I am running an (almost fresh) copy of Slackware 10.2.
Things were working well and suddenly, X just wasn't working on bootup.
I haven't done anything to it since I installed ATI drivers and it was starting after that.
I tried startx and I got this output:
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X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.13 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux SOMETHING 2.4.31 #6 Sun Jun 5 19:04:47 PDT 2005 i686
Build Date: 11 September 2005
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Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar 25 23:07:28 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
xset: bad font path element (#69), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
startkde: Starting up...
startkde: Running kpersonalizer...
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 199: 4501 Segmentation fault kpersonalizer --before-session
call failed
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-4516' to 'kded'
kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 234: 4518 Segmentation fault kwrapper ksmserver $KDEWM
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
waiting for X server to shut down
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I tried to use xorg.conf-vesa; this got rid of the
Quote:
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found
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but nothing else changed.
running xdm got me to a login screen but after I logged in it would the screen would flicker and I'd be back at the login screen again.