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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | queen,
| Code: | 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c0d8
Kernel driver in use: ahci |
Tells that you need SCSI Disk and the AHCI driver as built ins. You may also need AHCI Platform too. That seems to be BIOS dependent.
Your fdisk tells that you really have a MSDOS Partition Table, so you need support for it. That was missing further up the thread.
You also need your root filesystem support built in. That covers the hardware settings.
The boot process won't get very far after root is mounted unless you also have DEVTMPFS and mount DEVTMPFS. If you miss that, udev will hate you. |
First of all, now it boots. So thanks a lot for all the help. I will add the ahci platform too, even though it booted already without it. MSDOS Partition Table indeed exists and I have dos support and all the other windows filesystems. Settings of DEVTMPFS and mount DEVTMPFS are OK. Root filesystem is ext4 and it's built in.
I still have 4 issues that I need to solve:
1. scsi_wait_scan hangs for quite a long time. I can't disable it in the kernel. I also commented scsi_wait_scan in /etc/conf.d/modules but it doesn't help. What can I do about it? It quite annoying.
2. The fan works all the time. It's not noisy but I don't understand why it has to work all the time. Starts working right away after the boot. What will be the correct approach?
3. USB during boot it shows that USB-2-1 was detected. There should be 2 ports of usb2 and 2 ports of usb3. As far as I saw usb 3 is xHCI and it is enabled in the kernel. So what's USB-2-1? It detected 6 ports of usb. weird. I know of only 4.
4. For some reasons i don't get the login manager kdm even though I have DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm and xdm is added to default run-level. I have hybrid intel and amd 7600 series. In VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx,intel
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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queen,
Why do you think scsi_wait_scan hangs?
With only one HDD it will do nothing. It delays the spin up of HDDs until they are addressed. This saves the power pulse of all the HDDS spinning up together and is generally a good thing. From memory, its forces as a module, so it won't be loaded when your one and only HDD spins up. Further, not all drives support it anyway.
| Code: | | VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx,intel |
Thats the wrong syntax, so it probably doesn't do what you want, nor what you expect.
Your motherboard will have a temperature sensor and probably a fan speed controller too.
You need kernel support and possibly a user space tool or two
Where do you have DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm ?
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queen
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
| Code: | | VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx,intel |
Thats the wrong syntax, so it probably doesn't do what you want, nor what you expect.
Your motherboard will have a temperature sensor and probably a fan speed controller too.
You need kernel support and possibly a user space tool or two
Where do you have DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm ? |
I found now the guide. The syntax for VIDEO_CARDS should be without the comma.
About the fan, I enabled it in the kernel. Do you happen to know which user space tools I should use?
I have 2 ports of USB 3 and 2 ports of usb 2. It detects USB-2-1. And reports about 6 ports. Is it due to AHCI PLATFORM? I know the driver for usb 3 is xHCI and I have it enabled in the kernel
| Quote: | | Where do you have DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm |
In /etc/conf.d/xdm |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:31 am Post subject: |
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There are few more issues. Besides that USB 3 is not detected (even though I enabled xhci and xhci platform and ahci, ahci platform) and ehci is enabled for usb2 should I enable ohci, uhci too?
The 2nd problem is that it can't determine the hardware clock. Is it related to the usb problem? I have this feeling that it doesn't read everything from the bios. Any suggestions will be appreciated. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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queen,
Please pastebin your dmesg output so we can see what happened during startup.
The content of /proc/interrupts may be interesting too.
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queen
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | queen,
Please pastebin your dmesg output so we can see what happened during startup.
The content of /proc/interrupts may be interesting too. |
dmesg output:
http://pastebin.com/zP2UwDcw
output of /proc/interrupts:
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cat interrupts
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
0: 126 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1248 0 0 0 21 9 1 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 103 0 0 0 10 4 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 4298 0 1 0 441 124 33 8 IO-APIC-edge i8042
16: 54563 3 4 3 1648 634 85 12 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
17: 370 0 0 0 53 74 0 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi ath9k
23: 0 0 0 0 20 5 1 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2
41: 6877 1 1 0 271 185 31 3 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
42: 1194 4 1 0 116 82 25 5 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
44: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
45: 443 1 0 0 548 25 5 13 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel
NMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 63165 29565 26725 27541 24384 24715 22499 27578 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
IWI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IRQ work interrupts
RTR: 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 APIC ICR read retries
RES: 17938 4491 1167 864 529 330 326 319 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 112 266 267 261 258 265 270 243 Function call interrupts
TLB: 3157 3240 3411 3298 4508 4224 4404 4286 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
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kdm.log file I still can't login. I get a black screen.
http://pastebin.com/Pv25zbQs
rc.log
http://pastebin.com/HJvS4L4A
Xorg.log.0 output.
http://pastebin.com/v5xNzAx0 |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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queen,
xhci_hcd is generating IRQs and appears normally in dmesg.
Why do you say it doesn't work?
Xorg isn't running for you. The log says | Code: | | [ 83.413] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting |
Xorg also successfully loads the intel driver before it dies.
Play with just one video driver at a time.
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queen
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | queen,
xhci_hcd is generating IRQs and appears normally in dmesg.
Why do you say it doesn't work?
Xorg isn't running for you. The log says | Code: | | [ 83.413] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting |
Xorg also successfully loads the intel driver before it dies.
Play with just one video driver at a time. |
The dmesg I sent was a clean dmesg without mouse or disk on key in the ports. In the begining it didn't see usb3 at all. Now apparently it works. The weird results appeared when I plugged the mouse in the usb2 port. It used the xhci driver and reported low speed. I know that usb3 has a fallback to usb2/usb1. So I can understand the low speed claim. But I can't understand why it used the xhci driver.
Regarding Xorg, I decided to remove intel driver inside. I want to try first with the amd card. I didn't remove xf86-video-intel package and in the kernel, but removed only from /etc/make.conf and xorg.
I know it seg faults. I don't understand what's wrong there. Do I have to add the keyboard and mouse in xorg.conf or it's enough that this is dealt by udev? I removed all the unnecessary xf86-video-*. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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queen,
You probably need to remove Intel and KMS from your kernel too.
An xorg.conf with just a device section should be enough.
udev will do the rest.
If you don't likes the default USA keyboard layout, you will also need and Input Class section for the keyboard, so you can set your keyboard layout.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | queen,
You probably need to remove Intel and KMS from your kernel too.
An xorg.conf with just a device section should be enough.
udev will do the rest.
If you don't likes the default USA keyboard layout, you will also need and Input Class section for the keyboard, so you can set your keyboard layout. |
I disabled kms, intel in the kernel too. There is a small progress that I have a cursor on the screen, but nothing more.
Here is the full log of Xorg.0.log. http://pastebin.com/ejRzUirw
| Code: | grep EE Xorg.0.log
[ 79.635] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0) //I don't know from where this comes from
[ 79.765] (EE) fglrx(0): Invalid video BIOS signature!
[ 79.765] (EE) fglrx(0): GetBIOSParameter failed
[ 79.765] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInitAdapter failed
[ 79.765] (EE) fglrx(0): PreInit failed
[ 79.766] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 79.780]
Fatal server error:
[ 79.780] no screens found |
BTW, Direct rendering for fglrx should be disabled according to this link:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fglrx |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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queen,
I've never seen this before - I'm not even sure if it matters. All video cards are VGA compliant ... I thought.
| Code: | [ 79.765] (II) fglrx(0): Invalid ATI BIOS from int10, the adapter is not VGA-enabled
[ 79.765] (EE) fglrx(0): Invalid video BIOS signature! |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:52 am Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | queen,
I've never seen this before - I'm not even sure if it matters. All video cards are VGA compliant ... I thought.
| Code: | [ 79.765] (II) fglrx(0): Invalid ATI BIOS from int10, the adapter is not VGA-enabled
[ 79.765] (EE) fglrx(0): Invalid video BIOS signature! |
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I saw some posts over the internet to disable the BusId and it solves the problem. I tried it but it didn't help. Further, if one wants to use hybrid graphics, the BusId must be present.
So far I still get a black screen. I can login from black screen but if I try startx, I get No screens found. And in Xorg.0.log appear all the errors mentioned |
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