Hello, i'm on Slackware for three years, but not very deep.
Hardware - Compaq615, video - radeon hd 3200
After clean installation of 13.37 x64, proprietary ati driver, multilib. xfce.

All was o.k., video rendering was direct etc., etc.
then i rebooted, and system freeze at startx. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace not working, hard reset needed. I tried xorgconfig, Xorg -configure, aticinfig --initial, deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf with no result at all. /var/log/Xorg.0.log
empty. When i do startx from root - all is o.k, writing from root now.

What am i doing wrong? Thank you.

I have the same laptop, 13.37 is working both 32 and 64 bit, radeon and fglrx drivers, so I doubt it is a incompatibility with the hardware. I find it rather strange that you have an empty log-file. Is there anything suspicious in the logs when you startx as root?

is this useful?
via grep EE :

The GLX error suggests something is wrong with your installation of fglrx. Can you show us the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file from your working X session as root?

Adam

logs and last xorg.conf
strange, no sign of fglrx

Attached Files

	Xorg.0.log (33.6 KB, 18 views)
	copy of xorg.conf.txt (684 Bytes, 14 views)

Sorry, but that xorg.conf file is not the one being used when you start X. Not sure there's much guidance I can give... Perhaps check to see if you have an xorg.conf in a directory other than /etc/X11/ ? Or check under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d for other config files.

This is from normal user logon. I've just waited longer, then pressed power button and system shutted down itself. Black screen, Ctrl-F1/F2/../Fn - no reaction, Ctrl Break - No reaction.

Attached Files

Xorg.0.log.txt (32.9 KB, 17 views)

I see you're not passing "nomodeset" to the kernel. Have you blacklisted the radeon driver?

Adam

so, i blacklisted radeon and radeonhd, so, now Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and virtual consoles are working, screen freezed and i can see this - http://db.tt/Bls7LkO .
Last section (No protocol specified) repeating endless.

You should be able to control-c and can, hopefully, pastebin the new Xorg.0.log file.

Does 'xinit /usr/bin/xterm' work now, btw?

Adam

works fine.
I don't know is it connected or no - but in xfce main panel disappeared and i cannot even open it's settings from Settings menu. In root mode, i mean. In normal user mode X couldn't start.

Attached Files

Xorg.2.log.txt (33.2 KB, 14 views)

So, by all appearances, X is working fine but you might have some issues specific to xfce4? The stand alone window managers slackware ships with (such as fluxbox) work fine?

Adam

Hello NiPh,

I had a similar issue once with my hd5470 adapter. Which version of the fglrx-installer did you install?
My experience was that the prior 11 versions did not work correctly when the X-server went down. I also had X crashes sometimes and now I'm using the radeon-module instead of fglrx.

Markus

It's quite a shaman stuff, but xinit started X from my user perfectly, now working from it.
startxfluxbox didn't work, it writes smth like 'coudn't connect to x server at :0:0'

Attached Files

Xorg.4.log.txt (33.5 KB, 16 views)

Well I have no idea what silliness startfluxbox is doing. It's probably trying to start fluxbox, assuming X is already running. Try 'xinit /usr/bin/startfluxbox' or add 'exec startfluxbox' to your ~/.xinitrc file and then run 'startx'.

Adam

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