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Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#1 by djole94hns » 16 Apr 2015, 22:35

Hi there,
I have a problem. Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode. It starts booting, then it pops out a message saying a proprietary driver has failed loading, and my monitor just shows there is no connection and shuts off. Then, I must reboot the PC in order to turn it on again, and the display only works in live mode, or "Fresh mode".
When I chose my options in the download section, I selected ATI/AMD drivers, and "lspci | grep VGA" command in Fresh mode shows a proper display:

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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV730 PRO [Radeon HD 4650]
Any way to fix this?
Reminder, it only fails to boot into X in persistence mode, or the default mode.

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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#2 by wread » 16 Apr 2015, 23:51

@djole94hns:
Delete your folder /porteus/changes!
There is something wrong in your "changes" that causes Porteus to crash...

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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#3 by djole94hns » 17 Apr 2015, 00:07

My AMD Catalyst module is at fault... I'll look up how to compile my own module with the driver that works, but thank you ;)

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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#4 by francois » 17 Apr 2015, 00:22

I imagine that you have tried this driver:
64 bit:
http://dl.porteus.org/x86_64/current/dr ... 4-1ftm.xzm
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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#5 by djole94hns » 17 Apr 2015, 02:20

francois wrote:I imagine that you have tried this driver:
64 bit:
http://dl.porteus.org/x86_64/current/dr ... 4-1ftm.xzm
Yes, and it failed... Is it any different on 32-bit versions of Porteus? And is there a proper fix for this?
I removed that module, and I'm running Porteus off of the default open-souce driver until I find a way to fix this.

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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#6 by fanthom » 17 Apr 2015, 09:00

as stated in our web wizard: this driver is for HD 5000 and newer.
you wont be able to get it to work with your card.
Please add [Solved] to your thread title if the solution was found.

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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#7 by djole94hns » 17 Apr 2015, 10:09

Would some driver from the archive work?

Edit:
I tried Catalyst 13.1, it didn't work either...
And it's the one listed on official AMD website as the one for HD 4000 series.

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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#8 by francois » 17 Apr 2015, 10:51

It seems that you will have to build it yourself.
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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#9 by wread » 18 Apr 2015, 11:38

Can you start your system with a iso-CD?
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Re: Porteus fails to start X properly in persistence mode

Post#10 by ncmprhnsbl » 18 Apr 2015, 23:03

my understanding is that is that 'legacy' catalyst driver(ie for 4000 series or less) will not work with xorg-server newer than1.12 (porteus is currently 1.14)
so its little more complicated than building the video driver.
options are:
use the opensource radeon driver (easiest, already done)
use earlier porteus(2.1?) (easy , but you might want update some things(not too hard))
rebuild 3.1 porteus xorg with xorg-server-1.12 (not sure this is possible?)
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