on a Clevo laptop W251HU with intel i5-2410M and 0116 (rev 09) Graphic device using the i915 driver when Xorg starts the kernel hangs, I must do a hard reboot. No logs are generated. I have tested with thoose kernels : - 2.6.38-gentto-r6 - 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 same issue. It is a Gentoo specific issue because on the same laptop Xorg is working well under XUbuntu and Arch Linux (installed and tested) Reproducible: Always
Could You post your kernel config. try running: startx > ~/xorg.log is the xorg.log file created in you home directory? what version of xorg and the intel display driver are you running? what version does ubuntu/arch use? Can you try installing an ubuntu or arch kernel into gentoo, does that help?
Created attachment 278025 [details] the 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 config
I had the same problem. Solved it by reemerge all xorg drivers as sugested by emerge. WARN: postinst You must rebuild all drivers if upgrading from <xorg-server-1.10 because the ABI changed. If you cannot start X because of module version mismatch errors, this is your problem. You can generate a list of all installed packages in the x11-drivers category using this command: emerge portage-utils; qlist -I -C x11-drivers/ or using sets from portage-2.2: emerge @x11-module-rebuild
The xorg.log is created but empty (page blank) xorg version : 1.9.5 xf86-video-intel : 2.14.0 on XUbuntu xorg version : 1:7.6+4ubuntu3 (cryptic for me hope you will be able to compare) xserver-xorg-video-intel : 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.14 (seems to be the same) same issue when I use an Ubuntu kernel into my Gentoo install. Something different I have noticed when I boot on Ubuntu and Gentoo is that : >> Booting (initramfs)>> ERROR: your real /dev is missing files required to boot (console and null).. althought after loging : # ls -al /dev/console /dev/null crw-rw---- 1 root root 5, 1 jun 24 19:32 /dev/console crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 jun 24 19:32 /dev/null Thanks !
I have followed the houmles advice, emerging world => same issue I have put x11-base/xorg-server ~amd64 in /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerging xorg-server (1.10.2) re-emerging xf86-video-intel => same issue
no more issue after having folowed this to fix my /dev issue at boot : http://dev.gentoo.org/~a3li/openrc.txt
