Hi! I am getting an error starting the X Window system on a PC using an NVIDIA graphics card. I am using the system on Linux Mandrake 9.1. Here are the details of the version : Linux localhost 2.4.21-0.13mdksecure #1 SMP Fri Mar 14 14:10:36 EST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux I first boot the system into the 'linux-secure' option, of the multi-boot screen. This option does not automatically boot into the X Window system, and may be related to the problem. The option that does automatically boot into the X Window system, however, does work. After the system finishes booting up, through the 'linux-secure' option, I log on to my user account, and then try to start the X Window system, by typing 'startx'. I have attached the log file produced during the failed startup, to this E-mail. I hope you find it useful. Perhaps the 'linux-secure' option is simply not meant to start the X Window system under any circumstances for some security reasons. I had to install the software driver for the graphics card from the NVIDIA web-site. Perhaps that may be the problem. Rodney Quaye.
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 12 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 4 18:31:22 2004 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "layout1" (**) |-->Screen "screen1" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "monitor1" (**) | |-->Device "device1" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1" (WW) Option "XkbCompat" requires an string value (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) XKB: model: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "gb" (**) XKB: layout: "gb" (WW) Option "XkbOptions" requires an string value (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1" (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" Using vt 7 (--) using VT number 7 (II) Open APM successful (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x00000000, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1022,7006 card 0000,0000 rev 25 class 06,00,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1022,7007 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,04,00 hdr 81 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1022,7408 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1022,7409 card 0000,0000 rev 03 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 1022,740b card 0000,0000 rev 03 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:4: chip 1022,740c card 0000,0000 rev 06 class 0c,03,10 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:09:0: chip 1274,5880 card 1274,2000 rev 02 class 04,01,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0a:0: chip 10b7,9200 card 10b7,1000 rev 74 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:05:0: chip 10de,0111 card 0000,0000 rev b2 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x000e (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe1ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (--) PCI:*(1:5:0) nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] rev 178, Mem @ 0xe0000000/24, 0xd8000000/27 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xd0000000 from 0xd7ffffff to 0xcfffffff (II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xe3002000 from 0xe3002fff to 0xe3001fff (II) PCI I/O resource overlap reduced 0x0000e000 from 0x0000e003 to 0x0000dfff (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xe3001000 - 0xe300107f (0x80) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe3000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xe3002000 - 0xe3001fff (0x0) MX[B]O [3] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [4] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [5] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [6] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e87f (0x80) IX[B] [7] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e43f (0x40) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000dfff (0x0) IX[B]O (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xe3001000 - 0xe300107f (0x80) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe3000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xe3002000 - 0xe3001fff (0x0) MX[B]O [3] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [4] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [5] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [6] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e87f (0x80) IX[B] [7] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e43f (0x40) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000dfff (0x0) IX[B]O (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe3001000 - 0xe300107f (0x80) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe3000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xe3002000 - 0xe3001fff (0x0) MX[B]O [8] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [9] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e87f (0x80) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e43f (0x40) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000dfff (0x0) IX[B]O (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "v4l" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/linux/v4l_drv.o (II) Module v4l: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.0.1 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension FontCache (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "type1" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.2 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Type1 (II) Loading font CID (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 2.0.2 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.4363 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.4363 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4 (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux (II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-4363 Sat Apr 19 17:49:42 PDT 2003 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:05:0 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe3001000 - 0xe300107f (0x80) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe3000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xe3002000 - 0xe3001fff (0x0) MX[B]O [8] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [9] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e87f (0x80) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e43f (0x40) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000dfff (0x0) IX[B]O (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe3001000 - 0xe300107f (0x80) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe3000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xe3002000 - 0xe3001fff (0x0) MX[B]O [8] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [9] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [11] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [12] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [13] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e87f (0x80) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e43f (0x40) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000dfff (0x0) IX[B]O [20] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [21] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module "vgahw" (II) LoadModule: "vgahw" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD8000000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE0000000 (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (II) UnloadModule: "vgahw" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". 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