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kuk1l

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Registered: 2013-01-27

Posts: 1

Cannot Start X Window

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 9200 Pro

Monitor: Viewsonic VA1912wb (Documentation: http://www.abnet.am/images/Viewsonic_va1912w.pdf)

Platform:SliTaz Cooking on a Dell Precision 340

I installed slitaz a couple of days ago from a livecd onto my dell precision 340. I have been trying to get X window to start since then. The first time I typed startx I got a no screens found error after looking in the log file it said something along the lines of screens were found but none had a useable configuration. Thinking it was a driver issue, I downloaded xorg-xf86-video-radeonhd but that driver did not support my card. So I downloaded xorg-xf86-video-ati and after looking in the log file I saw that it did support my card but startx and x -configure crashed because of a segmentation fault. I uninstalled all my drivers and downloaded the amd non-free driver which didnt support my card so I had to download the legacy ati non-free driver which crashed after it was unable to detect what X window version was installed. Seeing no other option I reinstalled the xorg-xf86-video-vesa driver and tried to edit my xorg.conf file, hoping that would solve the problem but I keep getting an error that says, screens found but none have a usable configuration. At this point I just want X window to start I don't care about performance.

Xorg.0.log: http://snipurl.com/268kg0l

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Cannot Start X Window

vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver

radeon drm kernel module loads, KMS prevents vesa from loading

Use [c]nomodeset[/c] bootcode to the bootloader menu which disables KMS.

radeon still loads but KMS is disabled so vesa is able to load

Boots to desktop

Configure xorg files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

marcb

Member

Registered: 2011-08-01

Posts: 22

Re: Cannot Start X Window

slitaz 3.0  + xorg-xf86-video-ati worked very well with radeon 9200 here, even dri was enabled