Numerous X errors.

Blindraven · 2008-01-08 04:08:17

Hey guys.
(in advance English is not my first language).

After lots of trial and error I have finally got fluxbox working. I tediously;y copy/pasted an old xorg from last year (same machine) over to the new one and viola it works. Kinda.
Everything seems to not want to run, pacman -S thunar and dolphin,. neither will run both reporting x display server not found errors and when I ctrl/alt/bspce something about font paths and the likes are error spamming everywhere.

I also just noticed this in a terminal :

[root@Tony tony]# killall dolphin
dolphin: no process killed
[root@Tony tony]# kbuildsycoca running...
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kcertpart.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/binary-certificate'
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'katepart.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-fortran'
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'knotify.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'KNotify'
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
=]

I dont know how that got there because I didn't even type anything, it just started coming up, though I am not sure if that is relevant to the problem at hand.

I installed the latest Nvidia drivers, so I am not sure if that would conflict with my old xorg (same machine/card though) here is my xorg.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon Feb 26 23:38:46 PST 2007

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "cursor"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "backingstore" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x1440" "1280x1024" "1440x900" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

It might also be worth mentioning that from following the wiki I ended up downloading some hwd tool and ran the hwd -xa command and it posted a xorg which was unuable which led me to copy-pasting this.

I find myself having to issue the export DISPLAY=:1 or 0.0 command just to open firefox every time as well. (in fact now that I think of it Firefox is all that will run).

Any help would be much appreciated because this system is very unusable and I really wanted to give Arch a go.
Regards,
Antonio.

Last edited by Blindraven (2008-01-08 04:10:50)

Leigh · 2008-01-08 05:08:49

The font paths sould be...

/user/share/fonts/

Your naming scheme is alittle complicated to keep track of but seems ok.

maybe if you add a dpi setting to section screen right after DefaultDepth it could make a difference.
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"

There's so many options you can use with nvidia cards and my nvidia settings are a lot different than yours but I wouldn't know if that is your problem. I figured mine out by trial and error.

These are the settings I use. All under section sreen...

Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT-0"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV-0"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "RenderAccel" "TRUE"
Option "AllowDDCCI" "TRUE"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "TRUE"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
Option "HWCursor" "TRUE"

Don't know if any of that will help.

Also I'm not sure it's needed but I always use a modeline for my monitor and a BusId for section device.

Blindraven · 2008-01-08 05:20:59

[root@Tony tony]# ls /usr/share/fonts/
100dpi 75dpi cyrillic encodings misc util

That is the output of /usr/share/fonts

I am pretty sure I can not use you're settings there because I have a 19 inch widescreen/LCD and yours appears to be a CRT.

bionnaki · 2008-01-08 05:25:29

you should check out the beginners guide for your next install - just follow each instruction & it'll work perfectly.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

Leigh · 2008-01-08 05:30:39

Well I have 3 monitors, two of which are wide screen FPW's. I just randomly picked one for an example, and it happened to be the crt I use. You can see my xorg.conf file in the wiki under Leigh if it will help.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … conf_Files

Blindraven · 2008-01-08 05:49:03

bionnaki wrote:

you should check out the beginners guide for your next install - just follow each instruction & it'll work perfectly.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide

I followed the guide.
Arch came with b0rked defaults, my network was skewiff, I had lines in config files everywhere that should not have been.
It took hours to get my network going and resolve the issues with that.
3 days later I'm still here trying to get the system working.at.all with anything that runs on X apart from fluxbox.
I do not want to have to install again, I'd just like help with this install.

Leigh · 2008-01-08 06:32:51

I recently migrated from kde to fluxbox and it's not the easiest wm to configure, but there's lots of wiki's and tips, not just on arch. but in Gentoo, Ubunto, google, and the fluxbox homepage, has alot of good info about setting up fluxbox.

About X in general, maybe your xorg log file in /var/log might shed some light on what's going wrong? or your system log? You need to remove the X11 from your font paths to resolve those errors. Anyway, there's definately a learning curve with Arch, especially after the initial base install. If there are EE or WW's in your xorg log file? posting them might be helpfull for others to help you resolve any specific problems your having with X.

steve_v · 2008-01-10 12:21:45

The .desktop warnings are just that - warnings. Should not cause any problems it just means your mime types are a bit borked ( been like that in every KDE install I have ever used, just ignore it )

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

After starting X and

tail ~/.xsession-errors

just after the problem has occured might yeild something of intrest.

The actual error message would be kinda helpfull too :-)

Cheers,

Steve.

Last edited by steve_v (2008-01-10 12:25:03)

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#1 2008-01-08 04:08:17

Numerous X errors.

#2 2008-01-08 05:08:49

Re: Numerous X errors.

#3 2008-01-08 05:20:59

Re: Numerous X errors.

#4 2008-01-08 05:25:29

Re: Numerous X errors.

#5 2008-01-08 05:30:39

Re: Numerous X errors.

#6 2008-01-08 05:49:03

Re: Numerous X errors.

#7 2008-01-08 06:32:51

Re: Numerous X errors.

#8 2008-01-10 12:21:45

Re: Numerous X errors.

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