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lama_noob · 2025-05-26 16:56:34

seth wrote:

@itsspelled*llama* , yes, looks like a generic bug that prefers zink over llvmpipe, so whenever that would have been called (vmware, the unintentional software rasterizer or apparently nouveau at least on hybrid systems) you got hit with this.

Thanks! \o/ I will wait for a patch confirmation and report when I can. Hopefully this fixes the many graphical glitches/bugs I have in the meantime. ^^ (Also, to confirm, I have nouveau on the affected computer)
(I am French, so it's spelled lama for us )

seth · 2025-05-26 17:26:13

Interesting, what's the english translation of "noob"?

@cgm999, Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General
(if you have a config file explicitly referencing the intel driver it'll fail to start when removing that package but keeping the config)

cgm999 · 2025-05-26 18:46:12

In Xorg.log there was nothing usefull. I even compared with previous mesa..

What did help was strace , (strace -f -o /tmp/.strace.x startx) . and from some root terminal I started before "sleep 10;killall -9 Xorg" .
looking in the strace log I found a leftover in /usr/share/drirc.d/ , 01-no-iris.conf or something like that,which had inside i915.so.

I moved that to some other folder , and now startx works with latest mesa , victory !!

Hope this helps others, at least as a general method

TZIKADA · 2025-05-27 17:32:15

I haven't seen my own post in a while, I was a bit busy for the past few days. I "solved" (avoided is more fitting) my original problem the same day I posted it by using a live installation of arch to copy the files into a different hard drive and than proceeding to reinstall arch. I'm sorry for not marking the thread as solved earlier (I just forgot). Despite that, I'm glad that other people found this thread useful (and though I can't check whether your tips could've helped me or not, I will keep the suggestions you gave to others in mind, in case I need them).

P.S. Should I mark this thread as solved? I'm not sure because it seems like a few people are still struggling with a similar issue.

seth · 2025-05-27 20:39:23

Did you (already) update that re-installation to the buggy mesa version?

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