Can't start X server

DemonThing · 06-06-2004, 08:54 PM

I just got Fedora Core 2 installed, but when I tried booting it for the first time, the screen showing stuff like "localhost login:" showed as expected, but then when normally it would give the graphical login screen (at least in Red Hat 9, which worked perfectly fine on the same system), the screen went blank for a second and the same screen (with "localhost login:") showed again. This happened ~5 times. After that, it complained that the X server couldn't be started, so all I could get was bash.

Here's a snippet of /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

Code:

(II) VESA(0): initializing int10
(II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(EE) VESA(0): vm86() syscall generated signal 4.
(II) VESA(0): EAX=0x0000d136, EBX=0x00000001, ECX=0x00000000, EDX=0x00000080
(II) VESA(0): ESP=0x00000ff8, EBP=0x00000000, ESI=0x00000000, EDI=0x00002000
(II) VESA(0): CS=0x0000, SS=0x0100, DS=0x0040, ES=0x0000, FS=0x0000, GS=0x0000
(II) VESA(0): EIP=0x0000011a, EFLAGS=0x00033286
(II) VESA(0): code at 0x0000011a:
 63 35 01 02 36 04 c0 a8 02 01 01 04 ff ff ff 00
 33 04 ff ff ff ff 34 01 03 1c 04 ff ff ff ff 03
(II) stack at 0x00001ff8:
 01 00 00 06 00 00 00 32
(II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS not detected
(II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
(II) UnloadModule: "int10"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a
(II) UnloadModule: "vbe"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

The full log, in case anyone wants it, is at http ://dt3.no-ip.com/Xorg.0.log (sorry about the space, but apparently I need to have 5 posts.)

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Squall · 06-06-2004, 10:33 PM

you need to run XF86Config, it'll produce a XF86Config file in your home directory. Copy that file to /etc/X11 as root.
Backup the original /etc/X11/XF86config first by copying that file to a new name.

Boby · 06-07-2004, 04:06 AM

hello!

i had a same problem but on FC1. make sure you have enough space on youre HDD. i looks strange, but X can't start if there's not enought free space.

cheers, boby

DemonThing · 06-07-2004, 11:56 AM

Thanks for the tip, Squall! I'll try that later today. I don't think the problem is hard drive space, since I have ~10GB free.

DemonThing · 06-09-2004, 08:12 PM

Um... I try to run XF86Config, and also things like XF86config and xf86config, but I get a "command not found". I believe FC2 uses X.org, not XFree86.

I just recently upgraded from RH9, and this has become very confusing.