Kernel stuff makes xorg hang

[DusteD]

Hi, i have compiled kernel-2.6.17.3 (this is not the first time ive compiled a kernel, but im pretty new to it anyway)
And it boots fine and fast, however, when i try and start xorg,(startx or /etc/init.d/gdm start)
it loads up, giving me a screen, with gnome splash (without any icons) and a mouse cursor.

Thats pretty much it, i can move the mouse cursor, but keyboard is totally dead, i cant even ctrl+alt+del or ctrl+alt+shift.

I can however login over ssh, and see that xorg hangs using 100% cpu.
Theres nothing in the logfiles about it...

I cant kill the process, not even with signal 9 :/

[DusteD]

by poking around a bit, it seems to hang when using
"ati" og "fglrx" drivers, but boots up fine with vesa ? now im confuzed

[bigtomrodney]

You will most likely need to reload your ATI drivers, these generate kernel modules which are most likely incompatible with your new kernel build. Just set you xorg.conf to run X in vesa mode and go ahead and reinstall the latest proprietary ATI drivers.

[DusteD]

Hi, thank you for your response
i just discovered that trying to run the ati driver install script also causes the system to lock up, so i might have a deeper problem somewhere :/
Also, the "ati" driver is one that comes with xorg

[bigtomrodney]

Have you had any errors show up yet in any of your logs?

[DusteD]

nope, no errors in logs, thogh at the very early stage of the boot, something fatal with some modules are happening, but it does not show up in dmesg and i cant halt it to get time to see what it is, but i assume it tries to load modules that are compiled into the kernell :/

[fgonzales]

After you built your kernel, did you run "make modules" and "make modules-install"? Your current modules might not be for your current kernel.


Fernando

[DusteD]

Hi, sorry for not updating the thread
makeing kernel the debian way makes modules too,
i found out that some bug that i dont even know if is filed in 2.6.17 is causing the problem
kernel 2.6.16.19 worked for me however.