Tim Williams composed on 2017-08-06 20:57 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
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The mga6 Xorg server version has the modesetting driver incorporated, moved from being a separate driver package as of 1.17.x. Eradicating NVidia and x11-driver-video-nouveau (and remembering to get nomodeset off the kernel cmdline) to let it be used might be worth trying.
There's no sign of nomodeset in the boot parameters.
Maybe latest NVidia drivers have been updated to utilize KMS and I just haven't heard about it yet? AFAIK, NVidia's Xorg drivers require KMS be disabled.
I'll see if any clues turn up, although I'm tempted to try the spare HD first.
For reference, running ksmserver with gdb gives the following, which may or may not be relevant:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff4c196a0 in TQString::TQString(TQString const&) () from /lib64/libtqt-mt.so.3
On a 32bit mga6 installation on host gx27b with rv200 Radeon gfx (very old) and 14.0.4 from mga5 sources, last updated 19 June, during urpmi --autoselect I got this: ... 4/36 removing trinity-ksmserver-14.04-1.mga5 ################ Usage: chksession [OPTION] -F --first:... -t, --test:... -l, --list: List window managers -L: List window managers including the order number -d=DIR, --dir=DIR: Specifies a directory of w-m configuration files -x=ENTRY, --xsession=ENTRY: Produce windows-managers script of ENTRY. -h, --help:...
warning: %postun(trinity-ksmserver-14.0.4-1.mga5) scriptlet failed exit status 1 ERROR: 'script' failed for trinity-ksmserver-14.0.4-1.mga5 5/36: removing trinity-ksysguard...
Trying to run TDE session via startx in multi-user.target Xorg starts, but immediately exits with:
Closing log file.: line1: TDE: command not \ foundxinit: connection to X server lost.
xinit and xinitrc are installed.
Booted to graphical.target I can login in TDM (with UseTheme=no configured) and get a working TDE session.