On Friday 16 October 2009 06:11:10 am Guus Snijders wrote:
2009/10/16 David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>:
On Thursday 15 October 2009 06:06:15 pm David C. Rankin
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Maybe a brake-through I managed to get a strace of startx. While the strace was running, I had a sustained X session with a small xterm in the top-left corner of the display. I couldn't do anything with it and X crashed at the end of the strace session, but hopefully the information I captured will let a archlinux X guru solve the riddle. The strace output is here:
http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff/strace-start x.t xt
Though i'm far from being any guru , i did notice the following lines:
472 (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
476 FATAL: Module fbcon not found. 477 Setting master 478 record: RECORD extension enabled at configure time. 479 record: This extension is known to be broken, disabling extension now.. 480 record: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500 481 482 waiting for X server to shut down Dropping master
(the numbers are the linenumbers).
Could it be that it's just trying to load the wrong video driver?
mvg, Guus
Well (yes and no), that's what I thought, but evidently the fbdev error isn't the show-stopper. It is expected and normally doesn't cause problems. The fbcon is the Biggie!. But that is now some compiled into the kernel magic that I'm pretty much at a loss to deal with. I installed xf86-video-fbdev and the fbdev error is gone, but as others correctly said, that wasn't the problem. The only thing I am 100% certain of at this point is there is a problem somewhere because the box worked great up until I did the update on 10/8 and I haven't seen kde since... I'm sure it's something simple that just needs to be fixed in the kernel or in one of the modules. But I am equally sure that it will take someone much smarter than I on the kernel or module at issue to do it :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com