[arch-general] Xorg MTRR error in ASUS eee pc 900ha

[Andrew Przepioski]

So I am guessing you have a new problem on hand, you're able to start X, but
your mouse and keyboard are not working because the hal daemon is not
started, correct?

Since I am using a WM and no filemanager, hal is not so useful. This is how
I setted-up X on my EeePC, which is the exact same model as yours (although
I don't believe that matters):

$ pacman -Sy xorg-server xorg-xinit xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse
xf86-video-intel
$ mv /usr/lib/libhal.so.1 ~
$ pacman -Rd hal
$ mv ~/libhal.so.1 /usr/lib/libhal.so.1

And of course, to make the keyboard and mouse work, I appended/inserted the
following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
         Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection

It's all described in the wiki below.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging#I_don.27t_want_this_crap.2C_how_do_I_turn_it_off.3F

If you happen to accidentally delete /usr/lib/libhal.so.1, I was able to
successfully use another file in /usr/lib in place of /usr/lib/libhal.so.1
such as /usr/lib/libz.so.1. If you try to do "touch /usr/lib/libhal.so.1",
it will complain about it not being the right size, and then when you do
make it large enough (I think I had 4,744 lines of "I love kittens." to be
around the same size as the original file just for fun - I was bored), it is
not the correct ELF header, la la la, I fooled around with it a lot, haha.

Hopefully that helps. :)

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Ricardo Hernandez <ricardoh26 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I "solved" the problem...really i found that this problem is not fatal. My
> bad was that i didn't start HAL and the server didn't respond to any
> commands. The error stil appears so any suggestion is welcome.
>
> In one try i "harcoded" the MTRR values, that Xorg show in the error, in
> /proc/mtrr. And the error disappear only one time when i start X, but the
> change is not permanent because Xorg rewrite that file
>
> 2009/2/10 Andrew Przepioski <aprz at ymail.com>
>
>>
>> I was able to produce a very smilar error message by removing xterm.
>>
>>
>> xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): no program named "xterm" in
>> PATH
>>
>> Specify a program on the command line or make sure that /usr/bin is in
>> your path.
>>
>> waiting for X server to shutdown error setting MTRR (base = 0xc0000000,
>> size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22).
>> ________________________________
>> From: Ricardo Hernandez <ricardoh26 at gmail.com>
>> To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
>> Sent: Monday, February 9, 2009 3:45:42 PM
>> Subject: [arch-general] Xorg MTRR error in ASUS eee pc 900ha
>>
>> Hi , i have a problem with starting Xorg in an asus EEE PC 900HA (solid
>> hardrive). It has intel 945gme for video chipset and i use xf86-video-intel
>> driver
>>
>> i start xorg with xinit and no WM or DE in xinitrc, only the default
>> xterm. When i type xinit the screen flick and the server suddenly shutdown
>> and appears this error:
>>
>> waiting for X server to shut down error setting MTRR (base = 0x0000000,
>> size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
>>
>> I try to found the solution but had not luck.
>>
>> Xorg.0.log don't show anything special, at least nothing with (EE) error
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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