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From: Spidey <spideybr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:02:01
Message-Id: CAGo3WepJvZDDZrGtBp42isz9wiENqXXc9sYATeJ1s3MO9=8ARA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log by Adam Carter
1 On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 19:01, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > FYI, this is fixed. I ran 'strace startx > startx.strace.out 2>&1' and
4 > this showed;
5 > /usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error:
6 > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol:
7 > GlxInitVisuals2D
8 >
9 > Which means that i forget to eselect opengl set 1, though it wasn't
10 > logged to Xorg.0.log (so it was logged to STDOUT, but i couldn't see
11 > that as the screen was blank).
12 >
13 > Then after fixing that;
14 > which: no keychain in
15 >
16 > (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3)
17 > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 63: exec: xterm: not found
18 > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 61: xterm: command not found
19 > xinit: connection to X server lost
20 >
21 > So i emerged keychain and xterm and it now works. Of course i didn't
22 > need xterm as i'm running gnome, so i could have just kicked that off
23 > instead.
24 >
25 >
26 The default xinitrc or something starts twm, xterm and xclock or something
27 like that, that's normal behavior for first time X.org users. You can toggle
28 that to your needs, or you emerge gnome and add gdm to your default
29 runlevel, and forget about startx.
30
31 About what kernel configurations you have to check and what you have to make
32 sure to not have checked, you can see it here:
33 http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fglrx
34 You'll want to disable everything related to DRM, basically.
35
36 Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey)
37 hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr
38 Engenharia de Computação - UFES 2006/1