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#1 2009-11-19 01:10:58

Valande
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X -config freeze my laptop

Hi all,
First of all, sorry for my English, and I hope to find a solution for this...

I'm quite new with Arch and I'm really liking it, but I'm having some problems configuring Xorg.

My laptop's specifications:
Toshiba Satellite Pro A210 15,4"
2xAMD Turion 64 Processor
Atheros AR5006EG Wireless card
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 Graphics card
Serial ATA Hard Drive
and more... this is the lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Graphics Port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 2400
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 audio device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO]
0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
1a:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
1a:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
1a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
1a:04.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

And this is my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dri2"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
    HorizSync    31.5 - 50.0
    VertRefresh  40-90
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"     # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "vesa"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "Mobility Radeon HD 2400"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
        Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

#Section "Extensions"
#    Option "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection

I have tried with most of drivers, from open source and from ati privative drivers:

pacman -S xf86-video-ati
pacman -S xf86-video-radeonhd
pacman -S xf86-video-vesa
pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev
./ati-driver-installer-9-11-x86.x86_64.run

And when i run X -config xorg.conf, the screen gets black, frozen, and I need to reboot by button because the touchpad and the keyboard don't work.

Trying pacman -S hwd the system says that the package is not available, so I can't try with hwd -xa.

I have Slackware and Ubuntu installed in my laptop as well and Xorg works without any problem, even running KDE 4 with Plasma in the first, and Gnome in the second, so I think is something wrong in the xorg.conf file, not a problem of the graphics card, touchpad neither keyboard.

I tried copying the xorg.conf from Slackware as well, without any good result.

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Please, any suggestion will be fine to help me.

Thanks in advance.
Pablo.


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#2 2009-11-19 08:15:55

MadTux
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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

Did you try to run X without xorg.conf? Recent xorg-server can do most thing automatically.

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#3 2009-11-19 22:57:20

Valande
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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

Do you mean without running Xorg -configure? So, after pacman -S xorg i have to run startx, isn't it?


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#4 2009-11-20 00:05:29

Valande
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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

No, I have the same problem without xorg.conf.
I reinstalled Arch Linux today, to have a clean system from scratch, started hal daemon and installed the evdev driver, but when I launch X with startx, the screen freezes in black and I need to power off by button because the touchpad and the keyboard don't work anymore...

Any idea about this? Please. sad


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#5 2009-11-20 02:19:32

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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

Please paste the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  Also, is xf86-input-synaptics installed?

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#6 2009-11-20 02:30:16

Valande
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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

chpln wrote:

paste the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  Also, is xf86-input-synaptics installed?

I don't have Xorg.0.log file after trying startx without configuring xorg....
Whatever, I think xf86-input-synaptics is not installed... I'm going to do at this exact moment and will tell you about in 10 minutes how it was...


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#7 2009-11-20 02:51:27

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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

Now, after installing xf86-input-synaptics, i had the same result, and the Xorg.0.log was created, but it was empty... I'm getting crazy with this crap sad


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#8 2009-11-20 03:24:36

Valande
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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

My last attempt corrupted root filesystem after rebooting by button, so I am going to try with Xorg -configure this time and hope to be lucky with it. Any sugerence is welcomed smile

Thanks to all of you smile


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#9 2009-11-20 07:22:21

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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

As you have an ATI card, it may be worth trying to disable kernel mode setting. I had problems with KMS on one of my computers too. Its relatively easy to disable it, just follow the the wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … leshooting

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#10 2009-11-20 14:11:52

Valande
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Re: X -config freeze my laptop

I have finally set it up!! smile

The problem was trying Xorg, when only by using hal daemon, without "vga" option in the grub kernel entry, it works. Now I'm posting within xfce in my new Arch Linux Installation smile

Thanks a lot to all of you, and sorry for any inconvenience... hmm


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