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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 4:29 am Post subject: [SOLVED]difficulties getting X to start[SOLVED] |
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Recently reinstalling gentoo after not updating for over 2 years. Same hardware as before, but I'm experiencing difficulties I don't recall having before.
I want to use the proprietary nvidia drivers, but hopefully have decent console resolution before I start X manually.
Hardware: i7 4790k, in an Asus Z97A and UEFI booting. No overclock. I have a couple of SSDs and a couple of HDDs in the case. Right now / is on one of the SSDs.
I have set up my efi system partition and am using rEFInd. I have some custom efistub kernels. The only ones that boot for me have FB_EFI set and the "nomodeset" option in reflind_linux.conf. Will FB_EFI conflict with my Nvidia drivers? I've heard both yes and no.
I have not been able to get X started with nouveau or Nvidia, with any kernel. I have tried kernels with simplefb and vesafb. I can only get kernels to boot using FB_EFI and "nomodeset". Nvidia-drivers compiles, installs and loads fine, but X crashes on lauch with no specific error. My USE includes "nvidia and evdev"
I was always able to get things working in the past by following guides and a bit of Googling, but am stuck this time. I don't know how to determine what is preventing X from working.
Any direction would be appreciated.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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bammbamm808,
Pastebin /var/log/Xorg.0.log and dmesg after Xorg has failed to start.
You will need wgetpaste.
Put the output of in your post.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Please include also the output of emerge --verbose --info x11-base/xorg-server x11-base/xorg-drivers $(eix --only-names -I x11-drivers/). |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Will do. But interestingly, when I first set out to reinstalll gentoo, if I booted sysreqcd nomodeset option, I was able to startx. On the next boot, with no other changes to uefi settings, or anything else, the sysresqcd's startx failed with Error 1. Since then, I have managed everything but startx.
I have another system with the same motherboard, 16GB RAM, and an i5 4590/960gtx in place of the i7 4790k/970gtx in this box. Because of the sudden startx fail, and the lack of my having made changes to the system and its settings prior to X no longer starting, i started swapping the videocards and trying to startx off the sysresqcd. Startx fails in this motherboard regardless of gpu, and succeeds in the other with either gpu. Is it likely to have a hardware motherboard issue that allows console, but will cause X to fail with no error? FWIW, my voltages, etc look fine in uefi setup. Im thinking this is a hardware issue given that startx began failing with no changes or warning from one boot to the next. Especially since I am testing against the same bootable environment on nearly identical hardware. Thoughts?
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 12:12 am Post subject: |
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bammbamm808,
Add dmesg to the list of things to pastebin if you think it might be hardware.
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Edit: mistake posting from phone.
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| Hu wrote: | | Please include also the output of emerge --verbose --info x11-base/xorg-server x11-base/xorg-drivers $(eix --only-names -I x11-drivers/). |
emerge --verbose --info x11-base/xorg-server x11-base/xorg-drivers: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/MGOqAcIUlkRf45joQjkb/
$(eix --only-names -l x11-drivers/): http://paste.pound-python.org/show/kSjG40bFXqiOHVqECd4K/
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:18 am Post subject: |
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modesetting is failing for some reason, has the monitor changed from what was working before?
you want to use efifb |
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| blopsalot wrote: | modesetting is failing for some reason, has the monitor changed from what was working before?
you want to use efifb |
Monitor hasn't changed and I can only get a booting kernel by passing "nomodeset" via refind_linux.conf and FB_EFI=y. I'll post my kernel .config later tonight or tomorrow.
linux-4.9.76-gentoo-r1: http://paste.pound-python.org/show/FqZujgYSBhJCqiN2wcqa/
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:51 am Post subject: |
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yeah, you missing:
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CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| blopsalot wrote: | yeah, you missing:
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CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y
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Thanks I will try that this morning.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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bammbamm808,
Your log shows Xorg starting normally and shutting down normally without doing anything in between.
How did you start Xorg?
That's actually correct default behaviour on Gentoo as the packages that Xorg would run by default are not installed by default..
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | bammbamm808,
Your log shows Xorg starting normally and shutting down normally without doing anything in between.
How did you start Xorg?
That's actually correct default behaviour on Gentoo as the packages that Xorg would run by default are not installed by default.. |
By typing 'startx' in console.
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bammbamm808,
I thought that :)
| Code: | | emerge -1 twm xterm xclock |
and you will get three xterms and xclock all wrapped up in twm.
If you don't like twm, you need to create an ~/.xinitrc to tell Xorg what you would like it to do.
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | bammbamm808,
I thought that :)
| Code: | | emerge -1 twm xterm xclock |
and you will get three xterms and xclock all wrapped up in twm.
If you don't like twm, you need to create an ~/.xinitrc to tell Xorg what you would like it to do. |
Apologies. It has been nearly 3 years since I did any configuration in linux, and I'm not getting any younger, quicker to learn, or more able to retain. Your question got me thinking, and I reread the Gentoo KDE guide and realized I had missed the .xinitrc step. Posting from my Plasma DE at the moment.
Thanks for all who took the time to help.
Started messing with some plasma desktop preferences via gui. Quickly found no way to enable multiple desktops and some glitches with transparency and not being able to turn background blur off once I had tested it out. Unmerged kde/plasma and dependencies, changed to a mere desktop profile, and emerged good old xfce4. Much less bloat and I'm happy.
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