Fatal server error: caught signal 11

[el0gic]

I'm using VL 5.9 Light on a Toshiba 7010CT laptop. It has a Neomagic video card (2.5MB).

When I first installed and booted, I was sent to a graphical login and then onto a desktop (which had inverted colours, but I'll get onto that some other time). I did some config stuff using the graphical vasm, including setting the default initial runlevel to a console login. I've fairly happily got my laptop configured and working through the console (wireless etc.). However:

Now when I startx, the server aborts. Here's some bits I pulled from /var/log/Xorg.0.log:


(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(II) NEOMAGIC(0): VESA VBE DDC supported
(II) NEOMAGIC(0): VESA VBE DDC Level 2
(II) NEOMAGIC(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 1 sec.
f000:d561: 01 ILLEGAL EXTENDED X86 OPCODE!
(II) NEOMAGIC(0): VESA VBE DDC invalid
(II) Loading sub module "i2c"
(II) LoadModule: "i2c"(II) Module "i2c" already built-in
(II) NEOMAGIC(0):

Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list!

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x80) [0x80dbde0]
1: [0xb7ef8420]
2: X(FreeClientResources+0xa0) [0x806f5b0]
3: X(FreeAllResources+0x66) [0x806f6d6]
4: X(main+0x4c3) [0x806dde3]
5: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xb7cdadf8]
6: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x20d) [0x806d0e1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting



I've tried the automated vasm x configs, and I've tried xorgconfig. I've also tried removing and installing the xorg-server package. DeLi Linux 0.72 (a 2.4 kernel) runs X fine on this laptop, so I'm really quite stuck.

Can anyone see what's wrong or has anyone had this problem before? Thanks.

[caitlyn]

Try using the xorg.conf-fbdev file supplied with Vector Linux.  I have a different Toshiba model than you do but many Toshibas do not support VESA.  Vector Linux (and a lot of other distros) have real problems with Toshiba machines.  The fbdev conf file works well on mine.

[el0gic]

Ok, I tried fbdev, but that didn't work either. Also, after I tried it, using vasm I accidentally overwrote the xorg.conf-fbdev because xorg.conf linked to it (I was trying generic VGA, which doesn't work either).

Worse, I tried several different settings, so my xorg log file doesn't contain the fbdev error messages anymore. The jist of it was something to do with it not being able to find FBIO..something (useless, I know), but it didn't have a 'caught signal 11'.

Maybe I deleted some library at some point, because x was working straight after install. I could just reinstall, there isn't that much configuration I'd have to do again.

[el0gic]

I reinstalled and now it works. I must have deleted something important 

[caitlyn]

I'd still like to know what cause this but I'm glad you got it working in the end.  I'm certain there was a configuration error in x.org.  What was that error?  I still have no idea

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