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viridio

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Registered: 2011-07-11

Posts: 24

No graphical login, directly to console

Hi all this great comunity!!!. I've been usin Slitaz for quite a while now both stable and cooking/rolling. Nowadays I've been trying to live-boot the 4.0 final version of Slitaz but it takes me directly to text mode login without an attempt to show me slim or anything graphical. I tried Core and Gtkonly in case the problem came from the free drivers. My video card is a NVIDIA GT430. I've tried several things from other posts like 'nomodeset' but nothing...

In case they are nessesary here are some dumps that may be useful:

[c]# uname -a
Linux slitaz 2.6.37-slitaz #2 SMP Wed Mar 7 10:36:39 CET 2012 i686 GNU/Linux[/c]
[c]# lspci -nn | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] [10de:0de1] (rev a1)[/c]
Xorg.0.log

Xorg.1.log

Any help would be appreciated.

viridio

Member

Registered: 2011-07-11

Posts: 24

Re: No graphical login, directly to console

No luck so far, any help out there?

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: No graphical login, directly to console

noticed that you are loading vesa driver instead of nv...

[     4.595] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"

[     4.595] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so

[     4.595] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

[     4.595]    compiled for 1.9.5, module version = 2.3.0

[     4.595]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver

[     4.595]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 8.0

[     4.595] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa

[     4.595] (++) using VT number 7

[     4.611] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa

[     4.611] (EE) No devices detected.

Have you tried loading nv driver -> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-Devices.conf? Or try tazx and install the nv driver.

Trixar_za

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: No graphical login, directly to console

Or just remove the xorg-xf86-video-vesa package and reboot to have xorg set it automatically.

viridio

Member

Registered: 2011-07-11

Posts: 24

Re: No graphical login, directly to console

@gdesilva & @Trixar_za

I tried both installing tazx nv and booting an image with vesa and intel removed leaving only xorg-xf86-video-nv-2.1.18 but nothing. Can't think of anything else to try.

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: No graphical login, directly to console

Did you check the Xorg.0.log after installing the nvidia driver using tazx? It should tell you why X cannot start. Perhaps, you may want to give it a try again and post the log here...

viridio

Member

Registered: 2011-07-11

Posts: 24

Re: No graphical login, directly to console

@gdesilva

ok i'll try that and post back, but what's the point of installing tazx nv when slitaz 4.0 already comes with xorg-server and nv to be loaded at boot time. I think it's more probable that my video card is not supported by this driver (any way to check?) although this model is not new at all.

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: No graphical login, directly to console

@viridio, knowing what the error message is the starting point but I suspect you are right that your card has a problem with the nv driver. Did you try nvidia non-free? nv is supposed to be a better driver for nVidia cards in Slitaz but still it is worth a try - "tazhw setup nvidia --non-free" from command line will install it.