Bug 104573

Summary: X does not start after installation
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Richard Bos <richard.bos>
Component: X.OrgAssignee: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P2 - High    
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Found By: Beta-Customer Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: xorg configuration file
X11 log file
xfdebug log file after running 20 minutes
Xorg log with "noaccel" option, right after boot.
Altered xorg.conf file with noaccel

Description Richard Bos 2005-08-13 21:28:42 UTC
See summary I can't provide much more information than:  
 X does not start after installation 
 
I did the nothing special during installation.  I'll attach 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/xorg.0.log
Comment 1 Richard Bos 2005-08-13 21:30:41 UTC
Created attachment 45978 [details]
xorg configuration file
Comment 2 Richard Bos 2005-08-13 21:32:41 UTC
Created attachment 45979 [details]
X11 log file
Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-13 23:18:26 UTC
Please call xf86debug and attach the logfile.  
Comment 4 Richard Bos 2005-08-14 08:27:39 UTC
Stefan, xf86debug has been running for 10 minutes without quiting... 
 
The log cotains the usual X startup message, no debugging. 
All this time the X window (<ctrl)F7) shows the standard X gray background 
with a cross as pointer. 
 
Attaching the log file /tmp/xf86debug..... anyway. 
 
Comment 5 Richard Bos 2005-08-14 08:39:25 UTC
Created attachment 45980 [details]
xfdebug log file after running 20 minutes
Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-14 09:16:31 UTC
Hmm ... then the Xserver doesn't crash immediately, but after some interaction   
with some Xclient. Ok. Please try adding  
   
  Option "noaccel"   
  
to 'Section "Device"' of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and attach logfile. 
Comment 7 Richard Bos 2005-08-14 12:32:33 UTC
No difference :( 
 
The diff to xorg.conf is: 
--- xorg.conf.old       2005-08-14 14:29:32.000000000 +0200 
+++ xorg.conf   2005-08-14 11:36:31.000000000 +0200 
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ Section "Device" 
   Driver       "mga" 
   Identifier   "Device[0]" 
   VendorName   "Matrox" 
+  Option       "noaccel" 
 EndSection 
 
 
X is staying at the gray back ground with a cross as pointer. 
 
Comment 8 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-14 13:16:44 UTC
Of course after disabling acceleration support the Xserver does not crash 
immediately. Please forget xf86debug for now for testing. I would like to see 
the logfile when using this option. 
Comment 9 Richard Bos 2005-08-14 13:38:06 UTC
Created attachment 45981 [details]
Xorg log with "noaccel" option, right after boot.

Xorg log with "noaccel" option, right after boot.
Comment 10 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-14 14:33:35 UTC
I couldn't verify that you set noaccel by reading the logfile. To make sure 
please attach new xorg.conf. 
Comment 11 Richard Bos 2005-08-14 17:13:07 UTC
Created attachment 45998 [details]
Altered xorg.conf file with noaccel
Comment 12 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-14 17:29:25 UTC
config file looks correct. Hmm ... 
Comment 13 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-14 17:45:35 UTC
Looks like the xaa module is never loaded - no matter whether noaccel is set 
or not. Strange. BTW, does the Xserver work now when noaccel is set? 
Comment 14 Richard Bos 2005-08-14 20:54:38 UTC
The Xserver does not work.  There is not difference on VT07 
when init 5 or init 3 are used. 
 
Comment 16 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-17 12:34:16 UTC
I'll give it a try with our G200.
Comment 17 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-17 12:51:32 UTC
Unfortunately our G200 no longer works. :-( I'll try to reproduce this problem
(at least the unresolved symbol issue) with a G450 now.
Comment 18 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-17 13:05:53 UTC
Hmm ... I cannot reproduce neither the "unresolved symbol" issue nor the
crashing Xserver. The "xaa" module is loaded as well. The last hope would be to try 

  Option "NoHal"
Comment 19 Richard Bos 2005-09-02 18:47:44 UTC
Around the time you made the last update, I started my holiday! 
 
It's unfortenate that you did not make the suggestion a day earlier, 
as it just works!!!  It's just booting into kde :)) 
 
Now all I have to do, is to download suse10b4 and try it again. 
 
Is there something that can be done, during installation, that this setting 
(NoHal) is included in the xorg.conf automatically? 
 
FYI: I removed the noaccel option.  So now I have a xorg.conf with NoHal 
and without noaccel. 
 
Comment 20 Stefan Dirsch 2005-09-02 21:14:13 UTC
Added this option now to our database. Will be fixed for RC1. For Beta4 after 
installation reboot into runlevel 3 and edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. 
Comment 21 Richard Bos 2005-09-08 20:35:29 UTC
Stefan, 
 
:)) 
 
RC1 installed without (unexpected) manually intervention.