Black screen during System Reboot/Shutdown

[waterthrill]

Hi.

I am having some problems during System reboot/shutdown. During a system shutdown/reboot the screen turns entirely black. I am using a ATI Rage 128 card, and have tried both the ati and r128 driver options in my XF86Config-file, but no success.
I'm running XFree-4.2.1, but I didn't experience this error running XFree-4.2.0....What has happened to XFree-4.2.1 compared to XFree-4.2.0?

Starting a console from e.g KDE like this ALT-CTRL-F<n>(. where n could be from 1 to 6) works perfectly fine. Even pushing ALT-CTRL-F7 which brings me back to my kde-session works.

So why can't I see my shutdown progress during system shutdown/reboot?


Is XFree-4.2.0 an alternative?

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Ole

[humpback]

The console and X are two completly seperated things (has you can figure out for yourself, if you think about it you can have console withought having to install X ).
The problem is probably at kernel level.
Try to rebuild your kernel, with these options:
[*] VGA text console
[*] Video mode selection support
and
[*] Support for frame buffer devices (EXPERIMENTAL)
<*> ATI Rage128 display support (EXPERIMENTAL)
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[waterthrill]

Hi gain.

I'm afraid that your suggestions didn't make me closer to a solution.
Tried almost everything now...

Ole

[stegmaie]

Hi!

I have the same problem and I also have a Rage128 ATI card... console is black if I leave X (doing a shutdown resp. reboot in gdm). I have tried compiling the kernel with different options, but none solved this problem. I guess it's a problem of the R128 driver... at home, I have got a Radeon 7500 with a similar gentoo installation (differs only in some apps...) and there it works perfectly.

BTW: With the vanilla-kernel (and the r128.o module from sourceforge), DRI was working. I now use the gentoo kernel and there I have an error in XFree86.0.log, that DRI couldn't get initializied (it says, that /dev/dri/card0 was found, but /dev/dri/card1 ... /dev/dri/card14 are not found. Of course, I have only one card ... and then, it disables DRI). I tried the module of the kernel and the one of sourceforge, but none of them works. Is DRI working with your installation? If yes, what did you do?

stegmaie

[waterthrill]

Hi, again.

Well I've emerged XFree-4.2.0 and now it works for my AtI Rage 128 Card. It seems to me that either kernel or/and XFree-4.2.1 doesn't handle my graphics card very well. YIPPI-KAY-AY.

Back to your issues.
I am using gentoo-sources for my kernel, with framebuffer, both for the ati rage 128 and vesa builtin the kernel.
Besides I have installed the gatos-ati package to be sure.

In XF86Config you have to include this to get glx and dri to work.
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
Load "dri"

EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

Hope it will work.

Cheers,

Ole

[verdoc]

I have a similiar problem where if I am logged in through ssh and send a reboot command it will hang, but if I'm actually logged on locally it will work.