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PostPosted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:43 am    Post subject: black screen on 3.10.7-gentoo-r1 Reply with quote

I built kernel 3.10.7 with the nvidia drivers and it seemed (to my faulty memory) to intermittently work...but most of the time I'd get a completely black screen, no nvidia logo at all...
Code:
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C51 [GeForce Go 6150] (rev a2)

I then built 3.10.7-r1 and it worked once, then no more...

I'm not even sure how to post dmesg because I had to log into an older kernel 3.8.13...and this kernel works fine...

how can I solve this error?

Code:
papapenguin ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.8.13-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.8.13-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Turion-tm-_64_X2_Mobile_Technology_TL-50-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     3978032 total,    509740 free
KiB Swap:    1919760 total,   1919760 free
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r2, 3.2.5-r2, 3.3.2-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.11.2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.1
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.7.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.11 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo proaudio
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA skype-4.0.0.7-copyright skype-eula dlj-1.1 AdobeFlash-11.x Google-TOS Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -msse3 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/pro-audio"
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Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i get a simular issue when i use slim and xfce, i just kill X and use startx to bring up X and it works.

Yet my other issue(s) with Gentoo remain :/
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How do you kill X with no display at all?

I'm pretty sure the system is up and running...what would the command be without a terminal?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

press - ctl+alt+f4

should drop you to a login prompt
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make sure you compile your kernel with only VGA 16 support and nothing else.. VGA 16 is only supported
by NVidia even though VESA usually works, NVidia won't support it.. so I would only enable VGA 16 if you do most of your work in
X in anyways. Then for X make sure you have the correct NVidia driver loaded and you can confirm it with glxinfo command.
You can blacklist other video drivers if they become a problem in make.conf
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FizzyWidget wrote:
i get a simular issue when i use slim and xfce, i just kill X and use startx to bring up X and it works.

Yet my other issue(s) with Gentoo remain :/


Sounds like you may need to edit your /etc/conf.d/xdm file to list the proper display manager.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here's what I got when I hit ctl+alt+f4 then startx:

it tried to start nvidia, the logo popped up for a second, then I got this error (I wrote it, so please bear with me)

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error parsing config file 'home/donald/.nvidia-settings-rc'

on line 51 0/XVideoTextureSynctoBlack=1

unrecognizable attribute name

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So what is in home/donald/.nvidia-settings-rc? If you do not have any custom settings then you could just remove .nvidia-settings-rc.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mv /home/donald/.nvidia-settings-rc /home/donald/nvidia-settings-rc.bak

or simply comment out that line in the cfg file.. & see if you get any further errors.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

...thanks all for the info...

I didn't have any custom settings so I ran
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or simply comment out that line in the cfg file.. & see if you get any further errors.

and it seems to work :D
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 5:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

but now I shutdown and upon restart got the same problem...and have to do it again...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, now upon booting the 3.10.7-r1 kernel, I get a completely black screen, I
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ctl + alt + f4

drop into prompt, and
Code:
startx

and get
Code:
Loading Extension GLX
Loading Extension NV-GLX
Loading Extension NV-CONTROL
Loading Extension XINERAMA
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 60: xclock: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 59: twm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 63: exec: xterm: not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 62: xterm: command not found

xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). closing log file.

What is wrong???
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As far as your post goes, it seems everything is working just fine - xserver seems to terminate gracefully due to no clients.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

then I'm completely lost...it doesn't show an image when it starts up...completely black...and when I ctl+alt+f4 to drop into command line, and try to start it again...it won't start...

...why no clients?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

papapenguin wrote:
then I'm completely lost...it doesn't show an image when it starts up...completely black...and when I ctl+alt+f4 to drop into command line, and try to start it again...it won't start...

...why no clients?



CTRL + ALT + F7 if you don't get a desktop/login screen.
Stop X server.
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
killall -9 X

then try restarting.. if still having issues check for error msgs in X startup log.. and try to resolve those errors.

There should be no need to manually execute startx, unless you don't want to use X as your primary console/desktop.

You can simply add xdm to your rc startup, just make sure the /etc/conf.d/xdm file is using your correct login manager.

And then your login manager should start every time you reboot your system with your default Desktop of choice.

Blank screen at startup typically means one of your configuration files is incorrect, /etc/X11/xorg.conf , /etc/conf.d/xdm, etc. or your video driver installation is incorrect.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree, there should be no need to manually startx...

xdm is in my rc startup...

my /etc/conf.d/xdm is set to "kdm"

everything seems like it should work...

when I ctl + alt + f7, nothing happens...

I then ctl + alt + f4 to drop out of X, then
Code:
/etc/init.d/xdm stop

yields
Quote:
* warning xdm is already stopped

I ran
Code:
emerge --ask @x11-module-rebuild

which rebuilt some packages, including nvidia drivers, but still get the error...

it's very strange, though, when first logging out of the older kernel, and trying to log into the newest kernel, I selected kernel 3.10.7-r1 and it worked...I even checked
Code:
emerge --info

and verified that I was in the latest kernel...but logging back in a 2nd time didn't work...

I do see this in the build...
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KBUILD_EXTMOD="/var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.108/work/kernel" -f /usr/src/linux-3.10.7-gentoo-r1/Makefile \
modules
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (                \
echo >&2;                                                       \
echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";           \
echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";      \
echo >&2 ;                                                      \
/bin/false)

could this have something to do with it?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only kernel setting that I can think of that would directly have affect would be the video drivers..
if using NVidia binary driver I recommend only enabling VGA16 in the kernel. If it works the first time but
not the second.. sounds like a setting is getting changed for w/e reason after your first start. Which could
be due to a number of reasons, configuration problems, some thing in .bashrc startup, drivers getting changed, etc..

Try blacklisting all video drivers, and installing NVidia binary from nvidia.com

There is multiple ways to blacklist a driver..
I personally use -driver_name (USE flags) in /etc/make.conf

then
emerge --update --newuse --deep world
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild
repeat if necessary


If your running kernel is different then the one compiled in /usr/src/linux
it can also cause issues with the mainstream binaries, and should give you
a warning as such.

check your running kernel version against the source version /usr/src/linux

uname -a
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok...I'm sure it has something to do with
Code:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

since I have this error
Code:
Loading Extension GLX
Loading Extension NV-GLX
Loading Extension NV-CONTROL
Loading Extension XINERAMA
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 60: xclock: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 59: twm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 63: exec: xterm: not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 62: xterm: command not found

xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). closing log file.

I commented out these 4 lines

Code:
#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs


if [ -n "`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`" ]; then
   command="`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`"
else
   failsafe="yes"
fi

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
   for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?* ; do
      [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
   done
   unset f
fi

if [ -n "$failsafe" ]; then
   twm &
#   xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#   xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
   xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
   exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
else
   exec $command
fi

I can
Code:
startx

and I get into KDE, I can also
Code:
ctl + alt + f7

and
Code:
ctl + alt +f4

to bounce in and out of X, but on
Code:
ctl + alt + f4

I still get
Code:
Loading Extension XINERAMA
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 59: twm: command not found
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 62: xterm: command not found

I'm not sure if X starts automatically yet...I'll check...
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VoidMage wrote:
As far as your post goes, it seems everything is working just fine - xserver seems to terminate gracefully due to no clients.


What voidmage said ... you must load something on top of X or it will terminate.

You better pastebin the Xorg log.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your global xinitrc file looks fine.. I would leave those lines un-commented.

You also have a local user .xinitrc file.. check that. $h/.xinitrc

Try adding

exec startkde

if it doesn't already exist.

Is it currently working other then those errors?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Late response..... I had a similar problem after I upgraded to systemd and Gnome-3.8. The system would boot, the X server would start, but nothing than a black screen, and no relevant errors in any of the logs. I could "startx", it would even start TWM, but anything else: nothing worked. In the end, I "solved" the problem by un-installing Gnome, getting rid of systemd, and installing XFCE. Not much of a "solution" but at least I can use my computer again :D
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

here is my xorg log file in root...
http://pastebin.com/DsCjDsUb
and as usr...
http://pastebin.com/fFXxPiuP
is there anything else I can post that would help solve this problem...it seems that I've had nothing but problems with KDE for a solid 3 months...
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try rebuild udev with keymap USE flag

http://gentoobrowse.randomdan.homeip.net/use/keymap
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks x.para, I will try that...the strange thing is that when I last restarted, it worked fine--the Nvidia logo popped up, then KDM, then I logged in...no need to press F4 and then F7...
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now I'm a noob so correct me if im wrong....but everyone here seems to be missing the point!

You need a window manager installed to use X, or X will quit like that. E.g. until I installed enlightenment, my X would quit in the exact same manner. (thats why gentoo hanbook suggests emerge xterm just to test. When I did that, X would start with some xterms open, even before I installed window manager)

You can also make sure the window manger is set to start in ~/.xinitrc
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