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dkuchay

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Registered: 2020-04-30

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Slitaz v4 AMD geode hardware Xorg will not show gui and shows no errors

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

dkuchay

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Registered: 2020-04-30

Posts: 59

Re: Slitaz v4 AMD geode hardware Xorg will not show gui and shows no errors

Edit, Original reports on cpu usage wrong... after settling I see, with X running and looking at top through a different VT,  1 -1.3% cpu usage. Let me start to export logs through usb. I know. Give me a bit

dkuchay

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Re: Slitaz v4 AMD geode hardware Xorg will not show gui and shows no errors

Logs:

dkuchay

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Registered: 2020-04-30

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Re: Slitaz v4 AMD geode hardware Xorg will not show gui and shows no errors

xorg.0.log while x was running captured from tty3

When building kernel I seemed to have missed the /drivers/input/misc/atlas_btns.ko

or the needed deps for...

This will result in some unmapped acpi references in the logs. I was running vesa driver in xorg.conf

If I try with the geode driver and bring in /lib//dri_swrast.so (it loads) I wont be able to switch VT’s as all others are white and wont show me a prompt.

Cant CTL+ALT+BCKSPC to exit (geode driver wont unload cleanly even if I could so I have to post with vesa driver. I run webdt.org and can say across 5 different distributions across 10 years vesa driver has always worked on every distro util now.

Any pointers or tips would be very appreciated!

dkuchay

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Registered: 2020-04-30

Posts: 59

Re: Slitaz v4 AMD geode hardware Xorg will not show gui and shows no errors

sorry the controls on this forum are new to me. I neglected to hit upload on xorg.0.log on last message and I am going too fast. sigh....