NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 and X
Can't get X to start. Slack starts up fine, but no X. When I run startx I get:
(II) VGA(0): initializing int10 (II) VGA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (EE) VGA(0): Driver can't support depth 24 (II) UnloadModule: "vga" (II) UnloadModule: "int10" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. How do I fix this? Thanks! |
slackware 8.1 run xfree86setup
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Thanks David... but do I need to know any special HW settings? If I recall, last time I was walked through an extensive menu for all I/O devices, and to be honest, the freedom of choice there is probably what got me in trouble!
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xfree86setup
not xf86setup it asks no questions |
Beautiful! Thank you.
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OK I ran xfree86setup and it worked like a charm for video. But X still wouldn't start due to a bad mouse (USB) , so I ran mouseconfig, chose "imps/2" (as I've seen in this forum for USB mice), and then I chose to run gpm, not knowing what it was. When I did this, and ran startx, I got into XWindows, but the mouse wouldn't work. So I got to a console and rebooted, and from then on, I can't get into Slack because I can't login. Apparently, something (prolly gpm) is preventing my keyboard from working.
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the device in XF86Config needs to be set to /dev/input/mice
also gpm needs to be gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 this is in /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm maybe boot into the system with linux single |
Thanks, that got me to be able to log back in... but still no mouse, /dev/input/mice doesn't exist.
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try modprobe usbmouse
or it may be modprobe mousedev modprobe usb-uhci modprobe input check lsmod and see what's loaded |
Yea, i had heaps of shit getting a USB Mouse to work in slackware, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and enable the USB related.
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Running lsmod gave the following:
Module Size Used by Not tainted usbmouse 1760 0 (unused) input 3072 0 [usbmouse] usbcore 48000 0 [usbmouse] pcmcia_core 40896 0 ide-scsi 7456 0 I then ran modeprobe (usbmouse|mousedev|usb-uhci|input), all of which ran without a return at the prompt. Afterward, running lsmod returned the same results. Then startx crashed with the same, familiar error: (**) Option "Protocol" "imps/2" (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "imps/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver (WW) No core pointer registered No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices |
looks like you need these too
modprobe hid modprobe usb-uhci modprobe mousedev I believe what you want to see here is this usbcore [hid usb-uhci] input [mousedev hid] in /dev/input you would need to see a mouse device and it's corresponding event device Still not working ?? This is supposed to work, however it can be a pain sometimes, I have some machines that work without a problem and some that don't. I am thinking it's something with the hardware. one thing you can do that I recommend is to use devfs you will need to enable it in the kernel, there is a document in the kernel docs |
OK, this is getting wacky... none of the modprobe commands return anything, except "modprobe usb-uhci", which returns a bunch of kernel errors.
I checked and made sure "/dev/input/mice" does exist. Now when I run "startx" it goes right into XWindows, but the mouse doesn't work! So it gets me stuck there. Here's the tail of my XFree86.0.log: === (**) Option "Protocol" "imps/2" (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "imps/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (==) Mouse0: Buttons: 3 (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) SetKbdSettings - type: 2 rate: 30 delay: 500 snumlk: 0 SetKbdSettings - Succeeded AUDIT: Sun Dec 15 21:05:45 2002: 157 X: client 6 rejected from local host (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device) === |
if your getting kernel errors then that means you probably have usb-ohci
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Ran "modprobe usb-ohci", it crunched for a fwe seconds and came back with no results. Tried X again, crashed. "dmesg" returned a ton of stuff, but here's the tail (only part where ohci is mentioned):
== usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xcc8c6000, IRQ 12 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.3, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2) usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 3 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:02.2 usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xcc8c8000, IRQ 5 usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 3 ports detected hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x47d/0x1001) is not claimed by any active driver. == |
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