Integrated Graphics. starx returns no screen. ?

jwm224

I'm having trouble with xorg drivers.

DONAHUE · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 4:44 pm Post subject:

make and model of the machine?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide
information needed, boot to the command line, login as root, run:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 4:47 pm Post subject:

jwm224,

startx will have left behind a log file called /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Make friends with wgetpaste and put it on the web.
Tell us the link.

The log will tell what Xorg actually did when it tried to start.

heh DONAHUE beat me to it.
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jwm224 · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:45 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:08 pm Post subject:

jwm224,

The log lists all the drivers that suit your graphics chip,

jwm224 · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:20 pm Post subject:

I won't emerge. It says it's an ebuild scheduled for merge, a blocked package by xorg-drivers-1.16.
I think I tried that earlier.

jwm224 · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:28 pm Post subject:

jwm224 · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:29 pm Post subject:

no good.
failed compile phase.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:37 pm Post subject:

jwm224,

What does

jwm224 · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:14 am Post subject:

It shows all the flags (which I could add in manually, if you think that would help.) Sis isn't on the list. They're all depicted as drivers I don't need from what I understand, aside from the three in red text (evdev, keyboard and mouse.) Everything listed under VIDEO_CARDS is blue text with a negative dash as a prefix.

DONAHUE · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:50 am Post subject:

the ebuild for xorg-drivers includes the line PDEPEND="!<=x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 . The most recent version is x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 Thus there is no version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 which can be emerged without a block. Except emerge --nodeps xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 will bypass the block; but compile will fail with /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/work/xf86-video-sis-0.10.7/src/sis_driver.c:60:22: fatal error: mibstore.h: No such file or directory
#include "mibstore.h" . https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444442 and its comments note various problems with the sis driver. last gentoo maintenance was 07/2012? last xf86 maintenance was 11/2014. patch work needed on the sis driver and the xorg-driver ebuild unless the sis driver gets a version bump as well as patches. Could be fun but I have no sis card.
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DONAHUE · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 6:32 am Post subject:

Boot to the command line
login as root

jwm224 · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:24 am Post subject:

I was playing around with the drivers before I saw these last two posts. I downloaded and compiled "vesa", as I saw in the xorg.0.log file as a missing module. With vesa loaded, the screen goes black, flashes like, it wants to start, and then I get: "caught signal 4 illegal instruction". I tried messing with the xorg.conf file to set the monitor's resolution, thinking that might fix the error. I wasn't sure if the results I got were from a bad driver, or a poorly mapped out xorg.conf file, or both.

I'll give this patch a play in a bit. Although, I looked at those two locations, and didn't see either ebuild listed.

Thanks for all the feedback.

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

"caught signal 4 illegal instruction" in most cases means you've set wrong C{XX}FLAGS for your machine.

John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 12:38 pm Post subject:

Yep he did. Already told him on another thread that he needed to recompile everything.

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jwm224 · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:02 pm Post subject:

I apologize there, John. I thinking, this guy never told me that. I just now seen the tail end of your June 1st post. I'm giving it a go. We'll see what happens.

DONAHUE · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:27 pm Post subject:

edited the patching post above to add rebuilding the digests for xorg-drivers.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551042 submits a patch for xf86-video-sis-0.10.7
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jwm224 · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 5:03 pm Post subject:

I recompiled everything.

I think my networking is still fudged. I'm half afraid to mess with the settings, because it took me 4 days to get it working, and I'm still unsure what I had done. But, I'm at the step for wget. I run wget and it gives me an ascii text file that reads failed network is unreachable.

I ran

jwm224 · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 5:22 pm Post subject:

I had wgetpaste backwards. I was walking downstairs and it hit me.

https://bpaste.net/show/265c00324c50

jwm224 · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 7:06 pm Post subject:

I'm in the process of doing a make menuconfig with the protocol ipv6 unchecked. I hope this resolves the issue. What a pain!

jwm224 · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:12 pm Post subject:

@ Donahue
Should this step:

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:16 pm Post subject:

diff -Naru xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2 > triennial_update.patch is correct
diff -Naru xf86-video-sis-0.10.7 xf86-video-sis-0.10.7-2 > kernel-4.1.0-rc3.patch is not
very sorry
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jwm224 · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:30 pm Post subject:

That's fine.
I think I finally got the patch installed properly.
the code rolled by with the patch installing...
no errors.[/code]
I ran:

DONAHUE · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:51 pm Post subject:

if it is still the xorg-drivers-1.16.0 that blocks

jwm224 · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:14 am Post subject:

That worked as far as installing it.
I'm still receiving "Caught signal 4 (illegal instruction). Server aborting"

I ran theses steps: