Slackware64 14.0 - X fails to start as non-root + Termination as root freezes sytem
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Slackware64 14.0 - X fails to start as non-root + Termination as root freezes sytem
Hey,
I have fresh, full installation of Slackware64 and everything works fine except problems with video module/card.
My computer has GPT partition scheme and UEFI and I boot using Slackware rescue disc which I created during setup in BIOS Legacy (probably irrelevant).
So, first problem was when booting...
boot: vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=791
During booting process I get blank screen and nothing happens (keyboard worked tho since CTRL+ALT+DEL was working).
Tried few random values with VGA parameter, still blank screen.
Then used 'nomodeset' without any vga options and it worked.
After successful was able to start X as root without problems (when starting X I can see 'negative' colors and random pixels + 'flashbacks' from previous session. For example I can see part of web page).
But when tried to start X as non-root it took very long time before anything happened, same actually happens as root occasionally.
After X started I can see desktop and welcome message asking what settings I want to use (XFCE) but it disappears immediately and leaves me with blank screen.
Also something to note is that sometimes I'm able to terminate X with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE but sometimes nothing happens, same as root, sometimes termination just freezes system (I don't get blank screen when starting X as root but when I want quit X session and terminate, it freezes, just blank screen and nothing happens).
You have an Intel videocard, it will not work properly with X when kernel mode setting is disabled (for example by using the nomodeset option). Also, the vga= option is deprecated with KMS drivers, use the video= option, for example
Code:
video=1366x768@60
for a resolution of 1366x768 at 60Hz refresh-rate.
One question - Is this is a laptop with hybrid graphics card
Another question - How are you able to boot gpt from lilo ?
I'm not sure, device manager in Windows 8 lists only one adapter -- 'Intel HD 4000'.
And I don't boot with LILO, I have ELILO but I can't get it to work, I get kernel panic saying something 'not syncing VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown block(8,5)'.
Quote:
Originally Posted by qunying
You could try vga=normal to boot in normal text mode. Could you post your dmesg from last boot?
I tried 'vga=normal' but I still got blank screen, here is dmesg -- I used 'video=800x600@60' to as parameter here.
Code:
[ 6.263393] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[ 6.263599] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.22.0-ioctl (2011-10-19) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[ 6.263817] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 6.263917] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 6.264084] input: Speakup as /devices/virtual/input/input0
[ 6.264258] initialized device: /dev/synth, node (MAJOR 10, MINOR 25)
[ 6.264379] speakup 3.1.6: initialized
[ 6.264480] synth name on entry is: (null)
[ 6.264627] TCP cubic registered
[ 6.264731] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[ 6.264841] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 6.264954] Registering the dns_resolver key type
[ 6.295854] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
[ 6.354434] registered taskstats version 1
[ 6.354840] rtc_cmos 00:06: setting system clock to 2013-04-17 08:43:58 UTC (1366188238)
[ 6.355189] md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
[ 6.355295] md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
[ 6.355568] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
[ 6.355669] md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
[ 6.355770] md: autorun ...
[ 6.355868] md: ... autorun DONE.
[ 6.420937] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:6.
[ 6.437039] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 6.438617] Freeing unused kernel memory: 848k freed
[ 6.438829] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 16384k
[ 6.441920] Freeing unused kernel memory: 800k freed
[ 6.445004] Freeing unused kernel memory: 972k freed
[ 6.542019] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[ 6.656345] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=8087, idProduct=0024
[ 6.656466] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 6.682788] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 6.682970] hub 1-1:1.0: 6 ports detected
[ 6.785919] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[ 6.900265] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=8087, idProduct=0024
[ 6.900387] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[ 6.900710] hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 6.900899] hub 2-1:1.0: 6 ports detected
[ 7.175946] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 7.261647] usb 2-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5530
[ 7.261773] usb 2-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 7.261925] usb 2-1.1: Product: Cruzer
[ 7.262025] usb 2-1.1: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[ 7.262124] usb 2-1.1: SerialNumber: 20060876531B0DA32460
[ 7.262514] scsi8 : usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0
[ 7.335899] usb 2-1.2: new low-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
[ 7.427219] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c051
[ 7.427344] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 7.427497] usb 2-1.2: Product: USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
[ 7.427600] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Logitech
[ 7.501841] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[ 7.601680] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0b95, idProduct=7e2b
[ 7.601787] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 7.601940] usb 2-1.3: Product: AX88772B
[ 7.603425] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: ASIX Elec. Corp.
[ 7.603526] usb 2-1.3: SerialNumber: 08EF2E
[ 7.605453] loop: module loaded
[ 7.815565] udevd[1490]: starting version 182
[ 8.264963] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 8.265828] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] 7813120 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 GB/3.72 GiB)
[ 8.266699] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 8.266813] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 8.267574] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[ 8.267684] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 8.271320] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[ 8.271425] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 8.272216] sdc:
[ 8.277078] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[ 8.277190] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 8.277302] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 8.477490] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input2
[ 8.487561] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 8.487712] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input3
[ 8.487902] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[ 8.488041] input: Sleep Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input4
[ 8.488220] ACPI: Sleep Button [SLPB]
[ 8.638391] ACPI: Deprecated procfs I/F for AC is loaded, please retry with CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER cleared
[ 8.638612] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line)
[ 8.650906] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 8.661598] ACPI: Deprecated procfs I/F for battery is loaded, please retry with CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER cleared
[ 8.661766] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[ 8.690418] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel Ivybridge Chipset
[ 8.690947] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected gtt size: 2097152K total, 262144K mappable
[ 8.693691] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 65536K stolen memory
[ 8.693908] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000
[ 8.781590] mei: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 8.781993] mei 0000:00:16.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 8.782105] mei 0000:00:16.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 8.782179] mei 0000:00:16.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 8.807151] wmi: Mapper loaded
[ 8.807988] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 8.808151] ACPI: resource 0000:00:1f.3 [io 0xf040-0xf05f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI [io 0xf040-0xf04f]
[ 8.808315] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 9.082952] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-1 state
[ 9.082982] Monitor-Mwait will be used to enter C-2 state
[ 9.082993] ACPI: acpi_idle registered with cpuidle
[ 9.083688] thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0
[ 9.083801] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (48 C)
[ 9.135635] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 9.229562] asus_wmi: ASUS WMI generic driver loaded
[ 9.230077] asus_wmi: Initialization: 0x1
[ 9.230306] asus_wmi: BIOS WMI version: 7.9
[ 9.230516] asus_wmi: SFUN value: 0x4a2877
[ 9.231558] input: Asus WMI hotkeys as /devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/input/input5
[ 9.304257] Registered led device: asus::kbd_backlight
[ 9.306020] asus_wmi: Backlight controlled by ACPI video driver
[ 9.393055] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 9.393310] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 9.393340] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 9.474237] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 9.618263] psmouse serio4: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with firmware version 0x361f02)
[ 9.649366] psmouse serio4: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x00, 0x15, 0x0e.
[ 9.717104] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input6
[ 10.156834] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
[ 10.156945] Copyright(c) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation
[ 10.157092] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 10.157207] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 10.157247] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: pci_resource_len = 0x00002000
[ 10.157352] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: pci_resource_base = ffffc90000064000
[ 10.157458] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: HW Revision ID = 0x24
[ 10.157658] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 10.157697] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected 6035 Series 2x2 AGN/BT, REV=0xB0
[ 10.157875] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Disabled; Enabling L0S
[ 10.175102] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: device EEPROM VER=0x756, CALIB=0x6
[ 10.175207] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Device SKU: 0X1f0
[ 10.175310] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Valid Tx ant: 0X3, Valid Rx ant: 0X3
[ 10.175440] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
[ 10.513497] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1
[ 10.513862] Registered led device: phy0-led
[ 10.590945] HDMI status: Codec=3 Pin=6 Presence_Detect=0 ELD_Valid=0
[ 10.591213] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input7
[ 10.591546] input: HDA Intel PCH Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input8
[ 10.591869] i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 10.591990] i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 10.805018] mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
[ 10.805179] [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer.
[ 10.805531] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 10.805536] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[ 10.805646] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 10.806294] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
[ 10.810117] [drm:intel_dp_i2c_aux_ch] *ERROR* too many retries, giving up
[ 10.813232] [drm:intel_dp_i2c_aux_ch] *ERROR* too many retries, giving up
[ 10.901310] input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/input/input9
[ 10.901580] generic-usb 0003:046D:C051.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0
[ 10.901764] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 10.901865] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 10.961559] asix 2-1.3:1.0: eth0: register 'asix' at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3, ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Ethernet, 9c:eb:e8:09:c2:fe
[ 10.961742] usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
[ 12.716762] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 16.178320] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
[ 16.180200] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[ 16.180230] drm: registered panic notifier
[ 16.190893] acpi device:27: registered as cooling_device4
[ 16.213082] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input10
[ 16.213197] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 16.213307] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 16.489023] fuse init (API version 7.17)
[ 18.763720] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 18.769411] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Quote:
Originally Posted by TobiSGD
You have an Intel videocard, it will not work properly with X when kernel mode setting is disabled (for example by using the nomodeset option). Also, the vga= option is deprecated with KMS drivers, use the video= option, for example
Code:
video=1366x768@60
for a resolution of 1366x768 at 60Hz refresh-rate.
Tried that ans few different resolutions, still blank screen.
Also one funny thing to note is that I was able to startx as non-root user and also created couple test accounts and was also able to start X with new created users, even tho fun ended after I tried to kill one user X session by logging out.
After reboot I wasn't able to startx as non-root anymore.
So this is module thing for sure, but not sure at all how to fix.
Oh, and even tho computer freezes I am still able to use SSH, if that can help.
I just realized that you are using UEFI. There are two things that come to my mind:
- Some laptops do not initialize the hardware in the way the video driver would expect it when using UEFI, in order to boot faster. Try to boot in legacy mode and see if that helps.
- UEFI support is much better in Slackware -current, so trying that may also be a good idea.
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