[opensuse] 11.3 X server problems
I upgraded to 11.3 and apart from some minor quirks (disable pulseaudio to get sound, add nomodeset boot parameter to get anything at all) which incidentally may be absolute showstoppers to the uninitiated, I am left with a problem that I haven't been able to solve so far. There is a problem with the X server that I cannot quite nail down. After rebooting the Xserver comes up fine and I get the normal kdm login screen. But when I log out, the X-server does not restart properly and I am left with a frozen black screen. I can still use the text consoles f1-f6. I can go back to level 3, which frees the graphic terminal, but after that the X server won't come up any more. Switching sessions instead of logging out gives the same result. The Xorg.0.log suggests to disable autoadddevice, but that disables ALL hotplugging too, so that is no viable option. Since this machine is used by several people this is a nuisance, because every user switch now requires a reboot. Ideas anyone? I have the old sax2 xorg.conf still at my disposal. Should I take the Monitor and screen sections from that conf file? Since structure has been totally changed I do not like very much meddling in what I do not know. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 12/09/10 10:27, Jos van Kan wrote:
I upgraded to 11.3 and apart from some minor quirks (disable pulseaudio to get sound, add nomodeset boot parameter to get anything at all) which incidentally may be absolute showstoppers to the uninitiated, I am left with a problem that I haven't been able to solve so far.
There is a problem with the X server that I cannot quite nail down. After rebooting the Xserver comes up fine and I get the normal kdm login screen. But when I log out, the X-server does not restart properly and I am left with a frozen black screen. I can still use the text consoles f1-f6. I can go back to level 3, which frees the graphic terminal, but after that the X server won't come up any more. Switching sessions instead of logging out gives the same result. The Xorg.0.log suggests to disable autoadddevice, but that disables ALL hotplugging too, so that is no viable option.
Since this machine is used by several people this is a nuisance, because every user switch now requires a reboot. Ideas anyone? I have the old sax2 xorg.conf still at my disposal. Should I take the Monitor and screen sections from that conf file? Since structure has been totally changed I do not like very much meddling in what I do not know.
Regards,
Are there any clues in dmesg, /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log? -- Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
It would appear that on Sep 12, Jos van Kan did say:
I upgraded to 11.3 and apart from some minor quirks (disable pulseaudio to get sound, add nomodeset boot parameter to get anything at all) which incidentally may be absolute showstoppers to the uninitiated, I am left with a problem that I haven't been able to solve so far.
Hmmmnnn nomodeset??? Perchance are you using an Nvidia card??? I ask because I recently acquired a desktop with an integrated Nvidia card that absolutely hates the new open source "nouveau" driver... On least one of my installed Linux distributions I had to start with nomodeset to avoid getting a totally blank screen even on a runlevel 3 startup. (Though blindly typing my root login sequence followed by shutdown -h now got the 'puter to shutdown cleanly) so Linux was running but I was having an extreme graphics problem that apparently was caused because KMS would start nouveau even when I wasn't running X. Using nomodeset however caused many things to run poorly. My problem was solved by switching to one of the proprietary Nvidia drivers... Hope this helps -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@ttlc.net>> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Op 12-09-10 15:56, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook schreef:
It would appear that on Sep 12, Jos van Kan did say:
I upgraded to 11.3 and apart from some minor quirks (disable pulseaudio to get sound, add nomodeset boot parameter to get anything at all) which incidentally may be absolute showstoppers to the uninitiated, I am left with a problem that I haven't been able to solve so far.
Hmmmnnn nomodeset??? Perchance are you using an Nvidia card???
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No, I don't have an Nvidia graphics card, just a humble intel i845. -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Op 12-09-10 11:27, Jos van Kan schreef:
I upgraded to 11.3 and apart from some minor quirks (disable pulseaudio to get sound, add nomodeset boot parameter to get anything at all) which incidentally may be absolute showstoppers to the uninitiated, I am left with a problem that I haven't been able to solve so far.
There is a problem with the X server that I cannot quite nail down. After rebooting the Xserver comes up fine and I get the normal kdm login screen. But when I log out, the X-server does not restart properly and I am left with a frozen black screen. I can still use the text consoles f1-f6. I can go back to level 3, which frees the graphic terminal, but after that the X server won't come up any more. Switching sessions instead of logging out gives the same result. The Xorg.0.log suggests to disable autoadddevice, but that disables ALL hotplugging too, so that is no viable option.
It appears to be a known problem (bug 638924) with the intel I845 graphics card family. It requires in some instances the "intellegacy" driver. The remedy proved to be to remove xorg.conf (that should not be used anyhow) from /etc/X11, install the package xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy-2.9.1-1.9.i586 and add Driver "intellegacy" to the configuration file 50-device.conf Lots of thanks and praise to Stefan Dirsch of bugzilla who nailed this. -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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