From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935834AbYEUOvu (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 10:51:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754401AbYEUOvl (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 10:51:41 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:12973 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752795AbYEUOvk (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 10:51:40 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PYXkvDIhE+xgBk5w7uXUISOUpvZ1nn/ZXgK+Xwgt9SDT8JVxS0DmTzQYTkcONXAksGD6JLyvsDu1xJtVoz6/B1QWYtA7B9QEbKXIMc4v8nX8KHbrjeExZpDRh4gJ4TnfhWto/V/Gpn8a6GePa4ktvDxYtthxP6vBxyKMb6FAW6w= Message-ID: <6101e8c40805210751y350e3513ndd48621ac9d2b5d3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:51:37 +0200 From: "Oliver Pinter" To: "Justin Mattock" Subject: Re: completely lost as to what to do, or where to look. Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , "Andrew Morton" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080520223410.9a8f200d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521075917.GB18352@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org you use ati or nvidia binary driver? On 5/21/08, Justin Mattock wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Adrian Bunk 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 >>> wrote: >>> > On Wed, 21 May 2008 04:10:16 +0000 "Justin Mattock" >>> > 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 >> >> -- >> >> "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out >> of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. >> "Only a promise," Lao Er said. >> Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed >> >> > > 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; > > -- > Justin P. Mattock > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Thanks, Oliver