X fails to start (solved)
I was having some trouble with some programs on Fedora Core 2 (specifically, firefox crashing and acting strange, man pages showing up blank). I restarted, and now as soon as booting is finished and X starts up, everything freezes and I end up with a blank screen. This is very odd since I don't recall making any major changes to anything lately (the biggest thing I've done recently is install QT 4 from source, but I can't imagine that would be causing these problems.)
Anyway, after using knoppix to set FC2 to boot into runlevel 3, I can log in normally but any attempt to startx crashes everything. Also, man pages still show up blank, a problem I've never seen before. I managed to grab the output of startx and save it in a file. Here it is: Code:
Release Date: 18 December 2003 "FATAL: Module agpgart not found." <-- No clue whatsoever. AFAIK, I've never gotten this before, and I've viewed the X log files a few times in the past. Since it keeps going until it flips out about the fonts, I don't think this is the problem. I put this under Software because I'm almost certain it's a problem with some files or configuration somewhere, and not a hardware problem. Xorg.0.log doesn't really have anything different from this, but if anyone wants it I'll post it, and anything else that might be of help. |
what do u get for
lsmod then if u do not get agpgart there run modprobe agpgart then try running startx regards |
Thanks, but I've already tried loading the agpgart module, and it says it's not found (?) I don't know why I'd need it now, since I never have before...
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i think there is some thing wrong with ur kernel modules
i am not sure of this but this might help u if u are using the default kernel from FC2, then install rpm forcefully again then u wil have that agp module again what do u get for lsmod post that here regards |
Sorry for the long silence, but I've been away from an internet conneciton for a while. Well, I'm sure the agpgart module error wasn't the problem, because I managed to get things so that the font error was the only one being reported in the logs. At this point, though, I've simply done a fresh installation of a newer version of my distro (this one based on FC3). So, of course, it's all working smoothly now. Thanks for your help, though.
P.S. Can this thread be marked as "moot" or "solved" or something? I can't see how to change the title but I don't want to draw people to something that's no longer an issue. |
well u see u have errors in ur log
FATAL: Module agpgart not found. [drm] failed to load kernel module "agpgart" Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' which accounts for problem with fonts and agpgart |
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