On 2018-08-21 07:02, Lars Noodén wrote:
> Perhaps there is an installer image for Beowulf somewhere and this can
> be solved with a fresh re-installation? Sunday, I did an in-place
> upgrade from Ascii to Beowulf on amd64. I have only partial graphics
> since and must get past some problems with (I think) X11.
>
> When I allow slim, lightdm, or xdm one at a time (removing the others)
> to start, the keyboard and mouse do not respond not even to switch to
> a console even though they cause the display to show the graphical
> login screen. However, when I disable / remove these display managers
> then startx gives some lip about modules not existing.
>
> When I run startx manually from a console, something similar happens
> though I get a blank graphical display with the unmovable mouse
> pointer centered on the screen. But the window manager seems not to
> be running nor the desktop environment and, again, both the keyboard
> and the mouse are unresponsive so timeout is a way to get it to drop
> back to the shell.
>
> $ timeout 15 startx
>
> X.Org X Server 1.20.0
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 x86_64 Debian
> Current Operating System: Linux slimbook 4.17.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
> 4.17.8-1 (2018-07-20) x86_64
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.17.0-1-amd64
> root=UUID=3f66d242-f064-4f6e-a110-6974886fb9a4 ro quiet
> Build Date: 01 July 2018 05:07:24PM
> xorg-server 2:1.20.0-3 (https://www.debian.org/support)
> Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
> Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
> to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/home/lars/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue
> Aug 21 14:36:43 2018
> (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
> xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
> (II) modeset(0): Initializing kms color map for depth 24, 8 bpc.
>
> $ grep '(EE)' ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> [ 22631.982] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
> [ 22631.984] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist,
> 0)
> [ 22631.985] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist,
> 0)
> [ 22631.989] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for (null): -2
> [ 22632.296] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible
> NVIDIA X driver not found)
>
> $ lspci -nn | grep -E -i 'vga|3d'
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device
> [8086:5916] (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce
> 940MX] [10de:134d] (rev a2)
>
> $ sudo lshw -sanitize -class display
> *-display
> description: VGA compatible controller
> product: Intel Corporation
> vendor: Intel Corporation
> physical id: 2
> bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
> version: 02
> width: 64 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master
> cap_list rom
> configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
> resources: irq:128 memory:dd000000-ddffffff
> memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
> *-display
> description: 3D controller
> product: GM108M [GeForce 940MX]
> vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
> physical id: 0
> bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
> version: a2
> width: 64 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
> configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
> resources: irq:16 memory:de000000-deffffff
> memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff
> ioport:e000(size=128) memory:df000000-df07ffff
> _______________________________________________
>
There are no Beowulf installer isos yet. Some servers and wms have
upgraded successfully but the desktop hairballs have not yet been looked
at much.