This should really be a follow-up to another message I posted, which hasn't arrived back yet.
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:21:37PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:30:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > After upgrading my etch to xorg7.0 and making everything up-to-date > > > yesterday, (except for a few package aptitude didn't want to > > > update) things went fine for a reboot or two. But today when > > > I was out of the room, the screen went black. When I pressed shift, > > > though it remained black except for about ten or so characters of > > > gibberish in the top left of the screen. Pressing ctl-alt-F* didn't > > > help, didn't even get me to a text console. Remote login via ssh > > > worked, so I used the ssh connexion to enter a reboot command. > > > > > > Rebooting worked fine until it was time to start gdm. Again the > > > screen went black and everything becane unresponsive. > > > > > > Now I have a dual boot system, sarge or etch. Sarge works fine. > > > So I figure I eliminated hardware problems. > > > > > > After a while I managed to get it into a state where I could use > > > a text console after the crash, and examined some log files. (I used an > > > old 2.6.11 kernel I had lying around to accomplish this -- but I > > > suspect I was just lucky. Each reboot failed in a similar, but slightly > > > different way, so random chance seems to be a factor) > > > > > > The following messages in xorg.1.log seem relevant: > > > > > > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel > > > (WW) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP not available > > > (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initialize. Disabling the DRI. > > > (II) RADEON(0): [agp] You may want to make sure the agpgart kernel module > > > is loaded before the radeon kernel module. > > > (**) RADEON(0): RADEONDRICloseScreen > > > > > > Very good. I imagine X *might* have trouble reaching the video card > > > if the driver for the AGP slot is missing. Now how *do* I "make sure > > > the agpgart kernel module is loaded before the radeon kernel module."? > > > And why isn't it already happening? Or is the problem somewhere else? > > > Where should I look? After the crash (i.e., now), lsmod tells me that > > > agpgart *is* loaded. > > > > > > -- hendrik > > > > > > > Well, managed to install and boot to a new kernel -- 2.6.15. > > With the new kernel, have booted successfully to X and gdm twice in a row. > > Might be fixed, or am I just lucky? The problem was intermittent, after > > all. > > > > -- hendrik > > > > Have you seen; > http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 > > Regards > Actually, the fix they have for gdm not starting is applicable if the symlink /usr/X11R6/bin->../bin hasn't been established by x11-common. Mine is there. -- hendrik > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
