startx error: Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer

jimbo1708 · 06-17-2009, 09:10 AM

I am trying to install Gentoo with gnome.

I've been following the install docs from gentoo for x86, but after emerging gnome, I get the following error after startx

Code:

bryanjp@gentoo ~ $ startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /home/bryanjp/.serverauth.3745

X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 i686
Current Operating System: Linux gentoo 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #3 SMP Wed Jun 17 04:55:34 EDT 2009 i686
Build Date: 16 June 2009  02:45:32PM

        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: Wed Jun 17 06:16:39 2009
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file

New driver is "intel"
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) intel(0): Failed to pin front buffer: Cannot allocate memory

Fatal server error:
Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer

giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Any ideas?

d2_racing · 06-17-2009, 09:24 AM

Hi, can you post this, just to have the actual state of your box

Code:

# emerge --info
# lspci
# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# rc-update show

Did you try to start your Xorg-Server without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

jimbo1708 · 06-17-2009, 09:54 AM

Code:

gentoo / # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri firefox gdbm gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv isdnlog midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl svg sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Code:

gentoo / # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

Code:

gentoo / # grep -v ^\# /etc/X11/xorg.conf




Section "Files"


    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/local"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"



EndSection


Section "Module"


    Load        "dbe"


    SubSection  "extmod"
        Option  "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection


    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"

EndSection



Section "ServerFlags"


















    Option      "blank time"    "10"    # 10 minutes


    Option      "standby time"  "20"
    Option      "suspend time"  "30"
    Option      "off time"      "60"



EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"


    Option      "AutoRepeat"    "500 5"








EndSection



Section "InputDevice"


    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"


    Option      "Protocol"      "Microsoft"
    Option      "Device"        "/dev/mouse"











EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse2"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol"      "MouseMan"
    Option      "Device"        "/dev/mouse2"
EndSection





Section "Monitor"


    Identifier  "Generic Monitor"









    Mode "640x480"
        DotClock        25.175
        HTimings        640 664 760 800
        VTimings        480 491 493 525
    EndMode








EndSection



Section "Device"


    Identifier  "Generic VGA"


    Driver      "vga"









EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "any supported Trident chip"
    Driver      "trident"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "MGA Millennium I"
    Driver      "mga"
    Option      "hw cursor" "off"
    BusID       "PCI:0:10:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "MGA G200 AGP"
    Driver      "mga"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option      "pci retry"
EndSection




Section "Screen"


    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "Generic VGA"
    Monitor     "Generic Monitor"


    DefaultDepth 8

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           8
        Modes           "640x480"
        ViewPort        0 0
        Virtual         800 600
    EndSubsection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           4
        Modes           "640x480"
    EndSubSection

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           1
        Modes           "640x480"
    EndSubSection

EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier          "Screen MGA1"
    Device              "MGA Millennium I"
    Monitor             "Generic Monitor"
    Option              "no accel"
    DefaultDepth        16

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           8
        Modes           "1280x1024"
        Option          "rgb bits" "8"
        Visual          "StaticColor"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           16
        Modes           "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           24
        Modes           "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier          "Screen MGA2"
    Device              "MGA G200 AGP"
    Monitor             "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth        8

    SubSection "Display"
        Depth           8
        Modes           "1280x1024"
        Option          "rgb bits" "8"
        Visual          "StaticColor"
    EndSubSection
EndSection




Section "ServerLayout"


    Identifier  "Main Layout"


    Screen      "Screen MGA 1"  ""      ""      ""      "Screen MGA 2"
    Screen      "Screen MGA 2"  ""      ""      "Screen MGA 1"  ""


    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "another layout"
    Screen      "Screen 1"
    Screen      "Screen MGA 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "simple layout"
    Screen      "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Code:

gentoo / # rc-update show
            bootmisc | boot
             checkfs | boot
           checkroot | boot
               clock | boot
         consolefont | boot
                dbus |      default
                hald |      default
            hostname | boot
             keymaps | boot
               local |      default nonetwork
          localmount | boot
             modules | boot
            net.eth0 |      default
              net.lo | boot
            netmount |      default
           rmnologin | boot
                sshd |      default
             urandom | boot

jimbo1708 · 06-17-2009, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d2_racing

Did you try to start your Xorg-Server without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

You are right, I didn't have an xorg.conf so I copied xorg.conf.example and re-ran startx with this output

Code:

bryanjp@gentoo ~ $ startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /home/bryanjp/.serverauth.3966

X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 i686
Current Operating System: Linux gentoo 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #3 SMP Wed Jun 17 04:55:34 EDT 2009 i686
Build Date: 16 June 2009  02:45:32PM

        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: Wed Jun 17 07:06:39 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

d2_racing · 06-18-2009, 05:52 AM

Hi, first of all your /etc/X11/xorg.conf is not good.

You have a intel video card and you try to load a Matrox video card.

So, first, we will see if Xorg can start without any configuration files.

Try this :

Code:

# rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# startx

If you see something, then your Xorg-Server is working and you have a configuration problem inside your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

For the record, your /etc/X11/xorg.conf should be like this actually :

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

jimbo1708 · 06-18-2009, 07:00 AM

with no xorg.conf, my monitor goes black for 2 seconds then returns to the console and displays the following

Code:

gentoo X11 # startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.27536

X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 i686
Current Operating System: Linux gentoo 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #3 SMP Wed Jun 17 04:55:34 EDT 2009 i686
Build Date: 16 June 2009  02:45:32PM

        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: Thu Jun 18 04:04:36 2009
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file

New driver is "intel"
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
(EE) intel(0): Failed to pin front buffer: Cannot allocate memory

Fatal server error:
Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer

giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
gentoo X11 #

When I change the xorg.conf file to your recommendation, I get the following output of startx.

Code:

gentoo X11 # startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.27586

X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 i686
Current Operating System: Linux gentoo 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #3 SMP Wed Jun 17 04:55:34 EDT 2009 i686
Build Date: 16 June 2009  02:45:32PM

        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: Thu Jun 18 04:07:04 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(EE) intel(0): Failed to pin front buffer: Cannot allocate memory

Fatal server error:
Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer

giving up.
xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
gentoo X11 #

I guess this is where using ubuntu and opensuse for the past 3 years has gotten me. I am so use to things just working, I've only had to manually edit xorg once before. I really appreciate your advise d2_racing. Do you have any other ideas? Could I have compiled my kernel with menuconfig without the proper support? Any Ideas?

d2_racing · 06-18-2009, 03:13 PM

Ok, before starting your Xorg-Server, can you post this :

Code:

# lsmod

Are you sure that your kernel is properly set ?

jimbo1708 · 06-19-2009, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d2_racing

Ok, before starting your Xorg-Server, can you post this :

Code:

# lsmod

Code:

gentoo ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
gentoo ~ #

Quote:

Originally Posted by d2_racing

Are you sure that your kernel is properly set ?

I am not sure that my kernel is properly set. I used make menuconfig from the gentoo docs and pretty much left it the way it was except that I turned on support for ext2 filesystem.

I really appreciate your help, any thing I need to change?

d2_racing · 06-19-2009, 09:59 AM

First, can you edit your /etc/make.conf and add this :

Code:

VIDEO_CARDS="vesa intel"

After that, can you run this :

Code:

# emerge -auDNv world

Does this command wants to install a new package called intel something ?

jimbo1708 · 06-19-2009, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d2_racing

Code:

# emerge -auDNv world

Does this command wants to install a new package called intel something ?

No, it didn't want to install something like that, but there were 4 other things so I emerged them.

d2_racing · 06-20-2009, 05:46 AM

What happen if you run this :

Code:

# emerge -av gentoolkit
# equery list x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel

Does the intel package is already installed ?

jimbo1708 · 06-22-2009, 07:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by d2_racing

What happen if you run this :

Code:

# emerge -av gentoolkit
# equery list x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel

Does the intel package is already installed ?

Here is the output

Code:

gentoo ~ # equery list x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
[ Searching for package 'xf86-video-intel' in 'x11-drivers' among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.6.3-r1 (0)
gentoo ~ #

should I emerge this onto my system?

jimbo1708 · 06-22-2009, 08:14 AM

I just emerged x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel

startx still doesn't work.

jimbo1708 · 06-24-2009, 07:05 AM

d2_Racing,

I really appreciate your help, is there anything else I should try?

- Jim

d2_racing · 06-24-2009, 07:32 AM

Hi, inside your kernel, can you post your graphical section and your character device section inside your .config ?

Are you sure that you have enable the i915 module and your agp module ?