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ghyspran

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Registered: 2006-03-16

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xorg.conf disappears, then X doesn't load

So I come back from vacation, the computer apparently has been working fine this whole time, and my brother goes to the computer and gets some error message.  Turns out the xorg.conf somehow disappeared totally.  I remade the thing, and it looks right, but X doesn't work.  I run startx as a user or as root and the screen flashes dark and then goes into low power mode or whatever it is where the monitor on light changes and it stays black, and then I can't get it to go back, so I have to CTRL-ALT-DELETE and restart, and the logs don't say anything about an error.

However, if I put in my Arch CD and boot into the system, X loads just fine, except for that the mouse doesn't work.  I don't know what's wrong.

ATI Radeon 9600SE w/ xf86-video-ati

xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier  "X.org Configured"
  Screen  0 "Screen0" 0 0
  InputDevice  "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
  RgbPath  "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
  ModulePath  "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
  FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
  FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
  FontPath  "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
Endsection

Section "Module" # commented out lines are part of my messing around hoping it would work
# Load "glx"
  Load "dbe"
  Load "record"
  Load "xtrap"
# Load "dri"
  Load "extmod"
  Load "GLcore"
  Load "type1"
  Load "freetype"
# Load "drm"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Keyboard"
  Driver  "keyboard"
  Option  "CoreKeyboard"
  Option  "xkbmodel"  "pc105"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Mouse0"
  Driver  "mouse"
  Option  "Protocol" "auto"
  Option  "Device"  "/dev/input/mice"
  Option  "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier  "Monitor0"
  VendorName "OQI"
  ModelName  "Q71-5"
  HorizSync  30.0 - 70.0
  VertRefresh  50.0 - 120.0
  Option  "DPMS"
  ModeLine  "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Card0"
  Driver  "radeon"
  VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
  BoardName  "RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600]"
  BusID  "PCI:3:0:0"
  Option  "AGPMode" "8"
  Option  "ColorTiling"  "on"
  Option  "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen0"
  Device  "Card0"
  Monitor  "Monitor0"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 1
    Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 4
    Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 8
    Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 15
    Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 16
    Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 24
    Modes  "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

#More attempting randomly to fix it
#Section "DRI"
# Group "video
# Mode 0660
#EndSection

Last edited by ghyspran (2007-12-05 02:13:41)

hacosta

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Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: xorg.conf disappears, then X doesn't load

post the output of `grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log`

ghyspran

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Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 18

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Re: xorg.conf disappears, then X doesn't load

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log while booted from Arch CD

Current Operating System: Linux apollo 2.6.22-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 26 20:57:40 CEST 2007 i686
  (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log after switching to regular boot and removing hash from marked comments in xorg.conf

Current Operating System: Linux apollo 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 18 07:43:05 UTC 2007 i686
  (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER

Yeah, not a whole lot.

Last edited by ghyspran (2007-12-05 05:14:06)