Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 10:59:17 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: completely lost as to what to do, or where to look. |
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:51:24AM +0000, Justin Mattock wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Andrew Morton > <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 21 May 2008 04:10:16 +0000 "Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hello; I'm lost as to where to look in the kernel, as to why I'm > >> receiving a black screen with startx > >> DRI seems to be fine, I'm noticing a sema_init but am not sure if this > >> is the cause of the blackness. > >> any direction as to where I might look would be helpful. > > > > Kernel version? > > > > A git-bisect should get you down the the offending commit within an > > hour or three. http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html has some > > instructions. > > > > But if you're on 2.6.26-rcX, be sure to use the very latest - a pile of > > bad DRI code got reverted recently. This morning, I think. > > > > Thanks for the help, From what I can remember I noticed this around > 2.6.26-rc1. It could be an issue with DRI, but then again it could be > something else. With running some more tests I'm noticing a conflict > with libdri.so, not recognizing the module or the module not > recognizing libdri.so. >...
Which X video driver are you using?
What exactly is the error message?
> regards; > Justin P. Mattock
cu Adrian
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