[arch-general] X fails to start with intel card after latest kernel update

[David C. Rankin]

On Friday 09 October 2009 06:24:06 am Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 12:53 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> > > After the latest kernel update, I cannot start X for the Arch box I
> > > have that has an onboard intel graphics card. (Dell 280GX sff) The
> > > errors are:
> > >
> > > 02:31 nirvana:/srv/www/download/Archlinux/bugs/supersff> grep "(EE)"
> > > Xorg.0.log
> > >        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> > > (EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0)
> > > (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
> >
> > this is not important
> >
> > looking at you log file it seems that X did start just fine
> 
> And it exited fine also, so it's not X related.
> 

Aargh! Must be the flu. What I'm saying is that when I boot, the box tries, 
but cannot get to the graphical login (kdm3) and dumps me at the cli. I then 
cannot get kde going with startx (it gives the same results). If X is 
starting, then it is dying as soon as it starts. Strange??

vncserver/vncviewer will not even start kde. I get the error:

"Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation."

when I open the vncviewer window. What other logs might help? Thanks.


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