Re: completely lost as to what to do, or where to look.

[Oliver Pinter]

you use ati or nvidia binary driver?

On 5/21/08, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:51:24AM +0000, Justin Mattock wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Andrew Morton
>>> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, 21 May 2008 04:10:16 +0000 "Justin Mattock"
>>> > <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hello; I'm lost as to where to look in the kernel, as to why I'm
>>> >> receiving a black screen with startx
>>> >> DRI seems to be fine, I'm noticing a sema_init but am not sure if this
>>> >> is the cause of the blackness.
>>> >> any direction as to where I might look would be helpful.
>>> >
>>> > Kernel version?
>>> >
>>> > A git-bisect should get you down the the offending commit within an
>>> > hour or three.  http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html has some
>>> > instructions.
>>> >
>>> > But if you're on 2.6.26-rcX, be sure to use the very latest - a pile of
>>> > bad DRI code got reverted recently.  This morning, I think.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help, From what I can remember I noticed this around
>>> 2.6.26-rc1. It could be an issue with DRI, but then again it could be
>>> something else. With running some more tests I'm noticing  a conflict
>>> with libdri.so, not recognizing the module or the module not
>>> recognizing libdri.so.
>>>...
>>
>> Which X video driver are you using?
>>
>> What exactly is the error message?
>>
>>> regards;
>>> Justin P. Mattock
>>
>> cu
>> Adrian
>>
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>>
>>
>
> Hello; thanks for the feedback, from previous posts, you know what
> module I'm talking about, So with that in mind I'm going to go
> to the next question: From error messages "there isn't"
> the only leeway or light at the end of the tunnel I see is with
> libdri.so i.g. If I boot the system up with out messing with anything
> I will receive
> a black screen after issueing startx, (from looking at what I see, the
> screen will flash one time then black, it should flash or blink two
> times
> before giving me my lovely picture(wallpaper) then if I remove
> libdri.so everything starts up as usual so with that in mind since I
> received
> a post about DRI being all F*&^ked up then maybee that is the culprit,
> I think All I really need right now is info on the xserver and the
> kernel.
> What mechanisms are used or files that are responsible for the two too
> coexist.
> regards;
>
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Thanks,
Oliver
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