[Pardus-devel] Calisan and Kurulan Differences

[Emre Erenoglu]

Hi Rajeev,

It looks like an xorg driver problem. I strongly suggest trying 2007.1 as it
has many updates. I'm at work now, but may be able to try this at home with
my i945 based notebook.

Can you also try to rename xorg.conf (so there's no more xorg.conf) and
reboot? Even if you can't get a graphical system (you shall normally, as
zorg will recreate it), you will get a login prompts and will be able to
check if it's locking up or not.

For what you have tried:
- You need to have only one device section in xorg.conf
- You need to keep the resolution at low settings (i.e. 800x600)
- It has nothing to do with ipv6, don't worry about these errors.

to start X as a user, you need to stop kdm first (as it may be using the
display :0) by "sudo service kde-base stop" and then run startx

Best regards,

Emre





On 3/26/07, Rajeev J Sebastian <rajeev.sebastian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Emre,
>
> Thanks for your response. I shall try with 2007.1 as soon as I can,
> but I doubt it will work, because another person also has the same
> problem with 2007.1 (i.e., erratic freezing/locking of the system).
>
> On 3/26/07, Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Rajeev,
> >
> > First of all, I suggest you to use the newest 2007.1 version. It's just
> > released.
> > http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/download.html
> >
> > Coming to differences:
> > Calisan = Which runs from CD (i.e. livecd)
> > Kurulan = Which installs (use this for installation on your hard disk)
> >
> > Can there be a problem in your BIOS, especially for ACPI? Can you update
> to
> > the latest version? I didn't really understand your problem. Is it due
> to
> > kernel or the display driver? Can you actually install Pardus using
> kurulan
> > or not? If you can, do you face the problem after installation, at
> system
> > boot up?
>
> The reason I ask about differences is because of the symptoms:
>
> Installer works fine, and Calisan works fine. I get X with splash
> screen etc, no problem. I can work without any locking/freezing at
> all.
>
> Kurulan on the other hand doesnt work (by kurulan, I mean the
> installed OS, not the YALI Installer).
>
> I did see some differences between Calisan and Kurulan as far as GRUB
> were concerned; in Calisan, video=vesafb:off ... and with Kurulan
> (installed OS), it was video=vesafb:nomtrr.........
>
> Anyway, after installation of Kurulan, the system boots, but freezes a
> little while later. So, I used the runlevel 1, removed the "quiet"
> option from GRUB, removed the "splash" option from GRUB, finally, made
> "video=vesafb:off" in GRUB. With these settings, I can see the bootup
> process. It freezes right after the init has completed and the login
> starts. If I retain runlevel 3, along with removal of other options
> from GRUB, then I can see that the moment X/KDM starts, the system
> freezes.
>
> >From Googling, this seems to be related to display driver ... the
> system has a Intel 945/950GM card (iirc).
>
> > Can you boot if you manually rename xorg.conf and reboot:
> >
> > /etc/X11/> sudo mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.rajeev
> > /etc/X11/> sudo reboot
> >
> > Normally, zorg script shall detect your card and show you the desktop.
> If
> > not, please try editing your xorg.conf yourself (if you know about it a
> > bit).
>
> Yes coming to this one .... I did edit xorg.conf, to use the vesa
> driver instead of i810
>
> Surprisingly, it had two Device sections, the first using i810, and
> the second was nothing.
>
> That didnt work.
>
> Next, I tried to manually start X, to see whether KDM was at fault. I
> got some wierd errors like
>
> _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
> _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/darkstar:0
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
>
>
> So, following some forums online, I tried to configure -nolisten inet6
> ... didn't work though.
>
>
> I do not have the laptop on me handy, but I can get access to it
> again. Seems like other distro's have faced the same problem, so I
> will provide as much info on this as possible.
>
> Regards
> Rajeev J Sebastian
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