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10robinho

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Registered: 2011-12-18

Posts: 34

[SOLVED] fglrx + xorg = black screen / freeze

Hi,

I simply can't run

startx

When I try, everything freezes, screen goes blank.

I've done clean install, and done just this:

# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils xterm
# pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils /* added catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo in pacman.conf */
# aticonfig --initial
# reboot
...
# startx
--> FREEZE

I'm confused as this worked on my other machine. I have empty Xorg.log file and I've tried

aticonfig --acpi-services=off

as advised on wiki - but nothing changed.

Please help

Last edited by 10robinho (2012-01-06 01:53:43)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,354

Re: [SOLVED] fglrx + xorg = black screen / freeze

Hi,
...I have empty Xorg.log file ...

Just for sanity sake, your log file is /var/log/Xorg.0.log, right?

Can you post your ~/.xinitrc file?

edit:  Are your keyboard indicators blinking?

Last edited by ewaller (2012-01-05 03:35:51)

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10robinho

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Registered: 2011-12-18

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED] fglrx + xorg = black screen / freeze

Thanks for the reply!

No, keyboard indicators are not blinking (no num lock light or anything).

Of course, we are talking about /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

I've realized that it is even not created now.
(I've tried with empty xorg.conf, just to get some log errors, and after I returned fglrx version of xorg.conf and run startx log was empty)

I haven't made any ~/.xinitrc (I think that it should run default one from /etc/X11, right?)

I've tried with ~/.xinitrc that has just "exec xterm"

nothing worked...

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,354

Re: [SOLVED] fglrx + xorg = black screen / freeze

Wow, I've no clue   I don't have an ATI so I can't help much there.

Is your box set up as an ssh server?  After it goes black, is it possible to still ssh into the box from another machine?  If so, is there anything interesting in dmesg?
Otherwise, anything interesting in /var/log/everything.log?

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10robinho

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Registered: 2011-12-18

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED] fglrx + xorg = black screen / freeze

Thanks for tips, I've tried to ssh in, but after freeze, I can't do anything...

I'll try again with clean install...

matse

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Registered: 2011-04-27

Posts: 299

Re: [SOLVED] fglrx + xorg = black screen / freeze

Have you added the "nomodeset" kernel parameter as described in the wiki?

10robinho

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Registered: 2011-12-18

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED] fglrx + xorg = black screen / freeze

I've done clean install (4th time) and now everything is ok.

I'm pretty sure that fglrx drivers were badly installed or configured, but I don't know what went wrong.

Thanks for help!