ub-dCore: X does not start

[jls]

Hi
I've tried ub-dCore on 2 pcs:
1rst is an old p3 with an integrate sis card: if I loadsce xorg-all x does not start,  xorg-vesa only works.
2nd on a public library with an intel gpu:

sce loaded:
graphics-3.8.13-tinycore
xorg-all
Xprogs
alsa-modules-3.8.13-tinycore
alsa-utils
vim
v4l-dvb-3.8.13-tinycore
base-locale
e17 from https://launchpad.net/~hannes-janetzek/+archive/enlightenment-svn

Xorg.log:
   (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    64.568] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[    64.570] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so: libEGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[    64.570] (EE) Failed to load module "glamoregl" (loader failed, 7)
[    64.603] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    64.617] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
[    64.806] (II) XKB: reuse xkmfile /tmp/server-D378AD8F86E560F712A83EE36E4E5E92C595B9BD.xkm
[    65.051] (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
   915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM,

dmesg:
i915: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_algo (err 0)
i915: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_algo (err 0)
i915: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_algo (err 0)
mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,7f0000 found
i915: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_algo (err 0)
mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,7f0000 found
i915: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_algo (err 0)
i915: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_algo (err 0)
mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,7f0000 found
i915: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_algo (err 0)

startx:
Loading extension GLX modprobe: can't load module i915 (kernel.tclocal/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko.gz): unknownk symbol in module, or unknown parameter

[Jason W]

I'll look into this today.

[Jason W]

Is this the same behavior you are seeing in regular dCore?  I have an intel video card on one pc, and with either xorg-all or xorg-vesa in both dCore's the mouse and keyboard freeze after startx and the desktop appears.  However, with a larger package set installed, all is well.  That seems to say there is a dependency needed.  I have kernel-all-3.8.13 loaded.

I have ad to hard reboot about 5 times now trying to isolate the missing dep for my intel box.  I will try the 3.8.10 kernel again because this did not happen until recently though if installing more packages fixes it, there is a missing startup script command or dep likely at issue.

[Jason W]

I replaced the troublesome machine with a p3 one, but not after changing video cards made my HD ubuntu install not boot into x without freezing.  And also earlier when replacing an ATI card for the intel one, Ubuntu froze when booting into X.  It required the "X -configure" command to create an xorg.conf file to get it to work.

But as the latest build of Xvesa words with Debian, I am considering weaving it into the existing structure if it can be done cleanly and allow X desktops for those who otherwise have trouble with either dCore Debian/Ubuntu or their proper HD installs.

[Jason W]

I am very interested in getting Xorg in dCore to at least work the same as in Debian/Ubuntu.  But with limited hardware to test and with all the situations that Xorg requires a bit of manual configuring, I have uploaded Xvesa as an available import.  Works here on my box, surely there are improvements to be had.  At least with the folks can have a usable graphic desktop on machines where Xorg is troublesome.  I have posted it's own thread for any discussion of Xvesa in dCore.

[Onyarian]

Hi  Jason,

Yesterday I prove ub-dCore and the first impression is fantastic, I want to continue because it was very simple to start with it, the next is configure it with the same configuration I have in dCore.

The steps was: in boot:

###ub-dcore50###
title ub-dcore Linux 5.x prueba
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/uc5/vmlinuz quiet loglevel=3 nozswap tce=sda1/ubdc5 desktop=flwm_topside
    initrd /boot/uc5/ub-dCore.gz

create /mnt/sda1/ubdc5

create /mnt/sda1/ubdc5/sceboot.lst with:

Xprogs
xorg-all
flwm_topside
wbar

copy the above four sce's to /mnt/sda1/ubdc5/sce

and reboot

Then I loadsce from ubuntu firefox and xfe. All this was made in maxim 15 min. ¡great!

[Jason W]

Glad to hear it is working for you!

[Jason W]

In reference to my machine where the mouse and keyboard freeze on starting X, it was caused by backing up files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d.  Removing them from my backup fixed the issue.