Problems installing 13.1

spoovy · 07-29-2010, 11:32 AM

Hi all

I decided to give slackware a go again as i need to learn some new stuff. First problem is that on reboot following a full install from DVD it goes to a black screen - no cursor or anything. This has happenned in a VM and on a fresh partition - twice.

I installed everything when installing (except lilo), then created a boot usb stick and exited. On rebooting with usb stick in, it goes to the usb 'start' dialogue console but when i press enter it just goes to a black screen. Ctrl+Alt+Del will restart the pc but nothing else seems to do anything, it just hangs there, hdd spinning occasionally but nothing on screen.

I presume this is an X problem? I am running a toshiba laptop, intel integrated GM965 graphics chip.

Also, this has buggered up my MBR somehow, as even if I remove the usb and reboot the MBR grub no longer accesses the grub entries in my other partitions. The only way I can access my centos installation to write this is using a super grub disk. I definately did not install lilo when i installed slack so i don't know how this happenned.

Any help gratefully accepted.

Cheers

Spoov

spoovy · 07-29-2010, 12:45 PM

OK i've had some luck by disabling udev (through my centos installation - I removed the executable bit in /etc/rc.d/udev.rc); slackware now boots normally into runlevel 3. I still can't startx though - I get a series of errors including 'no screen found' and others listed in /var/log/X.Org as well. I could copy the lot here but i think there is something more fundamental I am doing wrong.

There is no X11 dir under /etc, nor xorg.conf anywhere I can find.

Any ideas??

JackHair · 07-29-2010, 12:47 PM

On my laptop also with GM965 I have to pass vga=773 to lilo, or I get a black screen.
And no it's not an X problem, Slackware doesn't boot to X after a fresh install. If I boot via the install cd/dvd and edit my inittab to runlevel 4, then the laptop loads X without showing the kernel loading etc. But X did worked fine like that.

adamk75 · 07-29-2010, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spoovy

OK i've had some luck by disabling udev (through my centos installation - I removed the executable bit in /etc/rc.d/udev.rc); slackware now boots normally into runlevel 3. I still can't startx though - I get a series of errors including 'no screen found' and others listed in /var/log/X.Org as well. I could copy the lot here but i think there is something more fundamental I am doing wrong.

There is no X11 dir under /etc, nor xorg.conf anywhere I can find.

Any ideas??

Yeah, show us the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file :-)

Adam

spoovy · 07-29-2010, 06:11 PM

OK you asked for it..

Code:

X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Slackware 13.1 Slackware Linux Project
Current Operating System: Linux darkstar 2.6.33.4-smp #2 SMP Wed May 12 22:47:36 CDT 2010 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz root=/dev/sda9 vga=normal ro
Build Date: 05 May 2010  01:54:53AM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.16.6
	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 Jul 29 18:02:58 2010
(II) Loader magic: 0x81e4c80
(II) Module ABI versions:
	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
	X.Org Video Driver: 6.0
	X.Org XInput driver : 7.0
	X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(++) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:2a02:1179:ff50 rev 3, Mem @ 0xf0000000/1048576, 0xd0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00001800/8
(--) PCI: (0:0:2:1) 8086:2a03:1179:ff50 rev 3, Mem @ 0xf0100000/1048576
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(==) --- Start of built-in configuration ---
	Section "Device"
		Identifier	"Builtin Default intel Device 0"
		Driver	"intel"
	EndSection
	Section "Screen"
		Identifier	"Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
		Device	"Builtin Default intel Device 0"
	EndSection
	Section "Device"
		Identifier	"Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
		Driver	"vesa"
	EndSection
	Section "Screen"
		Identifier	"Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
		Device	"Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
	EndSection
	Section "Device"
		Identifier	"Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
		Driver	"fbdev"
	EndSection
	Section "Screen"
		Identifier	"Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
		Device	"Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
	EndSection
	Section "ServerLayout"
		Identifier	"Builtin Default Layout"
		Screen	"Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
		Screen	"Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
		Screen	"Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
	EndSection
(==) --- End of built-in configuration ---
(==) ServerLayout "Builtin Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
(**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0" (1)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
(**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0" (2)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
(**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
(==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/local" does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID" does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/TTF,
	/usr/share/fonts/OTF,
	/usr/share/fonts/Type1,
	/usr/share/fonts/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices.
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
	Module class: X.Org Server Extension
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
(II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
	Module class: X.Org Server Extension
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(==) AIGLX enabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "dri2"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DRI2
(II) LoadModule: "intel"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
(II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 2.11.0
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) LoadModule: "vesa"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
(II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.7.5, module version = 2.3.0
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0
(II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
(II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
	i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
	E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM, Pineview G,
	965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, GM45,
	4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43, Clarkdale, Arrandale
(II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(EE) intel(0): No kernel modesetting driver detected.
(II) UnloadModule: "intel"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

spoovy · 07-29-2010, 06:53 PM

Sorted! re-executable-d udev and added vga=773 and changed to default rl4 and it works.

cheers.

till next time..