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dpc47

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Registered: 2015-07-12

Posts: 2

Trouble while running Xorg :0 -configure

After uninstalling nvidia drivers and installing nouvea drivers (and reinstalling xorg), Xorg -configure does not run correctly. Specifically, it gives the output:

List of video drivers:
	nouveau
	modesetting
No devices to configure.  Configuration failed.
(EE) Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.

I'm attaching the full output below, as well as the output of the log file. After running startx, I get a message that I cannot connect to X because the server is already running. Strangely enough, however, after rebooting, startx runs fine with no xorg.conf file generated, and I've been running i3 for the past few days with no problems regarding X. Should I be worried about not being able to generate an xorg.conf file? Or can I safely ignore it?

Some additional info:
- Package xf86-video-nouveau is version 1.0.11-3
- Package xorg-server is version 1.17.2-2
- I had run Xorg -configure successfuly when I was using the nvidia proprietary drivers.
- I switched to Nouveau drivers because they allow me to wake from sleep in a TTY shell. Using the proprietary drivers, the screen remained black but the computer fan and lights turned on when I woke from sleep (systemctl -suspend).
- My graphics card is a GTX 660.

Here is the output mentioned above:

After running "Xorg :0 -configure":

X.Org X Server 1.17.2
Release Date: 2015-06-16
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.0.4-2-ARCH x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux dc-arch 4.0.7-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 30 07:50:21 UTC 2015 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d208947e-dd36-49bb-a331-4a6f2cf06539 rw quiet
Build Date: 30 June 2015  09:00:12PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jul 12 16:11:18 2015
List of video drivers:
	nouveau
	modesetting
No devices to configure.  Configuration failed.
(EE) Server terminated with error (2). Closing log file.

Output in "/etc/var/Xorg.0.log" after the previous command:

[   550.765] 
X.Org X Server 1.17.2
Release Date: 2015-06-16
[   550.765] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[   550.765] Build Operating System: Linux 4.0.4-2-ARCH x86_64 
[   550.765] Current Operating System: Linux dc-arch 4.0.7-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 30 07:50:21 UTC 2015 x86_64
[   550.765] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d208947e-dd36-49bb-a331-4a6f2cf06539 rw quiet
[   550.765] Build Date: 30 June 2015  09:00:12PM
[   550.765]  
[   550.765] Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
[   550.765] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[   550.765] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[   550.765] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jul 12 16:11:18 2015
[   550.765] (II) Loader magic: 0x816d60
[   550.765] (II) Module ABI versions:
[   550.765] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[   550.765] 	X.Org Video Driver: 19.0
[   550.765] 	X.Org XInput driver : 21.1
[   550.765] 	X.Org Server Extension : 9.0
[   550.768] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c1
[   550.768] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[   550.769] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/dri/card0 226:0 fd 8 paused 0
[   550.771] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:11c0:1458:354e rev 161, Mem @ 0xe6000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/134217728, 0xd8000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288
[   550.771] List of video drivers:
[   550.771] 	nouveau
[   550.771] 	modesetting
[   550.771] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[   550.771] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
[   550.771] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   550.771] 	compiled for 1.17.0, module version = 1.0.11
[   550.771] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[   550.771] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0
[   550.771] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[   550.771] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[   550.771] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   550.771] 	compiled for 1.17.2, module version = 1.17.2
[   550.771] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[   550.771] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0
[   550.772] (II) [drm] nouveau interface version: 1.2.1
[   550.772] (II) NOUVEAU driver 
[   550.772] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
[   550.772] 	RIVA TNT        (NV04)
[   550.772] 	RIVA TNT2       (NV05)
[   550.772] 	GeForce 256     (NV10)
[   550.772] 	GeForce 2       (NV11, NV15)
[   550.772] 	GeForce 4MX     (NV17, NV18)
[   550.772] 	GeForce 3       (NV20)
[   550.772] 	GeForce 4Ti     (NV25, NV28)
[   550.772] 	GeForce FX      (NV3x)
[   550.772] 	GeForce 6       (NV4x)
[   550.772] 	GeForce 7       (G7x)
[   550.772] 	GeForce 8       (G8x)
[   550.772] 	GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0)
[   550.772] 	GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0)
[   550.772] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[   550.772] No devices to configure.  Configuration failed.

Output of "startx" after running "Xorg :0 -configure":

_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
(EE) 
Fatal server error:
(EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE) 
(EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/dpc/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE) 
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: unexpected signal 2

Last edited by dpc47 (2015-07-12 20:59:25)

Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: Trouble while running Xorg :0 -configure

Run this to be sure you uninstalled Proprietary and installed Nouveau libs

sudo pacman -S --needed mesa mesa-libgl lib32-mesa lib32-mesa-libgl nouveau-dri lib32-nouveau-dri
sudo pacman -R nvidia-libgl lib32-nvidia-libgl nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils
sudo pacman -S xf86-video-nouveau

Read this also to double check installation steps -> Nouveau

dpc47

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Registered: 2015-07-12

Posts: 2

Re: Trouble while running Xorg :0 -configure

Thanks for the troubleshooting ideas. Unfortunately, it appears that I had everything installed correctly (I verified this by the above commands and double checked my installation process on that wiki page).

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Trouble while running Xorg :0 -configure

Note: Arch supplies default configuration files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, and no extra configuration is necessary for most setups.

xorg autodetects more or less everything these days - an individually generated xorg.conf per system has not been required for a long time.