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grahambae@solideogloria:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep synaptics
Driver "synaptics"
grahambae@solideogloria:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Synaptics
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"EDIT: oh wait, I just realised it said it couldn't load the synaptics drivers
I only get that message when I'm logged in with my account, I have a root terminal and I run some X application there. This happens because the X environment isn't set for that terminal.
Case in point
fixing it:
Case in point
Code:
[alex@carlton] ~
$ id
uid=1001(alex) gid=100(users) groups=6(disk),10(wheel),16(cron),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),80(cdrw),85(usb),100(users),443(ifp),444(plugdev),446(vmware)
[alex@carlton] ~
$ sudo -s
[root@carlton] ~
# xkill
xkill: unable to open display ""
Code:
$ id
uid=1001(alex) gid=100(users) groups=6(disk),10(wheel),16(cron),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),80(cdrw),85(usb),100(users),443(ifp),444(plugdev),446(vmware)
[alex@carlton] ~
$ sudo -s
[root@carlton] ~
# export DISPLAY=:0
[root@carlton] ~
# xkill
Select the window whose client you wish to kill with button 1....I commented out a bunch of stuff and disabled AIGLX in the Serverflags section, but it's still behaving the same way. It works perfectly if I break my xorg.conf, causing it to kick me to the command line without an X session, then fix it back up and run startx... but if I reboot and login as usual, I get "unable to open display: 0" 
grahambae@solideogloria:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
grahambae@solideogloria:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
grahambae@solideogloria:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
grahambae@solideogloria:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
On someone's advice, I tried:
fglrxinfo -display :1.0
and it gave me:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":1.0".
display: :1.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X600 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (2.0.6011 (8.28.8))
which is an improvement.
What I'm wondering is:
1. Why is it different when I break my xorg.conf to when it loads up normally?
2. How should I modify my xorg.conf, now that I know that the problem is something to do with the display number I'm using?
fglrxinfo -display :1.0
and it gave me:
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":1.0".
display: :1.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X600 Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (2.0.6011 (8.28.8))
which is an improvement.
What I'm wondering is:
1. Why is it different when I break my xorg.conf to when it loads up normally?
2. How should I modify my xorg.conf, now that I know that the problem is something to do with the display number I'm using?
Aye, this is getting complicated.
First of all, where does this message show up "unable to open display: 0" ?
And now a quick word about virtual terminals. You have 12 of them. Ctrl+Alt+Fx cycles through them. 1-6 are console terminals. 7 is where X starts up. So Ctrl+Alt+F7 takes you to X. But, you can have several X servers running at the same time, do 'startx -- :1'. Now switch between Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8. See what's happening here?
Okay, so when you run 'fglrxinfo -display :1.0', you are querying display 1, that is the second instance of X. Normally, of course, you only need one X server running, regardless of how many users are using it. So when you have two instances of X running, something's a bit off.
First of all, where does this message show up "unable to open display: 0" ?
And now a quick word about virtual terminals. You have 12 of them. Ctrl+Alt+Fx cycles through them. 1-6 are console terminals. 7 is where X starts up. So Ctrl+Alt+F7 takes you to X. But, you can have several X servers running at the same time, do 'startx -- :1'. Now switch between Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8. See what's happening here?
Okay, so when you run 'fglrxinfo -display :1.0', you are querying display 1, that is the second instance of X. Normally, of course, you only need one X server running, regardless of how many users are using it. So when you have two instances of X running, something's a bit off.
Yep, I get a blinking cursor at Ctrl+Alt+F8. What I was asking was, how do you suppose I could've wound up with 2 instances running? But I guess that doesn't matter, since it turns out I'm not.
The problem is that anything that requires any amount of graphical output (Firefox, Amarok, Kopete etc) chugs, sometimes a little sometimes a lot.
I've dug around, and someone suggested snooping around in my /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and changing
#0=Standard
1=Standard
to read:
0=Standard
#1=Standard
It seems to make a little sense, so I'm gonna reboot and check it out. If I don't post for about 2 weeks it means something's gone horribly wrong.
The problem is that anything that requires any amount of graphical output (Firefox, Amarok, Kopete etc) chugs, sometimes a little sometimes a lot.
I've dug around, and someone suggested snooping around in my /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and changing
#0=Standard
1=Standard
to read:
0=Standard
#1=Standard
It seems to make a little sense, so I'm gonna reboot and check it out. If I don't post for about 2 weeks it means something's gone horribly wrong.
I haven't checked if CPU usage spikes, but the thing is, when I 'get it working' by breaking xorg.conf, fixing it up again and using startx, those applications work perfectly.
Take for example pressing the "Show offline contacts" button in Kopete. If everything's working properly, my list will be expanded to show offline contacts with a nice fade effect, but if I'm having issues it chugs like a mofo and takes forever.
Take for example pressing the "Show offline contacts" button in Kopete. If everything's working properly, my list will be expanded to show offline contacts with a nice fade effect, but if I'm having issues it chugs like a mofo and takes forever.
