X Being Wierd

Hello,

I just broke x again by installing the nvidia driver and configuring it. I used "the hard way" because the yast + repositories method didn't work for me, the one click install didn't work either.

Whenever I try to login as a non-root user(kde) it gives me a loading icon and then it just shows me a small windowed command prompt. The window manager for this command prompt looks old school(os2 ish). Under this I have tried "startx" which tells me to "delete /tmp/X11/.X0-lock" which I then proceeded to delete. Then I tried "startx" again and I got my desktop. BUT I cannot logout and log back in or restart without having to do this.

BTW: if I log in as root from kde I can get in no problem, also, I cannot use the default vesa driver because I use 2 screens with my nVidia card.

Thanks in advance,
-Andre

Try this experiment: Create a new user (easy to delete user later) and see if you can log on as that user without the problem.

Yes I have tried different users already installed but, I havent tried making another user to try it. My gut says this wont work, but it also says it can't hurt. Ill give it a shot.

I don't think that will help either, it's just a thing that popped into my mind. The X11 lock file is probably set up in the previous session and associated with you (probably). Notice that it's in the /tmp directory. It probably should clear/delete when you log off or reboot. But it doesn't, which is a bug that's specific to you for some strange reason. Simplest thing is to auto-delete it before runlevel 5 (the X level) is invoked. So try putting this line in the local boot script (boot.local) at /etc/init.d/boot.local

rm /tmp/X11/.X0-lock

or if that doesn't work try this force version:

rm -f /tmp/X11/.X0-lock

That might be a permamnet fix of an odd problem that seems to be just affectining you.

Swerdna

Yes creating new users didn't work. Thanks for the tip, I didn't know you could do that to the boot.local, but then again, I should have known linux works that way.

Yes creating new users didn't work. Thanks for the tip, I didn't know you could do that to the boot.local, but then again, I should have known linux works that way.
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Just clarify for me: did that work?

I actually hadn't tested it at the time of my last post. I just thought that was a good idea. No, It did not work. But, I feel I haven't explained this in enough detail.

Here is the complete console output:

xauth: creating new authority file /home/user_name/.serverauth.4038


Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again

Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

I should have explained that X was actually running just not showing the desktop.

Server is already active for display 0[/b]

This confirms X is already running, BUT, it is configured for 2 monitors so??? could that be causing confusion.

But again, No, it dosnt work.

I should have explained that X was actually running just not showing the desktop.
This confirms X is already running, BUT, it is configured for 2 monitors so??? could that be causing confusion.
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Avenue 1: Sure worth a try. Maybe go back to 1 monitor so maybe you can at least get a GUI at boot time. Then sort it out.

Avenue 2: I'm now confused by your references: first it's /tmp/X11/.X0-lock then later it's /tmp/.X0-lock. If the latter is correct, can you boot and then get the message and then get a GUI by executing as root the command
rm -f /tmp/.X0-lock then get the GUI with startx.
If you can then the boot.local thing might work with that variant. But avenue 1 looks better to me.

So there's two avenues to investigate.

Swerdna

My original post

/tmp/X11/.X0-lock[/b]

was incorrect.
It is: /tmp/.X0-lock

At boot time it goes through to runlevel 5, then, displays kde's grapgical login. Once I enter the user's credentials it displays what I assume to be the desktop bacground(because none of my users have changed thier desktop backgrounds from default) without any icons or a taskbar/start menu. Instead of those things it displays a non-standard kde window(its grey and it looks like an old school Apple II window manager) for console input.

I did try changing the boot.local and unfortuantly that didn't work.

I really wanna use two screens !

Here is a copy of my "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" which the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" applet of the Nvida driver writes to. I am assuming the problem is with this file since it is the only one I have modified(albeit indirectly).

Section "ServerLayout"
****Identifier**** "Layout[all]"
****Screen******0**"Screen0" 0 0
****InputDevice****"Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
****InputDevice****"Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
****Option******** "Clone" "off"
****Option******** "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
****InputDevices******"/dev/gpmdata"
****InputDevices******"/dev/input/mice"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/local"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/URW"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/CID"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
****FontPath********"/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
****FontPath********"/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
****Load********** "dbe"
****Load********** "type1"
****Load********** "freetype"
****Load********** "extmod"
****Load********** "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
****Option******** "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
****Option******** "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
****Identifier**** "Keyboard[0]"
****Driver******** "kbd"
****Option******** "Protocol" "Standard"
****Option******** "XkbLayout" "us"
****Option******** "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
****Option******** "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
****Identifier**** "Mouse[1]"
****Driver******** "mouse"
****Option******** "Buttons" "5"
****Option******** "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
****Option******** "Name" "Logitech M-UV69a Optical Wheel Mouse"
****Option******** "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
****Option******** "Vendor" "Sysp"
****Option******** "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
****Identifier******** "Modes[0]"
****ModeLine**** "1280x1024" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
****Identifier**** "Monitor[0]"
****VendorName**** "SAM"
****ModelName******"SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER"
****UseModes****** "Modes[0]"
****DisplaySize**** 338****270
****HorizSync****** 30.0 - 81.0
****VertRefresh**** 43.0 - 75.0
****Option******** "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
****Option******** "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
****Identifier**** "Monitor0"
****VendorName**** "Unknown"
****ModelName******"Samsung SyncMaster"
****HorizSync****** 30.0 - 81.0
****VertRefresh**** 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
****Identifier**** "Monitor1"
****VendorName**** "Unknown"
****ModelName******"Samsung SyncMaster"
****HorizSync****** 0.0 - 0.0
****VertRefresh**** 0.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
****Identifier**** "Device[0]"
****Driver******** "nvidia"
****VendorName**** "VESA"
****BoardName******"Framebuffer Graphics"
****BusID**********"0:16:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
****Identifier**** "Videocard0"
****Driver******** "nvidia"
****VendorName**** "NVIDIA Corporation"
****BoardName******"GeForce 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i"
EndSection

Section "Device"
****Identifier**** "Videocard1"
****Driver******** "nvidia"
****VendorName**** "NVIDIA Corporation"
****BoardName******"GeForce 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i"
****BusID**********"PCI:0:16:0"
****Screen**********1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
****Identifier**** "Screen[0]"
****Device******** "Device[0]"
****Monitor********"Monitor[0]"
****DefaultDepth****24
****SubSection**** "Display"
********Depth****** 15
********Modes******"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
****EndSubSection
****SubSection**** "Display"
********Depth****** 16
********Modes******"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
****EndSubSection
****SubSection**** "Display"
********Depth****** 24
********Modes******"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
****EndSubSection
****SubSection**** "Display"
********Depth****** 8
********Modes******"1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
****EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"

#Removed Option "TwinView" "0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0; CRT: 1152x864 +0+0; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0; CRT: 800x600 +0+0"
# Removed Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +1486+617; CRT: 1152x864 +0+0; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0; CRT: 800x600 +0+0"
# Removed Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +1467+738, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; CRT: 1152x864 +0+0, DFP: NULL; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, DFP: NULL; CRT: 800x600 +0+0, DFP: NULL"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +1280+333, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; CRT: 1152x864 +0+0, DFP: NULL; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, DFP: NULL; CRT: 800x600 +0+0, DFP: NULL"
****Identifier**** "Screen0"
****Device******** "Videocard0"
****Monitor********"Monitor0"
****DefaultDepth****24
****Option******** "TwinView" "1"
****Option******** "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
****Option******** "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +1280+678, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; CRT: 1152x864 +0+0, DFP: NULL; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0, DFP: NULL; CRT: 800x600 +0+0, DFP: NULL"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
****Identifier**** "Screen1"
****Device******** "Videocard1"
****Monitor********"Monitor1"
****DefaultDepth****24
****Option******** "TwinView" "0"
****Option******** "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection

If anyone sees anything suspicious or flat out wrong with this conf file PLEASE tell me!

Thanks,
-Andre