Re: X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas!

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  On 10/12/2010 09:33 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
> On 10/12/2010 1:23 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> 1) remove/rename any existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> 2) create a new dummy user
>> 3) do a clean boot into runlevel 3
>> 4) login as the dummy user, do a startx
>> 5) see X fail, copy /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>> 6) post the whole file for us to see
>>
>> While you're at it, replace the mouse with some ordinary stupid USB 
>> or PS/2
>> mouse for the experiment, just to be on the safe side.;-)
>>
>> The Xorg.0.log should contain (EE) lines which should give a clue 
>> what went
>> wrong. If there are none, try to startx with a "--logverbose n" option,
>> choosing n as 4,5,6,...
>>
>> Also, when you do a startx, make sure X isn't actually running 
>> properly in F7
>> console or elsewhere...;-)
>
>
> here you go - I followed your suggested steps - on reboot after creating
> the new user, the bootup stalled - I did a Ctl-F2 to get a login prompt
> and logged into the new user, then ran startX, which failed - here's the
> Xorg.0.log (I deleted the old Xorg.0.log before rebooting but the new
> one is really long) I did disconnect the old keyboard and mouse cable,
> which connects to a KVM, and plugged in a different mouse and keyboard
> directly to the PC
>
>
....snip....
> [ 35.500] (II) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so
> failed (/usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory)
Not that it will matter much, but have you installed
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/13/x86_64/mesa-dri-drivers-7.8.1-8.fc13.x86_64.rpm


Or you can just comment out
         Load  "dri2"
         Load  "dri"
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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