Hi All,
Using both AMD Geode LX800 and GX series hardware I cant get a gui.
Steps taken. Spin iso in vm using tazlito.
I use two drivers with geode. vesa and geode. Caveats with geode are that I cant switch v, and cant kill x as the driver does not unload cleanly. so I try with vesa and next geode to see differenes.
If I use geode I see that /lib/drm/swrast_dri.so is needed. Just rebuilt iso including mesa-dri and listed depends in receipt file. After testing is see things I have not seen.....
Start hardware on text login. from root prompt I configure X with X -configure and then nano in to the /root/xorg.conf.new and change it over to a conf that I know works on slitaz-v3. Again I take 4 steps here before I report. First on GX hardware I start with vesa driver and modes specified that worked on v3. I get blank screen and after 5 minutes I swith vt’s and look at /var/log/Xog.0.conf and grep for EE. Nothing. The closest I get is an II about mit-screensavers.
Try again on geode divers but same visible results but I cant get out of X being blank and I cant switch vt’s so I cant share logs. Unless I can use SSH?
I switch VT and look at top and all looks normal. I have 433mhz and not much more than 10 percent is used with x hanging on VT7. I kill the pid that x was running on and no ee or ii output is there in xorg log.. I have read forum article on how things like x and slim relate on boot but I am baffled on how to diagnose this with no EE or meaningful II in xorg. I thought I had it with mesa-dri. I did not install mesa due to the mesa-dri package providing /lib/dri/swrast_dri.so. ..... Mesa was not listed in dependencies of mesa-dri but I wonder if it really is needed? I’m using hardware cursor in geode driver. Other option is for a SWcursor but am not 100% if it would relate to this..... If anyone has suggestions please do send. Getting logs from the unit is not easy but possible. Let me know
