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#1 2008-10-13 14:51:58

Ub1476
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X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

I'm using the latest kernel (.27) and intel driver (2.4) from testing, and xorg from the normal repos. I've tried to use the xorg.conf generated by Xorg -configure, and a configuration made by Ubuntu (which works in Ubuntu). Still X wont start.. Anyone experiencing the same problem?

Last edited by Ub1476 (2008-10-17 05:53:59)

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#2 2008-10-13 16:20:29

pointone
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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

Try

Option "NoAccel"

...in your "Device" section to disable hardware acceleration. Needed to do this on Ubuntu Ibex for X to start properly using the X4500 (it would freeze otherwise).


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#3 2008-10-13 16:50:45

Ub1476
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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

Well, the Intrepid beta works fine for me without any editing in the xorg.conf (the alpha however did not).

Anyway I need hardware acceleration later so it's a bit pointless.

Thanks anyway.

EDIT:

Well, I found something at those Gentoo sites. It has more to do with the i810 driver though.. Anyway it's pretty important I think so please (devs) read this:

http://www.nabble.com/xorg-server-1.5-a … 78890.html

I'm still looking for help with the "original" xf86-video-intel driver and xorg 1.5 not starting though!

EDIT2:

I've done some searching on bugs.freedesktop.org and it seems that this problem has only been fixed in Debian sad

Not fixed: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17703
Fixed: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17507

Those are the same bug.

I'm a little confused how this works.. Why is there only a fix for Debian??

EDIT3: I might have read this a little too fast.. It looks like this fix is not in 2.4.2 and they probably wont release 2.4.3 cause 2.5 is "close". I guess I have to grab it from git and compile it myself. Not sure how to do that though, but maybe I'll find out..

Can I use this?

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s&ID=18678

EDIT4:

Compiling from git seems to be an endless horror of dependency problems so I guess I'll wait for the 2.5 driver to be released and hit the testing repos..

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#4 2008-10-14 03:15:42

bfc
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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

I have a Thinkpad R500 which has an intel x4500HD.  I installed the mesa, libgl, xf86-video-intel, xorg and the synaptics driver from the testing repo.  Everything works like a charm.

Just for reference, here are the packages I'm using:

intel-dri 7.2-1
libgl 7.2-1
mesa 7.2-1
xf86-video-intel 2.4.2-1
xorg-server 1.5.2-1
xf86-input-synaptics 0.15.2-1

hope this helps

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#5 2008-10-14 12:28:43

Ub1476
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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

Thank you for your reply, but I do have all those packages already.

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#6 2008-10-16 08:58:07

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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

bfc wrote:

I have a Thinkpad R500 which has an intel x4500HD.  I installed the mesa, libgl, xf86-video-intel, xorg and the synaptics driver from the testing repo.  Everything works like a charm.

Just for reference, here are the packages I'm using:

intel-dri 7.2-1
libgl 7.2-1
mesa 7.2-1
xf86-video-intel 2.4.2-1
xorg-server 1.5.2-1
xf86-input-synaptics 0.15.2-1

hope this helps

why don't you pastebin your xorg.conf so Ub1476 can test it

cheers
Barde

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#7 2008-10-16 20:27:21

xduugu
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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

Ub1476 wrote:

EDIT4:

Compiling from git seems to be an endless horror of dependency problems so I guess I'll wait for the 2.5 driver to be released and hit the testing repos..

I just replaced libdrm and xf86-video-intel by the git ones and now X doesn't freeze anymore on my X200. big_smile You simply have to add 'libpthread-stubs' which I submitted today to AUR as make dependency to libdrm-git's PKGBUILD.

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#8 2008-10-16 20:59:07

Ub1476
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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

Now that sounds interesting. I will try that. Hows things working otherwise? Suspend, system temp/fan?

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#9 2008-10-18 01:08:30

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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

worked for me on my x200, thanks for the pkgbuild,      just getting started setting mine up,       are you having problems with the wireless disconnecting every 5-10 minutes?          I saw another post that said that 2.6.27-1 worked, but 2.6.27-2 doesn't.  I have just installed so the only kernel that i've tried is 2.6.27-2, have you had better experiences with one or the other?

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#10 2008-10-19 21:50:18

xduugu
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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

Ub1476 wrote:

Hows things working otherwise? Suspend, system temp/fan?

Suspend to disk/ram with uswsusp should work out of the box (if your swap isn't encrypted roll). I patched whitelist.c to add the X200 but it's not necessary since "s2ram -f -a 3" should do the job anyway.
At the moment, I use uswsusp as backend for pm-utils by what pm-hibernate and pm-suspend work for me. But pm-utils ignores the s2ram whitelist so that patching is quite useless. hmm The only thing I couldn't get to work is s2both / pm-suspend-hybrid.

Tempature is usually around 40 °C and fan between 1900 and 2000 rpm and I couldn't see any difference by using tpfand. Therefore I'm not using any fan daemon atm even if I don't know if my fan is fast or not. At least I can't hear it so I guess it's normal. wink

rockinchado wrote:

are you having problems with the wireless disconnecting every 5-10 minutes?

I haven't used wireless so far but I could give it a try this week or did 2.6.27.1 already improved it?

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#11 2009-03-10 00:25:11

vincnd
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Re: X wont start - Intel X4500, Thinkpad X200 SOLVED

I have the same problem. And i havn't try to the method above yet. I don't know why this happened. Anybody can tell me detail reasons of the bug? Thanks!

Last edited by vincnd (2011-06-09 13:28:48)

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