X still dead

David Mack dmack at juniper.net
Sat Mar 8 16:29:00 UTC 2008


X -configure caused the screen to go black and stay that way until I
rebooted.

Changing my "Driver" line to "vesa" in xorg.conf got me running again.
Very slow though.

Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jim Cornette
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 5:20 PM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: X still dead
> 
> David Mack wrote:
> > It's too smart for that:
> > 
> > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
> > New driver is "nv"
> > (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
> > (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
> > (EE) NV(0): No valid modes found
> > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> >> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Will Woods
> >> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 1:19 PM
> >> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> >> Subject: RE: X still dead
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:57 -0800, David Mack wrote:
> >>> I'm also running a single-head configuration. Switching to nouveau
> >>> doesn't help:
> >>>
> >>> (WW) NOUVEAU(0): Mode pool is empty
> >>> (EE) NOUVEAU(0): 1599: No valid modes found
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau"
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "dri"
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw"
> >>> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so
> >>> (II) UnloadModule: "int10"
> >>> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so
> >>> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> >>>
> >>> Fatal server error:
> >>> no screens found
> >> Tried running without xorg.conf?
> >> mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig
> >> (restart X)
> >>
> >> -w
> >>
> > 
> 
> What about X -configure ?
> 
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