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Re: Atom X5-Z8500 Xorg fails to start
Posted: 24 Jan 2016, 21:57
by brokenman
supposing instead that the developers here would have a good sense of whether Porteus supports it or what might be done to make it if it doesn't.
Feel free to send me one and I will get Porteus working on it. I am going to Australia in July so I may pick one up. They look pretty cool.
Looking at your logs my first recommendation would be to use Nemesis with this machine. It is very new hardware. The system seems to identify your flash memory (eMMC) but then spews some nasty errors about it.
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mmc1: Got data interrupt 0x00000002 even though no data operation was in progress.
[ 5.570995] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 5.744416] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p5): recovery complete
Can you post the output of: lspci -k
Re: Atom X5-Z8500 Xorg fails to start
Posted: 25 Jan 2016, 00:26
by rchase
brokenman wrote:I am going to Australia in July so I may pick one up. They look pretty cool.
To geeks of a certain age (including me) they do -- upon reflection, a computer somewhat larger and heavier than a smartphone in a case with no screen, no data entry, and needing a tangle of wires connected to other devices in order to do much isn't likely to be perceived as all that cool by the general public; smartphones, after all, are computers with a bunch of peripherals built-in. I discovered to my chagrin that the internal battery can't power devices connected to the dock, even with a micro-USB charger plugged into the body of the Kangaroo; one must use the included power adapter that plugs into the dock. No legacy (CSM) booting allowed.
So far as I know, the only association with Australia is the name of the device; the company has its headquarters in Irvine, California. I believe Foxconn is assembling them; dismayed to see that this company has had many suicides among its workforce. Mine orginated from Newegg.
Mint complained about the eMMC too, but it installed and seems to function. It takes too long to boot (installed to a 32GB micro SDHC card).
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lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -12
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Re: Atom X5-Z8500 Xorg fails to start
Posted: 25 Jan 2016, 21:42
by Bogomips
rchase wrote:even with a micro-USB charger plugged into the body of the Kangaroo; one must use the included power adapter that plugs into the dock. No legacy (CSM) booting allowed.
So far as I know, the only association with Australia is the name of the device; the company has its headquarters in Irvine, California.
At last cleared up a source of confusion! All those references to Kangarob, that I happened upon, thought were references to our antipodean moderator, with avatar in mind.
Re: Atom X5-Z8500 Xorg fails to start
Posted: 27 Jan 2016, 14:23
by kultex
Re: Atom X5-Z8500 Xorg fails to start
Posted: 27 Jan 2016, 17:46
by kultex
@rchase - looking to your pastbin:
first xorg - I think you started xorg as root - this does not work
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[ 387.908] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xauth: file /root/.serverauth.1786 does not exist
xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist
xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist
@brokenman - why there is no module fbdev? - in the meantime fbdev is more useful than vesa
then
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[ 2.118847] mmc0: BKOPS_EN bit is not set
this is a firmware problem - you will not be able to write to internal harddisk -
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... f&start=25
Re: Atom X5-Z8500 Xorg fails to start
Posted: 01 Feb 2016, 02:52
by rchase
kultex, doesn't that error relate to one of the Windows partitions (to which I do not want to write anyway)? Thanks for the links; I'll check them out. By booting to text mode and issuing "startx", I can start the desktop (with an error message), but certain letters are invisible (see Nemesis 3.5 bug reports).