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Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

X-less after upgrade

After doing a recent pacman upgrade to 2.6.16, I no long can start X as normal or super user.

The Xorg.log in /var/log/ doesn't report any errors, neither the actual X occurence.  Basically what happens is the screen just goes blank, and I cannot escape back to the virtual terminals and have to do a reboot.

How did this happen?  Nothing has changed config wise (same Xorg.conf file).   Anyone else experience this?  And how can I fix it?

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: X-less after upgrade

Can you post the output from

grep -v "^#" /etc/X11/xorg.conf

emma

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Registered: 2006-02-19

Posts: 64

Re: X-less after upgrade

Are you using evdev? This happened to me due to a random device node change. If this is the case, you can prevent this from happening in the future by making a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules and putting this in it:

BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}="0000:00:02.1", KERNEL="event*", NAME="input/%k", SYMLINK="input/mx1000"

If you do not have an MX1000 then you can customise the symlink, and then just use the symlink as the device. For the SYSFS{serial} part, you can get it from `cat /proc/bus/input/devices`. Cheers.

Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Re: X-less after upgrade

Hey emma, I'm using a logitech mx900 but I'm not using evdev.  Just the standard x86-mouse driver.

vacant, I'll try it out and post it today

Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Re: X-less after upgrade

Hey, sorry for the delay.  Having no X has forced me to work in XP

Anyway, here is my xorg.conf

Section "Module"


    Load        "dbe"      # Double buffer extension

    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection

    Load        "freetype"
    
    Load       "glx"

EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "true"
EndSection


Section "Files"


    RgbPath    "/usr/share/X11/rgb"


    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"


    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    

EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"

















EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier    "Keyboard1"
    Driver    "kbd"



    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"






    Option "XkbRules"    "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel"    "pc104"
    Option "XkbLayout"    "us"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"


    Identifier    "Mouse1"
    Driver    "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "ExplorerPS/2"    # Explorer PS/2
    Option "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"




    Option "Resolution"    "1200"




    Option "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5 6 7"





EndSection




Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "Monitor1"
    VendorName    "LG"
    ModelName    "Flatron 1730b" 


    HorizSync   30.0 - 71.0



    VertRefresh 56.0 -  75.0


EndSection




Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card1"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VideoRam    262144
    #VideoRam    256
    BusID    "PCI:5:0:0"
    VendorName    "nVidia Corporation
    BoardName    "NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT]
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
    Option    "RenderAccel"    "true"
    Option    "UseEdidDpi"    "FALSE"
    Option    "DPI"        "95x96"
    Option    "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Option    "NoLogo" "0"
    Option     "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
    
EndSection



Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "Card1"
    Monitor     "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier  "Simple Layout"


    Screen "Screen 1"


    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Re: X-less after upgrade

any ideas anyone?

I'm still X-less....

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: X-less after upgrade

Assuming you've got the latest "nvidia" package installed..

I'd comment out the composite extensions section and the "busID" line.

If that doesn't work, install xf86-video-vesa and change your video driver from nvidia to vesa to see if you can get something working.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,065

Re: X-less after upgrade

If the copy/paste is correct, these lines from your device section are missing the double quotes at the end :

    VendorName   "nVidia Corporation
    BoardName   "NV40 [GeForce 6800 GT] 

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Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Re: X-less after upgrade

Thanks guys,

It turns out it was the new nvidia driver.  I tried using nv and vesa and it worked.  However qt apps are all segfaulting so it's time for a rebuild anyway.