New install on laptop... X/GDM issues
Wow the forums sure have changed since I've been here last...
I've been using Debian on my Toshiba Satellite A65-s126 happily for a number of months now, and I've decided to take the plunge to Gentoo :)
The base system install went pretty well (apart from some minor ACPI issues which I'll get to later). I got X up and running okay, except for the following message in the syslog:
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Dec 30 18:28:05 JLaptop mtrr: 0xa0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xa0000000,0x4000000
Dec 30 18:28:05 JLaptop mtrr: 0xa0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xa0000000,0x4000000
Dec 30 18:28:05 JLaptop mtrr: 0xa0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xa0000000,0x4000000
which happens whenever I start X (yes, it prints 3 times). From what I've read this has to do with the AGP (ATI Radeon 7000 w/ 64MB shared RAM).
So I emerge'd gnome, which took about 16 hours. Then I added hald and famd to the default runlevel, as the manual recommended.
I didn't notice this at the time, but a few hours into the build the syslog started printing the following message:
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Dec 31 14:36:47 JLaptop hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Dec 31 14:36:47 JLaptop hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=66214078, high=3, low=15882430, sector=66214050
Dec 31 14:36:47 JLaptop ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Dec 31 14:36:47 JLaptop end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 66214050
There are a bunch of these, with slightly different sector numbers, occuring every few minutes. If it's any help, the preceding messages were:
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Dec 31 14:08:13 JLaptop groupadd[17150]: new group: name=messagebus, gid=407
Dec 31 14:08:13 JLaptop useradd[17165]: new user: name=messagebus, uid=101, gid=407, home=/dev/null, shell=/bin/false
Dec 31 14:10:15 JLaptop groupadd[27352]: new group: name=haldaemon, gid=408
Dec 31 14:10:15 JLaptop useradd[27370]: new user: name=haldaemon, uid=102, gid=408, home=/dev/null, shell=/bin/false
Dec 31 14:14:00 JLaptop groupadd[13837]: new group: name=rpc, gid=111
Dec 31 14:14:00 JLaptop useradd[13849]: new user: name=rpc, uid=111, gid=111, home=/dev/null, shell=/bin/false
After adding xdm to the default runlevel (configured to load gdm), I rebooted. When it was time for X to come up, it took rather longer than it had before, and when the checkered pattern came up, it died and tried to start again. This happened a number of times, until I finally got an ncurses-looking dialog saying
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Jan 1 00:24:22 JLaptop gdm[5976]: The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0.
I let it try again... same thing. I looked at the syslog, and it was filled with the dma_intr error, the mtrr error, and now a new one:
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Jan 1 00:21:34 JLaptop hald[5727]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event 432. Rebasing to 446
all interspersed. I killed gdm and shutdown.
Here's one last fact if it's any help: Since the beginning of the installation, I noticed that the drive was spinning down/up a lot (it never does in Debian -- I could probably get it to, but I haven't bothered). I was a little concerned that it was doing this too much, so I did hdparm -S12 /dev/hda to set the spindown timer to 1 minute (and added that to /etc/conf.d/hdparm).
Does anyone know what's going on, and how I could fix it?
Thanks.
