X doesn't start

I've downloaded Backtrack 5 KDE, 64 bit and X doesn't start at all. I've tried other methods already (fix-vesa (fix-vesa says command not found), dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and fix-splash 800 ). The notebook runs Ubuntu 64 bit just fine (since this is based on Ubuntu), and also other 64 bit *nix OSes (Gentoo and openSUSE specifically).

check list:

md5 hashes match
burned it slowly to a dvd
fix-vesa[(fix-vesa says command not found)
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
fix-splash 800

http://i53.tinypic.com/tahrgi.jpg
http://i54.tinypic.com/xmsu91.jpg
http://i52.tinypic.com/2004ltl.jpg
http://i53.tinypic.com/iznluh.jpg

System specs:
HP 6910p laptop
Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz
4GB RAM
Broadcom a/b/g WLAN
Intel 82566MM Gigabit
ATI Mobility Radeon X2300
SoundMAX HD Audio

This is the first time that i'll run Backtrack (wonder if that helps), but i ran other linux OSes for the past 5 years. i can't say that i'm a hardcore linux expert, but i have a pretty good background of it though.

Thanks in advanced, and goodluck to the BackTrack team!

Re: X doesn't start

I can't see your images.Is that error is No device detected ?

Re: X doesn't start

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Originally Posted by Chinese

I can't see your images.Is that error is No device detected ?

i re-upped the images with another image host, sorry about that.

here's the error:

Quote:

The XKEYBOARD keymap cimpiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
(EE) SIGMACH1P USB Keyboard: failed to initialize for relative axes.

waiting for X server to shut down. ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

i'm using an external keyboard with the laptop. seems like the error is related to the usb keyboard, but i actually did rebooted and unplugged the usb keyboard, booted BT5 again, this time no errors are shown... but still X doesn't start. it just falls back to the console.

it actually tries to load X (it says loading, with the 4 chinese characters on red bg), but after a while, it goes back to the console again.

64 bit gentoo and opensuse worked fine out of the box, same as 64 bit ubuntu. wonder why BT5 doesn't

Re: X doesn't start

I got the same error...
I made an experiment with Qemu and VMWare before burn my ISO and both results are same, X doesn't start. The GNOME version seems OK (I didn't burn this one yet).
After I burnt it, X doesn't start in both my desktop PC and notebook, but Ubuntu 10.04-2 worked well with both.

My desktop PC uses an NVIDIA 9500GT graphic card with an HDMI-connected monitor. (As a comparison) it has OpenSUSE 11.4 x86_64 installed and works well with Full-HD resolution.
My notebook has ATI Radeon HD 5470, runs the same version of OpenSUSE in my PC.

Re: X doesn't start

I have the same problem and I tried the same solutions in desktop... I cant make it work either...

So im using Virtual PC to use it temporarly!

Re: X doesn't start

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Originally Posted by zilong

I got the same error...
I made an experiment with Qemu and VMWare before burn my ISO and both results are same, X doesn't start. The GNOME version seems OK (I didn't burn this one yet).
After I burnt it, X doesn't start in both my desktop PC and notebook, but Ubuntu 10.04-2 worked well with both.

My desktop PC uses an NVIDIA 9500GT graphic card with an HDMI-connected monitor. (As a comparison) it has OpenSUSE 11.4 x86_64 installed and works well with Full-HD resolution.
My notebook has ATI Radeon HD 5470, runs the same version of OpenSUSE in my PC.

you're saying the KDE version do gave the same error, and the GNOME version doesn't?? :p weird. could you post some screenshots buddy, i think it would help.

Re: X doesn't start

same error...
it may be caused by a previous error
infact while bt is starting up, thousands errors of failed allocation or something like (too fast for read) flash on my display...
configuration:

Code:

root@bt:~# lshw -sanitize computer description: Portable Computer product: Studio 1555 vendor: Dell Inc. version: A13 serial: [REMOVED] width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 smp-1.4 smp configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=normal chassis=portable cpus=2 frontpanel_password=unknown keyboard_password=unknown power-on_password=disabled uuid=44454C4C-5200-104B-8059-B7C04F514A31 *-core description: Motherboard product: 0C234M vendor: Dell Inc. physical id: 2 version: A13 serial: [REMOVED] *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: Dell Inc. physical id: 1 version: A13 (04/02/2011) size: 113KiB capacity: 1984KiB capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot *-cpu:0 description: CPU product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 5 bus info: cpu@0 version: 6.7.10 serial: [REMOVED] slot: U2E1 size: 800MHz capacity: 800MHz width: 64 bits clock: 1066MHz capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority cpufreq configuration: id=1 *-cache:0 description: L1 cache physical id: 6 slot: L1 Cache size: 64KiB capacity: 64KiB capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back data *-cache:1 description: L2 cache physical id: 7 slot: L2 Cache size: 3MiB capacity: 3MiB capabilities: burst internal write-back instruction *-logicalcpu:0 description: Logical CPU physical id: 1.1 width: 64 bits capabilities: logical *-logicalcpu:1 description: Logical CPU physical id: 1.2 width: 64 bits capabilities: logical *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 15 slot: System board or motherboard size: 2GiB *-bank:0 description: SODIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns) [empty] physical id: 0 slot: DIMM_A clock: 800MHz (1.2ns) *-bank:1 description: SODIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns) product: EBE21UE8ACUA-8G-E vendor: 7F7FFE0000000000 physical id: 1 serial: [REMOVED] slot: DIMM_B size: 2GiB width: 64 bits clock: 800MHz (1.2ns) *-cpu:1 physical id: 0 bus info: cpu@1 version: 6.7.10 serial: [REMOVED] size: 2401MHz capacity: 2401MHz capabilities: vmx ht cpufreq configuration: id=1 *-logicalcpu:0 description: Logical CPU physical id: 1.1 capabilities: logical *-logicalcpu:1 description: Logical CPU physical id: 1.2 capabilities: logical *-pci description: Host bridge product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 100 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0 version: 07 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz *-pci:0 description: PCI bridge product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1 bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0 version: 07 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series] vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 *-multimedia description: Audio device product: RV710/730 vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0.1 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel *-usb:0 description: USB Controller product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1a bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd *-usb:1 description: USB Controller product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1a.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.1 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd *-usb:2 description: USB Controller product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1a.2 bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.2 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 module=uhci_hcd *-usb:3 description: USB Controller product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1a.7 bus info: pci@0000:00:1a.7 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 module=ehci_hcd *-multimedia description: Audio device product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1b bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0 version: 03 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 module=snd_hda_intel *-pci:1 description: PCI bridge product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1c bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport *-pci:2 description: PCI bridge product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1c.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.1 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport *-network description: Wireless interface product: WiFi Link 5100 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 00 serial: [REMOVED] width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn driverversion=2.6.35.8 firmware=8.24.2.12 ip=[REMOVED] latency=0 link=yes module=iwlagn multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn *-pci:3 description: PCI bridge product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1c.3 bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.3 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport [...]

any idea?
thanks

Re: X doesn't start

i fixed the error by reading http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...x-problem.html

hth