Cannot get X to start

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:51 PM, industrial-ghetto <r400653 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When gdm starts, I get a black screen which is a tiling of several boot
> screen images.  It's very small.  I thought that perhaps this was because of
> a lacking Modes line, so I went ahead and created an xorg.conf file and then
> put a line in it.  It did change the resolution of the tiled screen, but
> nothing else happened.  I cannot seem to be able to solve this problem,
> although everything looks right.
>
> I have tried dpkg-reconfigure as well, this seems to have been very quiet.
>
> I am running the versions that one would get if YESTERDAY one downloaded the
> SMALL CD install from Debian and simply blindly loaded it onto the system.
> Nonetheless, Xorg -version states that it is
> server 1.7.7, release 2010-05-04
> Current OS 2.6.32-5-686
> pixman 0.16.4
>
> Xorg.0.log is enormous, over 1GB in size.  The following are repeated:
> (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE stop -9
> (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE start -9
> (EE) R128(0): R128CCEWaitForIdle: CCE idle -9
> (EE) R128(0): Idle time out, resetting engine...
> and then again.
>
> The stock 5.0.1 Debian distro worked flawlessly.

Make sure you'e installed the firmware packages.

Alex