On 3 October 2015 at 02:00, Norman Ramsey <n...@cs.tufts.edu> wrote: > > > - The X server will not start. I have attached the Xorg.0.log. > > > > Now that is quite strange, I've never seen that error: > > > > /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Inappropriate > > ioctl for device [ 260.044] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:1401:1043:8520 rev > > 161, Mem @ 0xf6000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xf0000000/33554432, > > I/O @ 0x0000e000/128, BIOS @ 0x????????/524288 > > > > The only thing that comes up in Google is bug #764639. I don't suppose > > the blacklisting of nouveau is missing? Having the output of reportbug > > might help. > > > > Also trying manually from a TTY to load the module and start X might > > give more clues. > > > > But I have to stress that this is a bit uncharted territory, I have > > never tried a setup with different archs for kernel and userspace, so I > > am not sure I'll be able to help. I can try :-) > > OK, I have resolved the problem, and you can close this bug. > > What I did was more aggressively install amd64 packages. I'm afraid I > did this somewhat at random, but at least I can show you the final > configuration. You will receive another mail from me sent with > reportbug, but I can't see where that shows which packages are amd64 > and which are i386. So that information is appended for this email. > > Again, thank you for all your help!
No problem! I guess one of the GL libraries needed by the desktop manager was missing. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
