When trying to start up X (version 6.8.2-r2) through /etc/init.d/xdm, the computer freezes with a black screen. trying kdm (kde-3.5.1) instead makes my computer boot and I get a working X-server, but trying to switch back and forth to console makes the computer freeze with an weirdcolored screen, same if I press ctrl+alt+back to restart X. Will provide emmerge --info later Can see if I can find an errorlog on this
Here is emerge info Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Portage 2.1_pre7-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" LANG="sv_SE" LC_ALL="sv_SE" LINGUAS="sv" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts blas browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cli crypt css ctype cups curl dba dbus directfb divx4linux djbfft dnd dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd exif expat fame fastbuild fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran fpx ftp fuse gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hdf5 hou idn imagemagick imlib isdnlog ithreads jack java javascript jbig jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lirc live lzo mad memlimit mikmod mjpeg mmx mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi musepack ncurses network nls noamazon nowin nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl osc oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic plotutils png posix ppds pppd pvm python qt quicktime readline real rtc scanner sdl session simplexml slang slp sndfile soap sockets sou speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tga theora threads tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l v4l2 vcd vidix visualization vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xanim xine xml xmms xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_sv userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS Found an error on fglrx in Xorg.0.log.old, will provide it too
Created attachment 83436 [details] Xorg-log
Also found out this: running kdm as root and letting root still be logged in works running kdm && exit as root makes the computer crash in the same way as described earlier
Make sure you don't have radeon framebuffer support, cause that may be the cause of your trouble. If you need to you can use plain vesa support instead, which in my case sacrifices the use of widescreen resolution at the console. Better than locking up frequently..
Im using vesafb-tng and as I can recall I have never enabled radeonfb in the kernel so I dont think that is my problem
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120421 ***
