on new network, vid card won't load...?

rose_bud4201 · 01-20-2003, 11:49 PM

I installed Mandrake 9 at my house, where I was connected through a router to our cable modem...now I'm back at school and when I try to boot up and connect to the server here, this is (all that I can see of) the error messages I get:

Code:

httpd: execvp - Permission denied

RADEON: failed to initalize Rage Theatre, chip disabled

Symbol drmUnmap from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol drmUnmap from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol drmUnmap from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol drmUnmap from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved!

Symbol drmScatterGatherFree from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved!

The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: 
Error: bad length in Symbols
          output file "/var/temp/server-0.xkm" removed

Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list!

Fatal error: could not open default font "fixed"

please send error report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org

X10: fatal IO Error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

also, when I shutdown it's unable to shut down the display manager or the X font server (which is p'bly logical, since it couldn't initialize them :-/ )

My system (and keep in mind that this ran perfectly before the new network...I'm very confused):
AMD Athlon 2100+
Abit K7-333R board
SoundBlaster Audigy
Radeon 8500 LE
512 Mb RAM
20 Gb HDD, 2 - 10 Gb partitions (one Win2k boot partition, one linux); 40 Gb RAID array (which linux doesn't see, and which is fine by me)

Any and all help is greatly appreciated...!

Laura

Mik · 01-21-2003, 06:35 AM

Well I don't know exactly what's going on seems kind of weird that the X server fails after only changing the network connection of the machine.
It might help if you post your XF86Config file. You could also let X automatically probe for your hardware. You could do something like:

XFree86 -configure

Wait a while till this is done while it looks for hardware.
If it completed properly it should have created a file something like ~/XF86Config.new
You can test this config file with the following command:

XFree86 -xf86config ~/XF86Config.new

If you see a gray screen with a big x as a mouse cursor then it should be working. You can use this as your new configuration file then. Might want to adjust the default screen mode or depth to your own preference after that and maybe copy some other things over from your original file.

It seems to be complaining about all kinds of things though also the keymap and not being able to set the default font. The only thing I can think of that might be related to switching network location is maybe it having troubles resolving hostnames. Could you maybe post the contents of /etc/hosts. And maybe the output of 'cat nsswitch.conf | grep hosts'.

rose_bud4201 · 01-21-2003, 11:37 AM

ahhh...well, I feel like a dork. Just before shutting down the last time, apparently, I'd finished downloading a couple of ISOs...which left me w/o enough disk space for X to load or something :-/ Thanks Mik very much for your help - I think learning about the Xfree86 configuration was p'bly worth the aggrevation, and I only realized it when I was watching it boot up and one of the 'calculating free disk space' processes failed...!

Next on my todo list: get a bigger hard drive

Thanks!