[SOLVED] startx command make my screen blank (VESA Driver)

Th3_DarkSky · 09-10-2014, 07:16 AM

Hello everyone, i have a problem when building (B)LFS 7.5 stable

My OS host is Ubuntu 12.04, my VGA driver in Ubuntu is : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)

i issue all command in Chapter 24 and no error, just when i go to "startx", blank screen appear

the VGA have no issue in my host OS, but when i confiure the driver "sis" in xorg, an error come to the screen said my Screen not found, so i use VESA instead sis.

when use VESA, blank screen come to my build when i issue "startx", i just can use Ctrl+Alt+BckSpc to go back to my terminal

this is my xorg.log.0 : http://pastebin.com/13s5T8wv

anyone have any suggestion ?

if i must include more log, please tell me what log i must include

thanks before

P.S : sorry for my BAD english, i'm Indonesian anw

business_kid · 09-10-2014, 08:59 AM

Quote:

[ 17.974] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

That's it, my friend. You have no working video driver - vesa won't go near it. There may be an "xf86-video-SiS" or something like it package for X. you need that one badly.

ReaperX7 · 09-10-2014, 01:13 PM

I used the 6.4.2 section from the FreeBSD handbook to setup my X.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO.../x-config.html

Th3_DarkSky · 09-10-2014, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

That's it, my friend. You have no working video driver - vesa won't go near it. There may be an "xf86-video-SiS" or something like it package for X. you need that one badly.

thanks for your reply friend, i follow the tutorial in here, i downloaded all driver and compile it, from ATI to VMWare, so Sis is include too, IMHO maybe i must compile the driver in kernel ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

I used the 6.4.2 section from the FreeBSD handbook to setup my X.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO.../x-config.html

Thanks for the tutorial friend, i will learn in there after i re-compile my kernel, but, you think i must re-compile my kernel ?

ReaperX7 · 09-10-2014, 11:20 PM

Um... depends on your kernel. I use a slightly modified Slackware-Huge kernel for my own system. Works well enough for my needs. However, unless you have the correct framebuffers, drm modules, etc. built for the kernel correctly it might not work.

Th3_DarkSky · 09-10-2014, 11:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

Um... depends on your kernel. I use a slightly modified Slackware-Huge kernel for my own system. Works well enough for my needs. However, unless you have the correct framebuffers, drm modules, etc. built for the kernel correctly it might not work.

thanks again for the reply friend, can i ask you a question ?

how to know i have a "correct" framebuffer, drm modules, etc ?

anw, i have read the FreeBSD tutorial, and i think i was issue sudo X -configure in my (B)LFS, i have the driver "VESA" and i copy the /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/xorg.conf, when i issue "startx", guess what, blank screen appear again T.T

when blank screen appear again, i press Ctrl+Alt+F1, and i see "tmw:warning:font for xxxxx is lacking", after that i issue : ctrl+c, and i see "argv:1:bad display name in remove command" or something like that T.T

any suggestion friend ?

ReaperX7 · 09-11-2014, 02:15 AM

Trial and error mostly.

business_kid · 09-11-2014, 03:10 AM

My last SiS card was the SiS 6326.

There were 16 video modes that are pretty universal and used for vga in Dos, for example, and starting X on fallback and so forth. The SiS 6326 didn't have them, and so nothing worked without the SiS driver.

You can install the SiS driver, or check that it is installed, and uninstall vesa and every other video driver if you want to get going. That will clear the landscape. The kernel offers the following config options

Code:

bash-4.2$ grep SIS /usr/src/linux-3.14.5/.config
# CONFIG_SATA_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_PATA_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS5595 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS630 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS96X is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_SIS5595 is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
CONFIG_USB_DEFAULT_PERSIST=y
# CONFIG_USB_SISUSBVGA is not set
# CONFIG_PERSISTENT_KEYRINGS is not set
bash-4.2$

You only need sis_agp if you have an agp socket; you definitely need sis_drm; and may find a use for sis_fb; compile in your chipset also.

If you are running a distro kernel, the config is usually stored as /boot/config-version or suchlike.

Th3_DarkSky · 09-11-2014, 03:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

My last SiS card was the SiS 6326.

There were 16 video modes that are pretty universal and used for vga in Dos, for example, and starting X on fallback and so forth. The SiS 6326 didn't have them, and so nothing worked without the SiS driver.

You can install the SiS driver, or check that it is installed, and uninstall vesa and every other video driver if you want to get going. That will clear the landscape. The kernel offers the following config options

Code:

bash-4.2$ grep SIS /usr/src/linux-3.14.5/.config
# CONFIG_SATA_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_PATA_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS5595 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS630 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_SIS96X is not set
# CONFIG_SENSORS_SIS5595 is not set
# CONFIG_AGP_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
CONFIG_USB_DEFAULT_PERSIST=y
# CONFIG_USB_SISUSBVGA is not set
# CONFIG_PERSISTENT_KEYRINGS is not set
bash-4.2$

You only need sis_agp if you have an agp socket; you definitely need sis_drm; and may find a use for sis_fb; compile in your chipset also.

If you are running a distro kernel, the config is usually stored as /boot/config-version or suchlike.

thanks for your comment friend, FYI, my machine is a local brand laptop (axioo), in kernel detected as CLEVO, i'm using vanilla kernel ( 3.13.3 ) like the LFS book said, for the sis driver, i must compile them (sis_agp, sis_drm, sis_fb and my chipset too) in kernel (in another word re-cmpiling the kernel) or when in BLFS ?
sorry for my stupid question about compiling driver, i'm new in kernel world T.T

business_kid · 09-11-2014, 08:38 AM

The subject of this thread is :Black screen on X. X in LFS or X in your base system (whatever that is)?
If you are in a chroot, I wish you luck starting X because you will need it. That makes it difficult.

If you are not booting LFS, and complaining about LFS explain please where X does not start. Otherwise check your kernel options in LFS. Try the check I did.

ReaperX7 · 09-11-2014, 08:31 PM

One of the reasons I use a Slackware-Huge kernel config is because it covers everything I need, and think I'll need.

I do run make oldconfig against it enabling, disabling, and modularizing as given, and then recheck it with make menuconfig to double check what is and isn't enabled.

The only problem you may run across afterwards is OpenGL support. Mesa removed a lot of older hardware DRI1 support features back in the 7.x series including various SiS chipsets.

Th3_DarkSky · 09-14-2014, 04:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

The subject of this thread is :Black screen on X. X in LFS or X in your base system (whatever that is)?
If you are in a chroot, I wish you luck starting X because you will need it. That makes it difficult.

If you are not booting LFS, and complaining about LFS explain please where X does not start. Otherwise check your kernel options in LFS. Try the check I did.

Black screen on X in my (B)LFS, in Ubuntu everything was fine

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

One of the reasons I use a Slackware-Huge kernel config is because it covers everything I need, and think I'll need.

I do run make oldconfig against it enabling, disabling, and modularizing as given, and then recheck it with make menuconfig to double check what is and isn't enabled.

The only problem you may run across afterwards is OpenGL support. Mesa removed a lot of older hardware DRI1 support features back in the 7.x series including various SiS chipsets.

But sir, in Ubuntu everything was fine

ReaperX7 · 09-14-2014, 08:42 AM

LFS is not Ubuntu though.

business_kid · 09-14-2014, 05:32 PM

Try this

In lfs:
lsmod > file_lfs

In Ubuntu:
lsmod > file_ubuntu

Then you can
diff -u file_lfs file_ubuntu

Th3_DarkSky · 09-14-2014, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

LFS is not Ubuntu though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

Try this

In lfs:
lsmod > file_lfs

In Ubuntu:
lsmod > file_ubuntu

Then you can
diff -u file_lfs file_ubuntu

Thanks for all your attention everyone, the problem was FOUND and FIXED

the problem is not in my driver nor in my Xorg setting, the problem is in the Xorg font

when installing the Xorg font, i'm using BLFS 7.5 stable tutorial, in the tutoial for installing font, the book said like this :

Code:

for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../font-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
do
  packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}
  tar -xf $package
  pushd $packagedir
  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
  make
  as_root make install
  popd
  rm -rf $packagedir
done

when i issue the command, the subshell is exit, the problem is in the 10th line "rm -rf $packagedir", if we use the command as non-root user, it may exit with error, so we must add "as_root" in the 10th line, so the code must be like this :

Code:

for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../font-7.7.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
do
  packagedir=${package%.tar.bz2}
  tar -xf $package
  pushd $packagedir
  ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
  make
  as_root make install
  popd
  as_root rm -rf $packagedir
done

when i do that and rebuild the font + issue : "startx", everything is FINE, LIKE A CHARM ( twm, xterm and xclock are appear in my screen ) Thanks GOD

once again, thanks for all your attention FRIENDS, my problem was SOLVED, may the odds be ever in your favor

source : (B)LFS 7.5 errata

*P.S : for Moderator, please delete this thread, i make mistake so i make double-thread