Reconfiguring xorg fails

sisyphus0001 · 2010-02-27 16:18:38

I have Archlinux installed for the first time. After installing xorg and gnome I tried to start gdm, but there was just a black screen and a pointer that I could move around. I used to use a nvidia graphics card but switched to Radeon HD 3450 card. I removed the Radeon card and reinstalled my old card (RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro). After removing the ATI driver and installing the nouveau driver, I could log in with gdm without a problem. When I tried to reconfigure xorg there was a problem:

(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.

I don't know what this means. Neither does Google apparently. Could this have anything to do with swichting cards?
I used the ATI archwiki to install the Radeon card, but I don't have an idea what I could have done wrong.

Skripka · 2010-02-27 16:21:09

Post the contents of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

sisyphus0001 · 2010-02-27 16:37:30

I don't have one. I just tried it without a xorg.conf file.

Running Xorg without xorg.conf
In most cases, Xorg can autodetect your hardware settings. The Xorg.conf configuration file in /etc/X11 is optional since Xorg-server 1.5.x.
Always make sure you have HAL, mesa, the group xorg and the group xorg-input-drivers installed:
pacman -S hal xorg-input-drivers mesa xorg
and that HAL has been added in DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf and is running.

shining · 2010-03-14 00:51:09

Please post your full kernel and Xorg logs.

csm · 2010-04-09 01:43:48

I am having the same symptoms when trying to use the nouveau driver with my NVIDIA ION chipset: I cannot autoconfigure (let alone start) X. I uploaded my Xorg.0.log, kernel.log and dmesg.log (I hope those are the right ones; I wasn't sure which ones you meant).

Xorg.0.log
kernel.log
dmesg.log

buckiller · 2010-04-09 06:21:33

I'm having the a similar issue with nouveau and xorg. I'm trying to configure xorg for the first time with noveau installed and I get the same errors about the pcibus symbol.

Though my dmesg and kernel logs don't seem to be printing all that nouveau stuff the previous poster had.

.:B:. · 2010-04-09 13:02:33

Guys, don't hijack topics, open your own topic.

shining · 2010-04-09 13:37:35

sisyphus0001 wrote:

I have Archlinux installed for the first time. After installing xorg and gnome I tried to start gdm, but there was just a black screen and a pointer that I could move around. I used to use a nvidia graphics card but switched to Radeon HD 3450 card. I removed the Radeon card and reinstalled my old card (RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro). After removing the ATI driver and installing the nouveau driver, I could log in with gdm without a problem. When I tried to reconfigure xorg there was a problem:
(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
Configuration failed.
I don't know what this means. Neither does Google apparently. Could this have anything to do with swichting cards?
I used the ATI archwiki to install the Radeon card, but I don't have an idea what I could have done wrong.

Maybe configure does not work with nouveau. Anyway, no big deal, you don't need it.
You can create a xorg.conf with just that :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nou … figuration

shining · 2010-04-09 13:43:00

csm wrote:

I am having the same symptoms when trying to use the nouveau driver with my NVIDIA ION chipset: I cannot autoconfigure (let alone start) X. I uploaded my Xorg.0.log, kernel.log and dmesg.log (I hope those are the right ones; I wasn't sure which ones you meant).
Xorg.0.log
kernel.log
dmesg.log

Are you up-to-date with nouveau-drm 0.0.16_20100313-1 ?

csm · 2010-04-09 16:54:21

Updating to nouveau-drm 0.0.16_20100313-1 fixed my problem.

Autoconfiguring X still doesn't work, but now I can start X using a barebone xorg.conf. KMS works as well.

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Reconfiguring xorg fails

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Re: Reconfiguring xorg fails

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