X fails on Toshiba netbook
I just bought a Toshiba NB305 netbook and attempted to install Slackware 13 on it. When attempting to start X, it failed, complaining that /dev/agpgart can't be opened because the file doesn't exist, which was true. The intel-agp module was loaded, as was the i915 module, which I believe is the correct driver for the graphics hardware in this machine (see lspci output below).
I gave up and installed Ubuntu 10.04, in which X works. Before I did that, I tried the most recent OpenBSD snapshot, and that fails the same way as Slackware did. I note that with Ubuntu, there is an agpgart module loaded; there is no such module provided with the Slackware distribution. I really would prefer to run Slackware on this machine, so if anyone has any bright ideas, I'd appreciate suggestions. lspci output follows: dca@olympia:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02) 07:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) dca@olympia:~$ /Don Allen |
Apparently that netbook uses an Intel GMA3150 for graphics. That device is supported by xf86-video-intel-2.10.0 and later. I suggest that you try upgrading to slackware-current. You will be so glad you did!
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And by the way, Ubuntu is not exactly distinguishing itself on this machine. I tried suspending the machine and could not reboot subsequently. I think it is scribbling on the mbr and whatever it leaves there to wake the machine back up is failing. I had to reinstall grub to fix it. Last night, I did a normal shutdown, and this morning the machine won't boot -- same symptom. Pretty disappointing ... /Don |
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I've done a lot of OS scheduler work in my career, and I think this is a scheduler problem, or a bad interaction between the scheduler and this machine. Ubuntu 10.04 did *not* exhibit this problem and uses a somewhat earlier kernel (2.6.32), so if I'm right about this, they broke something after 2.6.32. The good news is that X works, as you thought it would. But the system is not usable at this point. I'm going to have to re-install Ubuntu, and just avoid suspending, which doesn't work. Hopefully, this will serve until Slackware 13.1 is released (with a fix for this problem). Again, thanks for your trying to help, even though this didn't work out. /Don |
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