X fails to start HP Laptop DV6T-6c00 intel HD Graph [SOLVED]

Phredus · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2013 Posts: 47

Hello guys, I am once again in need of your wisdom.
I cannot get X started, I have been trying to figure this problem out for a while with no success.

X fails to start HP Laptop DV6T-6c00 intel HD Graphics 3000

I have a good clean running install of gentoo with no errors, I however cannot get X to run,
I have compiled the kernel manually and using genkernel a few times and still same result X will not start.
I see errors but I'm not sure which are pertinent.
I may not be able to see the forest, please help.
Thank you in advance.

uname -a

DONAHUE · Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 4:54 pm Post subject:

suggest emerge twm xterm xclock and then run startx . If you get three windows and a movable mouse pointer X is working but your window manager/display manager/desktop is not. enter exit in the left window to return to CLI
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Phredus · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2013 Posts: 47

russK · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 665

A few things to check.

Your 2nd attempt does not look right, it's talking about Xorg.1.log, display :1. Are you looking at the right log?

I'm used to using configuration files under /etc/X11. Not sure why it is looking under /use/share.

Maybe make sure your .xinitrc file is what you expect and check your arguments.

DONAHUE · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:06 am Post subject:

kde desktop is the item that is not loading

run ls /etc/X11/Sessions
There should be a reference to some kind of kde,
run nano /etc/env.d/90xsession
edit to XSESSION="the exact reference to some kind of kde you found above"
run nano /etc/conf.d/xdm
Should say DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Troubleshooting#KDM_fails_to_start

Assuming you are using openrc not systemd and installed kde using https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE

xinitrc may well be the problem source; found at : /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/00-xhost
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/40-libcanberra-gtk-module
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50-systemd-user.sh
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/80-dbus
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/90-consolekit
/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
/home/<your user names>/.xinitrc

run kdm as root and as user instead of startx; what happens?
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DONAHUE · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:40 am Post subject:

IMHO xorg configuration is not the problem, the following extracts from man xorg may help explain the xorg questions raised above:

Configuration

Xorg typically uses a configuration file called xorg.conf and configuration files with the suffix .conf in a directory called xorg.conf.d for its initial setup. Refer to the xorg.conf(5) manual page for information about the format of this file.
Xorg has a mechanism for automatically generating a built-in configuration at run-time when no xorg.conf file or xorg.conf.d files are present. The current version of this automatic configuration mechanism works in two ways.

The first is via enhancements that have made many components of the xorg.conf file optional. This means that information that can be probed or reasonably deduced doesn't need to be specified explicitly, greatly reducing the amount of built-in configuration information that needs to be generated at run-time.

The second is to have "safe" fallbacks for most configuration information. This maximises the likelihood that the Xorg server will start up in some usable configuration even when information about the specific hardware is not available.

The automatic configuration support for Xorg is work in progress. It is currently aimed at the most popular hardware and software platforms supported by Xorg. Enhancements are planned for future releases.

Files

The Xorg server config files can be found in a range of locations. These are documented fully in the xorg.conf(5) manual page. The most commonly used locations are shown here.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Server configuration file.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf-4
Server configuration file.
/etc/xorg.conf
Server configuration file.
/usr/etc/xorg.conf
Server configuration file.
/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf
Server configuration file.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Server configuration directory.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d-4
Server configuration directory.
/etc/xorg.conf.d
Server configuration directory.
/usr/etc/xorg.conf.d
Server configuration directory.
/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d
Server configuration directory.
/var/log/Xorg.n.log
Server log file for display n.
/usr/bin/*
Client binaries.
/usr/include/*
Header files.
/usr/lib/*
Libraries.
/usr/share/fonts/X11/*
Fonts.
/usr/share/X11/XErrorDB
Client error message database.
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/*
Client resource specifications.
/usr/share/man/man?/*
Manual pages.
/etc/Xn.hosts
Initial access control list for display n.
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Phredus · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2013 Posts: 47

Running as root ------>>> Those funny characters look mighty suspicious to me.

Phredus · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2013 Posts: 47

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:57 pm Post subject:

Phredus,

Since you can get twm, three xterms and a clock running, which is Xorg using the default xintrc, we can be sure that Xorg works.
You may be able to make it work better but thats for later after it runs the desktop you want.

With

Phredus · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2013 Posts: 47

Thank you guys, I'm in, Xorg is running, xdm is running and kde is running, but I dont know what made it work, here is what I did so far.

I changed /etc/conf.d/xdm from DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" to DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm". (I did this back and forth a few times in the past with no success). But its working now.

# /etc/init.d/xdm start

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 6:57 pm Post subject:

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Phredus · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2013 Posts: 47

Hi guys, I found the same sort of gibberish in my "/etc/conf.d/hostname" file.
Does anyone do you know what this is?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 7:36 pm Post subject:

Phredus,

Its not so much what it is, its now it got there.

It looks like something horrible my have happened to your root filesystem an some time.
/etc/conf.d/hostname is something you set up and leave for the life of the install, so it not like this file is ever opened for writitng.
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Phredus · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2013 Posts: 47

Thanks guys,

I updated the video drivers and the issue with the gibberish in the config files was only on hosts file and the make.conf, I removed it and have not seen any issues.
I ran kdm as root and got a kde login prompt, this issue is solved.