[abandoned] glx "module doesn't exist"

henrysmith · 2006-06-25 22:16:01

I've tried two clean installations of Gimmick on this Thinkpad by now. Both times, I've run:

pacman -Syfu
reboot
pacman -S xorg
pacman -S hwd
pacman -S windowmaker # + change to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
hwd --whatever-the-update-option-was
hwd -xa
startx

X loads briefly, with vertical green lines at the top of the screen, and immediately crashes back to the console

Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 28: xterm: command not found

I have a dir of logs and various outputs: including the Xorg error log, pacman -Q, lspci -v, and xorg.conf.

EDIT: It's worth noting that I've had the same results from all xorg.conf files produced by xorgconfig too

EDIT: There is a file libglx.org in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions

EDIT: Moved from the laptops forum to the desktop environments one. Don't know why I chose that one in the first place (duh).

UPDATE: I've given up on this. Moved back to boring old Slackware instead.

Last edited by henrysmith (2007-07-15 18:13:40)

Snowman · 2006-06-25 22:26:24

Is libgl-dri installed? If not, install it.

Also, you might want to edit/create ~/.xinitrc instead of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

detto · 2006-06-25 22:31:09

libgl-dri is in xorg group iirc. It also complains about xterm not found. Pacman it and see if it works. Also, as mentioned, edit ~/.xinitrc instead the "root" file.

detto

henrysmith · 2006-06-25 22:34:36

Installed libgl-dri. Still crashing in the same way, but not complaining about a missing module any more. The only error message now is that ubiquitous FreeFontPath thing.
The crashes are still the same whether I use xorgconfig or hwd -xa
(Have created a .xinitrc just in case, usually I don't bother for root)

Now rebooting for good measure. I'll pacman xterm in a moment

Done both. It still crashes.

I've updated all the files, to show any results of changes so far

The log instructed me to run mkfontdir on certain /usr/share/fonts/ directories. I did that, it still crashes, and I've uploaded the new log file.

Just to save anyone from asking: Xorg has worked okay in the few other distros I've tried on this laptop so far (Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu)

detto · 2006-06-25 23:02:07

What errror do u now get when trying to start X ? (.xsession-errors maybe, dunno exactly )
Are the values for horiz and vert frequence correctly set in xorg.conf? Which video driver u have in there?

henrysmith · 2006-06-25 23:10:36

What errror do u now get when trying to start X ?

None, confusingly.

values for horiz and vert frequence

Same as in other distros I've used.

Which video driver

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "All"
    BoardName   "All"
EndSection

The card itself is an ATI Rage Mobility of some sort, I think. I've alwys used vesa on this laptop though, and both applicable ati drivers in xorgconfig only produce a driver not found error.

EDIT:
I've just found a page about installing Debian on this type of laptop
http://www.neilvandyke.org/linux-thinkpad-x20/
And I've tried with his horizontal and vertical frequencies:

    HorizSync    31.5-48.5
    VertRefresh    50-90

No improvement

EDIT:
Installed xf86-video-ati, and modified xorg.conf accordingly
No improvement

Last edited by henrysmith (2007-07-15 18:11:55)

detto · 2006-06-26 00:43:42

Well, the only help i could give u now atm is trying with another video driver, like "ati".
Ive just googled a bit, and came across this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … p?t=126174 .
Its nearly or exactly or somehow between your problem youve described.
Sry 4 no more help, but i have to sleep now

Good luck, get rid of it soon! 8)

henrysmith · 2006-06-26 00:52:02

I've tried vesa, vga, ati, and ati-rage (or whatever it's called)
All crash
Sorry for the endless barrage of negativity, but this problem really is resisting all attempts to resolve it.

henrysmith · 2006-06-26 21:53:06

Sorry for the bump, but I think this new info warrants it:

It occured to me to try

X -configure
X -config xorg.conf.new

And to my surprise, X loaded perfectly, with no green lines or anything. In this mode, all I could do was to move the mouse around. It seems to ignore .xinitrc and /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.
And this same config file, when pasted into /etc/X11/xorg.conf, crashed startx just like any of the others I've tried.

Here is the file produced by X - configure

I've just done another clean install. This time I pacmanned xorg-video-drivers and xorg-input-drivers. Still crashing back to console. Still not giving any errors

Last edited by henrysmith (2007-07-15 18:13:51)

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#1 2006-06-25 22:16:01

[abandoned] glx "module doesn't exist"

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Re: [abandoned] glx "module doesn't exist"

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