xorg freezes on startx [solved using nvidia 185.13 beta driver]

B15HOP · 2009-03-16 09:08:23

I'm guessing this has been said before. I don't know if this a evdev hotplug problem or a nvidia problem.

Geforce 6600 GT (agp)
nvidia 180.29 driver ( tried both pacman -S nvidia and the driver directly from nvidia )

I have nvidia in the Modules section and hal in Daemons for the rc.conf file.

I tried an older nvidia driver but it 177.80 but that wouldn't work either.

The http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA helped me upto this point. I've never had problems like this with other nvidia cards or drivers.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Thu Feb  5 00:18:17 PST 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option    "AutoAddDevices"    "False"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7 8"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Philips"
    ModelName      "109 B5"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 97.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 160.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

This option didn't help either.

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option    "AutoAddDevices"    "False"
EndSection

The xorg file was made using nvidia-xconfig, and I've tried making new xorg files using xorgconf and hwd -xa.. Same resault.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27-ARCH i686 
Current Operating System: Linux Enterprize.D 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 10:18:28 UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 17 December 2008  08:20:05PM
 
    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: Mon Mar 16 17:46:22 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) |   |-->Device "Device0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
(**) Not automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
    Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
    /usr/share/fonts/misc,
    /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
    /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel
(II) Loader magic: 0x81d5fe0
(II) Module ABI versions:
    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
    X.Org Video Driver: 4.1
    X.Org XInput driver : 2.1
    X.Org Server Extension : 1.1
    X.Org Font Renderer : 0.6
(II) Loader running on linux
(--) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0@2:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] rev 162, Mem @ 0xe8000000/0, 0xd0000000/0, 0xe9000000/0, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
(II) System resource ranges:
    [0] -1    0    0xffffffff - 0xffffffff (0x1) MX[b]
    [1] -1    0    0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[b]
    [2] -1    0    0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[b]
    [3] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
    [4] -1    0    0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[b]
    [5] -1    0    0x00000000 - 0x00000000 (0x1) IX[b]
(II) "extmod" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "dbe" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "freetype" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) "dri" will be loaded by default.
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: X.Org Server Extension
    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 1.1
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libfreetype.so
(II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project"
    compiled for 1.5.3, module version = 2.1.0
    Module class: X.Org Font Renderer
    ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.6
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "glx"

(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so

Backtrace:

Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by B15HOP (2009-03-16 10:22:49)

B15HOP · 2009-03-16 10:00:41

Ok after trying 185.13 beta driver seemed to fix my problems. I now have to figure out how to get keyboard and mouse working.

Allan · 2009-03-16 10:02:19

Add "hal" to your daemons array in /etc/rc.conf (after installing it...) and that should fix keyboard and mouse.

B15HOP · 2009-03-16 10:19:36

I've already done that but that alone didn't work. I had to revert this back to default

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option    "AutoAddDevices"    "False"
EndSection

Now that it's deleted, the mouse and keyboard works.

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#1 2009-03-16 09:08:23

xorg freezes on startx [solved using nvidia 185.13 beta driver]

#2 2009-03-16 10:00:41

Re: xorg freezes on startx [solved using nvidia 185.13 beta driver]

#3 2009-03-16 10:02:19

Re: xorg freezes on startx [solved using nvidia 185.13 beta driver]

#4 2009-03-16 10:19:36

Re: xorg freezes on startx [solved using nvidia 185.13 beta driver]

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