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

[Ricardo Hernandez]

Thanks for the reply, indeed i'm trying xmonad so HAL is really to much for
what i need, although that's not really a problem persee, i started hal and
the mouse and keyboard works, so X works too. My question now is why the
MTRR error still appears

2009/2/10 kludge <drkludge at rat-patrol.org>

> if you don't intend to use hal at all, i posted this thread:
>
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61697
>
> on the forums detailing how to rebuild xorg-xserver without it as a
> dependency.  that way you can remove the hal package and still run x. it
> doesn't leave an orphaned libhal.so.1 floating around on your system.
>
> h.t.h.
>
> -kludge
>
> Andrew Przepioski wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> >         <mailto:ricardoh26 at gmail.com>>
> >         To: General Discusson about Arch Linux
> >         <arch-general at archlinux.org <mailto: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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