Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2010-07-09 11:49:16 +0200:
Am 08.07.2010 09:56, schrieb Philipp:
Hey, I have this problem since a while but it got a lot worse with the last two kernel versions. Now there's an about 50/50 chance to see the user login or simply not see it. I don't have any login manager set up, so after boot there's simply the user login and after that I issue startx. It all works just fine,even if I can't see a thing, and once I issued startx everything goes back to normal, the screen isn't blank anymore.
The machine has an Intel chipset, and I guess it's related to that and/or KMS, but that's as far as my guess goes.
Maybe one of you knows something about that kind of issue?
You need to save the dmesg output of a failed and a successful boot and compare them.
Note that the DRM/KMS driver seems to initialize fine - otherwise, starting Xorg would fail entirely (Intel's Xorg driver depends on it).
Thanks Thomas, good idea. I'll see whether I can find the difference in dmesg and will search for/file a bug then. Besides the one error message in dmesg I already know (wifi chip doesn't work in DMA mode) there are some more lines that I don't understand: pcie_pme: probe of 0000:00:1c.0:pcie01 failed with error -13 pcie_pme: probe of 0000:00:1c.1:pcie01 failed with error -13 pcie_pme: probe of 0000:00:1c.2:pcie01 failed with error -13 PM: Error -22 checking image file I don't have the slightest idea whether they are related to my problem, I'll do the comparison when I get the chance. -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan