Hi guys,
I am using Linux for a couple of years now, but I am encountering a big problem recently, especially with newer distros (I think in particular those which incorporate XGL).
The problem is that I can't boot X11 anymore. It doesn't crash or even report errors, but the screen will just stay black. I'm using a Radeon 9800 Pro and an Acer 17" TFT.
I tried everything, using other video drivers (ati, radeon, fglrx) and tuning the monitor settings, but no luck. Even using my Ubuntu box'es xorg.conf where it works just fine will produce the same results.
The problem occured with the Kororaa XGL live-cd and with the recent RC3 of SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10). Here is the xorg.conf I am using with the latter:
http://dump.finitestate.org/xorg.conf.txt
Grep'ing through the X11 log for warnings yields this:
Code:
matthias:suse$ cat var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep \(WW\)
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/opt/kde3/share/fonts" does not exist.
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
(WW) fglrx(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): Specified desktop setup not supported: 8
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "CalcAlgorithm" is not used
No errors were indicated.
Now, the only thing I can imagine is that XGL somehow sends my TFT into a bad display mode, so I was wondering if there is a possibility to read from the command line what display mode X11 is using when I start it? I want to check if this is the problem.
Or maybe you know where the problem is? I'm getting pretty desperate...
Thanks,
Matthias